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Subject: Re: [RFH] NULL pointer dereference oops occurs when running kvm VM
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:49:32 +0200
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2016-08-16 16:25+0800, Xiexiangyou:
> Thanks for your reply :)
> 
> I'm confused that it throw an exception "NULL pointer dereference" when
> implement "mov    0x45114(%rip),%rax" instruction. Because "0x45114(%rip)" couldn't be NULL.
> Will thread stack overflow result in Oops which is hard to explain like this?

Probably not, but it is easy to rule out.  Can't trust anything in a
corrupted system ...