Re: [BUG] perf: bogus correlation of kernel symbols

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 13 2011 - 05:01:49 EST



* Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good point about System.map! Even if /proc/kallsyms contains zero addresses,
> I can still get them from /boot/System.map which is readable by everyone, I
> think. It does not contain the modules addresses, but you have the core
> functions, unless I am somehow mistaken.

Yes. I pointed out this and some other details a couple of months ago, for a
similarly motivated /proc/kallsyms obfuscation patch:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/4/113
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/4/145

Thanks,

Ingo
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