tipc_node_bc_rcv(9)

💖 tipc_node_bc_rcv(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this one's a lil function from the TIPC world and it's literally the glow-up moment for broadcast packets that show up from off-node. no cap, let's get into it 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tipc_node_bc_rcv — process TIPC broadcast packet arriving from off-node 🎀

like, it handles the broadcast packet when it rolls up from another node. that's the whole vibe check.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tipc_node_bc_rcv (struct net *net , struct sk_buff *skb , int
bearer_id );

it's giving <void> — no return value, we just do the thing and dip 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• net — the applicable net namespace 🌐 (the world this packet lives in)
• skb — the TIPC packet itself 📦 (the actual goods)
• bearer_id — id of the bearer the message arrived on 🛤️ (which lane it came in on)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the tea is: this gets invoked with no locks held. that's it, that's the descriptor. no locks, bestie — none. zero. the function is called in a lock-free situation, so don't go assuming anything's already locked down for you 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

all the sibling functions and the source file you should peek at, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./net/tipc/node.c struct tipc_node(9)
• tipc_node_crypto_rx(9)
• __tipc_node_link_up(9)
• tipc_node_link_up(9)
• tipc_node_link_failover(9)
• __tipc_node_link_down(9)
• tipc_node_get_linkname(9)
• tipc_node_xmit(9)
• tipc_node_check_state(9)
• tipc_rcv(9)
• tipc_node_dump(9)

like, the whole friend group 🫂 go say hi to all of them.

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✨ cute lil sign-off ✨

this icon of a page comes from ./net/tipc, dated October 2026 — so when you're citing it, that's the source and the date, periodt 💖🎀🦋

bye bestie, go process those broadcast packets slayfully 🌈💅