tipc_aead_init(9)

🌸 tipc_aead_init — the manual page, but make it make sense 💅

okay so this is a Kernel API Manual page for tipc_aead_init(9) and honestly? she's a little baddie with a big job. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

tipc_aead_init — Initiate TIPC AEAD. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int tipc_aead_init (struct tipc_aead **aead , struct tipc_aead_key *ukey
, u8 mode );

like yes bestie, that's the whole signature, don't come for me about the spacing, it's canon 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• aead — the returned new TIPC AEAD key handle pointer. so this is where the shiny new handle goes when we're done, iykyk 🔥
• ukey — pointer to user key data. the raw key material, main character energy fr fr
• mode — the key mode. lowkey important, don't sleep on it ⭐

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what she does is: allocate a (list of) new cipher transformation (TFM) with the specific user key data — if valid, okay, only if it's valid, that's a whole condition, respect it 😭 — and then all the other AEAD data get initialized too. it's giving "full setup, no shortcuts" ✨

alsoooo, the number of the allocated TFMs can be set via the sysfs net/tipc/max_tfms first. key word: first. so like, set that before you call this, bestie, not after 🙈

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 if the initiation is successful 🥳
• otherwise: < 0 💀 (yeah, everything else is a negative, that's just how she rolls)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./net/tipc/crypto.c
• struct tipc_tfm(9)
• struct tipc_aead(9)
• struct tipc_crypto_stats(9)
• struct tipc_crypto(9)
• tipc_aead_key_validate(9)
• tipc_aead_key_generate(9)
• tipc_aead_free(9)
• tipc_aead_tfm_next(9)
• tipc_aead_clone(9)
• tipc_aead_mem_alloc(9)
• tipc_aead_encrypt(9)
• tipc_aead_decrypt(9)
• tipc_ehdr_validate(9)
• tipc_ehdr_build(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_init(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_attach(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_try_align(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_pick_tx(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_synch(9)
• tipc_crypto_xmit(9)
• tipc_crypto_rcv(9)
• tipc_crypto_msg_rcv(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_distr(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_xmit(9)
• tipc_crypto_key_rcv(9)
• tipc_crypto_work_rx(9)
• tipc_crypto_rekeying_sched(9)
• tipc_crypto_work_tx(9)

like, that's a lot of friends, but every single one of them is invited to the function party 🎉

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ok that's the whole page!! she came from ./net/tipc, dated October 2026, and honestly? iconic. periodt 💜🎀