iOS 27's os_lockdown_mode_enabled() resolves Lockdown Mode via
sysctlbyname("security.mac.lockdown_mode_state_public", ...) and os_crashes
on a -1 return. The vphone base kernel (cloudOS 26.x) does not implement that
MAC sysctl, so the call returns -1/ENOENT and the first daemon to query
Lockdown Mode after "Continuing system boot" -- launchd (pid 1) -- aborts,
panicking the system (initproc exited, namespace 2 subcode 6).
Add cfw_patch_lockdown_mode.py: NOP the `cmn w0,#1; b.eq <os_crash>` gate so
the pre-zeroed output buffer path is taken (Lockdown Mode = disabled);
behavior-neutral on a kernel that implements the sysctl. Wire it into cfw.py
(patch-lockdown-mode) and the cfw_install.sh 27.* DSC-patch block. Also fixes
the 0_binary_patch_comparison.md LWCR note and adds row 16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N2bwKrGJWY7o2ArdxibVPe
The patcher resolved `_xpc_token_satisfies_lwcr`, but libxpc's internal
routine carries the standard extra leading underscore in the DSC symbol
table (`__xpc_token_satisfies_lwcr`), so the lookup missed and the patch
silently no-op'd on every iOS 27 build. Resolve against the mangled name,
falling back to the source name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N2bwKrGJWY7o2ArdxibVPe
patch-dsc-maxslide self-gates to a no-op when the shared cache fits the
vphone600 26.x kernel's 6 GiB region, which 26.x/18.x bases always do, so
it only fires on 27. Add a --force flag that bypasses the fits-check and
zeroes maxSlide unconditionally (still idempotent), and a
FORCE_DSC_MAXSLIDE=1 env opt-in in cfw_install.sh that runs it on non-27
bases. Default off; 27 behavior unchanged.
Also fix the installer env-threading in cfw_install_host.sh: a
${VAR:+NAME=val} word produced by expansion is not parsed as a shell
assignment (zsh runs it as a command), so route the assignments through
env. This makes FORCE_DSC_MAXSLIDE reach the installer and repairs the
same latent bug for SPOOF_BUILD.
Verified on a 26.4 JB VM: FORCE_DSC_MAXSLIDE=1 yields on-disk maxSlide=0
and a live shared-cache slide of 0x0 (dyld maps the cache at its
preferred base 0x180000000 in rpcserver_ios), versus the nonzero slide a
stock 26.4 boot picks.
Docs + research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md updated (README and the ja/ko/zh
translations).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
iOS 27 XPC servers pin a Lightweight Code Requirement on their listener
(xpc_connection_set_peer_lightweight_code_requirement / the Swift
XPCPeerRequirement.hasEntitlement wrapper). Creating one self-checks via
libxpc _xpc_token_satisfies_lwcr, whose matcher returns a "matched" bool
plus a match_result.error_code and then hard-asserts they agree
(matched == (error_code == AICMR_MATCH), where AICMR_MATCH == 0) via
_os_crash_msg -> brk #1.
Under our JB code-signing environment the matcher writes error_code =
MATCH(0) but returns a failure status, producing the forbidden
(matched=0, error_code=0) pair, so libxpc aborts. Every daemon that pins
an entitlement peer-requirement at startup crash-loops continuously from
boot: intelligencetasksd, searchpartyd, transparencyd, bluetoothd, ...
Fix (cfw_patch_xpc_lwcr.py, 27.*-gated in cfw_install.sh, self-gating on
the symbol): derive "matched" from error_code and drop the abort. The
three instructions "cset w8,ne; eor w8,w0,w8; tbz w8,#0,<abort>" become
"cset w0,eq; nop; nop". The function then returns (error_code == 0),
reproducing stock behavior when the two agree and resolving the
contradiction toward "satisfied" when error_code says MATCH; genuine
allow/deny (error_code != 0) is unchanged. Symbol resolved from the DSC
.symbols table, site located by control-flow shape (Capstone),
replacements from Keystone, modified 16 KiB page re-attested
(cfw_dsc_codesign; CDHash change accepted by the JB AMFI cdhash-trust
patch).
Validated on 17,3_27.0_24A5390f + cloudOS 26.4 (JB, host-mount deploy):
the four crash-loopers disappear from the crash census after boot;
launchd (which links libxpc) boots clean past first unlock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
iOS 27's Campo (wallpaper renderer) runs under the temporary-sandbox profile
(its own com.apple.private.sandbox.profile:embedded + no-container). On the 26.4
vphone600 kernel that builtin profile predates 27 and denies the backboard/
frontboard launch mach-services, so BKSDisplayServicesStart and then
+[BKSHIDEventDeliveryManager sharedInstance] fail their mach-lookups, log
"backboardd isn't running -- or we couldn't talk to it", and brk ~34ms after
launch -> continuous crash-loop, no wallpaper. JB-02d's container-upcall
force-success stops the exec-time autobox kill but does not grant these services.
Grant them through Campo's own com.apple.security.exception.mach-lookup.global-name
array (the sanctioned escape hatch, honored by temporary-sandbox -- Campo already
ships ~20 such exceptions; these launch services just aren't among them because
27's profile allows them directly). Applied at host-mount build time as step
JB-3b in cfw_install_jb.sh / cfw_install_exp.sh, re-signed with signcert.p12 via
ldid_sign_ent. The service list is merged by the external helper
scripts/patchers/campo_mach_lookup_exceptions.py (plistlib, not plutil -- the
entitlement key's dots would break plutil keypaths).
Hard-gated to 27.* on the mounted rootfs SystemVersion.plist (same gate as the
vpregister/DSC patches): skipped on 26.x/18.x, which don't need it and where
Campo.app also exists.
