virtio_dma_buf_get_uuid(9)

💖 virtio_dma_buf_get_uuid — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's about virtio_dma_buf_get_uuid(9) — literally the function that grabs a virtio dma-buf's exported object's uuid. yes, the whole uuid. obsessed. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

virtio_dma_buf_get_uuid — gets a virtio dma-buf's exported object's uuid 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int virtio_dma_buf_get_uuid (struct dma_buf *dma_buf , uuid_t *uuid );

that's the whole vibe check right there. two args, one int back. slay. 💅

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• dma_buf — [in] the buffer you're querying, bestie. that's the one we're asking about. 👀
• uuid — [out] the uuid. it comes OUT of here. that's where the answer lands. ✨

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success, negative on failure. that's it, that's the whole story. no cap. 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• the kernel file ./drivers/virtio/virtio_dma_buf.c — that's where the magic lives
• virtio_dma_buf_export(9)
• virtio_dma_buf_attach(9)
• is_virtio_dma_buf(9)

go read those next, iykyk 🫶

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ngl this page is short and sweet and i'm kind of living for it 💀 no warnings, no deprecated nonsense, no footguns — just a getter doing getter things. a main character. 👑

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and that's the tea, bestie 💜✨ — source: ./drivers/virtio, dated October 2026. mwah, go get that uuid. 🍓🎀