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authorPauli <pauli@openssl.org>2021-06-24 23:51:53 +1000
committerPauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com>2021-09-25 10:39:20 +1000
commit06394a6cc7c784b46bc6d1e65a1ff39637093934 (patch)
tree6aae0805014a416e6006f6cf20f9e3f527eef4b1 /doc/man7
parentc568900c9ac02e92c54bd3168773d54d7350a580 (diff)
doc: Document that the OBJ creation functions are now thread safe.
With the OBJ_ thread locking in place, these documentation changes are not required. This reverts commit 0218bcdd3feab456135207c140998305df73ab7b. Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/15713)
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-rw-r--r--doc/man7/provider-base.pod7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/provider-base.pod b/doc/man7/provider-base.pod
index d1e26baa11..5af35bf4dc 100644
--- a/doc/man7/provider-base.pod
+++ b/doc/man7/provider-base.pod
@@ -269,7 +269,6 @@ It will treat as success the case where the OID already exists (even if the
short name I<sn> or long name I<ln> provided as arguments differ from those
associated with the existing OID, in which case the new names are not
associated).
-This function is not thread safe.
The core_obj_add_sigid() function registers a new composite signature algorithm
(I<sign_name>) consisting of an underlying signature algorithm (I<pkey_name>)
@@ -283,7 +282,6 @@ to identify the object. It will treat as success the case where the composite
signature algorithm already exists (even if registered against a different
underlying signature or digest algorithm). It returns 1 on success or 0 on
failure.
-This function is not thread safe.
CRYPTO_malloc(), CRYPTO_zalloc(), CRYPTO_memdup(), CRYPTO_strdup(),
CRYPTO_strndup(), CRYPTO_free(), CRYPTO_clear_free(),
@@ -613,6 +611,11 @@ or maximum. A -1 indicates that the group should not be used in that protocol.
=back
+=head1 NOTES
+
+The core_obj_create() and core_obj_add_sigid() functions were not thread safe
+in OpenSSL 3.0.
+
=head1 EXAMPLES
This is an example of a simple provider made available as a