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Marcelo Leitner committed e37ad9fd636
netfilter: nf_conntrack: allow server to become a client in TW handling When a port that was used to listen for inbound connections gets closed and reused for outgoing connections (like rsh ends up doing for stderr flow), current we may reject the SYN/ACK packet for the new connection because tcp_conntracks states forbirds a port to become a client while there is still a TIME_WAIT entry in there for it. As TCP may expire the TIME_WAIT socket in 60s and conntrack's timeout for it is 120s, there is a ~60s window that the application can end up opening a port that conntrack will end up blocking. This patch fixes this by simply allowing such state transition: if we see a SYN, in TIME_WAIT state, on REPLY direction, move it to sSS. Note that the rest of the code already handles this situation, more specificly in tcp_packet(), first switch clause. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>