Audit: comment updates and conditional merge

[peteski22]

Description

• updates comments to inform callers about the nil, nil potential return value.
• merges two consecutive if conditions in clientCertSerialNumber func

HashiCorp Checklist

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  of a public function, even if that change is in a CE file, double check that
  applying the patch for this PR to the ENT repo and running tests doesn't
  break any tests. Sometimes ENT only tests rely on public functions in CE
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