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rewrite_tag can lose original records after failed tag expansion or leave accepted emitter records pending during shutdown. Input processors can also create colliding emitter names, initialize private emitters twice, and leak filter resources when initialization fails.

Preserve originals on failed or empty tag expansion, make successful input initialization idempotent, free allocated empty filter results, and drain pending emitter records during shutdown in either emitter order. Release partially constructed rules and filter contexts on initialization failure. Keep existing default emitter names when available, adding input/stage qualification only to resolve processor-name collisions. Explicit emitter names remain unchanged.

Compatibility: regular filters and input processors remain supported, including threaded inputs and filesystem buffering. No-rule configurations retain their existing pass-through behavior. Output-processor placement now fails initialization with rewrite_tag only supports input processors because its emitter fallback otherwise receives an output instance where an input instance is required.

Commit structure

Each interface fix is followed immediately by its regression commit.

Interface	Fix	Regression coverage
Input initialization, including its header	858ad131e	e2032bd59
Processor result ownership	65a40ced4	c1147a19c
Emitter shutdown and recovery	80826bf2c	d0bb6071f
Rewrite-tag behavior and compatibility	66d6eb98d	a38d357da

Testing

Rebased onto master 42e22264b, preserving upstream's native-chain accounting test alongside the allocated-empty-result test. The PR contains eight interface-scoped commits and no merge commits.

• 203 functional integration cases passed across rewrite_tag, multiline, log-to-metrics, storage/backlog, content_modifier, processor concurrency, and SQL.
• All 97 rewrite-tag integration cases passed normally and under strict Valgrind, with no skips.
• 201 distinct integration cases passed strict Valgrind validation. The parallel run had one input-port binding failure during an HTTP/2 replay restart; that same case passed three isolated strict Valgrind reruns. Two trace SIGKILL/restart cases were skipped by the memory checker because SIGKILL prevents its final summary; both passed functionally.
• Verified 218 integration Valgrind logs: zero errors and zero definitely, indirectly, or possibly lost bytes.
• All 14 rewrite-tag runtime cases passed, normally and under Valgrind.
• 11 focused CTest targets passed, including the processor target with both upstream and PR regressions.
• The complete internal processor binary passed Valgrind, including repeated private-input initialization, allocated empty results, and native-chain accounting.
• All eight DCO-signed commits passed the full PR-range commit-prefix checker against master.
• [N/A] Packaging changes.

Rewrite-tag integration coverage:

Coverage	Cases
Group/resource metadata, grouped and ungrouped records, multiple inputs, KEEP/unmatched/same-tag/split routing, record order, memory/filesystem/threaded profiles	48
Stage position, fan-out, per-tag order, invalid destination preservation, KEEP true/false, memory/filesystem, threaded/nonthreaded	16
Pending shutdown records, both emitter orders, recursive cycles, memory/filesystem	10
Nested accessors, regex captures, original-tag components, first-match precedence, invalid first expansion	4
Explicit/default emitter metric names and multiple processor stages	6
Duplicate names, invalid regex/storage, missing filesystem path, clean startup failure	8
No-rule pass-through compatibility	2
Retry-induced emitter backpressure, record preservation, pause/resume and input recovery	1
Filesystem emitter backlog replay alongside live records	1
Unsafe output-processor rejection	1
Total	97

Configurations and assertions: group tests, routing/shutdown regressions, and compatibility/recovery tests.

Validation commands used a fixed snapshot of the rebased Release executable and four pytest workers:

export FLUENT_BIT_BINARY=/tmp/rewrite-tag-rebased-bin/fluent-bit
integration_python=/home/edsiper/c/fluent-bit/tests/integration/.venv/bin/python
$integration_python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/filter_rewrite_tag tests/integration/scenarios/filter_multiline tests/integration/scenarios/filter_log_to_metrics tests/integration/scenarios/storage tests/integration/scenarios/in_storage_backlog tests/integration/scenarios/processor_content_modifier tests/integration/scenarios/processor_concurrency tests/integration/scenarios/processor_sql -n 4 -q -o junit_logging=all --junitxml=/tmp/rewrite-tag-rebase-normal.xml
VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 $integration_python -m pytest tests/integration/scenarios/filter_rewrite_tag tests/integration/scenarios/filter_multiline tests/integration/scenarios/filter_log_to_metrics tests/integration/scenarios/storage tests/integration/scenarios/in_storage_backlog tests/integration/scenarios/processor_content_modifier tests/integration/scenarios/processor_concurrency tests/integration/scenarios/processor_sql -n 4 -q -o junit_logging=all --junitxml=/tmp/rewrite-tag-rebase-valgrind.xml
VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 $integration_python -m pytest 'tests/integration/scenarios/storage/tests/test_trace_replay.py::test_trace_shutdown_aborts_inflight_requests_and_replays[fan-out-http2]' -q

