complete_request_key(9)

✨ complete_request_key(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the complete_request_key(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💖 this one is short and sweet: it's the function that completes constructing a key and handles the authorisation key. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

complete_request_key — Complete the construction of a key. periodt.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void complete_request_key (struct key *authkey , int error );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• authkey — the authorisation key. that's the one.
• error — the success or failute of the construction. yes, the page says "failute" and we are respecting the typo lore 😭💀.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so complete_request_key completes the attempt to construct a key. if an error is indicated, the key will be negated. and the authorisation key will be revoked unconditionally — like, no conditions, no exceptions, it is done. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./security/keys/request_key.c: request_key_and_link(9), wait_for_key_construction(9), request_key_tag(9), request_key_with_auxdata(9), request_key_rcu(9).

this page comes from ./security/keys, dated October 2026, and it's complete_request_key(9) — bye bestie, go complete those keys with main character energy 🌈👑