[lwip-devel] Memory leak for timeouts

[Marc CHALAND]

Hello,

We still port lwip to L4. As lwip api msg is synchronous, we decided
to adopt the following architecture :
- one thread for each client process
- one thread per socket
- one thread for each select call.

As a consequence, we have many threads created. By doing some tests,
we've found a memory leak around timeouts. Indeed, sys_timeouts should
provide memory local to each thread. On L4, we use TLS (thread local
storage) : in each thread, if no TLS corresponding to sys_timeouts has
been referenced, a malloc is done and is then referenced into TLS.
But, this little chunk of memory is newer freed.

Today, we decided to fix this by creating a sys_thread_exit function
which free the sys_timeout structure referenced into TLS. Is there
another way we didn't find in lwip ?
Should I propose a patch (sys.h) ? a bug ?

Regards
Marc