Add an environment IPMI service reporting kstuff's ShellCore capabilities - #113
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds an IPMI environment service. It resolves firmware symbols, builds an event-handler shim, serves a version and capability query, integrates startup and shutdown lifecycle calls, and probes SceShellCore patches for kstuff capabilities. ChangesIPMI environment service
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new IPMI environment service can crash during lifecycle races or failed client cleanup, and raw synchronous requests may terminate the service. These issues should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant main
participant sm_env_ipmi_serve
participant ipmi_syms_resolve
participant handler_build
participant IPMI_Server
participant sm_env_ipmi_dispatch
main->>sm_env_ipmi_serve: start environment service
sm_env_ipmi_serve->>ipmi_syms_resolve: resolve libSceIpmi symbols
sm_env_ipmi_serve->>handler_build: build EventHandler vtable
sm_env_ipmi_serve->>IPMI_Server: create server and start dispatcher
IPMI_Server->>sm_env_ipmi_dispatch: dispatch QUERY request
sm_env_ipmi_dispatch-->>IPMI_Server: return SmpEnvReply
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In `@src/ipmi_client.c`:
- Line 141: Update ipmi_client_open and the ipmi_client_close destruction flow
so a client is accepted only when destroySlot is valid; when destroySlot is
negative, reject and clean up without leaving a live Client. In
ipmi_client_close, invoke destruction before freeing c->storage, and ensure
storage is not freed while the client still depends on it.
In `@src/ipmi_handler.c`:
- Around line 121-128: Update the guard around the memorySize write and
subsequent createSession call to require cfg in addition to srv, g_syms, and
g_syms->srvCreateSession, preventing either operation when cfg is null.
- Around line 121-143: Replace the shared g_sessionMem passed by capture_connect
to createSession with aligned per-session storage, associate that allocation
with the returned Session* in the existing session lifecycle tracking, and pass
the allocation’s size through the session configuration. Update onSessionKilled
or the corresponding destruction path to release the storage only after its
Session* is no longer active, while preserving cleanup for failed session
creation.
In `@src/ipmi_symbols.c`:
- Line 157: Update sm_env_ipmi_serve to validate g_syms.srvTryDispatch before
Server::create, returning false when unresolved; alternatively, tear down the
created server and return false before registering or retaining g_srv. Ensure
startup never returns true while dispatcher_thread cannot dispatch requests.
In `@src/sm_env_ipmi.c`:
- Around line 183-190: Update server_teardown to signal g_disp_stop before
clearing g_srv, wait for g_disp_alive to become false, then set g_srv to NULL.
Ensure the wedged/timeout path also clears g_srv only after the dispatcher has
stopped, while preserving the existing local srv teardown flow.
In `@src/sm_kstuff_caps.c`:
- Line 156: Update the capability validation condition in the probing logic
around run_probe() and patch_shellcore() so a result is considered complete only
when both required capability bits are present. Treat a partial single-bit
result like an invalid or unprobed state, allowing the next probe to retry
instead of caching it.
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Do not free client storage when destroySlot < 0.
ipmi_client_open can succeed without a destruction slot. The probe then calls ipmi_client_close, which skips destroy but frees the storage that backs the Client object. This leaves the live client with a dangling backing buffer. Require a valid destruction path before accepting the client, and free c->storage only after destruction completes.
