From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: aftnix@gmail.com (arif)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:43:51 +0600
Subject: Getting address of a symbol from kernel's symbol table.
Message-ID: <k9fbd5$gl4$1@ger.gmane.org>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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arif at khost:~/src/linux$ global -x ip_rcv_finish
ip_rcv_finish     319 net/ipv4/ip_input.c static int 
ip_rcv_finish(struct sk_buff *skb)

Now if i want to use this function i need to initialize a pointer to 
this function.

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?