Re: [PATCH modules-next v10 00/13] kallsyms: reliable symbol->address lookup with /proc/kallmodsyms

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 05:50:35PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> FYI for devs: I posted RFC of kallsyms with file paths almost a year
> ago[0], but it went unnoticed =\
> 
> `file name + function name` is not a unique pair: in one of FG-KASLR
> discussions, someone even wrote simple script, which showed around 40
> collisions in the kernel. My approach was to include file path starting
> at the kernel root folder, i.e. `net/core/dev.o:register_netdev`.
> I'm not sure why no comments happened back then tho. Maybe you could
> take a look, I'm pretty busy with other projects, but if you find
> anything useful there in the RFC, I could join to a little bit.
> 
> [0]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220818115306.1109642-1-alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx

Petr suggested line number too, that'd fix it too.

  Luis