From 03fe78681349f6b96b36e5a9d5ca12167c7770b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Adair Stewart Whelan <phillip.whelan@chronosphere.io>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:25:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] in_tail: fix memory leak when using generic unicode
 conversion.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Adair Stewart Whelan <phillip.whelan@chronosphere.io>
---
 plugins/in_tail/tail_file.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/in_tail/tail_file.c b/plugins/in_tail/tail_file.c
index 1d6ba3f95fe..2ffc598522f 100644
--- a/plugins/in_tail/tail_file.c
+++ b/plugins/in_tail/tail_file.c
@@ -651,12 +651,11 @@ static int process_content(struct flb_tail_file *file, size_t *bytes)
         file->last_processed_bytes += processed_bytes;
     }
 
-#ifdef FLB_HAVE_UNICODE_ENCODER
     if (decoded) {
         flb_free(decoded);
         decoded = NULL;
     }
-#endif
+
     file->parsed = file->buf_len;
 
     if (lines > 0) {