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| author | Martin Mirchev <[email protected]> | 2026-10-18 08:17:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <[email protected]> | 2026-10-23 14:48:06 +0200 |
| commit | 9db866e84f6bb9a6876cd63cba35576d2712bca6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4382e5116faa07d846168dd0ccd100db4a4a425a | |
| parent | doc: replace DES-EDE3-CBC with AES-256-CBC in PEM examples (diff) | |
| download | openssl-9db866e84f6bb9a6876cd63cba35576d2712bca6.tar.gz openssl-9db866e84f6bb9a6876cd63cba35576d2712bca6.zip | |
Document the OSSL_PARAM_merge() entry limit
OSSL_PARAM_merge() only considers the first 128 entries of each input
array and silently ignores the rest. Mention this in the manual page.
Signed-off-by: Martin Mirchev <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <[email protected]>
Merge-date: Fri Oct 23 12:47:50 2026
Merged-from: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/33244
(cherry picked from commit 25bba416c07ca811f99d2602ca7e7e6fbd43c45a)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_dup.pod | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_dup.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_dup.pod index c8d109a2278..e09e1ee3ba7 100644 --- a/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_dup.pod +++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_PARAM_dup.pod @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ function does a shallow copy of the parameters. Either I<params> or I<params1> may be NULL. The behaviour of the merge is unpredictable if I<params> and I<params1> contain the same key, and there are multiple entries within either array that have the same key. +Only the first 128 entries of each of I<params> and I<params1> are merged; +any further entries are silently ignored. OSSL_PARAM_free() frees the parameter array I<params> that was created using OSSL_PARAM_dup(), OSSL_PARAM_merge() or OSSL_PARAM_BLD_to_param(). |