From 6da34cfbddede5e46f9c9183b724c99999dcfb41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 16:17:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document failure return for 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)
---
 doc/man3/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/man3/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod b/doc/man3/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
index 72962f0fbf..0bf63f8bde 100644
--- a/doc/man3/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ returned as a newly allocated B<ECDSA_SIG> structure (or NULL on error).
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
+ECDSA_SIG_new() returns NULL if the allocation fails.
+
 ECDSA_SIG_set0() returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.
 
 ECDSA_SIG_get0_r() and ECDSA_SIG_get0_s() return the corresponding value,
-- 
2.25.1