ahash_request_free(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to ahash_request_free(9) from the Kernel API Manual. This one is short and iconic: ahash_request_free will zeroize and free the request data structure. That's the whole main-character arc. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ahash_request_free (struct ahash_request *req );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• req — the request data structure cipher handle to be freed. She's getting zeroized and freed, periodt. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The whole linked-lore friend group:

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/hash.h Message Digest Algorithm Definitions(9) — the source-file lore starting point
• struct ahash_alg(9) — struct vibes
• struct shash_alg(9) — more struct vibes
• Asynchronous Message Digest API(9) — async API energy
• crypto_alloc_ahash(9) — allocation era
• crypto_free_ahash(9) — free era
• crypto_has_ahash(9) — availability check lore
• crypto_ahash_blocksize(9) — blocksize info
• crypto_ahash_digestsize(9) — digestsize info
• crypto_ahash_statesize(9) — statesize info
• crypto_ahash_reqtfm(9) — reqtfm info
• crypto_ahash_reqsize(9) — reqsize info
• crypto_ahash_setkey(9) — setkey moment
• crypto_ahash_finup(9) — finup moment
• crypto_ahash_final(9) — final moment
• crypto_ahash_digest(9) — digest moment
• crypto_ahash_export(9) — export moment
• crypto_ahash_import(9) — import moment
• crypto_ahash_init(9) — init moment
• crypto_ahash_update(9) — update moment
• Asynchronous Hash Request Handle(9) — handle lore
• ahash_request_set_tfm(9) — set_tfm lore
• ahash_request_alloc(9) — request allocation lore
• ahash_request_set_callback(9) — callback-setting lore
• ahash_request_set_crypt(9) — crypt-setting lore
• ahash_request_set_virt(9) — virt-setting lore
• Synchronous Message Digest API(9) — sync API energy
• crypto_alloc_shash(9) — shash allocation era
• crypto_free_shash(9) — shash free era
• crypto_shash_blocksize(9) — shash blocksize info
• crypto_shash_digestsize(9) — shash digestsize info
• crypto_shash_descsize(9) — shash descsize info
• crypto_shash_setkey(9) — shash setkey moment
• crypto_shash_digest(9) — shash digest moment
• crypto_shash_tfm_digest(9) — shash tfm_digest moment
• crypto_shash_export(9) — shash export moment
• crypto_shash_import(9) — shash import moment
• crypto_shash_init(9) — shash init moment
• crypto_shash_finup(9) — shash finup moment
• crypto_shash_update(9) — shash update moment
• crypto_shash_final(9) — shash final moment

Cute little footer sign-off: source/version is ./include/crypto, date is October 2026 — mwah, stay zeroized bestie 💋✨