Getting address of a symbol from kernel's symbol table.

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 10:49:04 EST 2012


Hi...

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:43 PM, arif <aftnix at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be able to do that i need the address of the function.
>
> I've seen that from user space i can read /proc/kallsyms to get an
> address of a symbol. Is their any similar mechanism exist where i can
> read the symbol table to extract a symbol's address from kernel space?

check http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.6.8/include/linux/kallsyms.h

I have a good guess, what you need is  kallsyms_on_each_symbol()

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