Verified on-device (17,3_27.0_24A5390f + cloudOS 26.4, JB): Campo launches and
stays up, no BKSDisplayServicesStart/BKSHIDEventDeliveryManager trap. Documented
as entry #14 in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014McnrLRb5cZsTrpcBkvkj3
Productionize the 3-part fix that makes `pymobiledevice3 mounter auto-mount`
land the personalized DDI at /System/Developer on the iOS-27-userland /
26.4-vphone600-kernel (c0ecdb4b) JB hybrid.
- KernelJBPatchDiskImages2.swift (new; wired into KernelJBPatcher.findAll):
DiskImages2 ABI acceptance. GATE1/GATE2b NOP the CreateDevice/Connect
cmp#9/b.ne ABI-version rejects (kernel driver v9 vs iOS-27 controller/daemon
v11). GATE2 widens the RegisterNotificationPort backing array + both
bound-check field loads (all-or-nothing) to clear the `type < getMaxPorts`
off-by-one that otherwise fails the attach ("Can't register notification
port").
- KernelJBPatchSandboxExtended: retarget mac_policy_ops[124]
(mpo_proc_check_syscall_unix) to the allow stub so MobileStorageMounter's
mount_apfs can make the mount(2) syscall (unix 167) — else the kernel
Sandbox denies it ("Protobox: mount_apfs deny(1) syscall-unix 167").
- cfw_patch_diskimagesiod.py + cfw.py + cfw_install.sh (gated to 27.*):
force -[DIDiskArb isMountCompleteWithExpectedCount:diskTracker:] -> YES so
MobileStorageMounter's waitForDAMount returns and it performs the real
nobrowse mount.
GATE2a anchor fix (the critical one): Capstone on this toolchain decodes the
AllocPortsArray size-shift lsl-immediate (a UBFM alias) as 2 operands, not the
xd,xn,#imm 3-operand shape. The original 3-operand + imm==3 match found 0, so
the all-or-nothing silently skipped GATE2 on every build (only manual dd pokes
ever worked). Now matched on mnemonic + destination x1 — the unique
size-writing lsl in AllocPortsArray; the replacement is a fixed mov x1,#0x4000
so the shift amount is irrelevant. Verified from a clean build on c0ecdb4b via
`patch-component --component kernel-jb --records-out`: all five di2 records
emit (createdevice, connect, allocports_size, notif_boundcheck_d8/e8), and
`pmd3 mounter auto-mount` -> rc=0 with the DDI mounted, no poke.
Documented in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md (JB-09, JB-28, CFW
binary-patch #13).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27 lsd gates app (re)registration behind
-[_LSDModifyClient clientIsEntitledForEmbeddedRegistrationOperations], an
XPC-peer entitlement check for one of three privileged entitlements
(coreservices.lsaw / installcoordinationd.daemon /
coreservices.can-register-install-results). Missing -> NSOSStatusErrorDomain
-54 (permErr, LSDModifyService.mm:1639), so registerApplicationDictionary: and
registerContainerizedApplicationWithInfoDictionaries: fail and no app can
register — blocking vphoned's installer, TrollStore, and uicache/Sileo. The
entitlement route is unsatisfiable: LS registration is proxied, so the peer lsd
inspects is not the caller (even vphoned with all three in its validated csblob
is rejected).
Fix (two parts):
- cfw_patch_lsd_embedded_reg.py: NOP the gate's final cbz so the check always
returns YES + re-attest the 16 KiB page (TXM per-page). Wired into cfw.py
(patch-lsd-embedded-reg) and cfw_install.sh (after patch-dsc-maxslide);
self-gates on pre-27 userlands (method absent). Method resolved via the DSC's
own .symbols in-image table (ipsw symaddr/a2s time out on this cache), gate
located by control-flow shape (cbz/cbnz w0 whose fall-through sets the
mov w<reg>,#1 result), NOP bytes from Keystone. New CDHash accepted by the JB
always-true AMFI cdhash-trust patch.
- vphoned vp_register_path: fall back from the (still-gated) plain
registerApplicationDictionary: to the containerized registration API, which
works once the gate is patched (treat a nil registrationError as success
since it returns NO even when it registers).
Verified on 17,3_27.0_24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 (JB): -54 gone, Sileo registers
(uicache -l 0->1), vphoned installs+registers a test IPA (com.vphone.vptest) to
/var/containers/Bundle/Application end-to-end; clean boot (re-attest correct).
Documented as item 12 in research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
Recognize entrypoints already rewritten to `b _kern_Swap*` by a prior run (first
insn is `b` targeting the kern address) and count them as `already` covered
instead of aborting. Previously a reinstall / re-patch of an already-forced DSC
raised "did not retarget required entrypoints" because the trampoline shape was
gone. Now: covered = forced | already; require the REQUIRED set to be a subset
of covered; re-attest only when something was newly written (skip cleanly when
all entrypoints are already forced). Enables the host-mount reinstall loop on an
already-patched VM. No behaviour change on a fresh DSC.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27 userland on the 26.4 vphone600 kernel booted with a working GUI over the
in-guest TrollVNC capturer, but the normal vphone-cli window (the host VZ view)
stayed black. Root cause, proven at the instruction level in the 27.0 DSC
IOMobileFramebuffer: the host VZVirtualMachineView is fed by the guest
AppleParavirtGPU scanout, which the 26.4 kernel drives ONLY from the IOMFB
userclient SwapEnd (external method 5) -- the `_kern_Swap*` path that 26.x used
(and that the SwapEnd size patch fixed on 26.0/18.x). iOS 27 defaults the
paravirt display's present to IOMFB's parallel `_virt_Swap*` path: `_virt_SwapEnd`
performs no userclient call -- it invokes an in-process callback and hands the
composited IOSurface to a virtual-display consumer -- so frames never enter the
kernel userclient and the paravirt GPU never scans out (live AppleParavirtGPU
scheduler sat idle). TrollVNC still saw frames because it captures the composited
surface in-guest, independent of the paravirt scanout.
