diff --git a/components/freertos/test/test_thread_local.c b/components/freertos/test/test_thread_local.c
index d5f782b43c..912edf9664 100644
--- a/components/freertos/test/test_thread_local.c
+++ b/components/freertos/test/test_thread_local.c
@@ -102,4 +102,6 @@ TEST_CASE("TLS test", "[freertos]")
     while (running[0] || running[1]) {
         vTaskDelay(10);
     }
+    vTaskDelay(10); /* Make sure idle task can clean up s_task, before it goes out of scope */
 }
+