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In `@src/ipmi_client.c` at line 141, Update ipmi_client_open and the
ipmi_client_close destruction flow so a client is accepted only when destroySlot
is valid; when destroySlot is negative, reject and clean up without leaving a
live Client. In ipmi_client_close, invoke destruction before freeing c->storage,
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| // one query a title makes during module init, so a retry costs one | ||
| // find_pid_by_name plus two small copyouts, and only until the answer turns | ||
| // positive. | ||
| if (!g_caps_probed || !g_caps_valid || g_caps == 0) { |
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The reference to "kstuff-lite," "SceShellCore," "sysdirpath," and "trophy patch" pertains to open-source kernel-mode patches for the PlayStation 5 (and sometimes PlayStation 4) console, specifically within the kstuff-lite project maintained by developers like EchoStretch [1][2]. In this context, the patches are used to modify the behavior of the SceShellCore process, which manages the system shell and user interface [3]. Regarding the specific terms: Trophy Patch: This refers to modifications (e.g., in shellui_patch.c) that override the SceShellUI trophy system's online availability checks [4][5]. By forcing functions like IsOnlineModeAvailable to return false, these patches allow users to access and interact with the trophies menu even when the console is not connected to PSN or has account activation issues, though they generally do not work with fully activated accounts [4][5][6]. Sysdirpath: The reference to getSceSysDirPath in the kstuff-lite source code indicates efforts to patch or redirect system directory paths, often used to ensure the console loads the correct system files (like SceShellCore.elf) from specific locations [4][7]. These path redirections are fundamental for custom firmware and homebrew environments to maintain stability and prevent the system from falling back to default or locked configurations [2][7]. These patches are compiled for various firmware versions and are applied by locating the relevant function offsets within the SceShellCore binary [1][8][9]. The kstuff-lite project uses a modular approach where specific patches (defined in header files like shellcore_patches/10_00.h) are applied to the process memory at runtime to bypass security checks or enable additional functionality [1][10][11].
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- 1: EchoStretch/kstuff-lite@6550243
- 2: https://github.com/EchoStretch/kstuff-lite
- 3: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/index.php?oldid=296659&title=SceShellCore
- 4: https://git.etawen.dev/EchoStretch/kstuff-lite/commit/6550243210589f3a12ff916fbd2c263616f97bd1
- 5: https://git.etawen.dev/EchoStretch/kstuff-lite/commit/6550243210589f3a12ff916fbd2c263616f97bd1.patch
- 6: https://github.com/drakmor/kstuff-lite/releases/tag/1.2-dr-test2
- 7: https://gist.github.com/CrazyVoid/946725b9ce6c9a2b4c8d9c5cae0582b4
- 8: https://git.etawen.dev/EchoStretch/kstuff-lite/commit/91273eaf2fc91c1d310cbade25ffd2896ba2176e
- 9: https://git.etawen.dev/Rviju/elf-arsenal/src/branch/fix-copy-dir-errors/src/shellcore_ppr_patch.c
- 10: https://git.etawen.dev/EchoStretch/kstuff-lite/commit/e3d0099ba8b087cdcb14daa9ce8164284af9e661.patch
- 11: drakmor/kstuff-lite@1.2-dr-test1...1.2-dr-test2
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Retry partial capability results.
patch_shellcore() writes the sysdir and trophy entries sequentially. run_probe() can read between those writes and return one capability bit. The current condition then caches that partial result. Require both capability bits before caching a complete result.
Proposed fix
+ const uint32_t required_caps =
+ SM_KSTUFF_CAP_SYSDIRPATH | SM_KSTUFF_CAP_TROPHY;
- if (!g_caps_probed || !g_caps_valid || g_caps == 0) {
+ if (!g_caps_probed || !g_caps_valid ||
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| if (!g_caps_probed || !g_caps_valid || g_caps == 0) { | |
| const uint32_t required_caps = | |
| SM_KSTUFF_CAP_SYSDIRPATH | SM_KSTUFF_CAP_TROPHY; | |
| if (!g_caps_probed || !g_caps_valid || | |
| (g_caps & required_caps) != required_caps) { |
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In `@src/sm_kstuff_caps.c` at line 156, Update the capability validation condition
in the probing logic around run_probe() and patch_shellcore() so a result is
considered complete only when both required capability bits are present. Treat a
partial single-bit result like an invalid or unprobed state, allowing the next
