Assertion failure Zend/zend_hash.c
Open
@alexandre-daubois is already working on this.
Since Dec 18, 2025.
- #20725 by @alexandre-daubois — open
Bug
Extension: spl
Status: Verified
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 40.4k
- Forks
- 8.1k
- Avg merge
- 2d 13h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 96
Description
Description
The following code:
<?php
class ArrayObject2 extends ArrayObject {
}
$o = new ArrayObject2();
$s2 = $o->__serialize();
$fusion = $o;
$fusion['a.php'] = '<?php echo "This is a\n"; include "'.$alias.'/b.php"; ?>';
Resulted in this output:
php: /home/phpfuzz/WorkSpace/flowfusion/php-src/Zend/zend_hash.c:825: zval *_zend_hash_add_or_update_i(HashTable *, zend_string *, zval *, uint32_t): Assertion `(zend_gc_refcount(&(ht)->gc) == 1) || ((ht)->u.flags & (1<<6))' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
To reproduce:
./php-src/sapi/cli/php ./test.php
Commit:
49d798abcc13cc001b1dbf878bbc76982b079b11
Configurations:
CC="clang-12" CXX="clang++-12" CFLAGS="-DZEND_VERIFY_TYPE_INFERENCE" CXXFLAGS="-DZEND_VERIFY_TYPE_INFERENCE" ./configure --enable-debug --enable-address-sanitizer --enable-undefined-sanitizer --enable-re2c-cgoto --enable-fpm --enable-litespeed --enable-phpdbg-debug --enable-zts --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-dba --enable-dl-test --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-gd --enable-gd-jis-conv --enable-mbstring --enable-pcntl --enable-shmop --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-sysvmsg --enable-zend-test --with-zlib --with-bz2 --with-curl --with-enchant --with-gettext --with-gmp --with-mhash --with-ldap --with-libedit --with-readline --with-snmp --with-sodium --with-xsl --with-zip --with-mysqli --with-pdo-mysql --with-pdo-pgsql --with-pgsql --with-sqlite3 --with-pdo-sqlite --with-webp --with-jpeg --with-freetype --enable-sigchild --with-readline --with-pcre-jit --with-iconv
Operating System:
Ubuntu 20.04 Host, Docker 0599jiangyc/flowfusion:latest
This report is automatically generated by FlowFusion
PHP Version
49d798abcc13cc001b1dbf878bbc76982b079b11
Operating System
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the reproducer in test.php and inspect the assertion at line 825 of Zend/zend_hash.c using commit 49d798abcc13cc001b1dbf878bbc76982b079b11 and the listed debug configuration. Done means the command no longer aborts on the reported assertion and the behavior is covered by an appropriate regression test.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, php
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100