ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(9)

💅 ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr page from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real function, yes it lives in the kernel, and yes we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr — delete an extended attribute. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr (struct ubifs_info *c , const struct inode
*host , const struct inode *inode , const struct fscrypt_name *nm );

literally the whole signature, don't @ me 💅

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. it's giving "main character of the filesystem" energy 👑
• host — the host inode 🦋
• inode — the extended attribute inode ✨
• nm — the extended attribute entry name 🌸

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what does this icon actually do? it deletes an extended attribute — and no cap, it's very similar to unlinking regular files. like, same family, different font 💀

here's the tea, step by step:

• it writes a deletion xentry
• it writes a deletion inode
• it updates the target inode

and then? it returns zero in case of success, and a negative error code in case of failure 😭 so like, check that return value bestie, fr fr.

ngl this function's whole personality is "quietly do three writes and report back in an int" and honestly? we stan a consistent queen 💜

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay this list is long but every single one of these deserves its moment, so here we go — all straight from the Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/journal.c 🔥:

• zero_ino_node_unused(9)
• zero_dent_node_unused(9)
• zero_trun_node_unused(9)
• reserve_space(9)
• write_head(9)
• __queue_and_wait(9)
• wait_for_reservation(9)
• wake_up_reservation(9)
• add_or_start_queue(9)
• make_reservation(9)
• release_head(9)
• finish_reservation(9)
• get_dent_type(9)
• pack_inode(9)
• mark_inode_clean(9)
• ubifs_jnl_update(9)
• ubifs_jnl_write_data(9)
• ubifs_jnl_write_inode(9)
• ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(9)
• ubifs_jnl_xrename(9)
• ubifs_jnl_rename(9)
• truncate_data_node(9)
• ubifs_jnl_truncate(9)
• ubifs_jnl_change_xattr(9)

like, that's the whole friend group and they all ate 🌈

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and that's the page!! mwah 💖 this one came to you from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's titled ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(9) — go forth and delete those extended attributes, bestie, iykyk 🧚‍♀️⭐