sgx_encl_release(9)

🎀 sgx_encl_release(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for sgx_encl_release(9) — title and manual name folded in right at the top like a little intro, periodt. We're about to destroy an enclave instance, so let's get into it. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

sgx_encl_release — destroy an enclave instance.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void sgx_encl_release (struct kref *ref );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ref — this is the address of a kref inside sgx_encl. That's the whole vibe for this argument. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This one is used together with kref_put. When it runs, it frees all the resources associated with the enclave — and the instance itself too. literally the cleanup era, no cap. 🧚

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c
• reclaimer_writing_to_pcmd(9)
• sgx_encl_eaug_page(9)
• sgx_encl_may_map(9)
• sgx_encl_cpumask(9)
• __sgx_encl_get_backing(9)
• sgx_encl_alloc_backing(9)
• sgx_encl_lookup_backing(9)
• sgx_encl_put_backing(9)
• sgx_encl_test_and_clear_young(9)
• sgx_zap_enclave_ptes(9)
• sgx_alloc_va_page(9)
• sgx_alloc_va_slot(9)
• sgx_free_va_slot(9)
• sgx_va_page_full(9)
• sgx_encl_free_epc_page(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx, dated October 2026, and the page is sgx_encl_release(9). bye bestie, go free those resources 🫶✨