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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>2016-04-02 10:54:56 -0500
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2016-04-15 22:35:44 +0800
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crypto: doc - document correct return value for request allocation
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto')
-rw-r--r--include/crypto/aead.h3
-rw-r--r--include/crypto/hash.h3
-rw-r--r--include/crypto/skcipher.h3
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/aead.h b/include/crypto/aead.h
index 957bb8763219..75174f80a106 100644
--- a/include/crypto/aead.h
+++ b/include/crypto/aead.h
@@ -405,8 +405,7 @@ static inline void aead_request_set_tfm(struct aead_request *req,
* encrypt and decrypt API calls. During the allocation, the provided aead
* handle is registered in the request data structure.
*
- * Return: allocated request handle in case of success; IS_ERR() is true in case
- * of an error, PTR_ERR() returns the error code.
+ * Return: allocated request handle in case of success, or NULL if out of memory
*/
static inline struct aead_request *aead_request_alloc(struct crypto_aead *tfm,
gfp_t gfp)
diff --git a/include/crypto/hash.h b/include/crypto/hash.h
index 1969f1416658..26605888a199 100644
--- a/include/crypto/hash.h
+++ b/include/crypto/hash.h
@@ -547,8 +547,7 @@ static inline void ahash_request_set_tfm(struct ahash_request *req,
* the allocation, the provided ahash handle
* is registered in the request data structure.
*
- * Return: allocated request handle in case of success; IS_ERR() is true in case
- * of an error, PTR_ERR() returns the error code.
+ * Return: allocated request handle in case of success, or NULL if out of memory
*/
static inline struct ahash_request *ahash_request_alloc(
struct crypto_ahash *tfm, gfp_t gfp)
diff --git a/include/crypto/skcipher.h b/include/crypto/skcipher.h
index 905490c1da89..0f987f50bb52 100644
--- a/include/crypto/skcipher.h
+++ b/include/crypto/skcipher.h
@@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ static inline struct skcipher_request *skcipher_request_cast(
* encrypt and decrypt API calls. During the allocation, the provided skcipher
* handle is registered in the request data structure.
*
- * Return: allocated request handle in case of success; IS_ERR() is true in case
- * of an error, PTR_ERR() returns the error code.
+ * Return: allocated request handle in case of success, or NULL if out of memory
*/
static inline struct skcipher_request *skcipher_request_alloc(
struct crypto_skcipher *tfm, gfp_t gfp)