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common: add new_htable() macro to allocate, initialize and setup memleak coverage for any typed hash table.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

83/100 · Strong
common: add new_htable() macro to allocate, initialize and setup memleak coverage for any typed hash table.

You can now simply add per-tal-object helpers for memleak, but our older pattern required
calling memleak functions explicitly during memleak handling. Hash tables in particular need
to be dynamically allocated (we override the allocators using htable_set_allocator and assume
this), so it makes sense to have a helper macro that does all three.

This eliminates a huge amount of code.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This is a code cleanup change that introduces a helper macro to reduce repeated boilerplate when creating hash tables and registering them with the project's memory-leak detection tooling. It does not fix a known security bug, change protocol behavior, or alter access controls. The patch removes many manual memleak-registration calls and replaces them with a single macro that performs allocation, initialization, and registration together.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal code-quality refactoring. If auditing, verify that the `new_htable` macro's `assert((void *)raw == (void *)p)` assumption holds for all generated htable types and that no generated htable places `raw` at a non-zero offset, which would break memleak coverage.

Security signals we found

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Refactoring of memory-leak detection registration only

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No change to input parsing, cryptography, network handling, or authorization

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No bug fix or vulnerability remediation described in commit message

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Removal of manual memleak helpers in favor of centralized macro

Risk score

Why this scored 18/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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