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GET_KERNEL_SYMS(2) Linux Programmer's Manual GET_KERNEL_SYMS(2)
get_kernel_syms - retrieve exported kernel and module symbols
#include <linux/module.h>
int get_kernel_syms(struct kernel_sym *table);
If table is NULL, get_kernel_syms() returns the number of symbols available
for query. Otherwise it fills in a table of structures:
struct kernel_sym {
unsigned long value;
char name[60];
};
The symbols are interspersed with magic symbols of the form #module-name with
the kernel having an empty name. The value associated with a symbol of this
form is the address at which the module is loaded.
The symbols exported from each module follow their magic module tag and the
modules are returned in the reverse of the order in which they were loaded.
On success, returns the number of symbols copied to table. On error, -1 is
returned and errno is set appropriately.
There is only one possible error return:
ENOSYS get_kernel_syms() is not supported in this version of the kernel.
This system call is only present on Linux up until kernel 2.4; it was removed
in Linux 2.6.
get_kernel_syms() is Linux-specific.
There is no way to indicate the size of the buffer allocated for table. If
symbols have been added to the kernel since the program queried for the symbol
table size, memory will be corrupted.
The length of exported symbol names is limited to 59 characters.
Because of these limitations, this system call is deprecated in favor of
query_module(2) (which is itself nowadays deprecated in favor of other
interfaces described on its manual page).
create_module(2), delete_module(2), init_module(2), query_module(2)
This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2007-06-03 GET_KERNEL_SYMS(2)