Hypervisor Reverse Engineering

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This is a copy of the page from 22nd of February 2011, right before ps3wiki.lan.st went down.


HSPRG

  • The hypervisor stores a pointer to some structure per LPAR in HSPRG0 register.
  • There are actually 2 HSPRG0 values: one for each thread of Cell CPU !!!
  • There is a HSPRG0 array at 0x8(-0x69A0(HSPRG0)) + 0x20.

LPAR

LPAR = Logical Partition

lpar1 starts at 0x<unknown>, and its belived to be the memory space where lv1 stores its variables, flags and other data.

lpar2 starts at 0x80000000000 and it's belived to be the memory space where lv2 stores its variables, flags and other data.


The pointer to active LPAR is stored at -0x67E8(HSPRG0).

vtable

0x0033CA40 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x38 - some pointer

offset 0x50 - LPAR id (8 bytes)

offset 0x70 - pointer to VAS id bitmap

offset 0x78 - power of 2 of word size from VAS id bitmap (4 bytes), equal to 6

offset 0x7C - number of 64-bit words in VAS id bitmap(4 bytes)

Interrupt handling

The pointer to the interrupt handler that is called e.g. when an external interrupt occurs is at -0x69F0(HSPRG0).

0x00001930 (3.15 and 2.60)

Interrupt vector tables

There are 2 interrupt vector tables. One for each thread. The pointer to these tables is at -0x6950(HSPRG0).

offset 0x8 - IIC memory base address (8 bytes)

offset 0x10 - thread register offset (8 bytes)

offset 0x18 - start of interrupt vector table (19 entries, each entry 32 bytes)

Interrupt vector table entry

offset 0x0 - pointer to interrupt handler

offset 0x8 - TOC

offset 0x10 - 0

offset 0x18 - parameter to interrupt handler

Interrupt handlers

Spurious interrupt handler

0x002BC174 (3.15)

RSX

0x00219A44 (3.15)

0x002176FC (2.60)

SB bus

0x002B9CC4 (3.15)

I/O address translation

0x002CD7D8 (3.15)

0x002C9214 (2.60)

Performance monitor

0x002F0584 (3.15)

0x002EB1B0 (2.60)

Token manager

0x002BBA9C (3.15)

0x002B754C (2.60)

HV call

  • The address of HV table is stored at -0x6FC8(HSPRG0).
  • The address of HV table size is stored at -0x6FD0(HSPRG0).

HV call

Id Name Description
62 lv1_undocumented_function_62 SPE (isolation, it updates a SLB entry, writes to SLB_Index, SLB_VSID, SLB_ESID and SLB_Invalidate_Entry registers)
89 lv1_undocumented_function_89 SPE (writes to MFC_TLB_Invalidate_Entry register)
99 lv1_authenticate_program_segment SPE (isolation, syscall 0x10043, syscall 0x10042, syscall 0x1004A)
102 lv1_undocumented_function_102 Returns current TB ticks
137 lv1_undocumented_function_137 SPE
138 lv1_undocumented_function_138 SPE
167 lv1_undocumented_function_167 SPE (isolation, reads from SPU_Out_Intr_Mbox and MFC_CNTL registers)
168 lv1_undocumented_function_168 SPE (isolation, writes to MFC_CNTL register)
195 lv1_undocumented_function_195 WLAN Gelic device
196 lv1_undocumented_function_196 WLAN Gelic device
200 lv1_undocumented_function_200 SPE (isolation)
201 lv1_undocumented_function_201 SPE (isolation)
209 lv1_undocumented_function_209 SPE (isolation)
250 lv1_undocumented_function_250 Storage device
251 lv1_undocumented_function_251 Storage device
252 lv1_undocumented_function_252 Storage device
253 lv1_undocumented_function_253 Storage device

Initializing HV Call Table

set_lv1_hvcall_table

0x002C02B4 (3.41)

0x002C1F04 (3.15)

0x002C2B4C (3.55)

This function sets pointer to HV Call Table and the size of HV Call Table in HSPRG context of a LPAR.

set_lv1_hvcall_table_entry_invalid

0x002C1F28 (3.15)

0x002C02D8 (3.41)

0x002C2B70 (3.55)

This function initializes an entry in HV Call Table to the Invalid HV Call function.

