crypto_free_rng(9)

💖 crypto_free_rng(9) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for crypto_free_rng(9) — and it’s basically the “clean up your RNG handle and go” era of the kernel API. 💅✨

---

✨ NAME ✨

crypto_free_rng — zeroize and free RNG handle 🧚

---

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void crypto_free_rng (struct crypto_rng *tfm );

---

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tfm — the cipher handle that’s getting freed 🫶

---

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

If tfm is a NULL pointer or an error pointer, this function literally does nothing — no cap, no side quest, no drama. 💀

---

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/rng.h — struct rng_alg(9) 📁
• crypto_stdrng_get_bytes(9) 🌸
• Random number generator API(9) 🎲
• crypto_alloc_rng(9) 🧚
• crypto_rng_alg(9) 🦋
• crypto_rng_generate(9) ⭐
• crypto_rng_get_bytes(9) 💜
• crypto_rng_reset(9) 🔥
• crypto_rng_seedsize(9) 🍓

---

mwah 💋 — this page’s footer says source/version ./include/crypto, date October 2026, and it’s still serving crypto_free_rng(9). periodt. 🎀👑