Fix = force the display's present back onto the kern/method-5 path, in two halves:
Userland (DSC), new patcher cfw_patch_iomfb_force_kern.py (cfw.py +
cfw_install.sh, 27-gated): the public `_IOMobileFramebufferSwap*` entrypoints are
thin dispatch trampolines (`cbz x0; ldr xN,[x0,#slot]; cbz xN; braaz xN`) that
tail-call a per-connection swap fp (kern or virt impl). Rewrite each trampoline's
first instruction to `b _kern_Swap<Name>` -- args untouched, so this is
behaviourally identical to the connection having selected the kern fp. Fully
dynamic: public + `_kern_` addrs resolved by name via `ipsw dyld symaddr`,
trampoline shape verified by Capstone, branch bytes from the Keystone `asm_at()`
helper, modified DSC code pages re-attested. Runtime: 31 entrypoints retargeted,
4 non-trampoline setters left on virt, required {SwapBegin,SwapEnd,SwapSetLayer}
present.
Kernel (KernelJBPatchIomfbSwap, re-enabled in KernelJBPatcher.findAll): iOS 27's
native SwapEnd struct is 0x6e0 bytes (26.x sent 0x588) and the 26.4 userclient
exact-checks 0x588 in two places, so method 5 would return kIOReturnBadArgument.
patchIomfbSwapEndVariableSize flips the dispatch-table checkStructureInputSize
0x588 -> kIOUCVariableStructureSize; patchIomfbSwapEndHandlerSize retargets the
handler's internal `cmp w2,#0x588` -> #0x6e0. 27's IOMFBSwapRec prefix matches
26.x, so the paravirt swap handler reads valid fields. patchParavirtDisplayPrimary
stays disabled (wrong theory, harmful -- see JB-02c).
Validated on-device (17,3_27.0_24A5380h + cloudOS 26.4 c0ecdb4b, JB): clean boot,
no kIOReturnBadArgument / SwapEnd rejection / SECURITY_POLICY kill / panic, and
the iOS 27 userland now renders AND is interactive in the native VZ view.
research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md: DSC-patch item 9 corrected (27 no longer
size-truncated), new item 11 (force-kern), JB-26/27 rows added, all marked
validated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
iOS 27 userland on the 26.4 vphone600 kernel had SpringBoard crash-looping
with no display. Root cause: the IOKit user-client open path runs TWO
independent MAC gates -- a MACF-aggregator check (already patched by
patchIoucFailedMacf) and a separate Sandbox check -- and the Sandbox gate
spuriously DENIES the render server (backboardd) its opens of
IOMobileFramebufferUserClient / IOSurfaceRootUserClient / IOHIDEventService.
27-specific: absent on a native 26.4 userland. Denied the framebuffer,
backboardd can't present (no Apple logo) and vends no main display, so
FBSDisplayMonitor asserts on a nil mainDisplay -> crash-loop.
Add patchIoucFailedSandbox (KernelJBPatchIoucSandbox.swift), mirroring
patchIoucFailedMacf: anchor on the "IOUC %s failed sandbox in process %s"
string, find the deny block (the CBNZ target enclosing the fail-log ADRP),
and rewrite its first instruction with an unconditional B to the
NotPermitted allow-proceed target. Structural anchors only, no hardcoded
offsets. No-op where the gate already allows (native 26.x userlands).
Verified: backboardd opens the framebuffer, SpringBoard runs (0 crashes),
display enumerates (LCD/primary), [CADisplay mainDisplay] resolves, and the
guest GUI renders (confirmed visible over VNC).
Disable three earlier wrong-theory display patches (kept in-tree, off in
findAll, for the record):
- patchParavirtDisplayPrimary: setting primary=1 is actively HARMFUL on 27
-- it becomes the display NAME suffix ("primary-1") and breaks the render
server's exact-name match.
- patchIomfbSwapEnd{VariableSize,HandlerSize}: iOS 27 never uses IOMFB
method 5 (SwapEnd) for present -- confirmed by kernel trace of the real
handler (cmp w2,#0x588) with SpringBoard actively presenting -- so these
are irrelevant on 27 and would break 26.x's native 0x588 SwapEnd.
SwapEnd userland DSC size patch made per-base (cfw_install*, cfw.py,
cfw_patch_iomfb_swapend.py): 26.x validated, harmless on 27.
research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md updated (JB-10b added for the sandbox
gate; JB-02c corrected to disabled/wrong-theory).
Still open: the normal (VZ) render path stays black even though the guest
presents (VNC works) -- 27 uses a present mechanism the 26.4 paravirt-GPU
path doesn't receive. Tracked separately for follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
iOS 27.0's dyld shared cache (~5.95 GiB span) plus its 512 MiB header maxSlide
overflows the vphone600 26.x kernel's fixed 6 GiB shared region
(SHARED_REGION_SIZE_ARM64 = 0x180000000). At map time the kernel reserves
span + maxSlide, so _shared_region_map_and_slide returns ENOMEM, dyld cannot map
libSystem, and launchd (pid 1) panics at boot ("initproc failed to start").
