From: Pauli <pauli@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:20:37 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Note that EVP_CIPHER_get_iv_length returns negative values on error
X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.2.0-alpha1~2304
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a90577e717f76483525b2d8be6a42a9f04020d8;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

Note that EVP_CIPHER_get_iv_length returns negative values on error

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18875)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
index f81fdb2e00c..c3d7fc8fd27 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ length.
 EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_padding() always returns 1.
 
 EVP_CIPHER_get_iv_length() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_iv_length() return the IV
-length or zero if the cipher does not use an IV.
+length, zero if the cipher does not use an IV and a negative value on error.
 
 EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_tag_length() return the tag length or zero if the cipher
 does not use a tag.