@astrid The symbol names from the .o are just fanfiction, they're just made to look like legit liblzma symbols.
But yes, the function at 0x1860 in the 5.6.0 .o seems to be what I call bd_elf_lookup_hash. 0x0a8a0 is what I call bd_hash (even though I now know it's not a hash).
@q3k makes sense! neat trick (unsure if common) to hide like that. any clue where the data itself is stored?