1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/openssl.c b/openssl.c
index 415b21e..5062b7d 100644
--- a/openssl.c
+++ b/openssl.c
@@ -2986,10 +2986,10 @@ static int sx_new(lua_State *L) {
         static const char *opts[] = {
                 "SSLv2", "SSLv3", "SSLv23", "SSL", "TLSv1", "TLS", NULL
         };
-        SSL_CTX **ud = prepsimple(L, SSL_CTX_CLASS);
         /* later versions of SSL declare a const qualifier on the return type */
         __typeof__(&TLSv1_client_method) method = &TLSv1_client_method;
         _Bool srv;
+        SSL_CTX **ud;
 
         lua_settop(L, 2);
         srv = lua_toboolean(L, 2);
@@ -3015,6 +3015,8 @@ static int sx_new(lua_State *L) {
                 break;
         }
 
+        ud = prepsimple(L, SSL_CTX_CLASS);
+
         if (!(*ud = SSL_CTX_new(method())))
                 return throwssl(L, "ssl.context.new");