From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:04:10 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: allow FR_TYPE_ATTR to be passed in as enumv for decoding
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allow FR_TYPE_ATTR to be passed in as enumv for decoding
---

diff --git a/src/lib/util/value.c b/src/lib/util/value.c
index 15455c6462b..238f68d76f8 100644
--- a/src/lib/util/value.c
+++ b/src/lib/util/value.c
@@ -5505,8 +5505,15 @@ parse:
 			return -1;
 		}
 
-		if (!dst_enumv->flags.is_root) {
-			fr_strerror_const("Can only start from dictioanry root for data type 'attr'");
+		/*
+		 *	@todo - have attributes of FR_TYPE_ATTR also
+		 *	carry a ref to where their values are taken from.
+		 */
+		if (dst_enumv->type == FR_TYPE_ATTR) {
+			dst_enumv = fr_dict_root(dst_enumv->dict);
+
+		} else if (!dst_enumv->flags.is_root) {
+			fr_strerror_printf("Can only start from dictionary root for data type 'attr', and not from %s", dst_enumv->name);
 			return -1;
 		}