From ad9a9204e9a89cc2f16cf5793f8552a68f93ddcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shivani Bhardwaj <shivani@oisf.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:18:57 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] mqtt: do not store unknown property

UNKNOWN property carries 1 byte in the MQTTProperty enum variant. It is
neither logged nor matched on, so, don't store it.

Ticket: 8839
---
 rust/src/mqtt/parser.rs | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rust/src/mqtt/parser.rs b/rust/src/mqtt/parser.rs
index 75f622a200..39da6f96fa 100644
--- a/rust/src/mqtt/parser.rs
+++ b/rust/src/mqtt/parser.rs
@@ -116,7 +116,9 @@ fn parse_properties(input: &[u8], precond: bool) -> IResult<&[u8], Option<Vec<MQ
             while !newrem.is_empty() {
                 match parse_property(newrem) {
                     Ok((rem2, val)) => {
-                        props.push(val);
+                        if val != MQTTProperty::UNKNOWN {
+                            props.push(val);
+                        }
                         newrem = rem2;
                     }
                     Err(e) => return Err(e),