The newly installed element may contain junk data in the name_hash_next field. If it does, it will corrupt the hash table. Thus name_hash_next field should be set to NULL when the element is installed successfully into the hash table. Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <ltao@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- symbols.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c index 7ab47f2..f7157b1 100644 --- a/symbols.c +++ b/symbols.c @@ -1164,6 +1164,7 @@ symname_hash_install(struct syment *table[], struct syment *spn) if ((sp = table[index]) == NULL) { table[index] = spn; + spn->name_hash_next = NULL; } else { while (sp) { if (STREQ(sp->name, spn->name)) { @@ -1174,6 +1175,7 @@ symname_hash_install(struct syment *table[], struct syment *spn) sp = sp->name_hash_next; else { sp->name_hash_next = spn; + spn->name_hash_next = NULL; break; } } -- 2.29.2 -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility