1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod b/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod
index b761859086..a83f46f896 100644
--- a/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod
+++ b/src/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod
@@ -45,10 +45,7 @@ B<len>. Any data already in the buffer is preserved if it increases in
 size.
 
 BUF_strdup() copies a null terminated string into a block of allocated memory
-and returns a pointer to the allocated block.  Unlike the standard C library
-strdup() this function uses OPENSSL_malloc() and so should be used in
-preference to the standard library strdup() because it can be used for memory
-leak checking or replacing the malloc() function.
+and returns a pointer to the allocated block.
 
 The memory allocated from BUF_strdup() should be freed up using the
 OPENSSL_free() function.