Memory HV call

  • All memory HV calls branch to lv1_mm_call
  • lv1_mm_call has it's own function table
  • Memory HV call number = HV call number

Memory HV call table

  • Each entry is a pointer to a function TOC entry.
  • table size = 256

0x00364208 (3.15)

0x00362308 (3.41)

0x00366088 (3.55)

Memory HV calls

lv1_map_htab - 0x002D595C (3.15)

lv1_unmap_htab - 0x002D56B8 (3.15)

lv1_allocate_memory - 0x002D72F0 (3.15)

lv1_release_memory - 0x002D66A4 (3.15)

lv1_query_logical_partition_address_region_info - 0x002C9B24 (3.15)

lv1_create_repository_node - 0x002DD014 (3.15)

lv1_get_repository_node_value - 0x002DD260 (3.15)

lv1_undocumented_function_231 - 0x0030B560 (3.15)

System call

HV Processes do not use HV calls. They use syscalls only.

System call handler

0x002974D8 (3.15)

0x00292F6C (2.60)

There are 2 system call tables in HV. The first one stores system calls 0 - 36. The second one stores system calls 0x10000 - 0x100FF.

System call table 0 - 36

0x0035FAE8 (3.15)

0x00358ED0 (2.60)

System call numbers

0x1 - getpid(void)

0x2 - getppid(void)

0x3 - fork(void)

0x4 - exit

0x5 - exec(filename)

0x6 - wait(status)

0x7 - open(filename)

0x8 - close(fd)

0x9 - read

0xA - write

0xB - seek

0xC - unlink(filename)

0xD - signal

0xE - kill(pid, signal type)

0xF - brk

0x10 - socket(af, type, protocol) (supports only address family 0x1F, type 0x0 and protocol 0x0)

0x11 - bind

0x12 - listen(fd, backlog)

0x13 - accept

0x14 - connect

0x15 - ?

0x16 - pause(void)

0x17 - sleep(seconds)

0x18 - mmap(addr, size, prot, flags, fd, offset)

0x19 - munmap

0x1A - some fs func for directories, perhaps readdir

0x1B - ?

0x1C - map_pages (used for alloc)

0x1D - unmap_pages (used for free)

0x1E - select

0x1F - getcwd

0x20 - ?

0x21 - alarm

0x22 - ioctl

0x23 - _map_pages

0x24 - _unmap_pages

System call table 0x10000 - 0x100FF

0x0035DE78 (3.15)

0x00357260 (2.60)

System call numbers

0x10000 - allocate_memory_region(LPAR id, size, log2 of page size, ?, ?)

0x10001 - lpar_query_address_region_info

0x10002 - lpar_memory_addr_to_phys_addr(LPAR id, LPAR address, physical addr)

0x10005 - construct_logical_pu

0x10007 - activate_logical_pu(LPAR id, PPE id)

0x10009 - construct_logical_partition(0, LPAR id, outlet)

0x1000E - release_memory_region(LPAR id, memory region address)

0x1001A - construct_event_receive_port

0x10024 - shutdown_logical_partition(LPAR id, shutdown command)

0x10025 - destruct_logical_partition(LPAR id)

0x10026 - get_logical_partition_info

0x1002C - construct_scheduling_table

0x1002D - set_scheduling_slot

0x10032 - accesses system console

0x10036 - accesses system console

0x10040 - construct_spe_type_1(SPE id, shaddow_addr)

0x10041 - destruct_spe(SPE id)

0x10042 - decrypt_lv2_self(spe id, LPAR auth id, SELF file image ptr, LPAR memory address)

0x10043 - load_spe_module(spe id, SCE module ptr, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4)

