akcipher_request_free(9)

💖 akcipher_request_free(9) 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual bestie, this one's short and sweet and honestly a little bit of a cleanup era moment ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

akcipher_request_free — zeroize and free public key request

like, it wipes the memory clean and frees it, two-for-one slay 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void akcipher_request_free (struct akcipher_request *req );

that's it. that's the whole function signature. no return value, she just does her thing and leaves 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• req — request to free. like, the actual request you want to let go of 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie this list is long, so buckle up, we're doing a whole friend group tour 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/akcipher.h
• struct akcipher_request(9)
• struct crypto_akcipher(9)
• struct akcipher_alg(9)
• Generic Public Key Cipher API(9)
• crypto_alloc_akcipher(9)
• crypto_free_akcipher(9)
• akcipher_request_alloc(9)
• akcipher_request_set_callback(9)
• akcipher_request_set_crypt(9)
• crypto_akcipher_maxsize(9)
• crypto_akcipher_encrypt(9)
• crypto_akcipher_decrypt(9)
• crypto_akcipher_sync_encrypt(9)
• crypto_akcipher_sync_decrypt(9)
• crypto_akcipher_set_pub_key(9)
• crypto_akcipher_set_priv_key(9)

like, if akcipher_request_alloc(9) is the birth, this one's the send-off 😭 go read the alloc one first, iykyk 💜

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ngl the "zeroize" part is the main character here — it's not just freeing, it's scrubbing first. no leftover key material leaking into the void, periodt 🔥

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okay and that's the whole page!! short king 👑

this little gem lives in <code>./include/crypto</code>, svetlana'd into existence in October 2026, and it's officially filed under akcipher_request_free(9) in the Kernel API Manual 🎀

mwah, go free your requests responsibly bestie 💜🧚‍♀️💖