vfs_path_parent_lookup(9)

💅 vfs_path_parent_lookup(9) 💅

okay so bestie, this one is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about looking up a parent path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair. no cap, that's the whole vibe. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

vfs_path_parent_lookup — lookup a parent path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int vfs_path_parent_lookup (struct filename *filename , unsigned int
       flags , struct path *parent , struct qstr *last , const struct path
       *root );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• filename — the filename structure, periodt 💅
• flags — lookup flags, obviously ✨
• parent — pointer to struct path to fill 🫶
• last — last component, iykyk 🌸
• root — pointer to struct path of the base directory 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/namei.c is the source-file mention, and here's every single SEE ALSO baddie, no skips, fr fr:

• check_acl(9)
• acl_permission_check(9)
• generic_permission(9)
• do_inode_permission(9)
• sb_permission(9)
• inode_permission(9)
• path_get(9)
• path_put(9)
• path_connected(9)
• try_to_unlazy(9)
• try_to_unlazy_next(9)
• complete_walk(9)
• may_follow_link(9)
• safe_hardlink_source(9)
• may_linkat(9)
• may_create_in_sticky(9)
• lookup_fast(9)
• start_dirop(9)
• end_dirop(9)
• kern_path_parent(9)
• vfs_path_lookup(9)
• try_lookup_noperm(9)
• lookup_noperm(9)
• lookup_one(9)
• lookup_one_unlocked(9)
• lookup_one_positive_killable(9)
• lookup_one_positive_unlocked(9)
• lookup_noperm_unlocked(9)
• start_creating(9)
• start_removing(9)
• start_creating_killable(9)
• start_removing_killable(9)
• start_creating_noperm(9)
• start_removing_noperm(9)
• start_creating_dentry(9)
• start_removing_dentry(9)
• __start_renaming(9)
• start_renaming(9)
• start_renaming_dentry(9)
• start_renaming_two_dentries(9)
• vfs_prepare_mode(9)
• vfs_create(9)
• atomic_open(9)
• vfs_lookup_open(9)
• vfs_tmpfile(9)
• kernel_tmpfile_open(9)
• end_creating_path(9)
• dentry_create(9)
• vfs_mknod(9)
• vfs_mkdir(9)
• vfs_rmdir(9)
• vfs_unlink(9)
• vfs_symlink(9)
• vfs_link(9)
• vfs_rename(9)
• vfs_readlink(9)
• vfs_get_link(9)
• page_get_link(9)
• page_put_link(9)

💖 and that's the whole page, bestie! footer check: it's from the ./fs source, dated October 2026, for vfs_path_parent_lookup(9). slay. 💖