Running a configuration check within valgrind reports:
==1431== 32 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 20 of 43
==1431== at 0x4C2FB55: calloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==1431== by 0x4C39B5: sample_parse_expr (sample.c:982)
==1431== by 0x56B410: parse_acl_expr (acl.c:319)
==1431== by 0x56BA7F: parse_acl (acl.c:697)
==1431== by 0x48D225: cfg_parse_listen (cfgparse-listen.c:816)
==1431== by 0x4797C3: readcfgfile (cfgparse.c:2167)
==1431== by 0x52943D: init (haproxy.c:2021)
==1431== by 0x41F382: main (haproxy.c:3133)
After this patch is applied the leak is gone as expected.
This is a fairly minor leak that can only be observed if samples need to be
freed, which is not something that should occur during normal processing and
most likely only during shut down. Thus no backport should be needed.