wait_for_key_construction(9)

wait_for_key_construction(9) 💅✨

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page, and it's literally about waiting for a key's construction to finish. no cap, it's giving “hold please, the key is still getting ready” energy. 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

wait_for_key_construction — wait for construction of a key to complete, periodt. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int wait_for_key_construction (struct key *key , bool intr );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• key — the key you're waiting for, bestie. 💖
• intr — whether to wait interruptibly. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this function waits for a key to finish being constructed. That's the whole assignment. 💅

Then it returns 0 if successful; -ERESTARTSYS if the wait was interrupted; -ENOKEY if the key was negated; or -EKEYREVOKED or -EKEYEXPIRED if the key was revoked or expired. Keep those return codes in your notes, fr fr. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./security/keys/request_key.c
• complete_request_key(9)
• request_key_and_link(9)
• request_key_tag(9)
• request_key_with_auxdata(9)
• request_key_rcu(9)

mwah 💖 signed off from ./security/keys, October 2026, on the wait_for_key_construction(9) page — bye bestie 🫶✨