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commit 8b3facd7324b6c2f36f6414c0552da26378aae4a
Author: Pauli <ppz...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Feb 18 11:55:04 2021 +1000
rand: note that locking needs to be explicitly enabled.
Fixes #13912
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lon...@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14224)
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Summary of changes:
doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod
index c2940a3455..97114af0fb 100644
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_RAND.pod
@@ -311,6 +311,12 @@ or the properties in the case of
B<OSSL_RAND_PARAM_PROPERTIES>.
=back
+=head1 NOTES
+
+An B<EVP_RAND_CTX> needs to have locking enabled if it acts as the parent of
+more than one child and the children can be accessed concurrently. This must
+be done by explicitly calling EVP_RAND_enable_locking().
+
=head1 RETURN VALUES
EVP_RAND_fetch() returns a pointer to a newly fetched B<EVP_RAND>, or
