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diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go
index 958f03ac1..d80aff1b6 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ func (r *receiver) consumeSegment(s *segment, segSeq seqnum.Value, segLen seqnum
for i := first; i < len(r.pendingRcvdSegments); i++ {
r.pendingRcvdSegments[i].decRef()
+ // Note that slice truncation does not allow garbage collection of
+ // truncated items, thus truncated items must be set to nil to avoid
+ // memory leaks.
+ r.pendingRcvdSegments[i] = nil
}
r.pendingRcvdSegments = r.pendingRcvdSegments[:first]