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by tom_ 2495 days ago
In this case it's because it's in the kernel (why don't they unmap it? There's presumably a reason...) and I've no idea whether it might contain something useful or not.

There are systems, typically older ones, where all addresses are valid, including whichever NULL corresponds to. Real mode x86 is one such system - the bottom of memory there contains the vector table.