Don't ignore config_name parameter passed to OPENSSL_config(). Use

"openssl_conf" in config file if config_name variable is missing.

crypto/conf/conf.h

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ typedef void conf_finish_func(CONF_IMODULE *md);
 #define CONF_MFLAGS_SILENT		0x4
 #define CONF_MFLAGS_NO_DSO		0x8
 #define CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_MISSING_FILE	0x10
+#define CONF_MFLAGS_DEFAULT_SECTION	0x20
 
 int CONF_set_default_method(CONF_METHOD *meth);
 void CONF_set_nconf(CONF *conf,LHASH *hash);

crypto/conf/conf_mod.c

@@ -126,17 +126,18 @@ int CONF_modules_load(const CONF *cnf, const char *appname,
 	{
 	STACK_OF(CONF_VALUE) *values;
 	CONF_VALUE *vl;
-	char *vsection;
+	char *vsection = NULL;
 
 	int ret, i;
 
 	if (!cnf)
 		return 1;
 
-	if (appname == NULL)
-		appname = "openssl_conf";
+	if (appname)
+		vsection = NCONF_get_string(cnf, NULL, appname);
 
-	vsection = NCONF_get_string(cnf, NULL, appname); 
+	if (!appname || (!vsection && (flags & CONF_MFLAGS_DEFAULT_SECTION)))
+		vsection = NCONF_get_string(cnf, NULL, "openssl_conf");
 
 	if (!vsection)
 		{

crypto/conf/conf_sap.c

@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ void OPENSSL_config(const char *config_name)
 
 
 	ERR_clear_error();
-	if (CONF_modules_load_file(NULL, NULL,
-					CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_MISSING_FILE) <= 0)
+	if (CONF_modules_load_file(NULL, config_name,
+	CONF_MFLAGS_DEFAULT_SECTION|CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_MISSING_FILE) <= 0)
 		{
 		BIO *bio_err;
 		ERR_load_crypto_strings();