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…ties A backported title needs to know whether the loaded kstuff carries the getSceSysDirPath patch its NP registrations depend on, and it cannot find out from inside its sandbox. Asking for a version does not work, and not because kstuff is gone: the loader exits, but a micro-ELF stays resident. That resident half carries no version string, its kekcall interface has no call that would return one, and the ShellCore patches are applied by the loader, so it never learns they happened. A version would not be trustworthy even if it existed -- the kstuff-lite-dr fork numbers above 1.10 and carries neither patch, so a minimum-version check waves through the exact build that does not work. What is knowable is the patch itself, and both patches are readable straight out of SceShellCore's live text. No release of full kstuff carries either one, and in kstuff-lite they arrive together in v1.07. sm_kstuff_caps.c reads them: a per-firmware offset table for 2.50 through 12.70, matched against the whole patch signature so a testkit or devkit layout cannot produce a false positive. sm_env_ipmi.c serves that over IPMI as "SceShadowMnt", one argument-free query, alongside ShadowMountPlus's own version so a title can require a minimum build. The service is never fatal: a console with no backported title does not need it, so a failure is logged and startup continues. Only a positive capability reading is cached. ShellCore is never un-patched, so a positive cannot go stale, but a zero may only mean kstuff has not run yet -- which depends on autoload ordering we do not control. Latching the first answer made a console with kstuff-lite correctly installed refuse to launch a backported title, the gate reporting sysdirpath=no trophy=no with CAPS_VALID set. Confirmed with kstuff-lite autoloading after this payload: the startup probe reads caps=0x0 and the next probe eleven seconds later reads caps=0x3. The IPMI layer is plain C. It describes a C++ ABI, but describing one needs no C++ compiler: a mangled name reached through an asm label and a vtable slot found by address work the same from C, so there is no cxx_rt.cpp, no separate CXXFLAGS and no compile-with-CXX-link-with-CC rule. Everything asserted in these files was confirmed against a live, working registration on hardware. Worth stating explicitly, because each one is a mistake that is easy to make and expensive to find: - Server::create's fourth argument is not scratch. It placement-constructs the ServerImpl into it and returns that pointer as the Server*, so it has to outlive the registration. Measured: out == storage, and the object is 0x30 bytes. - Config+0x32 is copied to ServerImpl+0x28, and tryDispatch refuses to run on a non-zero value, so it is a named field with an offset assertion rather than padding. - The EventHandler vtable ends after nine virtuals, and the words past the end belong to the next class, so only the slots the scan can name are copied. - Poll tryDispatch, never runDispatcher: runDispatcher checks its shutdown flag only before each receive, so one already asleep survives SIGKILL, keeps the service name and blocks every client forever. - A registration must never outlive its dispatcher. A client probing a name held by a process that no longer answers reads it free and is killed inside create(), and only a reboot clears that. - The service name must start with "Sce" and fit Config::name[16] including the NUL. IPMIMGR kills the caller from inside create() over the prefix, and the server and client halves truncate differently at the boundary, so a long name registers under one spelling and is looked up under another.
Five fixes to the environment service, four of them from review. Sessions overlap as a matter of course, so one shared buffer was never enough. Measured over four title launches on 4.03: every title connects twice about two seconds apart, the second connect landing while the first session is still alive -- eight connects, two live at once every time. createSession placement-constructs into the storage the handler supplies, so all eight sessions reported the same Session*: two handles, one object. A four-slot pool fixes that with no allocator in the connection window, claimed on connect and released in onSessionKilled, which the same run showed fires for every session. No lock, because connect, dispatch and the kill callback all arrive on the dispatcher thread. The dispatcher now takes its Server* once instead of re-reading g_srv each iteration. Teardown cleared g_srv before signalling the stop, so a dispatcher already past its check called tryDispatch(NULL) -- and g_srv is not volatile, so that read raced as well. g_srv is now cleared only once the dispatcher is provably out, and left alone on the wedged path where the registration really is still live. Also: require cfg before writing memorySize through it, since the callback already treats it as possibly null a few lines earlier; refuse to register when ServerImpl::tryDispatch is unresolved, the same rule already applied to the sync-dispatch slot; and leak client storage rather than freeing it when no destroy slot was found, since the library still holds a kid pointing into it.
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155-158: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUpdate the stale line reference in this comment.
