BUG/MAJOR: dns: attempt to lock globaly for msg waiter list instead of use barrier
The barrier is insufficient here to protect the waiters list as we can
definitely catch situations where ds->waiter shows an inconsistency
whereby the element is not attached when entering the "if" block and
is already attached when attaching it later.
This patch uses a larger lock to maintain consistency. Without it the
code would crash in 30-180 minutes under heavy stress, always showing
the same problem (ds->waiter->n->p != &ds->waiter). Now it seems to
always resist, suggesting that this was indeed the problem.
This will have to be backported to 2.4.
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