Documentation/crypto/api-skcipher.rst

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

Documentation/crypto/api-skcipher.rst

Extension

.rst

Size

1400 bytes

Lines

39

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

Documentation

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation

Status

atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

Symmetric Key Cipher
====================

Block Cipher Algorithm Definitions
----------------------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/crypto.h
   :doc: Block Cipher Algorithm Definitions

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/crypto.h
   :functions: crypto_alg cipher_alg compress_alg

Symmetric Key Cipher API
------------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/skcipher.h
   :doc: Symmetric Key Cipher API

.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/skcipher.h
   :functions: crypto_alloc_skcipher crypto_free_skcipher crypto_has_skcipher crypto_skcipher_ivsize crypto_skcipher_blocksize crypto_skcipher_setkey crypto_skcipher_reqtfm crypto_skcipher_encrypt crypto_skcipher_decrypt

Symmetric Key Cipher Request Handle
-----------------------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/skcipher.h
   :doc: Symmetric Key Cipher Request Handle

.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/skcipher.h
   :functions: crypto_skcipher_reqsize skcipher_request_set_tfm skcipher_request_alloc skcipher_request_free skcipher_request_set_callback skcipher_request_set_crypt

Single Block Cipher API
-----------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/internal/cipher.h
   :doc: Single Block Cipher API

.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/internal/cipher.h
   :functions: crypto_alloc_cipher crypto_free_cipher crypto_has_cipher crypto_cipher_blocksize crypto_cipher_setkey crypto_cipher_encrypt_one crypto_cipher_decrypt_one

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
• Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.