ubifs_init_authentication(9)

💖 ubifs_init_authentication(9) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for ubifs_init_authentication(9) — yes, the name is a whole mouthful, but we're gonna get through it together ✨ it's giving “kernel auth support, but make it official.”

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ubifs_init_authentication — initialize UBIFS authentication support 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int ubifs_init_authentication (struct ubifs_info *c );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• c — UBIFS file-system description object. that's the one and only argument, bestie 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This function returns 0 for success or a negative error code otherwise. periodt. no cap, that's the whole return-code situation 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/auth.c — and the rest of the crew:

• __ubifs_node_calc_hash(9)
• ubifs_hash_calc_hmac(9)
• ubifs_prepare_auth_node(9)
• __ubifs_hash_get_desc(9)
• ubifs_bad_hash(9)
• __ubifs_node_check_hash(9)
• ubifs_sb_verify_signature(9)
• __ubifs_exit_authentication(9)
• ubifs_node_calc_hmac(9)
• __ubifs_node_insert_hmac(9)
• __ubifs_node_verify_hmac(9)
• ubifs_hmac_wkm(9)

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xoxo, your kernel-adjacent bestie 💅 — source/version is ./fs/ubifs, and the date on this one is October 2026 🎀✨