The comment says "Line 106 above already treats it as possibly null". The null-
cfgcheck is now at line 140. Refer to the check by name instead of by line number, so the comment does not drift again.♻️ Proposed change
- // cfg is written through below, so it is required here as well. Line 106 - // above already treats it as possibly null; a null reaching this branch - // would write eight bytes to 0x148 inside the connection window, where a - // fault kills the process. + // cfg is written through below, so it is required here as well. The + // cfgHead capture above already treats it as possibly null; a null + // reaching this branch would write eight bytes to 0x148 inside the + // connection window, where a fault kills the process.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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logf_is a varargs-forwarding shim, and every call site in this cohort passes a string literal. The useful change is compiler checking of those call sites, because this cohort passes many hand-cast%#lx,%zuand%parguments.Declare the attribute on the prototype in
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In `@src/ipmi_client.c`:
- Around line 132-134: Update the cleanup logic around the destroy function call
in the client teardown path to capture its return value and treat a negative
result like a missing destroy slot: log the failure and do not free c->storage.
Preserve the existing successful-destroy cleanup behavior and use the existing
destroy callback and logging mechanisms.
In `@src/ipmi_handler.c`:
- Around line 399-402: Update the cfgHead declaration and capture_connect copy
size to include the configuration field at offset 0x40, then retain the
numMsgQueue memcpy at cfgHead + 0x40 so it reads captured data rather than
beyond the current buffer.
- Around line 285-289: Update the KIND_SYNC_RAW handling near the
not-implemented log to invoke g_syms->sessRespondSyncRaw with the session,
method, SM_ENV_IPMI_ENOTSUP, NULL, and 0 before returning. Preserve the raw ABI
ordering and do not pass an output-entry count.
In `@src/sm_env_ipmi.c`:
- Line 101: Move the initial g_disp_alive = true publication from the dispatcher
thread entry to the creator immediately after pthread_create succeeds, before
teardown can observe the flag; remove the thread-side startup assignment while
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In `@src/ipmi_handler.c`:
- Around line 155-158: Update the comment near the cfg write to replace the
stale line-number reference with a description of the existing null-cfg check,
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In `@src/sm_env_ipmi.c`:
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| if (c->destroySlot >= 0) { | ||
| (void)((DestroyFn)vt[c->destroySlot])(c->handle); | ||
| } else { |
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Check the destroy() return code before you free c->storage.
Line 133 discards the result of destroy(). The else branch at lines 135-145 documents why storage must not be freed while libSceIpmi still holds a client kid that points into it. A failed destroy() leaves the same state, but line 152 then frees the buffer. Treat a negative return the same way as a missing slot: log it and leak the storage.
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if (c->destroySlot >= 0) {
- (void)((DestroyFn)vt[c->destroySlot])(c->handle);
+ const int drc = ((DestroyFn)vt[c->destroySlot])(c->handle);
+ if (drc < 0) {
+ /* Same reasoning as the no-slot branch: undestroyed means the
+ * library still points into this buffer. */
+ logf_(" client: destroy rc=%#010x -- storage leaked",
+ (unsigned)drc);
+ c->storage = NULL;
+ }
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| if (c->destroySlot >= 0) { | |
| (void)((DestroyFn)vt[c->destroySlot])(c->handle); | |
| } else { | |
| if (c->destroySlot >= 0) { | |
| const int drc = ((DestroyFn)vt[c->destroySlot])(c->handle); | |
| if (drc < 0) { | |
| /* Same reasoning as the no-slot branch: undestroyed means the | |
| * library still points into this buffer. */ | |
| logf_(" client: destroy rc=%#010x -- storage leaked", | |
| (unsigned)drc); | |
| c->storage = NULL; | |
| } | |
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In `@src/ipmi_client.c` around lines 132 - 134, Update the cleanup logic around
the destroy function call in the client teardown path to capture its return
value and treat a negative result like a missing destroy slot: log the failure
and do not free c->storage. Preserve the existing successful-destroy cleanup
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| logf_("SYNC-RAW slot[%#04x] session=%p method=%#x a3=%#lx a4=%#lx " | ||
| "a5=%#lx a6=%#lx -- not implemented, refusing", | ||
| slot * 8, (void*)a1, (unsigned)a2, (unsigned long)a3, | ||
| (unsigned long)a4, (unsigned long)a5, (unsigned long)a6); | ||
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PS4 libSceIpmi EventHandler onSyncMethodDispatch raw arguments respondToSyncMethodRequest
