From: Pauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:55:04 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: rand: note that locking needs to be explicitly enabled.
X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.0.0-alpha13~204
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b3facd7324b6c2f36f6414c0552da26378aae4a;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git

rand: note that locking needs to be explicitly enabled.

Fixes #13912

Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14224)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod
index c2940a3455f..97114af0fb9 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod
@@ -311,6 +311,12 @@ or the properties in the case of B<OSSL_RAND_PARAM_PROPERTIES>.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 NOTES
+
+An B<EVP_RAND_CTX> needs to have locking enabled if it acts as the parent of
+more than one child and the children can be accessed concurrently.  This must
+be done by explicitly calling EVP_RAND_enable_locking().
+
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 EVP_RAND_fetch() returns a pointer to a newly fetched B<EVP_RAND>, or