tipc_node_check_state(9)

🎀 tipc_node_check_state 🎀

okay bestie, this is the tipc_node_check_state(9) page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual — and it's literally here to check a node's state and update it if necessary. iconic behavior 💅

🦋 NAME 🦋

tipc_node_check_state — check and if necessary update node state

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool tipc_node_check_state (struct tipc_node *n , struct sk_buff *skb ,
       int bearer_id , struct sk_buff_head *xmitq );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• n — the target tipc_node, aka the node we're checking on. main character energy 👑
• skb — a TIPC packet. hi packet bestie 🫶
• bearer_id — the identity of the bearer delivering the packet.
• xmitq — the queue for messages to be xmited on. yes, xmited, we keep it exactly like that 💀

💅 RETURN 💅

It gives you true if state and msg are ok; otherwise it gives you false. no cap ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Bestie, here are the receipts and related lore:

• Kernel file ./net/tipc/node.c — and also 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_bc_rcv(9)
• tipc_rcv(9)
• tipc_node_dump(9)

okay that's the whole vibe 💖 source/version is ./net/tipc, date is October 2026. mwah, go slay those node states 🧚💜