Description of problem:

Submariner provides inter-cluster connectivity between OpenShift clusters and it uses Libreswan/IPsec for setting up secure tunnels between the Gateway nodes.
One of the nodes in each of the OCP clusters will be designated as a Gateway node and submariner-gateway pod (which runs on that node with hostNetworking enabled) configures the necessary IPsec connections on the underlying node.

We have an OCP customer who reported the following issue.
After installing Submariner and joining the clusters, the connections are successfully established. However, the submariner-gateway pod is being restarted periodically for every ~8 hours and this is causing datapath disruption to their production applications. When we had a look at the pod logs just prior to the restart we noticed that pluto exited with core dump.

Logs from the submariner-gateway pod:

002 listening for IKE messages
002 forgetting secrets
002 loading secrets from "/etc/ipsec.secrets"
002 loading secrets from "/etc/ipsec.d/submariner.secrets"
[90m2023-05-31T01:44:29.430Z[0m [32mINF[0m ..reswan/libreswan.go:344 libreswan Creating connection(s) for {"metadata":{"name":"m2tstocs-submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242","namespace":"submariner-operator","uid":"445e9250-5dc5-4c28-8a44-9c04addc3730","resourceVersion":"847415991","generation":1,"creationTimestamp":"2023-05-25T02:56:24Z","labels":

,"managedFields":[{"manager":"submariner-gateway","operation":"Update","apiVersion":"submariner.io/v1","time":"2023-05-25T02:56:24Z","fieldsType":"FieldsV1","fieldsV1":{"f:metadata":{"f:labels":{".":{},"f:submariner-io/clusterID":{}}},"f:spec":{".":{},"f:backend":{},"f:backend_config":{".":{},"f:natt-discovery-port":{},"f:preferred-server":{},"f:public-ip":{},"f:udp-port":{}},"f:cable_name":{},"f:cluster_id":{},"f:healthCheckIP":{},"f:hostname":{},"f:nat_enabled":{},"f:private_ip":{},"f:public_ip":{},"f:subnets":{}}}}]},"spec":{"cluster_id":"m2tstocs","cable_name":"submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242","healthCheckIP":"10.204.16.1","hostname":"m2tstocs-v7xmz-worker-4cpu-sz62w","subnets":["10.205.0.0/16","10.204.0.0/16"],"private_ip":"10.56.104.242","public_ip":"1.2.3.4","nat_enabled":false,"backend":"libreswan","backend_config":

}} in bi-directional mode
[90m2023-05-31T01:44:29.430Z[0m [32mINF[0m ..reswan/libreswan.go:406 libreswan Executing whack with args: [--psk --encrypt --name submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-0-0 --id 10.56.103.213 --host 10.56.103.213 --client 10.201.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500 --to --id 10.56.104.242 --host 10.56.104.242 --client 10.205.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500]
002 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-0-0": added IKEv2 connection
181 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-0-0" #1: initiating IKEv2 connection
[90m2023-05-31T01:44:29.473Z[0m [32mINF[0m ..reswan/libreswan.go:406 libreswan Executing whack with args: [--psk --encrypt --name submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-0-1 --id 10.56.103.213 --host 10.56.103.213 --client 10.201.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500 --to --id 10.56.104.242 --host 10.56.104.242 --client 10.204.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500]
002 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-0-1": added IKEv2 connection
[90m2023-05-31T01:44:29.518Z[0m [32mINF[0m ..reswan/libreswan.go:406 libreswan Executing whack with args: [--psk --encrypt --name submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-0 --id 10.56.103.213 --host 10.56.103.213 --client 10.200.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500 --to --id 10.56.104.242 --host 10.56.104.242 --client 10.205.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500]
002 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-0": added IKEv2 connection
002 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-0" #4: initiating Child SA using IKE SA #1
188 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-0" #4: sent CREATE_CHILD_SA request for new IPsec SA
004 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-0" #4: established Child SA; IPsec tunnel [10.200.0.0-10.200.255.255:0-65535 0] -> [10.205.0.0-10.205.255.255:0-65535 0]

[90m2023-05-31T01:44:29.558Z[0m [32mINF[0m ..reswan/libreswan.go:406 libreswan Executing whack with args: [--psk --encrypt --name submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-1 --id 10.56.103.213 --host 10.56.103.213 --client 10.200.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500 --to --id 10.56.104.242 --host 10.56.104.242 --client 10.204.0.0/16 --ikeport 4500]
002 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-1": added IKEv2 connection
002 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-1" #5: initiating Child SA using IKE SA #1
188 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-1" #5: sent CREATE_CHILD_SA request for new IPsec SA
004 "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242-1-1" #5: established Child SA; IPsec tunnel [10.200.0.0-10.200.255.255:0-65535 0] -> [10.204.0.0-10.204.255.255:0-65535 0]

[90m2023-05-31T01:44:29.578Z[0m [32mINF[0m ..gine/cableengine.go:202 CableEngine Successfully installed Endpoint cable "submariner-cable-m2tstocs-10-56-104-242" with remote IP 10.56.104.242
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[90m2023-05-31T09:28:21.865Z[0m [1m[31mFTL[0m[0m ..al/pkg/log/logger.go:67 libreswan Pluto exited: signal: aborted (core dumped)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
OCP 4.12.x
RHEL 8.6
OS details: Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 412.86.202304131008-0 (Ootpa) 4.18.0-372.51.1.el8_6.x86_64 amd64
Libreswan version: pluto_version=4.5, pluto_vendorid=OE-Libreswan-4.5

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