It is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by writing an
incorrectly formatted string to krpobe_events (trying to create a
kretprobe omitting the symbol).

Example:

 echo "r:event_1 " >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

That triggers this:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 1757 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #125
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9370/0F6P3V, BIOS 1.5.1 08/09/2018
 RIP: 0010:kstrtoull+0x2/0x20
 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 17 48 83 c4 18 5b 41 5c 5d c3 b8 ea ff ff ff eb e1 b8 de ff ff ff eb da e8 d6 36 bb ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 <80> 3f 2b 55 48 89 e5 0f 94 c0 48 01 c7 e8 5c ff ff ff 5d c3 66 2e
 RSP: 0018:ffffb5d482e57cb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff82b12720
 RDX: ffffb5d482e57cf8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
 R...