ubifs_decompress_folio(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the ubifs_decompress_folio(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖 this is literally ubifs_decompress_folio — decompress folio. that's the whole vibe. periodt. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the signature, and yes u gotta copy it exactly because kernel code does not play 🙈:

int ubifs_decompress_folio (const struct ubifs_info *c , const void
       *in_buf , int in_len , struct folio *out_folio , size_t out_offset , int
       *out_len , int compr_type );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object, aka the context for this whole decompression moment 🫶
• in_buf — data to decompress, the compressed input bestie 💅
• in_len — length of the data to decompress, so how many bytes are coming in ✨
• out_folio — output folio where decompressed data should go, the landing spot 🎯
• out_offset — offset into out_folio 📍
• out_len — output length is returned here, so that's where the uncompressed length lands 📝
• compr_type — type of compression, the compression flavor 🌈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this function decompresses data from buffer in_buf into folio out_folio ✨ the length of the uncompressed data is returned in out_len 📝 this functions returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure — no cap, that's the whole deal 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

check out the related lore, bestie:

• Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/compress.c 💜
• ubifs_compress(9)
• ubifs_compress_folio(9)
• ubifs_decompress(9)
• compr_init(9)
• compr_exit(9)
• ubifs_compressors_init(9)
• ubifs_compressors_exit(9)

and that's the tea 🍓 signing off from ./fs/ubifs 💜 dated October 2026, on the ubifs_decompress_folio(9) page — bye, ily! 🎀 slay responsibly ✨