This is a practically unused function (both in our tree and globally), but it is the only remaining public *_free() function in libcrypto that segfaults on being passed NULL. I'll of course add it to the regress tests should this go in.
Index: lib/libcrypto/asn1/x_crl.c =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvs/src/lib/libcrypto/asn1/x_crl.c,v retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -p -r1.30 x_crl.c --- lib/libcrypto/asn1/x_crl.c 17 Mar 2018 14:33:20 -0000 1.30 +++ lib/libcrypto/asn1/x_crl.c 22 Apr 2018 12:12:14 -0000 @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ X509_CRL_METHOD_new(int (*crl_init)(X509 void X509_CRL_METHOD_free(X509_CRL_METHOD *m) { - if (!(m->flags & X509_CRL_METHOD_DYNAMIC)) + if (m == NULL || !(m->flags & X509_CRL_METHOD_DYNAMIC)) return; free(m); }