6 X509_free, X509_up_ref,
8 OSSL_STACK_OF_X509_free
9 - X509 certificate ASN1 allocation and deallocation functions
13 #include <openssl/x509.h>
16 X509 *X509_new_ex(OSSL_LIB_CTX *libctx, const char *propq);
17 void X509_free(X509 *a);
18 int X509_up_ref(X509 *a);
19 STACK_OF(X509) *X509_chain_up_ref(STACK_OF(X509) *x);
20 void OSSL_STACK_OF_X509_free(STACK_OF(X509) *certs);
24 The X509 ASN1 allocation routines, allocate and free an
25 X509 structure, which represents an X509 certificate.
27 X509_new_ex() allocates and initializes a X509 structure with a
28 library context of I<libctx>, property query of I<propq> and a reference
29 count of B<1>. Many X509 functions such as X509_check_purpose(), and
30 X509_verify() use this library context to select which providers supply the
31 fetched algorithms (SHA1 is used internally). This created X509 object can then
32 be used when loading binary data using d2i_X509().
34 X509_new() is similar to X509_new_ex() but sets the library context
35 and property query to NULL. This results in the default (NULL) library context
36 being used for any X509 operations requiring algorithm fetches.
38 X509_free() decrements the reference count of B<X509> structure B<a> and
39 frees it up if the reference count is zero. If B<a> is NULL nothing is done.
41 X509_up_ref() increments the reference count of B<a>.
43 X509_chain_up_ref() increases the reference count of all certificates in
44 chain B<x> and returns a copy of the stack, or an empty stack if B<a> is NULL.
46 OSSL_STACK_OF_X509_free() deallocates the given list of pointers to
47 certificates after calling X509_free() on all its elements.
51 The function X509_up_ref() if useful if a certificate structure is being
52 used by several different operations each of which will free it up after
53 use: this avoids the need to duplicate the entire certificate structure.
55 The function X509_chain_up_ref() doesn't just up the reference count of
56 each certificate. It also returns a copy of the stack, using sk_X509_dup(),
57 but it serves a similar purpose: the returned chain persists after the
58 original has been freed.
62 If the allocation fails, X509_new() returns NULL and sets an error
63 code that can be obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)>.
64 Otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly allocated structure.
66 X509_up_ref() returns 1 for success and 0 for failure.
68 X509_chain_up_ref() returns a copy of the stack or NULL if an error occurred.
70 OSSL_STACK_OF_X509_free() has no return value.
76 L<X509_CRL_get0_by_serial(3)>,
77 L<X509_get0_signature(3)>,
78 L<X509_get_ext_d2i(3)>,
79 L<X509_get_extension_flags(3)>,
80 L<X509_get_pubkey(3)>,
81 L<X509_get_subject_name(3)>,
82 L<X509_get_version(3)>,
83 L<X509_NAME_add_entry_by_txt(3)>,
84 L<X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_object(3)>,
85 L<X509_NAME_get_index_by_NID(3)>,
86 L<X509_NAME_print_ex(3)>,
89 L<X509_verify_cert(3)>
93 X509_new_ex() was added in OpenSSL 3.0.
95 OSSL_STACK_OF_X509_free() was added in OpenSSL 3.2.
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