[lwip-devel] next_timeout not working correctly

[Carlos Galindo]

Dear all,
I am a rookie here but I think it is interesting to comment a problem that I
have already found while implementing the lwip.

My problem was that once initialized the stack with the function
tcpip_init(), my system does not attend any other task with lower priority
than the lwip. It was due to the first timeout in the next_timeout variable
has a the parameter time = 0, thus, the sys_timeouts_mbox_fetch() in the
tcpip_thread never blocks the lwip.

The reason of getting time equal to 0 in next_timeout variable was that
sys_timeout() trusts that when next_timeout has no timeout allocated, the
value is NULL. Problem is that in my system creating a pointer to struct it
does not iniate it as NULL.

My proposal to prevent that is changing the variable declaration from:

static struct sys_timeo *next_timeout;

to:

static struct sys_timeo *next_timeout = NULL;

Does it makes sense to you?

Best regards,
Carlos



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