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The terms you are referencing appear to be related to the internal mechanisms of the PlayStation 4 system library libSceIpmi. libSceIpmi is a system library (often associated with module handle 0x8000001D) that provides Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) or similar inter-process/system communication capabilities [1][2][3]. In the context of low-level development for the PlayStation 4 platform, handlers such as onSyncMethodDispatch are typically used for intercepting or responding to synchronous remote procedure calls or inter-process communication (IPC) requests within the system [4][5]. Based on common patterns in Sony's SCE (Sony Computer Entertainment) libraries: 1. onSyncMethodDispatch: This is likely a callback or event handler responsible for processing incoming synchronous requests (method dispatches). 2. Raw Arguments: When a request is dispatched, it often carries a pointer to a data structure containing the request's arguments. Accessing these raw arguments typically involves casting this pointer to the expected structure defined in the internal SCE headers. 3. respondToSyncMethodRequest: This is the corresponding function used to send the result of the processed request back to the caller, effectively closing the request-response cycle. Please note that libSceIpmi is a proprietary, internal system library [1]. There is no official public documentation for these specific functions. The information available in the development community (such as in PS4 reverse engineering repositories like ps4libdoc) is derived from community-maintained, reverse-engineered headers and is not guaranteed to reflect official Sony naming conventions or parameter definitions [6][7][8]. If you are working on homebrew or security research, you may find the reverse-engineered headers in repositories such as libps4-sce-include or PS4 Developer Wiki to be the most relevant resources for examining function signatures [1][7].
Citations:
- 1: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/Libraries
- 2: https://gist.github.com/psxdev/1c2a96fa387d82fc34eb09e7fc1b6a5c
- 3: https://www.psxhax.com/threads/ps4-module-names.712/
- 4: https://docs.rs/jsonrpsee/latest/jsonrpsee/type.SyncMethod.html
- 5: https://docs.rs/jsonrpsee-core/latest/src/jsonrpsee_core/server/rpc_module.rs.html
- 6: https://github.com/idc/ps4libdoc
- 7: https://github.com/hitodama/libps4-sce-include
- 8: https://github.com/hitodama/libps4
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Reply to raw synchronous requests through sessRespondSyncRaw.
The raw ABI is Session*, method, input, inputSize, output, outputSize. KIND_SYNC_RAW returns SM_ENV_IPMI_ENOTSUP without replying. Locate g_syms->sessRespondSyncRaw in the session vtable and call it with SM_ENV_IPMI_ENOTSUP, NULL, and 0; the raw API has no out-entry count. Otherwise, the synchronous request can remain unanswered and terminate the server.
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In `@src/ipmi_handler.c` around lines 285 - 289, Update the KIND_SYNC_RAW handling
near the not-implemented log to invoke g_syms->sessRespondSyncRaw with the
session, method, SM_ENV_IPMI_ENOTSUP, NULL, and 0 before returning. Preserve the
raw ABI ordering and do not pass an output-entry count.
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| memcpy(&clientPid, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x00, 4); | ||
| memcpy(&maxOut, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x08, 4); | ||
| memcpy(&numEventFlag, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x38, 4); | ||
| memcpy(&numMsgQueue, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x40, 4); |
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cfgHead + 0x40 reads past the end of cfgHead.
cfgHead is declared as unsigned char cfgHead[0x40] at line 84, so valid offsets end at 0x3f. Line 402 copies 4 bytes from offset 0x40. That read leaves the array and lands on the following memorySize member, so numMsgQueue logs the low half of memorySize on every drained connect, not the SessionImpl::Config field.
capture_connect also only copies sizeof(g_connect.cfgHead) bytes from the firmware cfg, so the field at +0x40 is never captured. Enlarge the capture buffer to include it.
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- unsigned char cfgHead[0x40];
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| memcpy(&clientPid, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x00, 4); | |
| memcpy(&maxOut, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x08, 4); | |
| memcpy(&numEventFlag, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x38, 4); | |
| memcpy(&numMsgQueue, g_connect.cfgHead + 0x40, 4); | |
| unsigned char cfgHead[0x48]; |
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In `@src/ipmi_handler.c` around lines 399 - 402, Update the cfgHead declaration
and capture_connect copy size to include the configuration field at offset 0x40,
then retain the numMsgQueue memcpy at cfgHead + 0x40 so it reads captured data
rather than beyond the current buffer.
