[openssl-dev] OpenSSL 1.1 pre-3 CRYPTO_set_mem_functions

[Erik Forsberg]

I was talking about CRYPTO_set_mem_functions()

It doesnt do anything, just saving some pointers that are never
used for anything. So a big NO-OP, seems like a TODO implementation ?

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>In message <0v59RC3DjidYWsO at srv.efca.com> on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:15:28 -0800, "Erik Forsberg" <erik at efca.com> said:
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>erik> 
>erik> just started do the 1.1 updates needed in my own software, in the past I had
>erik> use the 1.0.2 memory allocation hooks to link into my own mem leak tester.
>erik> 
>erik> 1.1 has reworked this, by what I read in the past, sounded like I could still
>erik> get value out of if, but today when I looked at CRYPTO_set_mem_functions()
>erik> I see they simply save function pointers into 3 static _wrapper variables.
>erik> You can read them by calling CRYPTO_get_mem_functions but thats all.
>erik> No other use of them at all in the file crypto/mem.c
>erik> 
>erik> Are we supposed to be able to hook into OPENSSL_malloc() etc in 1.1 ?
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>You may have missed it, but there's a CRYPTO_set_mem_functions() as
>well.  Can't you use that?
>
>Cheers,
>Richard
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