[openssl-users] Invalid ref coiunt for an openssl engine

[Oleg Gryb]

I'm trying to create a dynamic openssl engine, activate it from a client's code and then de-activate to do some important cleanup through the engine's "finish" function, when it's not needed anymore.
I use ENGINE_finish(e) call from a client's side to do that, but that function will call engine's "finish" only if ref count to the engine's object is equal to 1. In my case the ref count is 3 and I don't understand why it's happening since the mentioned client was the only one who has used the engine.
I've stripped out the client's and engine's code and put it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34079310/why-ref-count-for-an-openssl-engine-is-so-high
As a work around I use the code below on the client's side:
   while (e->funct_ref) {
    ENGINE_finish(e);
}

I got a feeling that this code could be unsafe and want to understand what the right way of fixing the problem is.
Thanks,Oleg




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