s2i_ASN1_INTEGER: make error conditions more explicit, a few more tweaks

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/man/s2i_ASN1_INTEGER.3 b/src/lib/libcrypto/man/s2i_ASN1_INTEGER.3
index dd990ff7f1..39257d4a13 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/man/s2i_ASN1_INTEGER.3
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/man/s2i_ASN1_INTEGER.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: s2i_ASN1_INTEGER.3,v 1.3 2023/04/21 12:28:47 tb Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: s2i_ASN1_INTEGER.3,v 1.4 2023/04/21 13:08:16 tb Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2023 Theo Buehler <tb@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ and
 .Vt ASN1_OCTET_STRING
 objects.
 They are primarily used internally for parsing configuration files and
-displaying of X.509v3 certificate extensions.
+displaying X.509v3 certificate extensions.
 With the exception of
 .Fn i2s_ASN1_ENUMERATED_TABLE ,
 these functions ignore the
@@ -94,14 +94,15 @@ Decimal representation is used if the number has less than 128 bits,
 otherwise hexadecimal representation is used to avoid excessive conversion cost.
 .Pp
 .Fn s2i_ASN1_INTEGER
-converts a NUL-terminated decimal or hexadecimal string representation of
-an integer into an
+converts the NUL-terminated decimal or hexadecimal string representation of
+an integer in
+.Fa value
+into an
 .Vt ASN1_INTEGER
 object.
 A sign prefix of
 .Sq -
-indicates a negative number
-and
+indicates a negative number and the base prefixes
 .Sq 0x
 and
 .Sq 0X
@@ -169,18 +170,24 @@ arguments have strings configured in their usr_data field:
 .Fn i2s_ASN1_INTEGER ,
 and
 .Fn i2s_ASN1_OCTET_STRING
-return a NUL-terminated string, or NULL on error,
-usually memory allocation failure.
+return a NUL-terminated string, or NULL on memory allocation failure.
 .Pp
 .Fn s2i_ASN1_INTEGER
 returns an
 .Vt ASN1_INTEGER ,
 or NULL on error.
+Error conditions are memory allocation failure or if
+.Fa value
+is not a valid decimal or hexadecimal encoding of an integer.
 .Pp
 .Fn s2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING
 returns an
 .Vt ASN1_OCTET_STRING ,
 or NULL on error.
+Error conditions are memory allocation failure or if
+.Fa value
+contains an odd number of hexadecimal digits or anything except
+colons between pairs of hexadecimal digits.
 .Pp
 Error codes can sometimes be obtained by
 .Xr ERR_get_error 3 .
@@ -195,5 +202,6 @@ have been available since
 .Ox 2.6 .
 .Sh BUGS
 Of these functions at least
-.Fn s2i_ASN1_OCTET_STRING
-can succeed while setting an error and fail without setting an error.
+.Fn i2s_ASN1_ENUMERATED_TABLE
+can succeed while setting an error and fail without setting an error
+on the error stack.