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

Arif Hossain aftnix at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 07:50:59 EST 2012


On 12/02/2012 09:49 PM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> 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()
>

Thanks for the pointer. I'm testing what can be done.

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Cheers
arif



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