ctest --test-dir build -R '^(flb-rt-filter_rewrite_tag|flb-rt-processor_content_modifier|flb-it-(processor|processor_conditional|input_chunk|input_chunk_routes|input_pause|engine_dispatch|engine_adaptive_flush|input_rate_gate|mp_chunk_cobj))$' --output-on-failure
valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --errors-for-leak-kinds=definite,indirect,possible --error-exitcode=1 build/bin/flb-rt-filter_rewrite_tag
valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all --errors-for-leak-kinds=definite,indirect,possible --error-exitcode=1 build/bin/flb-it-processor

A fresh checkout can use tests/integration/setup-venv.sh, its own tests/integration/.venv/bin/python, and build/bin/fluent-bit.

Functional integration: 203 passed, 8 warnings in 188.16s
Parallel strict Valgrind: 200 passed, 1 failed, 2 skipped in 304.04s
  Failure: HTTP/2 replay restart could not bind the input listening port.
  Isolated strict reruns: 1 passed in 9.06s; 1 passed in 8.83s; 1 passed in 8.81s.
CTest: 100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 11
Rewrite-tag runtime Valgrind: 0 bytes in use at exit; 0 errors
Complete internal processor Valgrind: 0 bytes in use at exit; 0 errors

Documentation

• [N/A] New configuration documentation; this PR introduces no options.

Backporting

• Backport to latest stable release.

Fluent Bit is licensed under Apache 2.0; these changes are submitted under that license.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Rewrite Tag works in supported input processor configurations while preserving group context.
  • Records with missing or empty rewritten tags are preserved instead of being lost.
  • Rewritten records are drained at end of input, helping ensure they reach their destinations.
  • Rewrite Tag processors attached to unsupported output processors are rejected.
  • Conflicting default emitter names are handled across processor stages.
  • Improved handling of empty processor results and input shutdown flushing, including buffered records during shutdown.

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The changes update rewrite_tag processor placement and tag routing, emitter cycle detection and shutdown draining, and input initialization tracking. They also free temporary buffers for modified processor results with zero output. Integration and internal tests cover these behaviors.

Changes: rewrite_tag and processor behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Input initialization and processor placement include/fluent-bit/flb_input.h, src/flb_input.c, plugins/filter_rewrite_tag/rewrite_tag.c, tests/integration/scenarios/filter_rewrite_tag/tests/*	Input instances track completed initialization. rewrite_tag checks processor sources, selects emitter names, and cleans up after initialization failures. Integration tests cover placement and configuration.
Translated tag handling and routing plugins/filter_rewrite_tag/rewrite_tag.c, tests/integration/scenarios/filter_rewrite_tag/tests/*	rewrite_tag preserves the original record when the translated tag is null or empty. Tests cover routing across placements, storage profiles, and input modes.
Emitter cycle checks and shutdown draining plugins/in_emitter/emitter.c, tests/integration/scenarios/filter_rewrite_tag/tests/*	The emitter tracks ingestion, rejects cycle emissions, and drains queued records during shutdown. Tests cover backpressure, persisted chunks, and EOF delivery.
Empty modified processor output src/flb_processor.c, tests/internal/processor.c	The processor frees its temporary buffer when a modified filter result has zero output bytes. Internal tests cover this result and repeated input initialization.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• rewrite_tag loses records when emitter buffer limit is reached, even with filesystem buffering #12667: This PR preserves the original record when the translated tag is null or empty. It does not add the retry or backpressure requested by the issue.

Possibly related PRs

• fluent/fluent-bit#12589: Both changes address processor results with empty output. This PR frees the allocated temporary buffer and adds regression coverage.

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Major · Synchronize producers before the final ring-buffer drain. · emitter.c:516-523

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Synchronize producers before the final ring-buffer drain.

cb_emitter_pause() drains ctx->msgs before it pauses known senders. A threaded producer can continue until it processes the pause message. If it calls in_emitter_add_record() during this interval, the record enters ctx->msgs after the drain. shutdown_flush_done prevents another drain, and cb_emitter_exit() frees the record instead of delivering it. Ensure that producers are quiescent before the final drain, or add equivalent synchronization.

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Update cb_emitter_pause so known threaded senders are paused and quiescent
before the final in_emitter_ingest_ring_buffer drain of ctx->msgs; ensure
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