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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Subject: Re: Calling ip_rcv_finish() from a module
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:18:53 +0100 (CET)
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On Sunday 2012-12-02 11:38, arif wrote:

> arif@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?

No. The function could be inlined and as such not even exist.