crypto_free_cipher(9)

🎀 crypto_free_cipher(9) — zeroize and free the single block cipher handle 🎀

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖 this page is about crypto_free_cipher, and its whole job is literally in the name: zeroize and free the single block cipher handle. no cap, that's the vibe. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

crypto_free_cipher — zeroize and free the single block cipher handle. it zeroizes the handle and then frees it, periodt. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature, exactly as it slays:

void crypto_free_cipher (struct crypto_cipher *tfm );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• tfm — the cipher handle to be freed. bye-bye, bestie 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go peek at these, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/internal/cipher.h Single Block Cipher API(9)
• crypto_alloc_cipher(9)
• crypto_has_cipher(9)
• crypto_cipher_blocksize(9)
• crypto_cipher_setkey(9)
• crypto_cipher_encrypt_one(9)
• crypto_cipher_decrypt_one(9)

mwah 💋 this page's source/version is ./include/crypto/internal, dated October 2026, and it's all about crypto_free_cipher(9) — iconic, fr fr. ✨