VPN connection's records remain in the Global connections table even after the connection expires, causing a memory leak

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Solution ID	sk155332
Technical Level
Product	IPSec VPN
Version	R80.20 (EOL)
OS	Gaia
Platform / Model	All
Date Created	05-Jun-2019
Last Modified	16-Oct-2019

Symptoms

VPN connection's records remain in the Global connections table even after the connection expires, causing a memory leak. The memory leak reaches 90% within 7-10 days.

Leak report shows the following output:

fw4_0];fw_drv_fini: 136 bytes allocated by 'simi_mem_halloc: simi_callqueue.c:306 (host ppak)' leaked at ffffc20030fb90c8 allocation time 5c5db216
[fw4_0];fw_drv_fini: 568 bytes allocated by 'simi_mem_halloc: esp_crypt.c:373 (host ppak)' leaked at ffffc20044341df8 allocation time 5c504d2d
[fw4_0];FW-1: fw_hmem_stat_report: total unfreed hmem allocations: 730, bytes 99632
[fw4_0];Starting SMEM allocations report
[fw4_0];FW-1: SMEM None logged: smem bytes 0, smem num of allocations 0
[fw4_0];FW-1: Leak in: fwbuf.c:1009: hmem_bytes 192
[fw4_0];FW-1: Leak in: simi_mem_halloc: simi_callqueue.c:306 (host ppak): hmem_bytes 98872
[fw4_0];FW-1: Leak in: simi_mem_halloc: esp_crypt.c:373 (host ppak): hmem_bytes 568
[fw4_0];Ended SMEM allocations report
[fw4_0];FW-1: driver removed
simi_mem_hfree: esp_crypt.c:403 (host ppak): Can't free memory allocated via FW, when FW is gone. ptr=ffffc20044341be8 size=536
Sim: 22 interfaces uninstalled
simi_mem_hfree: simi_callqueue.c:278 (host ppak): Can't free memory allocated via FW, when FW is gone. ptr=ffffc200f70e89b8 size=104
simi_mem_hfree: simi_callqueue.c:278 (host ppak): Can't free memory allocated via FW, when FW is gone. ptr=ffffc20033df1418 size=104

Cause

A significantly large number of gconn records caused the VPN connection's records to remain in the table even after the connection ended\expired.

Solution

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