commit 2986ecdc08016de978f1134315623778420b51e5
author Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> Sun Dec 13 17:28:40 2015 +0000
committer Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> Mon Dec 14 23:06:14 2015 +0000
tree d553d2766381f7bd4b04b38fb7f472379d6e903c
parent d911097d7c93e4cfeab624b34d73fe51da158b69

Extend EVP_PKEY_copy_parameters()

Make EVP_PKEY_copy_parameters() work if the destination has no type
(e.g. if obtained from EVP_PKEY_new()) or the underlying key is NULL.
This is useful where we want to copy the parameters from an existing
key to a new key.

Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>

crypto/evp/p_lib.c

diff --git a/crypto/evp/p_lib.c b/crypto/evp/p_lib.c
index f07d7e5..01f8a72 100644
--- a/crypto/evp/p_lib.c
+++ b/crypto/evp/p_lib.c
@@ -129,7 +129,10 @@
 
 int EVP_PKEY_copy_parameters(EVP_PKEY *to, const EVP_PKEY *from)
 {
-    if (to->type != from->type) {
+    if (to->type == EVP_PKEY_NONE) {
+        if (EVP_PKEY_set_type(to, from->type) == 0)
+            return 0;
+    } else if (to->type != from->type) {
         EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_PKEY_COPY_PARAMETERS, EVP_R_DIFFERENT_KEY_TYPES);
         goto err;
     }