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Anatomy of a Segfault — From MMU Through Kernel to gdb Core Dump

2026-05-302026-05-29 by Piotr Karasiński

What exactly happens when a process touches a bad address. From the MMU and page table through the kernel page fault handler to core dump analysis in gdb — null deref, stack overflow, use-after-free.

Categories Linux Tags arch linux, C, gdb, linux, memory management, segfault Leave a comment
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