netfilter: conntrack: handle tcp challenge acks during connection reuse

When a connection is re-used, following can happen:
[ connection starts to close, fin sent in either direction ]
 > syn   # initator quickly reuses connection
 < ack   # peer sends a challenge ack
 > rst   # rst, sequence number == ack_seq of previous challenge ack
 > syn   # this syn is expected to pass

Problem is that the rst will fail window validation, so it gets
tagged as invalid.

If ruleset drops such packets, we get repeated syn-retransmits until
initator gives up or peer starts responding with syn/ack.

Before the commit indicated in the "Fixes" tag below this used to work:

The challenge-ack made conntrack re-init state based on the challenge
ack itself, so the following rst would pass window validation.

Add challenge-ack support: If we get ack for syn, record the ack_seq,
and then check if the rst sequence number matches the last ack number
seen in reverse direction.

Fixes: c7aab4f17021 ("netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: re-init for syn packets only")
Reported-by: Michal Tesar <mtesar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

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