GET_KERNEL_SYMS(2) Linux Module Support GET_KERNEL_SYMS(2)NAMEget_kernel_syms - retrieve exported kernel and module symbols
SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/module.h>
int get_kernel_syms(struct kernel_sym *table);
DESCRIPTION
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.
RETURN VALUE
Returns the number of symbols copied to table. There is no possible
error return.
CONFORMING TOget_kernel_syms() is Linux specific.
BUGS
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).
NOTES
This system call is only present on Linux up until kernel 2.4; it was
removed in Linux 2.6.
SEE ALSOcreate_module(2), delete_module(2), init_module(2), query_module(2)Linux 2002 GET_KERNEL_SYMS(2)
