handshake_req_alloc(9)

💖 handshake_req_alloc(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat — this is handshake_req_alloc(9), and it's honestly a short little icon. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

handshake_req_alloc — allocate a handshake request. The official name line is literally handshake_req_alloc - Allocate a handshake request, and yes, it ate. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the signature, no cap — keep it exact:

struct handshake_req * handshake_req_alloc (const struct handshake_proto
       *proto , gfp_t flags );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• proto — security protocol. That's the vibe: the security protocol, periodt. 🫶
• flags — memory allocation flags. All the memory-allocation-flag business lives here. 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Returns an initialized handshake_req or NULL. That's the whole description, bestie — initialized handshake_req on one side, NULL on the other. Short, sweet, iconic. 😭💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./net/handshake/request.c, plus the handshake request besties:

• handshake_req_private(9)
• handshake_req_next(9)
• handshake_req_submit(9)
• handshake_req_cancel(9)

iykyk — that's the squad. 🦋

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xoxo, signing off from the ./net/handshake source spot, October 2026, all about handshake_req_alloc(9) — slay and farewell 💅🎀✨