x509 certificate verification in C

I use following code for verifying a certificate

init CertStore:

X509_STORE* m_store = X509_STORE_new();
X509_LOOKUP* m_lookup = X509_STORE_add_lookup(m_store,X509_LOOKUP_file());    
X509_STORE_load_locations(m_store, "CAFile.pem", NULL);
X509_STORE_set_default_paths(m_store);
X509_LOOKUP_load_file(m_lookup,"CAFile.pem",X509_FILETYPE_PEM)
// alternative lookup by hashdir
// X509_LOOKUP* m_lookup=X509_STORE_add_lookup(m_store,X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir());

VerifyCert:

X509_STORE_CTX *storeCtx = X509_STORE_CTX_new();
X509_STORE_CTX_init(storeCtx,m_store,cert,NULL);
X509_STORE_CTX_set_flags(storeCtx, X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK);
if (X509_verify_cert(storeCtx) == 1)
{
  printf("success");
}
else
{
  printf("Verificatione rror: %s",X509_verify_cert_error_string(storeCtx->error));
}
X509_STORE_CTX_free(storeCtx);

you also need to cleanup m_store

if(m_store != NULL)
{
   X509_STORE_free(m_store);
   m_store = NULL;
}

Take a look at my self-answered question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3412032/openssl-c-how-do-you-verify-a-public-key-was-issued-by-your-private-ca it goes a long way to doing what you need.


X509_STORE* m_store = NULL;

X509_LOOKUP *m_lookup = NULL;
X509_STORE_CTX *storeCtx = NULL;
m_store = X509_STORE_new();
if(NULL == m_store) goto exit;
m_lookup = X509_STORE_add_lookup(m_store, X509_LOOKUP_file());
if(NULL == m_lookup) goto exit;
X509_STORE_load_locations(m_store, CA_CERT_PATH, NULL);
X509_STORE_set_default_paths(m_store);
X509_LOOKUP_load_file(m_lookup,CA_CERT_PATH, X509_FILETYPE_ASN1);
m_lookup = X509_STORE_add_lookup(m_store, X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir());
if(NULL == m_lookup) goto exit;
storeCtx = X509_STORE_CTX_new();
if(NULL == storeCtx) goto exit;
X509_STORE_CTX_init(storeCtx,m_store,cer_x509,NULL);
X509_STORE_CTX_set_flags(storeCtx, /*X509_V_FLAG_CHECK_SS_SIGNATURE*/0x4000);
if (X509_verify_cert(storeCtx) == 1)
{
printf("success\n");
}
else
{
printf("Verification error: %s\n",X509_verify_cert_error_string(storeCtx->error));
}
exit:
    if(NULL != storeCtx) X509_STORE_CTX_free(storeCtx);
    if(m_store != NULL)
    {
        X509_STORE_free(m_store);
        m_store = NULL;
    }

After Doing this also I am unable to verify Self signed certificate