Found 4 other functions taking a
dhcp
argument:
Create a DHCP request, fill in common headers
Set a statically allocated struct dhcp to work with. Using this prevents dhcp_start to allocate it using mem_malloc.
Extract the DHCP message and the DHCP options. Extract the DHCP message and the DHCP options, each into a contiguous piece of memory. As a DHCP message is variable sized by its options, and also allows overriding some fields for options, the easy approach is to first unfold the options into a contiguous piece of memory, and use that further on.