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Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/2177)

diff --git a/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h b/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h
index 51b0e81f68d9566193849c7430a48aab4622a79b..322ba9787f952a8c4f4b0f894ace748a96bfc9b2 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h
+++ b/crypto/asn1/standard_methods.h
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
  * https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
  */
 
  * https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
  */
 

-/* Keep this sorted in type order !! */
+/*
+ * This table MUST be kept in ascening order of the NID each method
+ * represents (corresponding to the pkey_id field) as OBJ_bsearch
+ * is used to search it.
+ */

 static const EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD *standard_methods[] = {
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA
     &rsa_asn1_meths[0],
 static const EVP_PKEY_ASN1_METHOD *standard_methods[] = {
 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA
     &rsa_asn1_meths[0],