tty_free_file(9)

💖 NAME 💖

tty_free_file — free file->private_data ✨

This one’s from the Kernel API Manual, bestie: tty_free_file(9). 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void tty_free_file (struct file *file );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — the file we’re freeing private_data of. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this one is strictly a fail-path situation: it shall be used only for fail-path handling when tty_add_file was not called yet. That’s the whole rule, no cap. 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/tty_io.c — and the whole squad is here: free_tty_struct(9), tty_name(9), get_tty_driver(9), tty_dev_name_to_number(9), tty_find_polling_driver(9), tty_wakeup(9), tty_release_redirect(9), __tty_hangup(9), tty_hangup(9), tty_vhangup(9), tty_vhangup_self(9), tty_vhangup_session(9), tty_hung_up_p(9), stop_tty(9), start_tty(9), tty_read(9), tty_write(9), tty_send_xchar(9), pty_line_name(9), tty_line_name(9), tty_driver_lookup_tty(9), tty_init_termios(9), tty_standard_install(9), tty_driver_install_tty(9), tty_driver_remove_tty(9), tty_reopen(9), tty_init_dev(9), tty_save_termios(9), tty_flush_works(9), release_one_tty(9), tty_kref_put(9), release_tty(9), tty_release_checks(9), tty_kclose(9), tty_release_struct(9), tty_release(9), tty_open_current_tty(9), tty_lookup_driver(9), tty_kopen_exclusive(9), tty_kopen_shared(9), tty_open_by_driver(9), tty_open(9), tty_poll(9), tiocsti(9), tiocgwinsz(9), tty_do_resize(9), tiocswinsz(9), tioccons(9), tiocsetd(9), tiocgetd(9), send_break(9), tty_get_tiocm(9), tty_tiocmget(9), tty_tiocmset(9), tty_get_icount(9), alloc_tty_struct(9), tty_put_char(9), tty_register_device(9), tty_register_device_attr(9), tty_unregister_device(9), __tty_alloc_driver(9), tty_driver_kref_put(9), tty_register_driver(9), tty_unregister_driver(9).

Bye bestie! 💋 This page comes from ./drivers/tty, dated October 2026, and it’s the tty_free_file(9) page — mwah! 💖