Garbage collect check_defer()

This was a mechanism to ensure that OBJ_cleanup() doesn't remove the
ASN1_OBJECT associated with a custom cipher or digest (that was added
with EVP_add_{cipher,digest}(), while the latter is still referenced
in the OBJ_NAME table.

It had the effect that OBJ_cleanup() wasn't actually called ever from
OPENSSL_cleanup() (it is only called if you load the OID conf module).

Oh, and of course it was once part of the public API. I fixed that two
years ago, almost exactly to the day. Still mentioned in OBJ_create.3.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/evp/names.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/evp/names.c
index 6ef061a2cb..7dc9457c3e 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/evp/names.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/evp/names.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: names.c,v 1.27 2024/01/13 11:48:16 tb Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: names.c,v 1.28 2024/01/13 11:55:31 tb Exp $ */
 /* Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
  * All rights reserved.
  *
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
 #include "evp_local.h"
 
 extern int obj_cleanup_defer;
-void check_defer(int nid);
 
 int
 EVP_add_cipher(const EVP_CIPHER *c)