In case someone&#x27;s interested in history, related change (return on malloc fail) was done in March 2015 in a general alloc-fail cleanup across the codebase. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openssl&#x2F;openssl&#x2F;commit&#x2F;918bb8652969fd53f0c390c1cd909265ed502c7e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openssl&#x2F;openssl&#x2F;commit&#x2F;918bb8652969fd53f0...</a>