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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-02-05 15:13:49 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-02-06 16:22:00 +1000 |
| commit | 8b6ffd40401bd3b78538cb8d496db0c6926185b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6329353eb7e6c01592b28898974ae2b8f2faaf9b /doc | |
| parent | b744f915ca8bb37631909728dd2529289bda8438 (diff) | |
Params: change UTF8 construct calls to avoid explicit strlen(3) calls.
It is better, safer and smaller to let the library routine handle the
strlen(3) call.
Added a note to the documentation suggesting this.
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11019)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_int.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_int.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_int.pod index 8d4aa90c6d..99e4fcf088 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_int.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_int.pod @@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ size B<rsize> is created. OSSL_PARAM_construct_utf8_string() is a function that constructs a UTF8 string OSSL_PARAM structure. A parameter with name B<key>, storage B<buf> and size B<bsize> is created. -If B<bsize> is zero, the string length is determined using strlen(3). +If B<bsize> is zero, the string length is determined using strlen(3) + 1 for the +null termination byte. +Generally pass zero for B<bsize> instead of calling strlen(3) yourself. OSSL_PARAM_construct_octet_string() is a function that constructs an OCTET string OSSL_PARAM structure. |