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| author | Dr. David von Oheimb <David.von.Oheimb@siemens.com> | 2021-08-06 12:11:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. David von Oheimb <dev@ddvo.net> | 2022-01-14 18:47:20 +0100 |
| commit | 04bc3c1277b8b20dc29f96933f7be592c0535aa8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a4f2681b5f814177017771b87a07d67f5029302 /doc/man3 | |
| parent | 37b850738cbab74413d41033b2a4df1d69e1fa4a (diff) | |
Fix malloc failure handling of X509_ALGOR_set0()
Also update and slightly extend the respective documentation and simplify some code.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16251)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man3')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_ALGOR_dup.pod | 28 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_ALGOR_dup.pod b/doc/man3/X509_ALGOR_dup.pod index 7696fc61cc..bcda8b2918 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_ALGOR_dup.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_ALGOR_dup.pod @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ =head1 NAME -X509_ALGOR_dup, X509_ALGOR_set0, X509_ALGOR_get0, X509_ALGOR_set_md, X509_ALGOR_cmp, X509_ALGOR_copy - AlgorithmIdentifier functions +X509_ALGOR_dup, +X509_ALGOR_set0, X509_ALGOR_get0, +X509_ALGOR_set_md, X509_ALGOR_cmp, +X509_ALGOR_copy - AlgorithmIdentifier functions =head1 SYNOPSIS @@ -18,23 +21,24 @@ X509_ALGOR_dup, X509_ALGOR_set0, X509_ALGOR_get0, X509_ALGOR_set_md, X509_ALGOR_ =head1 DESCRIPTION -X509_ALGOR_dup() returns a copy of B<alg>. +X509_ALGOR_dup() returns a copy of I<alg>. -X509_ALGOR_set0() sets the algorithm OID of B<alg> to B<aobj> and the -associated parameter type to B<ptype> with value B<pval>. If B<ptype> is -B<V_ASN1_UNDEF> the parameter is omitted, otherwise B<ptype> and B<pval> have -the same meaning as the B<type> and B<value> parameters to ASN1_TYPE_set(). +X509_ALGOR_set0() sets the algorithm OID of I<alg> to I<aobj> and the +associated parameter type to I<ptype> with value I<pval>. If I<ptype> is +B<V_ASN1_UNDEF> the parameter is omitted, otherwise I<ptype> and I<pval> have +the same meaning as the I<type> and I<value> parameters to ASN1_TYPE_set(). All the supplied parameters are used internally so must B<NOT> be freed after -this call. +this call succeeded; +otherwise ownership remains with the caller and I<alg> remains untouched. X509_ALGOR_get0() is the inverse of X509_ALGOR_set0(): it returns the -algorithm OID in B<*paobj> and the associated parameter in B<*pptype> -and B<*ppval> from the B<AlgorithmIdentifier> B<alg>. +algorithm OID in I<*paobj> and the associated parameter in I<*pptype> +and I<*ppval> from the B<AlgorithmIdentifier> I<alg>. -X509_ALGOR_set_md() sets the B<AlgorithmIdentifier> B<alg> to appropriate -values for the message digest B<md>. +X509_ALGOR_set_md() sets the B<AlgorithmIdentifier> I<alg> to appropriate +values for the message digest I<md>. -X509_ALGOR_cmp() compares B<a> and B<b> and returns 0 if they have identical +X509_ALGOR_cmp() compares I<a> and I<b> and returns 0 if they have identical encodings and nonzero otherwise. X509_ALGOR_copy() copies the source values into the dest structs; making |