Add cfw_patch_dsc_maxslide: zero the dyld_cache_header maxSlide (@0xF0) in the
main chunk when span + maxSlide exceeds the region, so the cache maps at slide 0
(iOS 27.0 fits with ~58 MiB spare). Self-gating (no-op for 26.x/18.x, which fit
with full slide) and no page re-attestation (header metadata, not a cs_validate'd
code page). Wired into cfw_install.sh after the IOMFB SwapEnd gate, so it applies
to regular/jb/exp (jb/exp run cfw_install.sh as their base).
Validated on iPhone17,3_27.0_24A5380h userland + cloudOS 26.4 (c0ecdb4b) JB:
dyld cache maps system-wide, launchd reaches first unlock, vphoned connects as
iOS 27.0.0, 0 panics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013pk5tsoBeuu3jhkmnRFtic
Patch the 26.0/26.0.1 IOMobileFramebuffer SwapEnd payload size during CFW install and document the validated 26.0, 26.0.1, and 26.1 host-install matrix.
The ramdisk-based install (build/send an SSH ramdisk, iproxy-forward, then
push CFW files over SSH and flip the boot snapshot with snaputil in-VM) has
been fully replaced by the host-mount path: cfw_install_host.sh mounts the
VM's Disk.img on the host, places every file locally, and flips the boot
snapshot offline via tools/apfs_snap_rename.py. This removes all remaining
ramdisk generation, delivery, and usage — no legacy fallback.
Deleted:
- scripts/ramdisk_build.py, scripts/ramdisk_send.sh
Renamed:
- scripts/cfw_host_mode.sh -> scripts/cfw_transport.sh (was a conditional
"host-mode override"; now the sole, unconditionally-sourced transport)
setup_machine.sh: drop the USE_RAMDISK_CFW=1 branch and every iproxy/ramdisk
helper (usbmux UDID resolution, port picking, start/stop iproxy, wait-for-
ramdisk-ssh), all RAMDISK_*/IPROXY_* vars, the cleanup() iproxy handling, and
the orphaned cfw_install_target var. Only the host-mount cfw_install_host call
remains.
cfw_install{,_dev,_jb,_exp}.sh: delete the SSH transport (SSH_* vars, SSH_OPTS,
sshpass prereq/_sshpass/_ssh_retry, ssh_cmd/scp_to/scp_from/remote_file_exists/
remote_mount, wait_for_device_ssh_ready) and the dead ramdisk-mechanism body
blocks (snaputil snapshot flip, dropbearkey host-key pre-generation, halt-over-
SSH, CFW_SKIP_HALT). The transport is now sourced unconditionally from
cfw_transport.sh. dropbear -R generates host keys at first boot; the offline
apfs_snap_rename.py does the boot-source flip. Dropped the vestigial
CFW_HOST_MODE gate.
Also: pymobiledevice3_bridge.py (ramdisk-send command already gone), Makefile
(ramdisk targets/help/IRECOVERY_ECID removed), README + ja/ko/zh (install flow
rewritten to host-mount), AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md architecture tree, and stale
comments in vphone_jb_setup.sh, VPhoneCLI.swift, apfs_snap_rename.py,
cfw_patch_post_restore_dt.py.
Verified booting via make setup_machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XZVS9oqVNmHJzpb8mFtKJx
Three pieces of plumbing that together let Camera.app reach the
viewfinder UI on the EXP build:
1. DeviceTree: synthesize a /product/camera node so AVCaptureDevice
discovery + permission gating finds a "front" camera slot for
subsequent vcam injection (FirmwarePatcher/DeviceTreePatcher.swift).
2. DSC patch family in scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_camera_dsc.py:
- NeutrinoCore short-circuit: rewrite the five
+[_NUStyleTransfer*Processor processWithInputs:arguments:output:
error:] class methods to `mov w0, #0; ret`. Without this Camera.app
crashes inside NeutrinoCore the moment it tries to render the
style picker.
- AVCaptureDevice auth always-authorized:
+[AVCaptureDevice authorizationStatusForMediaType:] -> `mov w0, #3;
ret` (AVAuthorizationStatusAuthorized=3). Any process that probes
camera authorization gets "Authorized" without going through TCC.
3. scripts/patch_camera_userland.sh + cfw.py registration so the install
pipeline applies the two patches above against the chunked DSC during
`make cfw_install_exp`.
Camera.app now launches and shows preview UI on EXP, even though the
actual vcam pipeline is wired up by the libvcamcaptured / libcamfix
commits that follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
Adds the final EXP-only step: rewrite the userland-visible
`ProductBuildVersion` in `SystemVersion.plist` to a chosen build
identifier. Gated on the `SPOOF_BUILD` env var — when unset/empty, the
step is skipped entirely and the build identifier stays at whatever the
IPSW shipped.
The iPhone IPSW we install from ships with build identifier `23B85`
(iOS 26.1). iOS displays this string in Settings -> General -> About ->
"Build" and exposes it through `MGCopyAnswer("BuildVersion")`,
CoreFoundation's `_CFCopyServerVersionDictionary`, App Store telemetry,
and every other framework path that reads
`/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist`.
The build identifier lives in exactly two on-device plist files. Both
are plain XML/binary plists (no Apple-side per-file signature), and
both live on volumes that are writable at install time:
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist (rootfs)
/private/preboot/Cryptexes/OS/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist (preboot)
EXP-JB-7 rewrites the `ProductBuildVersion` key in both plists to the
target value (typical: `23F77`). `ProductVersion` (`26.1`),
`ProductName` (`iPhone OS`), `BuildID`, `SystemImageID`, and
`ProductCopyright` are left untouched.
Order of operations: EXP-JB-7 runs AFTER EXP-JB-6 (post-restore DT
rewrite) so the post-restore identity work on `/mnt5` has completed
before the Cryptex's SystemVersion.plist (same volume) is touched.