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| // before it destroys anything, so this reference cannot outlive its object. | ||
| void *const srv = g_srv; | ||
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| g_disp_alive = true; |
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The dispatcher liveness handshake has a startup race.
g_disp_alive starts false, and only the dispatcher thread itself sets it true at line 101. server_teardown waits on that flag at lines 195-196 and treats false as "the dispatcher is provably out".
Between pthread_create at line 393 and the thread reaching line 101, the flag is still false. If teardown runs in that window, the wait loop exits on the first check. Teardown then clears g_srv, calls destroy at line 222, and frees g_work_buf at line 227. The thread is scheduled afterwards and enters the poll loop with a destroyed server and a freed working buffer, so tryDispatch takes a dangling self and a dangling buffer into a firmware virtual call.
The thread is detached at line 399, so teardown cannot join it. The flag is the only synchronisation. Publish liveness from the creator instead, so the flag is true before any teardown can observe it.
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g_disp_stop = false;
+ // Set by the creator, not the thread: teardown reads this to decide the
+ // dispatcher is out, and a thread that has not been scheduled yet would
+ // otherwise look already finished.
+ g_disp_alive = true;
pthread_t th;
if (pthread_create(&th, NULL, dispatcher_thread, NULL) != 0) {
+ g_disp_alive = false;
logf_("could not start the dispatcher thread -- unregistering rather than "
"holding a name nothing will answer");
server_teardown("dispatcher thread would not start");
return false;
}Then drop the assignment at line 101 and keep the two g_disp_alive = false exits inside the thread.
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In `@src/sm_env_ipmi.c` at line 101, Move the initial g_disp_alive = true
publication from the dispatcher thread entry to the creator immediately after
pthread_create succeeds, before teardown can observe the flag; remove the
thread-side startup assignment while preserving both g_disp_alive = false exit
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Adds an environment IPMI service so a sandboxed title can ask the console what
it is running on, and answers the one question a backported title actually needs:
whether the loaded kstuff carries the ShellCore patches its NP registrations
depend on.
Why a capability probe rather than a version check
kstuff's loader exits after patching. A micro-ELF stays resident, but it carries
no version string, its kekcall interface has no call that would return one, and
the ShellCore patches are applied by the loader, so the resident half never
learns they happened.
A version would not be trustworthy even if one existed. Measured on 4.03,
probing each payload present for both patches:
The
-drfork numbers above 1.10 and carries neither patch, so aminimum-version check waves through the exact build that does not work. What is
knowable is the patch itself, read out of SceShellCore's live text, matched
against the whole patch signature so a testkit or devkit layout cannot produce a
false positive.
What is in here
sm_kstuff_caps.c— per-firmware offset table, 2.50 through 12.70.sm_env_ipmi.c— the service, registered asSceShadowMnt, oneargument-free query returning capabilities plus this build's own version.
Never fatal: a console with no backported title does not need it, so a failure
is logged and startup continues.
ipmi_*.c/h— the IPMI server plumbing: runtime symbol resolution, anEventHandler assembled by copying the base vtable and replacing only the slots
that can be identified by address, and a client used to check the service name
is free before claiming it.
Only a positive capability reading is cached. ShellCore is never un-patched, so
a positive cannot go stale, but a zero may only mean kstuff has not run yet,
which depends on autoload ordering. Confirmed with kstuff-lite autoloading
after this payload: the startup probe reads
caps=0x0and the next probeeleven seconds later reads
caps=0x3.Testing
Built clean and run on 4.03 retail.
SceShadowMntregisters and serves, alllibSceIpmi symbols resolve, the EventHandler vtable measures nine slots, and a
real sandboxed title (MW2, PPSA23012) connects and reads
caps=0x3, after whichits UDS and Trophy2
RegisterContextcalls both return 0.Several constants that had been taken on trust were confirmed against a live
registration while preparing this: the server object is constructed into the
storage passed to
create()rather than into scratch,Config+0x32gates thedispatcher, and the EventHandler vtable ends after nine virtuals. The comments
record what was measured.
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