From ef2a967f1291936caa90347ee1ba5e99adea7475 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Owersun <4807375+Owersun@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:06:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] TUN inbound: Close connection when handling is done (#5531)

https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core/pull/5531#issuecomment-3744446015
---
 proxy/tun/handler.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/proxy/tun/handler.go b/proxy/tun/handler.go
index 2b73aad9..5cf21a75 100644
--- a/proxy/tun/handler.go
+++ b/proxy/tun/handler.go
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ func (t *Handler) Init(ctx context.Context, pm policy.Manager, dispatcher routin
 
 // HandleConnection pass the connection coming from the ip stack to the routing dispatcher
 func (t *Handler) HandleConnection(conn net.Conn, destination net.Destination) {
+	// when handling is done with any outcome, always signal back to the incoming connection
+	// to close, send completion packets back to the network, and cleanup
+	defer conn.Close()
+
 	sid := session.NewID()
 	ctx := c.ContextWithID(t.ctx, sid)