Reproduced using pahole master: ... $ ./build/pahole -C mem_cgroup ~/pahole/5.3.18-24.9-default/usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.3.18-24.9-default.debug ... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff7f65d92 in tag__is_pointer (tag=0x0) at /home/vries/dwarves/src/dwarves.h:446 446 return tag->tag == DW_TAG_pointer_type; ...