From: Raza Shafiq (rshafiq) <rshafiq@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:49:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Pull request #4873: flow: clear flow ref in pkt on stale flow cleanup
X-Git-Tag: 3.9.5.0~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0236337fcda84008703fc6d220e9fd238127c945;p=thirdparty%2Fsnort3.git

Pull request #4873: flow: clear flow ref in pkt on stale flow cleanup

Merge in SNORT/snort3 from ~RSHAFIQ/snort3:stale_flow to master

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 7b40b1ea05c04f00f4abdae0b8a83bb42daaf801
Author: rshafiq <rshafiq@cisco.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 19 11:17:00 2025 -0400

    flow: clear flow ref in pkt on stale flow cleanup
---

diff --git a/src/flow/flow_control.cc b/src/flow/flow_control.cc
index 83cf80152..dba421799 100644
--- a/src/flow/flow_control.cc
+++ b/src/flow/flow_control.cc
@@ -174,7 +174,10 @@ Flow* FlowControl::stale_flow_cleanup(FlowCache* cache, Flow* flow, Packet* p)
             PacketTracerSuspend pt_susp;
 
             if ( cache->release(flow, PruneReason::STALE) )
+            {
                 flow = nullptr;
+                p->flow = nullptr;
+            }
         }
     }