0x10044 - disable_spe_execution

0x10045 - set_spe_interrupt_mask

0x10046 - read_spe_problem_state_register(spe id, register offset, value)

0x10047 - write_spe_problem_state_register(spe id, register offset, value)

0x1004B - disable_spe_loading

0x10053 - pmi_set_guest_os_mode

0x10081 - accesses system console

0x10084 - construct_virtual_uart(LPAR id, VUART id, VUART data buffer size)

0x10085 - destruct_virtual_uart(LPAR id, VUART id)

0x10088 - RSX_syscall_10088(LPAR id)

0x10089 - RSX_syscall_10089

0x1008A - RSX_syscall_1008A

0x100BE - lv1_ioctl

0x100C0 - create_repository_node(LPAR id)

0x100C1 - get_repository_node_value(LPAR id)

0x100C2 - modify_repository_node_value(LPAR id)

0x100C3 - remove_repository_node_value(LPAR id)

Process

Process table

HV supports only 32 processes simultaneously. The number of processes currently running in HV is stored at address 0x0035EA54 (3.15) and 0x00357E3C (2.60).

The process table is an array of 32 process table entries.

0x0035E850 (3.15)

0x00357C38 (2.60)

Process table entry

offset 0x0 - process status ? (8 bytes)

offset 0x8 - pointer to Process object

create_new_proc

This function creates a new Process object.

0x00298E2C (3.15)

0x002948BC (2.60)

Parameters

r3 - pointer to parent Process object

r4 - ?

copy_user_data

This function copies data to/from user space.

0x00299688 (3.15)

0x00295118 (2.60)

Parameters

r3 - pointer to Process object

r4 - some address in address space of Process

r5 - pointer to buffer in HV space

r6 - size to copy

r7 - ?

r8 - direction of copy (0 - copy from user space, != 0 - copy to user space)

r9 - ?

vtable

Processes have no vtables. That means they have no virtual functions.

Member variables

offset 0x0 - PID (4 bytes)

offset 0x8 - pointer to parent Process object

offset 0x10 - pointer to AddressSpace object

offset 0x30 - pointer to first PThread object of process

offset 0x38 - array of signal handlers (192 * 8 bytes)

offset 0x638 - pointer to pointer to ELF image

offset 0x640 - start of file table (20 * 24 bytes)

offset 0x820 - exit status (4 bytes)

offset 0x898 - pointer to Inode object of current directory

offset 0x8A8 - some pointer

Signals

A process can have upto 192 signal handlers. For example, signal 9 is SIGKILL. A signal handler for SIGKILL cannot be installed and it cannot be ignored.

A process does not have a signal mask. Every thread of a process has it's own signal mask.

Signal constants

0x9 - SIGKILL

0xE - SIGALRM

0x20 - SIGSPUMB

0x21 - SIGSPUMB_SL

0x22 - SIGSPUSTOP

0x23 - SIGSPUSTOP_SL

0x24 - SIGSPUDMA

0x26 - SIGSPUTIMEOUT

0x27 - SIGSPUERR

0x41 - SIGSHUTDOWN

File table

The file table has 20 entries. So, a process can have at most 20 files opened simultaneously. Each entry is 24 bytes large.

offset 0x0 - entry valid or invalid (1 byte), 0 - invalid, 1 - valid

offset 0x8 - pointer to object with File interface

offset 0x10 - current file position (8 bytes)

Process_EA_to_RA

This function translates an effective process address to real address.

