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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. 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=ON and USE_CIFTI_CODE=ON: all 448 exported symbols across libniftiio, libnifti2, libznz, libfslio, libnifticdf and libcifti are identical to master under nm -D --defined-only, and all ten installed headers are identical under gcc -E -P. Under gcc -dM -E one macro definition differs, intentionally and only in text: #61 makes FSL_RADIOLOGICAL read (-1) so it is safe inside an expression. Its value is still -1, checked by compiling against each installed fslio.h and printing it.

Verification. This branch: builds with gcc 16.1.1, ctest unchanged from master (2 of 345 fail on master itself 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, ctest 345/345 under each, and the whole suite under valgrind memcheck with --trace-children=yes gives 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 in fslio.c for #22, 2 in nifti2_io.c and 2 in nifti_tester001.c for #24) and 8 -Wcalloc-transposed-args in nifti_findhdrname and nifti_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 master and can be merged on its own, in any order.

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The union of all of them is on the fork as all-changes, if you want to build and test the lot at once.

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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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The commit messages in this range were rewritten to remove trailers that do not belong in permanent history: Co-Authored-By: naming an AI tool, and Claude-Session: URLs that resolve for nobody. Only messages changed — the tree at the tip of master is byte-identical, and author, committer, and dates are preserved.

This PR's commit on the rewritten master:

  • ab2d71c32f BUG: Free the extension data when nifti_add_extension fails

The SHA recorded above by GitHub is from the pre-rewrite history and no longer resolves.

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