From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 20:22:04 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document failure return of ECDSA_SIG_new
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_0_2p~42
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=278f65eeabb28279661927ecbcc23e95aad34948;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git

Document failure return of ECDSA_SIG_new

ECDSA_SIG_new() returns NULL on error.

Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6398)
(cherry picked from commit 6da34cfbddede5e46f9c9183b724c99999dcfb41)
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/ecdsa.pod b/doc/crypto/ecdsa.pod
index 46c071b733..5708d90674 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/ecdsa.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/ecdsa.pod
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ using the public key B<eckey>.
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
+ECDSA_SIG_new() returns NULL if the allocation fails.
+
 ECDSA_size() returns the maximum length signature or 0 on error.
 
 ECDSA_sign_setup() and ECDSA_sign() return 1 if successful or 0