Fix leak of preserved input string with FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE#22339
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php_zval_filter() copies the filtered value so it can be quoted in the FilterFailedException message, then released the copy with zend_string_delref(), which only decrements the refcount. When the input is a non-string scalar that convert_to_string() turns into a fresh heap string, the copy was the sole owner and leaked one string per call on both the failure and the success path. Use zend_string_release() so it is freed at refcount zero. Closes phpGH-22339
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php_zval_filter() copies the filtered value so it can be quoted in the FilterFailedException message, then released the copy with zend_string_delref(), which only decrements the refcount. When the input is a non-string scalar that convert_to_string() turns into a fresh heap string, the copy was the sole owner and leaked one string per call on both the failure and the success path. Use zend_string_release() so it is freed at refcount zero. Closes phpGH-22339
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php_zval_filter() copies the filtered value to quote it in the FilterFailedException message, then released the copy with zend_string_delref(), which only decrements the refcount. When the input is a non-string scalar that convert_to_string() turns into a fresh heap string, the copy is the sole owner and leaks one string per call, on both the failure and success paths. Use zend_string_release() so it is freed at refcount zero.