Commit 20a8bce4 authored Mar 20, 2019 by Shane Lontis Committed by Richard Levitte Mar 20, 2019

Updated doc for BN_clear, BN_CTX_end when param is NULL



Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8532)

(cherry picked from commit 138ef774fedb567b29d6e5a96541a396cadc6135)

parent 1913df42

doc/man3/BN_CTX_start.pod

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		@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ calls must be made before calling any other functions that use the
		B<ctx> as an argument.

		Finally, BN_CTX_end() must be called before returning from the function.
		If B<ctx> is NULL, nothing is done.
		When BN_CTX_end() is called, the B<BIGNUM> pointers obtained from
		BN_CTX_get() become invalid.

doc/man3/BN_new.pod

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		@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ OPENSSL_secure_malloc(3) is used to store the value.
		BN_clear() is used to destroy sensitive data such as keys when they
		are no longer needed. It erases the memory used by B<a> and sets it
		to the value 0.
		If B<a> is NULL, nothing is done.

		BN_free() frees the components of the B<BIGNUM>, and if it was created
		by BN_new(), also the structure itself. BN_clear_free() additionally