memif test failures on next-net

[Sriram Yagnaraman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 29 October 2026 18:03
> To: Sriram Yagnaraman <sriram.yagnaraman at ericsson.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: memif test failures on next-net
> 
> The memif autotest is failing in CI for next-net.
> 
> AI suggests that the issue is missing synchronization.
> The proposed patch seems to have merge conflicts, and I can't really test it
> well. Please make up something better.
> 

Sent https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20261030102218.3489371-1-sriram.yagnaraman@ericsson.com/ that applies cleanly on next-net for-main branch.
I was able to reproduce the SEGV without the above fix, 3/100 times, and with the fix 0/100 times.