[Docs] Notes about freeing objects
- Free objects returned from PEM read
- Free objects returned from d2i_*
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/24478)
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to I<*x>. If neither I<x> nor I<*x> is NULL then an attempt is made
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to reuse the structure at I<*x> (but see BUGS and EXAMPLES sections).
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Irrespective of the value of I<x> a pointer to the structure is always
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returned (or NULL if an error occurred).
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returned (or NULL if an error occurred). The caller retains ownership of the
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returned object and needs to free it when it is no longer needed, e.g.
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using X509_free() for X509 objects or EVP_PKEY_free() for EVP_PKEY objects.
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The PEM functions which write private keys take an I<enc> parameter
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which specifies the encryption algorithm to use, encryption is done
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@ -387,7 +387,9 @@ B<d2i_I<TYPE>>() attempts to decode I<len> bytes at I<*ppin>. If successful a
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pointer to the B<I<TYPE>> structure is returned and I<*ppin> is incremented to
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the byte following the parsed data. If I<a> is not NULL then a pointer
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to the returned structure is also written to I<*a>. If an error occurred
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then NULL is returned.
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then NULL is returned. The caller retains ownership of the
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returned object and needs to free it when it is no longer needed, e.g.
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using X509_free() for X509 objects or DSA_SIG_free() for DSA_SIG objects.
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On a successful return, if I<*a> is not NULL then it is assumed that I<*a>
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contains a valid B<I<TYPE>> structure and an attempt is made to reuse it.
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