- some Samsung devices (e.g. Galaxy S5 SMG-900H) use a slightly different AOSP bootimg.h variant with `#define BOOT_NAME_SIZE 20` instead of 16
- since all known examples of these device images do not have anything in the NAME or CMDLINE fields, and the bootloader also accepts standard AOSP images, simply offset the SHA1/SHA256 detection by 4 bytes to avoid false positives from these images, remain an equally effective detection shortcut, and ensure a proper SHA1 checksum on repack
aosp-dtbhdt2-4offhash-seandroid-256sig-samsung_gs5-smg900h-boot.img
UNPACK CHECKSUM [00000000b11580f7d20f70297cdc31e02626def0356c82b90000000000000000]
REPACK CHECKSUM [73b18751202e56c433f89dfd1902c290eaf4eef3e167fcf03b814b59a5e984b6]
AIK CHECKSUM [b11580f7d20f70297cdc31e02626def0356c82b9000000000000000000000000]
This patch should result in a `magiskboot unpack -n boot.img; magiskboot repack boot.img` new-boot.img matching the AIK CHECKSUM above.
- compare against new byte[] array as a quick tell, since when streaming from a partition with an unsigned image "signature" would of course read without issue but then remain filled by zero padding, resulting in the following:
java.io.IOException: unexpected end-of-contents marker
at org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1InputStream.readObject(Unknown Source:14)
at com.topjohnwu.signing.SignBoot$BootSignature.<init>(SignBoot.java:235)
at com.topjohnwu.signing.SignBoot.verifySignature(SignBoot.java:144)
at com.topjohnwu.signing.BootSigner.main(BootSigner.java:15)
at a.a.main(a.java:20)
Previously, we use either BroadcastReceivers or Activities to receive
messages from our native daemon, but both have their own downsides.
Some OEMs blocks broadcasts if the app is not running in the background,
regardless of who the caller is. Activities on the other hand, despite
working 100% of the time, will steal the focus of the current foreground
app, even though we are just doing some logging and showing a toast.
In addition, since stubs for hiding Magisk Manager is introduced, our
only communication method is left with the broadcast option, as
only broadcasting allows targeting a specific package name, not a
component name (which will be obfuscated in the case of stubs).
To make sure root requests will work on all devices, Magisk had to do
some experiments every boot to test whether broadcast is deliverable or
not. This makes the whole thing even more complicated then ever.
So lets take a look at another kind of component in Android apps:
ContentProviders. It is a vital part of Android's ecosystem, and as far
as I know no OEMs will block requests to ContentProviders (or else
tons of functionality will break catastrophically). Starting at API 11,
the system supports calling a specific method in ContentProviders,
optionally sending extra data along with the method call. This is
perfect for the native daemon to start a communication with Magisk
Manager. Another cool thing is that we no longer need to know the
component name of the reciever, as ContentProviders identify themselves
with an "authority" name, which in Magisk Manager's case is tied to the
package name. We already have a mechanism to keep track of our current
manager package name, so this works out of the box.
So yay! No more flaky broadcast tests, no more stupid OEMs blocking
broadcasts for some bizzare reasons. This method should in theory
work on almost all devices and situations.
