Re: pgcrypto compilation error due to stack-allocated EVP_CIPHER_CTX

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Asif Naeem <anaeem(dot)it(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgcrypto compilation error due to stack-allocated EVP_CIPHER_CTX
Date: 2016-12-06 13:15:19
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTbVOy7_Wuw8uD62fWp1RGHN7fDqkRg8s5jLHRAjGMvyw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Asif Naeem <anaeem(dot)it(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thank you for v2 patch, I would like to comment on it. It seems that you
> have used function EVP_CIPHER_CTX_reset in the patch that was introduced in
> OpenSSL 1.1.0, older library version might not work now, is it intentional
> change ?.

I thought I tested that... But yes, that would not compile when linked
with 1.0.2 or older. Using EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup() is safe instead as
that's available down to 0.9.8.
--
Michael

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