Does NOT flip:
- `sysctl kern.osversion` — comes from a kernel global initialized
from boot args at boot time, not from this plist. To change it
would require rebuilding the kernelcache with a different
`OS_BUILD_VERSION` or patching the boot-args path — out of scope.
- `SystemVersionCompat.plist` — carries a legacy iOS-19 marker for
MacCatalyst-style queries; not user-visible, deliberately untouched.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_build_version.py` — host-side
plistlib-based rewriter. Auto-detects XML vs binary plist format
and preserves it on write. Idempotent — a re-run on an
already-patched plist exits without rewriting.
- `scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh` — EXP-JB-7 phase: gated on
`SPOOF_BUILD`; for each of the two plist paths it scp_from's the
file to host, runs the patcher with the target id, scp_to's the
file back. Tolerates missing-on-device with warn+continue.
Invocation:
make setup_machine EXP=1 SPOOF_BUILD=23F77
make cfw_install_exp SPOOF_BUILD=23F77
JB and DEV install scripts do NOT carry this step.
The three restore-fatal DT root properties (root `model`, root
`target-type`, root `compatible[0]`) cannot be edited at fw_patch
time because `restored_external` / iBoot's restore mode cross-checks
them against the BuildManifest's signed `SupportedProductTypes`.
Editing them in the IPSW's `devicetree.im4p` causes the restore to
fail partway through.
But the cross-check fires ONLY during installation. After restore
completes, subsequent boots validate IM4P contents against the IM4M
only, which the existing iBSS/iBEC/LLB `image4_validate_property_callback`
bypass patches accept regardless. So an additional DT edit applied
AFTER restore but BEFORE the device reboots into the rootfs is
in-policy with the project's existing trust-chain bypass.
EXP-JB-6 exploits this. While the install pipeline still has `/mnt5`
(the preboot volume) mounted on the ramdisk, `cfw_install_exp.sh`:
1. scp_from's `/mnt5/<boot-hash>/usr/standalone/firmware/devicetree.img4`
to the host.
2. Runs `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_post_restore_dt.py`, which:
- Unwraps IMG4 -> IM4P -> LZFSE-decompresses -> DT flat-binary
blob (via pyimg4).
- Rewrites three root properties:
root `model`: iPhone99,11 -> iPhone17,3
root `target-type`: VPHONE600 -> D47
root `compatible`: reorder so D47AP is first, VPHONE600AP
second (IOKit's AppleVMApple1IO platform
bind still resolves via the second
entry; userland reads only the first
for `hw.model`).
- Re-compresses LZFSE -> repacks IM4P -> repacks IMG4 with the
ORIGINAL IM4M (the per-board ticket survives — the image4
bypass already accepts any payload contents).
3. scp_to's the modified img4 back to the same path.
4. The device reboots out of ramdisk; iBoot loads the modified DT;
kernel populates `machine_info` from the new property values.
Idempotent: the patcher detects target-state-already-met and exits
without rewriting.
Userland effects on next boot:
- `sysctl hw.machine` -> "iPhone17,3" (was "iPhone99,11")
- `sysctl hw.product` -> "iPhone17,3" (was "iPhone99,11")
- `sysctl hw.model` -> "D47AP" (was "VPHONE600AP")
- Settings -> General -> About -> Model Identifier picks up the new
ProductType after the gestalt cache rebuilds.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_post_restore_dt.py` — host-side
img4 <-> IM4P <-> DT flat-binary round-trip via pyimg4. Mirrors the
DT format parser/serializer from `DeviceTreePatcher.swift`.
- `scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh` — EXP-JB-6 phase: discovers the
boot-manifest-hash via the same `get_boot_manifest_hash` helper used
by earlier install steps; tolerates a missing devicetree.img4 with
warn-and-skip. JB and DEV install scripts do NOT carry this step.
After the kernel-side OID rename (`KernelEXPPatchHvVmmRename`),
`sysctlbyname("kern.hv_vmm_present", ...)` returns ENOENT on this image.
`/usr/libexec/watchdogd` caches that answer at startup. On ENOENT the
cached byte stays at its BSS-zero default (`0`) and the downstream
`cbz w0, ...` at the IOWatchdog-lookup site takes a branch into
`_os_crash` -> `brk #1`; launchd's `_PanicOnCrash =
PanicOnConsecutiveCrash = true` flag in `com.apple.watchdogd.plist`
escalates the SIGTRAP to a kernel panic.
The cstring-mangle approach used for DSC dylibs doesn't apply here: we
want this binary to behave as if the sysctl returned 1, not as if it
returned ENOENT. Solution is a surgical 2-instruction patch that forces
the cached "am I a VM?" byte to 1 regardless of the sysctl result.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_watchdogd.py` — capstone-anchored pattern
matcher + Keystone-assembled 2-insn patch. Two functions match the
canonical caching shape on iPhone17,3 / iOS 26.1; both are patched.
Net effect: `cbnz w0, skip` -> NOP and `cset wN, ne` -> `mov wN, #1`,
forcing the cached byte to 1. watchdogd's pre-existing "detected
virtual machine environment, exiting..." clean-exit branch runs
instead of the trap path. Idempotent.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_macho_codesign.py` — generic standalone-Mach-O
page-hash re-attestation. Parses `LC_CODE_SIGNATURE` directly, reads
page size from each `CS_CodeDirectory` header (4 KiB on watchdogd —
not the DSC's 16 KiB), handles short tail slot length
(`codeLimit - (n-1)*pageSize`), and updates every present CD. The
resulting cdHash change is accepted by the JB `patch_amfi_cdhash_in_trustcache`
kernel patch which accepts any cdHash; the patcher does NOT re-sign
with ldid (preserving the original Apple-issued code-signing
identifier is required for launchd's boot-task identity validation).
