net: pkt: fix race condition in packet reference counting
It has been observed that some network drivers, f.ex. the SAM E70 GMAC,
call net_pkt_unref from inside the interrupt that signals the successful
transmission of a packet. This conflicts with the net_pkt_unref call
made by ethernet_send after the packet has been given to the driver.
We fix this by using an atomic_t to hold the reference count as there
might be other, difficult to find cases of net_pkt_(un)ref being used
across threads and interrupts.
The name of the element has been changed from "ref" to "atomic_ref" to
cause a compile error when code still has not been converted to use the
atomic_* functions.
Fixes #12708
Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com>
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