Drop some dead code

No member of the curve_list[] table has a method set. Thus, curve.meth
is always NULL and we never take the EC_GROUP_new(meth) code path.

ok jsing

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/ec/ec_curve.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/ec/ec_curve.c
index a55b90a11b..61d6c01048 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/ec/ec_curve.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/ec/ec_curve.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: ec_curve.c,v 1.30 2023/05/01 07:58:34 tb Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: ec_curve.c,v 1.31 2023/05/01 08:16:17 tb Exp $ */
 /*
  * Written by Nils Larsch for the OpenSSL project.
  */
@@ -1819,7 +1819,6 @@ static const struct {
 typedef struct _ec_list_element_st {
         int nid;
         const EC_CURVE_DATA *data;
-        const EC_METHOD *(*meth) (void);
         const char *comment;
 } ec_list_element;
 
@@ -2117,7 +2116,6 @@ ec_group_new_from_data(const ec_list_element curve)
         BIGNUM *p = NULL, *a = NULL, *b = NULL, *x = NULL, *y = NULL, *order = NULL;
         int ok = 0;
         int seed_len, param_len;
-        const EC_METHOD *meth;
         const EC_CURVE_DATA *data;
         const unsigned char *params;
 
@@ -2137,14 +2135,7 @@ ec_group_new_from_data(const ec_list_element curve)
                 ECerror(ERR_R_BN_LIB);
                 goto err;
         }
-        if (curve.meth != 0) {
-                meth = curve.meth();
-                if (((group = EC_GROUP_new(meth)) == NULL) ||
-                    (!(group->meth->group_set_curve(group, p, a, b, ctx)))) {
-                        ECerror(ERR_R_EC_LIB);
-                        goto err;
-                }
-        } else if (data->field_type == NID_X9_62_prime_field) {
+        if (data->field_type == NID_X9_62_prime_field) {
                 if ((group = EC_GROUP_new_curve_GFp(p, a, b, ctx)) == NULL) {
                         ECerror(ERR_R_EC_LIB);
                         goto err;