[openssl-users] Issue with freeing X509

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On 10/17/2017 11:27 AM, Adi Mallikarjuna Reddy V wrote:
>> I am only worried about the following line. 
>>
>> SSL_CTX_use_certificate(ctx, cert)
>>
>> After this line is it safe to free cert object while ctx is still
>> used later on?
>>

SSL_CTX_use_certificate(ctx, cert), on successful return, takes an
additional reference on the supplied |cert| argument to account for the
pointer in |ctx|.  Thus, the caller of SSL_CTX_use_certificate() can
safely call X509_free(cert) to release the caller's local reference,
while the |ctx| retains a pointer to |cert|.

-Ben
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