- `scripts/patchers/cfw.py` — adds `patch-watchdogd` subcommand.
- `scripts/patch_hv_vmm_userland.sh` — adds `watchdogd <binary>` op.
- `scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh` — invokes the patcher at step
`[EXP-JB-3.5]` on the live `/mnt1/usr/libexec/watchdogd` (scp-down,
patch, scp-up, chmod 0755). JB and DEV install scripts do NOT run
this step.
Companion user-mode patches to the kernel-side OID rename. Mangles
byte 5 of every `kern.hv_vmm_present` cstring inside DSC dylibs EXCEPT
those in `DONT_PATCH_INSTALL_NAMES` (sign-in / device-likeness consumers,
~15 entries). Patched dylibs query the renamed OID and get the truthful
1 (graphics + accel passthrough); blacklisted dylibs keep the original
cstring, hit ENOENT on the renamed kernel, defensively cache 0 ("not
running on a VM") for sign-in / device-attestation surfaces.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_hv_vmm_dsc.py` — DSC orchestrator. Walks
every `kern.hv_vmm_present\\0` cstring in any executable mapping,
resolves the containing dylib via Mach-O-header walk-back +
LC_ID_DYLIB, applies the byte-5 mangle to non-blacklisted dylibs, and
drives slot-hash re-attestation in the chunk's `CS_CodeDirectory`.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_dsc_chunks.py` — pure-Python helper for the
chunked DSC layout: vmaddr<->chunk-fileoff mapping, install-name
walk-back, byte-level read/write at a vmaddr.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_dsc_codesign.py` — per-page SHA-256 slot-hash
re-attestation for DSC chunks (16 KiB pages). Required on
`codeSigningMonitor == 2` (TXM) hardware where per-page hash checks
would otherwise SIGKILL the patched dylibs at first demand-page-in.
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_hv_vmm.py` — standalone Mach-O variant of
the cstring mangle (kept for completeness; the historical
standalone-binary loop step was removed in favor of the
blacklist-flip-via-kernel-rename design).
- `scripts/patchers/cfw_patch_hv_vmm_rootfs.py` — rootfs-path inventory
shared with the install scripts (former JB-3.5 / 6.5/7 loop input).
- `scripts/patch_hv_vmm_userland.sh` — thin wrapper used by the install
script (`dsc` and `standalone` operations; `watchdogd` is added by
the next commit).
- `scripts/patchers/cfw.py` — new subcommands: `patch-hv-vmm`,
`patch-hv-vmm-dsc`, `list-hv-vmm-rootfs-paths`.
- `scripts/cfw_install_exp.sh` — adds a pre-step that decrypts the
SystemOS Cryptex AEA into the cache location `cfw_install.sh` already
uses, mounts it, applies the DSC patch, and unmounts. The unmodified
base `cfw_install.sh` then picks up the cached (patched) DMG.
Research docs in this commit describe the full EXP variant comprehensively
(`research/0_binary_patch_comparison.md` top-of-doc note, EXP-Only
Kernel Methods section, DSC userland subsection, plus forward references
to EXP-JB-3.5 / EXP-JB-6 / EXP-JB-7 subsections wired up by the following
commits; `research/firmware_manifest_and_origins.md` sections 9-11
similarly forward-describe the DT and build-version pieces).
JB and DEV variants are NOT affected: their install scripts don't invoke
any of this.
Run SwiftFormat on firmware patcher
Remove legacy Python firmware patchers
Fix compare pipeline pyimg4 PATH handling
Restore Python patchers and prefer fresh restore
Update BinaryBuffer.swift
Avoid double scanning in patcher apply
Prefer Python TXM site before fallback
Retarget TXM trustcache finder for 26.1
Remove legacy Python firmware patchers
Fail fast on nested virtualization hosts
Return nonzero on fatal boot startup
Add amfidont helper for signed boot binary
Stage AMFI boot args for next host reboot
Add host preflight for boot entitlements
Fail fast when boot entitlements are unavailable
Switch firmware patch targets to Swift CLI
Record real Swift firmware parity results
Verify Swift firmware pipeline end-to-end parity
Fix Swift firmware pipeline JB dry-run
* fix: build
* fix: remove [trusted=yes] from Havoc apt source
The inline [trusted=yes] option can cause issues with Sileo's
source parser. The apt-get calls already use AllowUnauthenticated
flags, making it redundant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
* fix: main actor crash in VPhoneControl + IPA extraction failures
VPhoneControl: pending request handlers are @MainActor-isolated closures
but were called from DispatchQueue.global() in the read loop and timeout
handler, causing dispatch_assert_queue_fail crashes. Wrap all
pending.handler() calls in DispatchQueue.main.async.
unarchive: the recent ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_* hardening (ef02d50) broke
IPA extraction on iOS because:
- SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS: we set absolute output paths on entries
- SECURE_SYMLINKS: iOS system paths (/var, /tmp) are symlinks
- archive_write_header failures were silently swallowed due to if/else if
structure, making extraction report success with no files extracted
Fix by keeping only SECURE_NODOTDOT, resolving symlinks in extraction
path, fixing header error handling, removing unnecessary ACL/FFLAGS
flags, and surfacing libarchive errors in the install response.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
* remove dropbear SSH daemon from guest
Drop all dropbear setup: LaunchDaemon plist injection, host key
generation, daemon deployment, and SSH availability messages.
