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    <tt>You only asked about freeing the X509, which is safe in this
      situation.<br>
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      It is not safe to free the SSL_CTX if you want to use it again
      later -- remove this SSL_CTX_free(ctx) call and put one in your program's
      cleanup instead.<br>
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      -Ben<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/2017 11:08 AM, Adi
      Mallikarjuna Reddy V wrote:<br>
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        <div dir="auto">Forgot to mention that the ssl_ctx is going to
          be used by another thread later. When I do x509_free, the
          handshake doesn’t finish.</div>
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        <div dir="auto">I see a crash in ssl_accept.</div>
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        <div dir="auto">Thanks </div>
        <div dir="auto">Adi</div>
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          <div>On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:41 AM Benjamin Kaduk <<a
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> On 10/17/2017 08:39
              AM, Adi Mallikarjuna Reddy V wrote:<br>
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                <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi,</span>
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                  <div style="font-size:12.8px">If I have an X509 object
                    and is created using PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX(), then
                    Can I free X509 right after the completion
                    of PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX()?</div>
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                    <div>                               BIO *cert_bio =
                      BIO_new(BIO_s_mem());</div>
                    <div>                                X509 *cert =
                      X509_new();</div>
                    <div>                               
                      BIO_puts(cert_bio, cert_str.c_str());</div>
                    <div>                                cert =
                      PEM_read_bio_X509_AUX(cert_bio, &cert, NULL,
                      NULL);</div>
                    <div>                                if ( (cert !=
                      NULL) && SSL_CTX_use_certificate(ctx,
                      cert) < 1) {</div>
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                      SSL_CTX_free(ctx);</div>
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Yes.<br>
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              -Ben</div>
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                    <div>                                        return
                      NULL;</div>
                    <div>                                }</div>
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                    <div>                                if(cert_bio
                      !=NULL) {</div>
                    <div>                                       
                      BIO_free(cert_bio);</div>
                    <div>                                }</div>
                    <div>                                if(cert !=
                      NULL) {</div>
                    <div>                                       
                      X509_free(cert); //is it needed?</div>
                    <div>                                }</div>
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                  <div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks</div>
                  <div style="font-size:12.8px">Adi</div>
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