Can someone please give some pointers. Adding some more details, the module name is "npdereference.ko" and the function where the crash is done looks like below. So I expect "null_deref_module_init" to be present instead of "_MODULE_INIT_TEXT_START_npdereference" : static int __init null_deref_module_init(void) { // Pointer to an integer, initialized to NULL int *null_pointer = NULL; printk(KERN_INFO "Null dereference module loaded\n"); // Dereferencing the NULL pointer to trigger a crash printk(KERN_INFO "Triggering null pointer dereference...\n"); *null_pointer = 1; // This line will cause a null pointer dereference return 0; // This will never be reached }