Guest communication is handled by vphoned over vsock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
* feat: liblaunch compat stub + automatic JB first-boot setup
liblaunch_compat.dylib: stub exporting _launch_active_user_switch
(missing from PCC VM's libSystem.B.dylib) so procursus binaries
like launchctl can load. Deployed to /cores/, loaded via
DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES in LaunchDaemon environment and JB profile.
vphone_jb_setup.sh: first-boot script replacing the SSH-based
cfw_install_jb_post.sh. Runs as a LaunchDaemon on first normal
boot and performs all JB finalization: /var/jb symlink,
prep_bootstrap, markers, Sileo, apt setup, TrollStore Lite.
Idempotent with done marker. Logs to /var/log/vphone_jb_setup.log.
Removes the cfw_install_jb_finalize make target and the entire
SSH/iproxy/sshpass-based post-boot flow from setup_machine.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
* chore: update AGENTS.md firmware table, gitignore build artifacts
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
* fix: launchctl wrapper uses absolute path + timeout to prevent hangs
- Use absolute path to launchctl.real instead of relative dirname,
fixing "not found" when called via /var/jb/bin/launchctl symlink
- Add 5s timeout so launchctl doesn't hang when launchd is
unresponsive on PCC VMs — always exits 0 for dpkg postinst compat
- Symlink /var/jb/bin/launchctl -> /var/jb/usr/bin/launchctl so both
paths work (openssh postinst uses the /bin/ path)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
* fix: replace liblaunch_compat dylib stub with iosbinpack64 launchctl symlink
Procursus launchctl crashes on PCC VMs due to missing
_launch_active_user_switch symbol. Rather than a custom dylib stub,
simply symlink iosbinpack64's launchctl into /var/jb — it talks to
launchd fine and always exits 0, which is all dpkg scripts need.
- Remove liblaunch_compat.c, its build target, signing, and deployment
- Remove DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES from setup script and plist
- Replace launchctl wrapper with symlinks to /iosbinpack64/bin/launchctl
- Both /var/jb/usr/bin/launchctl and /var/jb/bin/launchctl are covered
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>
- Replace Python cfw_inject_dylib.py with tyilo/insert_dylib (built by setup_tools)
- Use --weak flag for LC_LOAD_WEAK_DYLIB injection (avoids crash on missing dylib)
- Preserve original launchd entitlements on re-sign (fixes "operation not permitted")
- Deploy dylibs from pre-built basebin payload instead of building from source
- Remove launchdhook, systemhook, treblehook sources (no longer needed)
- Print GDB debug stub port after VM starts
- Cleanup: remove test scripts, rename patch comparison doc
Included commits:
- f8a54b8 Update JB kernel patch research notes
Refresh and revalidate jailbreak kernel-patcher documentation and runtime-verification notes. Key updates: re-analyzed B13 (patch_bsd_init_auth) and retargeted recommended site to the FSIOC_KERNEL_ROOTAUTH return check in bsd_init rather than the old ldr/cbz/bl heuristic; clarified preferred NOP-of-CBNZ vs forcing ioctl return. Reworked C21 (patch_cred_label_update_execve) to preserve AMFI exec-time flow and instead clear restrictive csflags in a success-tail trampoline; disabled in default schedule until boot validation. Documented that C23 (patch_hook_cred_label_update_execve) was mis-targeting the wrapper (sub_FFFFFE00093D2CE4) instead of the real hook body (_hook_cred_label_update_execve), explaining boot failures and recommending retargeting. Noted syscallmask and vm_fault matcher problems (patch_syscallmask_apply_to_proc historical hit targeted _profile_syscallmask_destroy; patch_vm_fault_enter_prepare matcher resolves to pmap_lock_phys_page path), and updated the runtime-verification summary with follow-up findings and which methods are temporarily commented out/disabled in the default KernelJBPatcher schedule pending staged re-validation.
- 6ebac65 fix: patch_bsd_init_auth
- 5b224d3 fix: patch_io_secure_bsd_root
- e6806bf docs: update patch notes
- 0d89c5c Retarget vm_fault_enter_prepare jailbreak patch
- 6b9d79b Rework C21 late-exit cred_label patch
- ece8cc0 Clean C21 mov matcher encodings
- ad2ea7c enabled fixed patch_cred_label_update_execve
- c37b6b1 Rebuild syscallmask C22 patch
- 363dd7a Rebuild JB C23 as faithful upstream trampoline
- 129e648 Disable IOUC MACF; rebuild kcall10 & C22 docs
Re-evaluate and rework several JB kernel patches and docs: mark patch_iouc_failed_macf as reverted/disabled (repo-local, over-broad early-return) and replace its patcher with a no-op implementation to emit zero writes by default; update research notes to explain the reanalysis and rationale. Rebuild patch_kcall10: replace the historical 10-arg design with an ABI-correct syscall-439 cave (target + 7 args -> uint64 return), add a new cave builder and munge32 reuse logic in the kcall10 patcher, and enable the method in KernelJBPatcher group. Clarify syscallmask (C22) semantics in docs: upstream C22 is an all-ones-mask retarget (not a NULL install) and keep the rebuilt all-ones wrapper as the authoritative baseline. Misc: minor refactors and helper additions (chained-pointer helpers, cave size/constants, validation and dry-run safeguards) to improve correctness and alignment with IDA/runtime verification.
- e1b2365 Rebuild kcall10 as ABI-correct syscall cave
- 23090d0 fix patch_iouc_failed_macf
- 0056be2 Normalize formatting in research docs
Apply whitespace and formatting cleanup across research markdown files for consistency and readability. Adjust table alignment and spacing in 00_patch_comparison_all_variants.md, normalize list/indentation spacing in patch_bsd_init_auth.md and patch_syscallmask_apply_to_proc.md, and add/clean blank lines and minor spacing in patch_kcall10.md. These are non-functional documentation changes only.
