On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 19:57 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: [...] > What I don't understand is why the kernel isn't oopsing on the > dereferencing of null. (I'm not a kernel hacker, so the fact that this > surprises me probably says more about me than the kernel.) An extremely detailed account of the problem can be found at http://lwn.net/Articles/341620/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/341621/ (scroll down). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines