Exit from RTP packet dispatcher gracefully

Indicate to the main thread through a mutex that the packet dispatcher
object can be destroyed. If this is not done, there's race condition
that can result into a segmentation fault as the dispatcher object
could be destroyed before it stops running.

include/pkt_dispatch.hh

@@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ namespace uvg_rtp {
              * Return RTP_MEMORY_ERROR if allocation of a thread object fails */
             rtp_error_t start(uvg_rtp::socket *socket, int flags);
 
-            /* Fetchj frame from the frame queue that contains all received frame.
+            /* Stop the RTP packet dispatcher and wait until the receive loop is exited
+             * to make sure that destroying the object in media_stream.cc is safe
+             *
+             * Return RTP_OK on success */
+            rtp_error_t stop();
+
+            /* Fetch frame from the frame queue that contains all received frame.
              * pull_frame() will block until there is a frame that can be returned.
              * If "timeout" is given, pull_frame() will block only for however long
              * that value tells it to.
@@ -53,7 +59,12 @@ namespace uvg_rtp {
             void return_frame(uvg_rtp::frame::rtp_frame *frame);
 
             /* RTP packet dispatcher thread */
-            static void runner(uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher *dispatcher, uvg_rtp::socket *socket, int flags);
+            static void runner(
+                uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher *dispatcher,
+                uvg_rtp::socket *socket,
+                int flags,
+                std::mutex *exit_mtx
+            );
 
         private:
             std::vector<packet_handler> packet_handlers_;
@@ -62,6 +73,7 @@ namespace uvg_rtp {
              * and they can be retrieved using pull_frame() */
             std::vector<uvg_rtp::frame::rtp_frame *> frames_;
             std::mutex frames_mtx_;
+            std::mutex exit_mtx_;
 
             void *recv_hook_arg_;
             void (*recv_hook_)(void *arg, uvg_rtp::frame::rtp_frame *frame);

src/media_stream.cc

@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ uvg_rtp::media_stream::media_stream(
 
 uvg_rtp::media_stream::~media_stream()
 {
-    if (initialized_) {
+    pkt_dispatcher_->stop();
-    }
 
     delete rtcp_;
     delete rtp_;

src/pkt_dispatch.cc

@@ -23,13 +23,23 @@ uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::~pkt_dispatcher()
 
 rtp_error_t uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::start(uvg_rtp::socket *socket, int flags)
 {
-    if (!(runner_ = new std::thread(runner, this, socket, flags)))
+    if (!(runner_ = new std::thread(runner, this, socket, flags, &exit_mtx_)))
         return RTP_MEMORY_ERROR;
 
     runner_->detach();
     return uvg_rtp::runner::start();
 }
 
+rtp_error_t uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::stop()
+{
+    active_ = false;
+
+    while (!exit_mtx_.try_lock())
+        ;
+
+    return RTP_OK;
+}
+
 rtp_error_t uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::install_receive_hook(
     void *arg,
     void (*hook)(void *, uvg_rtp::frame::rtp_frame *)
@@ -139,7 +149,12 @@ void uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::return_frame(uvg_rtp::frame::rtp_frame *frame)
  *
  * If a handler receives a non-null "out", it can safely ignore "packet" and operate just on
  * the "out" parameter because at that point it already contains all needed information. */
-void uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::runner(uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher *dispatcher, uvg_rtp::socket *socket, int flags)
+void uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::runner(
+    uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher *dispatcher,
+    uvg_rtp::socket *socket,
+    int flags,
+    std::mutex *exit_mtx
+)
 {
     int nread;
     fd_set read_fds;
@@ -158,6 +173,8 @@ void uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::runner(uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher *dispatcher, uvg_rt
     while (!dispatcher->active())
         ;
 
+    exit_mtx->lock();
+
     while (dispatcher->active()) {
         FD_SET(socket->get_raw_socket(), &read_fds);
         int sret = ::select(socket->get_raw_socket() + 1, &read_fds, nullptr, nullptr, &t_val);
@@ -205,4 +222,6 @@ void uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher::runner(uvg_rtp::pkt_dispatcher *dispatcher, uvg_rt
             }
         } while (ret == RTP_OK);
     }
+
+    exit_mtx->unlock();
 }