[lwip-devel] [bug #19167] tcp timeout handler can cause crash being invoked by sys_sem_wait()

[Dmitry Potapov]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #19167 (project lwip):

Hi Andreas,

I believe that your solution still has the problem with "timefeeling". If the
thread is blocked inside of a timeout handler  than this time does not count.
It is possible to fix that, but you still have small races where being
pre-empted by another thread means delay of all times. So it is not perfect.


On the other hand, your approach has the same problem with overflow as with
storing 'expires', i.e. it requires sys_time_now() to be wrapped correctly
over the maximum.

So, I don't understand why you prefer old timeout handling over storing
'expires' timestamp, which is more simple and reliable?

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