1## Command ksymaddr ##
2
3`ksymaddr` helps locate a kernel symbol by its name.
4
5The syntax is straight forward:
6
7```
8ksymaddr <PATTERN>
9```
10
11For example,
12
13```
14gef➤  ksymaddr commit_creds
15[+] Found matching symbol for 'commit_creds' at 0xffffffff8f495740 (type=T)
16[*] Found partial match for 'commit_creds' at 0xffffffff8f495740 (type=T): commit_creds
17[*] Found partial match for 'commit_creds' at 0xffffffff8fc71ee0 (type=R): __ksymtab_commit_creds
18[*] Found partial match for 'commit_creds' at 0xffffffff8fc8d008 (type=r): __kcrctab_commit_creds
19[*] Found partial match for 'commit_creds' at 0xffffffff8fc9bfcd (type=r): __kstrtab_commit_creds
20```
21
22Note that the debugging process needs to have the correct permissions for this
23command to show kernel addresses. For more information see
24also [this stackoverflow post](https://stackoverflow.com/a/55592796).