[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4] telemetry: fix race in telemetry control thread creation

[Power, Ciara]

Hi Alvin,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
>Sent: Tuesday 13 July 2021 07:42
>To: christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com; Chen, LingliX <linglix.chen at intel.com>;
>Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang at intel.com>; Power, Ciara <ciara.power at intel.com>; Van
>Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
>Cc: Zhang, AlvinX <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
>Subject: [PATCH v4] telemetry: fix race in telemetry control thread creation
>
>Before the caller returns from function "rte_ctrl_thread_create", the newly
>created thread may have ran, and because the thread control flag was not set
>before, the new thread may exit soon.
>This is not what the developer expected.
>
>This patch puts the setting thread control flag to the place that before creating
>new thread.
>
>Reported-at: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731
>Fixes: 8877ac688b52 ("telemetry: introduce infrastructure")
>Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
>Signed-off-by: Alvin Zhang <alvinx.zhang at intel.com>
>---
>
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Thanks for this, I guess it is targeted towards both 18.11 and 19.11 stable releases?
This file was removed in 20.11 so won't be needed there.

Acked-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>