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Magisk Tools
Magisk comes with a huge collections of tools for installation, daemons, and utilities for developers. This documentation covers the 3 binaries and all included applets. The binaries and applets are shown below:
magiskboot /* binary */
magiskinit /* binary */
magiskpolicy -> magiskinit
supolicy -> magiskinit
magisk /* binary */
magiskhide -> magisk
resetprop -> magisk
su -> magisk
Note: The Magisk zip you download only contains magiskboot, magiskinit, and magiskinit64. The binary magisk is compressed and embedded into magiskinit(64). Push magiskinit(64) to your device and run ./magiskinit(64) -x magisk <path> to extract magisk out of the binary.
magiskboot
A tool to unpack / repack boot images, parse / patch / extract cpio, patch dtb, hex patch binaries, and compress / decompress files with multiple algorithms.
magiskboot natively supports (which means it does not rely on external tools) common compression formats including gzip, lz4, lz4_legacy (only used on LG), lzma, xz, and bzip2.
The concept of magiskboot is to make boot image modification simpler. For unpacking, it parses the header and extracts all sections in the image, decompressing on-the-fly if compression is detected in any sections. For repacking, the original boot image is required so the original headers can be used, changing only the necessary entries such as section sizes and checksum. All sections will be compressed back to the original format if required. The tool also supports many CPIO and DTB operations.
Usage: magiskboot <action> [args...]
Supported actions:
unpack [-h] <bootimg>
Unpack <bootimg> to, if available, kernel, kernel_dtb, ramdisk.cpio,
second, dtb, extra, and recovery_dtbo into current directory.
If '-h' is provided, it will dump header info to 'header',
which will be parsed when repacking.
Return values:
0:valid 1:error 2:chromeos
repack <origbootimg> [outbootimg]
Repack boot image components from current directory
to [outbootimg], or new-boot.img if not specified.
It will compress ramdisk.cpio and kernel with the same method in
<origbootimg> if the file provided is not already compressed.
hexpatch <file> <hexpattern1> <hexpattern2>
Search <hexpattern1> in <file>, and replace with <hexpattern2>
cpio <incpio> [commands...]
Do cpio commands to <incpio> (modifications are done directly)
Each command is a single argument, use quotes if necessary
Supported commands:
exists ENTRY
Return 0 if ENTRY exists, else return 1
rm [-r] ENTRY
Remove ENTRY, specify [-r] to remove recursively
mkdir MODE ENTRY
Create directory ENTRY in permissions MODE
ln TARGET ENTRY
Create a symlink to TARGET with the name ENTRY
mv SOURCE DEST
Move SOURCE to DEST
add MODE ENTRY INFILE
Add INFILE as ENTRY in permissions MODE; replaces ENTRY if exists
extract [ENTRY OUT]
Extract ENTRY to OUT, or extract all entries to current directory
test
Test the current cpio's patch status
Return values:
0:stock 1:Magisk 2:unsupported (phh, SuperSU, Xposed)
patch KEEPVERITY KEEPFORCEENCRYPT
Ramdisk patches. KEEP**** are boolean values
backup ORIG
Create ramdisk backups from ORIG
restore
Restore ramdisk from ramdisk backup stored within incpio
sha1
Print stock boot SHA1 if previously backed up in ramdisk
dtb-<cmd> <dtb>
Do dtb related cmds to <dtb> (modifications are done directly)
Supported commands:
dump
Dump all contents from dtb for debugging
test
Check if fstab has verity/avb flags
Return values:
0:no flags 1:flag exists
patch
Search for fstab and remove verity/avb
compress[=method] <infile> [outfile]
Compress <infile> with [method] (default: gzip), optionally to [outfile]
<infile>/[outfile] can be '-' to be STDIN/STDOUT
Supported methods: bzip2 gzip lz4 lz4_legacy lzma xz
decompress <infile> [outfile]
Detect method and decompress <infile>, optionally to [outfile]
<infile>/[outfile] can be '-' to be STDIN/STDOUT
Supported methods: bzip2 gzip lz4 lz4_legacy lzma xz
sha1 <file>
Print the SHA1 checksum for <file>
cleanup
Cleanup the current working directory
magiskinit
This binary will replace init in the ramdisk of a Magisk patched boot image. It is originally created for supporting devices using system-as-root, but the tool is extended to support all devices and became a crucial part of Magisk. More details can be found in the Pre-Init section in Magisk Booting Process.
magiskpolicy
(This tool is aliased to supolicy for compatibility with SuperSU's sepolicy tool)
An applet of magiskinit. This tool could be used for advanced developers to modify SELinux policies. In common scenarios like Linux server admins, they would directly modify the SELinux policy sources (*.te) and recompile the sepolicy binary, but here on Android we directly patch the binary file (or runtime policies).
