BUG: Free the extension data when nifti_add_extension fails - #62
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act_add_exts() in both nifti_tool and nifti1_tool reads the extension data from a file into edata and, if nifti_add_extension() then fails, returns without freeing it. The success path a few lines below frees it already. Found by clang's static analyzer, on a path the test suite does not reach. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KSPnbwpDjVcAYqDdVqLkMU
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act_add_exts() in both nifti_tool and nifti1_tool reads the extension
data from a file into edata and, if nifti_add_extension() then fails,
returns without freeing it. The success path a few lines below frees
it already.
Found by clang's static analyzer, on a path the test suite does not
reach. Split out of #56, which fixes the CIFTI extension search the
same sweep reported.
Interface impact: none. On the union of all these changes, configured with
USE_FSL_CODE=ONandUSE_CIFTI_CODE=ON: all 448 exported symbols acrosslibniftiio,libnifti2,libznz,libfslio,libnifticdfandlibciftiare identical tomasterundernm -D --defined-only, and all ten installed headers are identical undergcc -E -P. Undergcc -dM -Eone macro definition differs, intentionally and only in text: #61 makesFSL_RADIOLOGICALread(-1)so it is safe inside an expression. Its value is still-1, checked by compiling against each installedfslio.hand printing it.Verification. This branch: builds with gcc 16.1.1,
ctestunchanged frommaster(2 of 345 fail onmasteritself in this environment; #31 and #29 each fix one). The union of all the PRs: 0 errors under both gcc 16.1.1 and clang 22.1.8,ctest345/345 under each, and the whole suite under valgrind memcheck with--trace-children=yesgives 484 traced processes with no invalid access, no uninitialised value and no leak in any nifti binary.Coordination. Every line of every branch was compared, whitespace-normalised, against the diffs of the open PRs (#11, #21, #22, #23, #24). Where one of those already changes a line, the line was left alone, and the few deliberate overlaps are named in the text above. What survives is 17 compiler warnings, all of them on those lines: 9
-Wsign-conversion(5 infslio.cfor #22, 2 innifti2_io.cand 2 innifti_tester001.cfor #24) and 8-Wcalloc-transposed-argsinnifti_findhdrnameandnifti_findimgname, which #11 rewrites. No formatting changes appear anywhere, to stay clear of #10 and #12.One of a set of independent, single-purpose PRs. Each bases on
masterand can be merged on its own, in any order.The full set of PRs (35)
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