Clarify flags argument of X509_check_ip

tniessen · t8m · commit 2d280fe016a9 · 2022-01-20T11:16:10.000+01:00
Because no supported flag affects the behavior of X509_check_ip, the flags argument currently has no effect. Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from #17536)
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod b/doc/man3/X509_check_host.pod
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ X509_check_ip() checks if the certificate matches a specified IPv4 or
 IPv6 address.  The B<address> array is in binary format, in network
 byte order.  The length is either 4 (IPv4) or 16 (IPv6).  Only
 explicitly marked addresses in the certificates are considered; IP
-addresses stored in DNS names and Common Names are ignored.
+addresses stored in DNS names and Common Names are ignored. There are
+currently no B<flags> that would affect the behavior of this call.
 
 X509_check_ip_asc() is similar, except that the NUL-terminated
 string B<address> is first converted to the internal representation.
