From: "Amit S. Kale" <akale@veritas.com>
To: Rajeev Bector <rajeev_bector@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: finding out module name from an address ?
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:43:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6A7962.B5B586C5@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <GIEMIEJKPLDGHDJKJELAGECPCCAA.rajeev_bector@yahoo.com>
Rajeev Bector wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to write a patched kmalloc() which
> will track the caller function using
> __builtin_return_address(0). From that address,
> is there a clean way to figure out if the address
> belongs to a loadable module and if yes, get
> to the module structure of that module so
> that I can log on the basis of module->name
You can traverse module_list. An element of the
list (struct module) also describes size of the module.
So if an address is between struct module pointer and
struct module pointer + mdoule size, you know that the module
contains the code.
>
> Thanks
> Rajeev
>
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Amit Kale
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2001-08-02 20:39 finding out module name from an address ? Rajeev Bector
2001-08-03 10:13 ` Amit S. Kale [this message]
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