Some docs cleanup

Clean up a few manual pages that we're about to touch, according to
conventions found in Linux' man-pages(7); function arguments in
descriptions should be in italics, and types, macros and similar
should be in bold, with the exception for NULL.

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9979)

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod
index e175124ad0089920daef8d8e8f88289aeb54fbb8..f3d80a17573066b23810ca1da317476567bc9dfb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_KDF.pod
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ NULL is a valid parameter, for which this function is a no-op.
 
 EVP_KDF_CTX_new() creates a new context for the KDF implementation I<kdf>.
 
-EVP_KDF_CTX_free() frees up the context C<ctx>.  If I<ctx> is NULL, nothing
+EVP_KDF_CTX_free() frees up the context I<ctx>.  If I<ctx> is NULL, nothing
 is done.
 
 EVP_KDF_CTX_kdf() returns the B<EVP_KDF> associated with the context
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ I<ctx>.
 EVP_KDF_reset() resets the context to the default state as if the context
 had just been created.
 
-EVP_KDF_derive() derives C<keylen> bytes of key material and places it in the
+EVP_KDF_derive() derives I<keylen> bytes of key material and places it in the
 I<key> buffer.  If the algorithm produces a fixed amount of output then an
-error will occur unless the C<keylen> parameter is equal to that output size,
+error will occur unless the I<keylen> parameter is equal to that output size,
 as returned by EVP_KDF_size().
 
 EVP_KDF_get_params() retrieves details about the implementation
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ The memory size must never exceed what can be given with a B<size_t>.
 
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
-EVP_MAC_fetch() returns a pointer to a newly fetched B<EVP_KDF>, or
+EVP_KDF_fetch() returns a pointer to a newly fetched B<EVP_KDF>, or
 NULL if allocation failed.
 
 EVP_KDF_name() returns the name for the given I<kdf>, if it has been
@@ -220,14 +220,14 @@ added to the object database.
 EVP_KDF_provider() returns a pointer to the provider for the KDF, or
 NULL on error.
 
-EVP_MAC_up_ref() returns 1 on success, 0 on error.
+EVP_KDF_up_ref() returns 1 on success, 0 on error.
 
 EVP_KDF_CTX_new() returns either the newly allocated
-C<EVP_KDF_CTX> structure or C<NULL> if an error occurred.
+B<EVP_KDF_CTX> structure or NULL if an error occurred.
 
 EVP_KDF_CTX_free() and EVP_KDF_reset() do not return a value.
 
-EVP_KDF_size() returns the output size.  C<SIZE_MAX> is returned to indicate
+EVP_KDF_size() returns the output size.  B<SIZE_MAX> is returned to indicate
 that the algorithm produces a variable amount of output; 0 to indicate failure.
 
 The remaining functions return 1 for success and 0 or a negative value for

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_KEYEXCH_free.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_KEYEXCH_free.pod
index 41926f6b1252e32fc52ba473e3f1804d2c23512f..6571f9c111a3cc6cc12b85128d52b54229ea314a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_KEYEXCH_free.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_KEYEXCH_free.pod
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ EVP_KEYEXCH_fetch, EVP_KEYEXCH_free, EVP_KEYEXCH_up_ref, EVP_KEYEXCH_provider
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 EVP_KEYEXCH_fetch() fetches the key exchange implementation for the given
-B<algorithm> from any provider offering it, within the criteria given
-by the B<properties>.
+I<algorithm> from any provider offering it, within the criteria given
+by the I<properties>.
 See L<provider(7)/Fetching algorithms> for further information.
 
 The returned value must eventually be freed with EVP_KEYEXCH_free().
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ EVP_KEYEXCH_provider() returns the provider that I<exchange> was fetched from.
 =head1 RETURN VALUES
 
 EVP_KEYEXCH_fetch() returns a pointer to a B<EVP_KEYEXCH> for success
-or B<NULL> for failure.
+or NULL for failure.
 
 EVP_KEYEXCH_up_ref() returns 1 for success or 0 otherwise.
 

diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod
index c2087546eac42a108aeac859ad7f77e66e1f3c35..256605b50876f8d66e60582d95ab429e917e741f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/EVP_MAC.pod
@@ -116,10 +116,10 @@ EVP_MAC_update() adds I<datalen> bytes from I<data> to the MAC input.
 EVP_MAC_final() does the final computation and stores the result in
 the memory pointed at by I<out> of size I<outsize>, and sets the number
 of bytes written in I<*outl> at.
-If I<out> is B<NULL> or I<outsize> is too small, then no computation
+If I<out> is NULL or I<outsize> is too small, then no computation
 is made.
 To figure out what the output length will be and allocate space for it
-dynamically, simply call with I<out> being B<NULL> and I<outl>
+dynamically, simply call with I<out> being NULL and I<outl>
 pointing at a valid location, then allocate space and make a second
 call with I<out> pointing at the allocated space.