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sctp: Switch back to a non-recursive mutex and don't hold it while calling any usrsctp functions, start connection synchronously when starting the association and take various socket configurations from Firefox

Sebastian Dröge requested to merge slomo/gst-plugins-bad:sctp-no-mutex into master
The library is thread-safe by itself and potentially calls back into our
code, not only from the same thread but also from other threads. This
can easily lead to deadlocks if we try to hold our mutex on both sides.

Calling bind() only sets up some data structures and calling connect()
only produces one packet before it returns. That packet is stored in a
queue that is asynchronously forwarded by the encoder's source pad loop,
so not much is happening there either. Especially no waiting is
happening here and no forwarding of data to other elements.

This fixes a race condition during connection setup: the connection
would immediately fail if we pass a packet from the peer to the socket
before bind() and connect() have returned.

This can't happen anymore as bind() and connect() have returned already
before both elements reach the PAUSED state, and in webrtcbin there is
an additional blocking pad probe before the decoder that does not let
any data pass through before that anyway.

- Do not send ABORTs for unexpected packets are as response to INIT
- Enable interleaving of messages of different streams
- Configure 1MB send and receive buffer for the socket
- Enable SCTP_SEND_FAILED_EVENT and SCTP_PARTIAL_DELIVERY_EVENT events
- Set SCTP_REUSE_PORT configuration
- Set SCTP_EXPLICIT_EOR and the corresponding send flag. We probably
  want to split packets to a maximum size later and only set the flag
  on the last packet. Firefox uses 0x4000 as maximum size here.
- Enable SCTP_ENABLE_CHANGE_ASSOC_REQ
- Disable PMTUD and set an maximum initial MTU of 1200

CC @thaytan @ystreet

Edited by Sebastian Dröge

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