If you're writing a hooking library / a hook you should be keeping track of where they are. It's a big hook, that is true but it's also one that doesn't spoil a register and is pretty straightforward to add. It's a tradeoff.
Well the bigger problem imo is other hook engines that might also be roaming around the process space. I think all you need is two extra bytes to make it valid instructions, and in theory then nested hooking should work fine. Though it only exacerbates the length issue.
Re:x86 API Hooking Demystified (2012)
by stevemk14ebr on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:59PM
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if you place the data at the end of the trampoline it avoids these issues of mixing data and code, it's like a little custom data segment you make since you have to allocate the trampoline anyways. This is what i do in my lib. The disp is after the jmp the trampoline uses to jmp back to the original. The original function only has the jmp [disp] and no data is mixed.
I guess also though, at ~16 bytes its probably deep enough into the function that it may no longer be position independent, or hell, maybe the function isn’t even that long to begin with.