[PATCH v3 0/7] fix use of pthread mutex between processes

[Stephen Hemminger]

Several drivers and the ethdev layer initialize pthread mutexes
in shared memory with default (process-private) attributes.
This is undefined behavior when secondary processes use them.

This series adds PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED to all affected mutexes.
All are on control paths (firmware mailbox, hotplug, flow ops,
PHY negotiation) where sleeping is acceptable.

See POSIX spec:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/functions/pthread_mutexattr_getpshared.html


Stephen Hemminger (7):
  eal: add helper to initialize process-shared mutex
  ethdev: fix flow_ops_mutex for multi-process
  net/failsafe: fix hotplug_mutex for multi-process
  net/atlantic: fix mbox_mutex for multi-process
  net/axgbe: fix mutexes for multi-process
  net/bnxt: fix mutexes for multi-process
  net/hinic: fix mutexes for multi-process

 drivers/net/atlantic/atl_ethdev.c      |  3 ++-
 drivers/net/axgbe/axgbe_ethdev.c       | 14 +++++++-------
 drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c         | 11 ++++++-----
 drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_txq.c            |  3 ++-
 drivers/net/bnxt/tf_ulp/bnxt_ulp.c     |  2 +-
 drivers/net/bnxt/tf_ulp/bnxt_ulp_tf.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/net/bnxt/tf_ulp/bnxt_ulp_tfc.c |  2 +-
 drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c        | 15 ++++++++++++---
 drivers/net/hinic/base/hinic_compat.h  |  6 ++++--
 lib/eal/include/rte_thread.h           | 15 +++++++++++++++
 lib/eal/unix/rte_thread.c              | 12 ++++++++++++
 lib/eal/windows/rte_thread.c           | 10 ++++++++++
 lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c             |  2 +-
 13 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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