tipc_buf_acquire(9)

💖 tipc_buf_acquire(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes we're literally in the kernel docs right now and it's giving main character energy 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tipc_buf_acquire — creates a TIPC message buffer ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct sk_buff * tipc_buf_acquire (u32 size , gfp_t gfp );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• size — the message size, and yes that includes the TIPC header, don't @ me 💅
• gfp — the memory allocation flags, aka the vibe check for how you're grabbing that memory 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

it hands you a fresh new buffer with its data pointers set to the size you specified — slay, exactly what you asked for 💖

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🔥 NOTE 🔥

Headroom is reserved so you can prepend a data link header later, no big deal, we planned ahead 😌 there may ALSO be unrequested tailroom hanging out at the buffer's end — not me leaving extra space at the party 🙈 just know it's there and it's not a bug.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./net/tipc/msg.c and its whole friend group: tipc_msg_append(9), tipc_msg_fragment(9), tipc_msg_build(9), tipc_msg_bundle(9), tipc_msg_try_bundle(9), tipc_msg_extract(9), tipc_msg_reverse(9), tipc_msg_lookup_dest(9) — iykyk 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🧚💜

mwah 💋 this came straight out of ./net/tipc, dated October 2026, and it's literally called tipc_buf_acquire(9) — periodt. 🍓