From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 20:17:32 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document failure return for ECDSA_SIG_new
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_0i~94
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F6408%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

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)

(cherry picked from commit 6da34cfbddede5e46f9c9183b724c99999dcfb41)
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod b/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
index 9e1f662c621..3920b96b981 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/ECDSA_SIG_new.pod
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ 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_size() returns the maximum length signature or 0 on error.