All processes spawned from the Magisk daemon, including root shells and all its forks, are running in the context u:r:magisk:s0. The rule used on all Magisk installed systems can be viewed as stock sepolicy with these patches: magiskpolicy --magisk 'allow magisk * * *'.
Usage: magiskpolicy [--options...] [policy statements...]
Options:
--help show help message for policy statements
--load FILE load policies from FILE
--load-split load from preloaded sepolicy or compile
split policies
--compile-split compile split cil policies
--save FILE save policies to FILE
--live directly apply sepolicy live
--magisk inject built-in rules for a minimal
Magisk selinux environment
If neither --load or --compile-split is specified, it will load
from current live policies (/sys/fs/selinux/policy)
One policy statement should be treated as one parameter;
this means a full policy statement should be enclosed in quotes;
multiple policy statements can be provided in a single command
The statements has a format of "<rule_name> [args...]"
Multiple types and permissions can be grouped into collections
wrapped in curly brackets.
'*' represents a collection containing all valid matches.
Supported policy statements:
Type 1:
"<rule_name> source_type target_type class perm_set"
Rules: allow, deny, auditallow, dontaudit
Type 2:
"<rule_name> source_type target_type class operation xperm_set"
Rules: allowxperm, auditallowxperm, dontauditxperm
* The only supported operation is ioctl
* The only supported xperm_set format is range ([low-high])
Type 3:
"<rule_name> class"
Rules: create, permissive, enforcing
Type 4:
"attradd class attribute"
Type 5:
"<rule_name> source_type target_type class default_type"
Rules: type_transition, type_change, type_member
Type 6:
"name_transition source_type target_type class default_type object_name"
Notes:
* Type 4 - 6 does not support collections
* Object classes cannot be collections
* source_type and target_type can also be attributes
Example: allow { s1 s2 } { t1 t2 } class *
Will be expanded to:
allow s1 t1 class { all permissions }
allow s1 t2 class { all permissions }
allow s2 t1 class { all permissions }
allow s2 t2 class { all permissions }
magisk
When the magisk binary is called with the name magisk, it works as an utility tool with many helper functions and the entry points for several Magisk services.
Usage: magisk [applet [arguments]...]
or: magisk [options]...
Options:
-c print current binary version
-v print running daemon version
-V print running daemon version code
--list list all available applets
--daemon manually start magisk daemon
--[init trigger] start service for init trigger
Advanced Options (Internal APIs):
--unlock-blocks set BLKROSET flag to OFF for all block devices
--restorecon restore selinux context on Magisk files
--clone-attr SRC DEST clone permission, owner, and selinux context
--clone SRC DEST clone SRC to DEST
--sqlite SQL exec SQL to Magisk database
Supported init triggers:
post-fs-data, service, boot-complete
Supported applets:
magisk, su, resetprop, magiskhide
su
An applet of magisk, the MagiskSU entry point. Good old su command.
Usage: su [options] [-] [user [argument...]]
Options:
-c, --command COMMAND pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-, -l, --login pretend the shell to be a login shell
-m, -p,
--preserve-environment preserve the entire environment
-s, --shell SHELL use SHELL instead of the default /system/bin/sh
-v, --version display version number and exit
-V display version code and exit
-mm, -M,
--mount-master force run in the global mount namespace
Note: even though the -Z, --context option is not listed above, the option still exists for CLI compatibility with apps designed for SuperSU. However the option is silently ignored since it's no longer relevant.
resetprop
An applet of magisk. An advanced system property manipulation utility. Check the Resetprop Details for more background information.
Usage: resetprop [flags] [options...]
Options:
-h, --help show this message
(no arguments) print all properties
NAME get property
NAME VALUE set property entry NAME with VALUE
--file FILE load props from FILE
--delete NAME delete property
Flags:
-v print verbose output to stderr
-n set properties without init triggers
only affects setprop
-p access actual persist storage
only affects getprop and deleteprop
magiskhide
An applet of magisk, the CLI to control MagiskHide. Use this tool to communicate with the daemon to change MagiskHide settings.
Usage: magiskhide [--option [arguments...] ]
Options:
--status Return the status of magiskhide
--enable Start magiskhide
--disable Stop magiskhide
--add PKG [PROC] Add a new target to the hide list
--rm PKG [PROC] Remove from the hide list
--ls List the current hide list