crypto_ahash_reqtfm(9)

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, this is crypto_ahash_reqtfm(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally here to obtain cipher handle from request. No cap, that is the whole NAME section vibe ✨.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is giving exactly this, so keep it verbatim:

struct crypto_ahash * crypto_ahash_reqtfm (struct ahash_request *req );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• req — the asynchronous request handle that contains the reference to the ahash cipher handle. That is the little handle you are passing in, and yes it matters 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so literally: this returns the ahash cipher handle that is registered with the asynchronous request handle ahash_request. It is giving “give me the handle attached to this request” energy 🔥.

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

the ahash cipher handle. periodt 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay bestie, the whole squad is here — every single reference, no skips:

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/hash.h — Message Digest Algorithm Definitions(9)
• struct ahash_alg(9)
• struct shash_alg(9)
• Asynchronous Message Digest API(9)
• crypto_alloc_ahash(9)
• crypto_free_ahash(9)
• crypto_has_ahash(9)
• crypto_ahash_blocksize(9)
• crypto_ahash_digestsize(9)
• crypto_ahash_statesize(9)
• crypto_ahash_reqsize(9)
• crypto_ahash_setkey(9)
• crypto_ahash_finup(9)
• crypto_ahash_final(9)
• crypto_ahash_digest(9)
• crypto_ahash_export(9)
• crypto_ahash_import(9)
• crypto_ahash_init(9)
• crypto_ahash_update(9)
• Asynchronous Hash Request Handle(9)
• ahash_request_set_tfm(9)
• ahash_request_alloc(9)
• ahash_request_free(9)
• ahash_request_set_callback(9)
• ahash_request_set_crypt(9)
• ahash_request_set_virt(9)
• Synchronous Message Digest API(9)
• crypto_alloc_shash(9)
• crypto_free_shash(9)
• crypto_shash_blocksize(9)
• crypto_shash_digestsize(9)
• crypto_shash_descsize(9)
• crypto_shash_setkey(9)
• crypto_shash_digest(9)
• crypto_shash_tfm_digest(9)
• crypto_shash_export(9)
• crypto_shash_import(9)
• crypto_shash_init(9)
• crypto_shash_finup(9)
• crypto_shash_update(9)
• crypto_shash_final(9)

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byeee 🫶 source/version: ./include/crypto, dated October 2026, and the page is crypto_ahash_reqtfm(9) — iconic, no cap 💖