aead_request_free(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, meet aead_request_free(9) from the Kernel API Manual — it's here to zeroize and free request data structure. that's the whole gig: zeroize 💅 and free. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is literally:

void aead_request_free (struct aead_request *req );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• req — request data structure cipher handle to be freed. yes bestie, that's the one getting zeroized and freed 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the cross-reference friend group is huge, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/aead.h
• Authenticated Encryption With Associated Data (AEAD) Cipher API(9)
• struct aead_request(9)
• struct aead_alg(9)
• crypto_alloc_aead(9)
• crypto_free_aead(9)
• crypto_has_aead(9)
• crypto_aead_ivsize(9)
• crypto_aead_authsize(9)
• crypto_aead_blocksize(9)
• crypto_aead_setkey(9)
• crypto_aead_setauthsize(9)
• crypto_aead_encrypt(9)
• crypto_aead_decrypt(9)
• Asynchronous AEAD Request Handle(9)
• crypto_aead_reqsize(9)
• aead_request_set_tfm(9)
• aead_request_alloc(9)
• aead_request_set_callback(9)
• aead_request_set_crypt(9)
• aead_request_set_ad(9)

that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 it's from the ./include/crypto source/version, dated October 2026 — mwah 💋