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| author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2019-02-05 14:25:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2019-02-07 14:25:38 +0000 |
| commit | e1cce612a6520555805c25be2539f231c22696d9 (patch) | |
| tree | cf00b063a466262ec03139f85beac4608df87bc0 /doc | |
| parent | 3b09585bd67c41445be4be8a84233e5d9a699264 (diff) | |
Make OPENSSL_malloc_init() a no-op
Making this a no-op removes a potential infinite loop than can occur in
some situations.
Fixes #2865
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8167)
(cherry picked from commit ef45aa14c5af024fcb8bef1c9007f3d1c115bd85)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod index 049a12556a..57dc1638ae 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OPENSSL_malloc.pod @@ -90,10 +90,8 @@ generally macro's that add the standard C B<__FILE__> and B<__LINE__> parameters and call a lower-level B<CRYPTO_xxx> API. Some functions do not add those parameters, but exist for consistency. -OPENSSL_malloc_init() sets the lower-level memory allocation functions -to their default implementation. -It is generally not necessary to call this, except perhaps in certain -shared-library situations. +OPENSSL_malloc_init() does nothing and does not need to be called. It is +included for compatibility with older versions of OpenSSL. OPENSSL_malloc(), OPENSSL_realloc(), and OPENSSL_free() are like the C malloc(), realloc(), and free() functions. |