From: kovan <xaum.io@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:44:55 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: add return value documentation for EVP_CIPHER_*_params functions
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doc: add return value documentation for EVP_CIPHER_*_params functions

Document that EVP_CIPHER_get_params(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_params() and
EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_params() return 1 for success and 0 for failure.

Fixes #29725

CLA: trivial

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@openssl.org>
MergeDate: Tue Feb  3 09:51:47 2026
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/29779)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
index aad412652c7..b2deb49ee39 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
@@ -1468,6 +1468,9 @@ for failure.
 EVP_CIPHER_names_do_all() returns 1 if the callback was called for all names.
 A return value of 0 means that the callback was not called for any names.
 
+EVP_CIPHER_get_params(), EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_params() and
+EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_params() return 1 for success and 0 for failure.
+
 =head1 CIPHER LISTING
 
 All algorithms have a fixed key length unless otherwise stated.