From: Shilpa Nagpal (shinagpa) <shinagpa@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:44:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Pull request #4852: file_api: clear file meta group before setting it during deploy... 
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Pull request #4852: file_api: clear file meta group before setting it during deploy config

Merge in SNORT/snort3 from ~SHINAGPA/snort3:file_reload_fix to master

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 3487f9375dbe15d9d9b596806f69cbecd567be90
Author: Shilpa Nagpal <shinagpa@cisco.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 8 13:26:08 2025 +0530

    file_api: clear file meta group before setting it during deploy config
---

diff --git a/src/ips_options/ips_file_meta.cc b/src/ips_options/ips_file_meta.cc
index 7652aadef..110775ac4 100644
--- a/src/ips_options/ips_file_meta.cc
+++ b/src/ips_options/ips_file_meta.cc
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ class FileMetaModule : public Module
 {
 public:
     FileMetaModule() : Module(s_name, s_help, s_params) { }
+    bool begin(const char*, int, SnortConfig*) override;
     bool set(const char*, Value&, SnortConfig*) override;
     bool end(const char*, int, SnortConfig*) override;
 
@@ -86,6 +87,12 @@ public:
     FileMetaData fmc;
 };
 
+bool FileMetaModule::begin(const char*, int, SnortConfig*)
+{
+    fmc.groups.clear();
+    return true;
+}
+
 bool FileMetaModule::set(const char*, Value& v, SnortConfig*)
 {
     if (v.is("type"))