possible bug in structure-type attribute assignement in freeradius-4 alpha

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 12, 2025, at 2:09 AM, Stacy via Freeradius-Devel <freeradius-devel at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> 
> I've tried to change configs according to your recommendations.
> Here's what I've found - 
> the release I've used (the one from the tar image from freeradius.org)
> doesn't support structured assignements and asks for missing "&"
> symbol.

  Yes, don't use that one.

> Then, I've switched to the latest master branch from git.

  Which has all of the latest fixes, including the one for your original issue.

> It compiled ok, processed changed configs, but now 
> it crashes in a different place, somewhere in 
> memory-allocation routines. 
> 
> I've suspected, that this is because of incompatible 
> version of libtalloc.

  Do you have multiple versions to libtalloc installed?

> Then I've compiled and installed latest libtalloc (2.4.3)
> with developer-features enabled and compiled latest
> freeradius master branch against it.

  You shouldn't need to do that.

> Crashes are still in place.

  I'll see if I can reproduce it here.

  The issue is likely not libtalloc, but that something in the server is using the wrong API.

  Alan DeKok.