From: Pauli <pauli@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:23:29 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Note that EVP_CIPHER_iv_length returns negative values on error
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_1r~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7dfe4aa2b08d1c3111b0861e26cac0246e3e8f58;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

Note that EVP_CIPHER_iv_length returns negative values on error

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hugo Landau <hlandau@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18894)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
index 392ce5dbc57..8f1318b79a8 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ length.
 EVP_CIPHER_CTX_set_padding() always returns 1.
 
 EVP_CIPHER_iv_length() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_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_type() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_type() return the NID of the cipher's
 OBJECT IDENTIFIER or NID_undef if it has no defined OBJECT IDENTIFIER.