tipc_msg_extract(9)

💖 tipc_msg_extract(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

tipc_msg_extract — grab a bundled inner packet out of a buffer, no cap 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool tipc_msg_extract (struct sk_buff *skb , struct sk_buff **iskb , int *pos );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• skb — the buffer we’re extracting from, bestie 🫶
• iskb — the extracted inner buffer, to be returned right back to you ✨
• pos — position in outer message of msg to be extracted. It returns the position of the next msg. Heads up: it consumes the outer buffer when the last packet is extracted 💅

💖 RETURN 💖

true when there’s an extracted buffer; otherwise false. simple as that 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./net/tipc/msg.c, plus these linked besties:

• tipc_buf_acquire(9)
• tipc_msg_append(9)
• tipc_msg_fragment(9)
• tipc_msg_build(9)
• tipc_msg_bundle(9)
• tipc_msg_try_bundle(9)
• tipc_msg_reverse(9)
• tipc_msg_lookup_dest(9)

— from ./net/tipc, dated October 2026, signing off on tipc_msg_extract(9) 🫶✨