crypto_engine_exit(9)

💅 crypto_engine_exit(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to crypto_engine_exit(9) in the Kernel API Manual 🫶. This is the "bye-bye, free the resources of a hardware engine when it exits" moment — short, sweet, and iconic 💖.

🌸 NAME 🌸

crypto_engine_exit — free the resources of a hardware engine when it exits 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void crypto_engine_exit (struct crypto_engine *engine );

Notice the void: no return value, no drama, just the exit-time resource-freeing vibes ✨.

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• engine — the hardware engine that needs to be freed 💅. That's the whole argument, bestie: hand over the engine and let it go.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./crypto/crypto_engine.c — that's where the lore lives, iykyk 📚.

• crypto_finalize_request(9)
• crypto_pump_requests(9)
• crypto_transfer_request(9)
• crypto_transfer_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_aead_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_akcipher_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_hash_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_kpp_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_skcipher_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_finalize_aead_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_akcipher_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_hash_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_kpp_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_skcipher_request(9)
• crypto_engine_start(9)
• crypto_engine_stop(9)
• crypto_engine_alloc_init_and_set(9)
• crypto_engine_alloc_init(9)

xoxo, ./crypto — October 2026 💖 source/version + date, bestie, no cap 🫶