netfilter: evict stale entries when user reads /proc/net/nf_conntrack
Fabian reports a possible conntrack memory leak (could not reproduce so far), however, one minor issue can be easily resolved: > cat /proc/net/nf_conntrack | wc -l = 5 > 4 minutes required to clean up the table. We should not report those timed-out entries to the user in first place. And instead of just skipping those timed-out entries while iterating over the table we can also zap them (we already do this during ctnetlink walks, but I forgot about the /proc interface). Fixes: f330a7fd ("netfilter: conntrack: get rid of conntrack timer") Reported-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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