reply attributes not always sent (radius_paircreate() problem seen in rlm_ippool)

Arran Cudbard-Bell a.cudbardb at freeradius.org
Mon Jan 20 18:24:45 CET 2014


On 20 Jan 2014, at 15:32, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> John Dennis wrote:
>> While you're at it could you also fix the warning messages in
>> rad_encode() (radius.c around line 1850) so they're emitted. Maybe they
>> should be DEBUG statements instead of fr_strerror_printf() or maybe fix
>> fr_strerror_printf(), either way it should show up when running in debug
>> -X mode.
> 
>  It's not always an error to miss encoding attributes.  The call to
> rad_encode() succeeds, so there's no reason for the radiusd binary to
> print out an error.  The issue is that rad_encode() calls rad_vp2attr().

and rad_vp2attr() passes back error codes from the other attribute encoders, and those encoders log errors using fr_strerror_printf(). rad_encode() doesn't call fr_strerror_printf() itself on rad_vp2attr() error, so it seems some place in the code isn't checking the return value of rad_encode().

>  So maybe rad_encode() should print the error string, via a DEBUG
> statement.

It's a library function. It shouldn't even have the DEBUG() macro available.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team

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