Reflow and standardize research/00_patch_comparison_all_variants.md: reorganized and simplified tables, normalized headings, clarified Kernel vs JB patch lists, updated ramdisk and CFW matrices, and refreshed aggregate counts (e.g. grand totals and kernel/JB method summaries). Minor formatting and wording improvements throughout the document for readability and consistency. Also removed an unused import (os) from scripts/patchers/kernel_jb.py to clean up the code.
Three bugs caused NOT_BOOT (timeout):
1. Wrong sysent table base: first _nosys match is entry 428, not entry 0.
Entry 0 is the indirect syscall handler. Fixed with backward scan.
2. Raw VA written to chained fixup pointer slot: struct.pack("<Q", cave_va)
corrupts the fixup chain from sysent[439] onward. Fixed with proper
auth rebase encoding (_encode_chained_auth_ptr).
3. Missing PAC parameters: dispatch uses BLRAA X8, X17 with X17=0xBCAD.
Chained fixup must encode diversity=0xBCAD, key=IA, addrDiv=0.
Chain 'next' field preserved from original entry.
Boot-tested OK via testing ramdisk.
Root cause: find_string("vnode_getattr") matched "%s: vnode_getattr: %d"
format string inside an AppleImage4 function. The old code then took that
function as vnode_getattr itself, causing BL to call into AppleImage4 with
wrong arguments → PAC failure on indirect branch at a2+48.
Fix: _find_vnode_getattr_via_string() now scans backward from the string
ref for a BL instruction and extracts its target — the real vnode_getattr
(sub_FFFFFE0007CCD1B4 at foff 0xCC91B4).
Bisection confirmed: variants A (stack frame) and B (+ tpidr_el1) boot OK,
variant C (+ BL vnode_getattr) panics with old resolution, boots OK with fix.
Boot-tested: full C23 patch with corrected vnode_getattr — BOOTS OK.
Ops table pointer modification breaks chained fixup integrity in the
fileset kernelcache, causing PAC failures in unrelated kexts (e.g.,
AppleImage4). The fixup diversity (0xEC79) also doesn't match the
dispatch discriminator.
New approach: replace PACIBSP at hook function entry with B cave.
Cave runs relocated PACIBSP, ownership propagation shellcode, then
B hook+4 to resume. Uses only PC-relative branches — no PAC, no
chained fixup modification. Also fixes branch offsets in shellcode
to ensure all registers are properly restored in error/skip paths.
Root cause: backward branch search found PAC validation B.EQ (target fell
within error region range) instead of the kernel_map guard B.NE. New approach
walks backward from panic string ADRP to find CMP+B.cond where the branch
goes forward past the panic, then makes it unconditional. Also enables B6
and B8 in find_all(). Boot-tested: PASS.
Old approach patched vnode-type assertion BLs (CBZ→panic). New approach
scans backward from function end for the shared MOV W0,#1 kill return
before the LDP x29,x30 epilogue and changes it to MOV W0,#0. Single
instruction converts all 5+ kill paths to success. Boot-tested OK.
Root cause: "most-called BL target" heuristic in _proc_info picked copyio
(4 calls, 0x28C bytes) over the real _proc_security_policy (2 calls,
0x134 bytes). Lowered size filter threshold from 0x300 to 0x200 to
correctly exclude utility functions like copyio. Boot-tested: PASS.
Introduce a set of tools for fast and batch testing of kernel JB patches: add testing_batch.sh, testing_do_patch.sh, testing_do_save.sh and testing_kernel_patch.py (plus a results _summary). Update the Makefile with new targets (testing_do_save, testing_kernel_patch, testing_do_patch, testing_batch) and PHONY entries to wire them into the build/test workflow. Modify kernel_jb.py to enable the amfi cdhash-in-trustcache patch (A1) and mark the amfi execve kill-path patch as causing PANIC (A2). These changes allow restoring a base kernel backup, applying single patches quickly, running per-patch DFU boots (with timeout/panic detection), and collecting logs for batch runs.
Uncomment the kernelcache (JB) component in JB_COMPONENTS so the kernelcache patcher is included. In KernelJBPatcher, comment out a large set of patch registration calls across Groups A, B and C and annotate them (A1..C24) to keep the original patch list for reference while preventing them from being applied. No functional patch logic was modified, only registration calls were disabled and formatting adjusted.
The original selector24 patches (NOP ldr + NOP bl) broke the hash flags
extraction, causing the consistency check to fail. The second attempt
(return 0x130A1) also failed because the return code semantics were
inverted — byte 1 != 0 means FAIL, not success.
Correct approach: insert `mov w0, #0xa1; b <epilogue>` after the prologue.
0xA1 has byte 1 = 0 which the caller checks via `tst w0, #0xff00` as PASS.
Update AGENTS.md
move selector24 bypass from txm_jb.py to txm_dev.py, delete TXMJBPatcher
Selector24 CS validation bypass now applies to both dev and JB variants
via txm_dev.py. The separate txm_jb.py patcher is removed since it had
no other patches. Dev boot chain: 47→49 patches.
Create txm_fullchain_analysis.md
Separate dev vs JB TXM patches and streamline fw_patch_jb. fw_patch_dev now calls patch_txm and uses TXMPatcher as TXMDevPatcher; txm_dev.py doc/comments clarify it is dev-only and removes the trustcache bypass from the dev finder. fw_patch_jb was reorganized: COMPONENTS and JB_COMPONENTS lists define base and JB-only patches, the previous subprocess call to run fw_patch.py was removed, and component discovery/patching is unified (with updated messages). txm_jb now only implements the JB-exclusive selector24 extension, relying on dev patches being applied separately.
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