0x00297E08 (3.15)

Objects

Here are the addresses of Process objects i could identify in HV dump 3.15:

  • 0x006BB0D0 (PID 0)
  • 0x0012C010 (PID 3) - ss_server3.fself
  • 0x000915D0 (PID 5) - ss_server2.fself
  • 0x000E4D70 (PID 6) - ss_server1.fself
  • 0x0012C8D0 (PID 9) - sysmgr_ss.fself

Here are the addresses of Process objects i could identify in HV dump 2.60:

  • 0x006B7580 (PID 0)
  • 0x00135F90 (PID 3)
  • 0x000862D0 (PID 5)
  • 0x000A9870 (PID 6)
  • 0x00084B80 (PID 9)

PThread

All PThread objects of the same Process object are linked together in a list.

vtable

0x003556D8 (3.15)

0x0034ECC0 (2.60)

offset 0x60 - pointer to TOC entry of system call handler

Member variables

offset 0x10 - pointer to next PThread object of Process

offset 0x18 - Thread object

offset 0x2B8 - ? (4 bytes)

offset 0x2C0 - pointer to TOC of some function

offset 0x2C8 - pointer to TOC of some function

offset 0x348 - some conter (4 bytes)

offset 0x3C0 - pointer to Process object that owns PThread object

offset 0x3F8 - signal pending mask (3 * 8 bytes = 192 signals)

offset 0x440 - ConditionVariable object

Signals

A PThread has it's own signal mask, independant of all other PThreads in the same process.

Methods

wait_for_my_turn(Pthread ptr, ?, sleep interruptible flag) = wakeup status - 0x00296FB0 (3.15)

Thread

get_current_thread

This function returns the pointer to current running thread.

0x0028B994 (3.15)

0x0028744C (2.60)

vtable

0x00355750 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x288 - some pointer

offset 0x290 - some pointer

AddressSpace

vtable

0x003549A0 (3.15)

0x0034DF88 (2.60)

Member variables

offset 0x8 - Mutex object

offset 0x40 - AddressProtectionDomain object

offset 0x50 - some pointer

offset 0xC0 - some counter (4 bytes)

AddressSpace_EA_to_RA

0x002874D0 (3.15)

AddressProtectionDomain

vtable

0x00354980 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x8 - pointer to previous AddressProtectionDomain object

offset 0x10 - pointer to next AddressProtectionDomain object

offset 0x18 - poiinter to pointer to SLB entries

offset 0x20 - pointer to AddressSpace object that owns this object

offset 0x34 - pointer to previous ProtectionPage

offset 0x3C - pointer to next ProtectionPage

offset 0x48 - Mutex object

ProtectionPage

vtable

none

Member variables

offset 0x0 - RA (8 bytes)

offset 0x8 - EA (4 bytes)

offset 0x10 - pointer to previous ProtectionPage (4 bytes)

offset 0x14 - pointer to next ProtectionPage (4 bytes)

Mutex

vtable

0x00354D08 (3.15)

0x0034E2F0 (2.60)

Member variables

offset 0x18 - ? (4 bytes)

offset 0x1C - ? (4 bytes)

ConditionVariable

vtable

0x003549C0 (3.15)

offset 0x20 - wait

Member variables

offset 0x20 - pointer to Mutex object

File interface

vtable

offset 0x8 - ?

offset 0x28 - open

offset 0x30 - close

offset 0x38 - read

offset 0x40 - write

offset 0x50 - mmap

offset 0x58 - ioctl

StorageRegionFile

Flash device file class.

vtable

0x003569F8 (3.15)

VUARTFile

VUART device file class.

vtable

0x00356458 (3.15)

STDLCFile

Console device file class.

vtable

0x003561F8 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x20 - reference counter (8 bytes)

offset 0x28 - free buffer space ? (8 bytes)

SocketFile

vtable

0x00355DB0 (3.15)

offset 0xB0 - bind

RegionManager

vtable

0x00355F80 (3.15)

Inode

DirectoryInode

vtable

0x00355788 (3.15)

offset 0x20 - link

offset 0x28 - unlink

get_root_inode

This function returns the pointer to the Inode object of the root directory.

0x0029C124 (3.15)

0x00297BB4 (2.60)

vtable

0x00334E50 (3.15)

offset 0x30 - lookup

File system

Console device file objects

Here is the list of console device file objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • console

vtable

0x003561F8 (3.15)

Flash device file objects

Here is the list of flash device file objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • /dev/eflash0
  • /dev/eflash1
  • /dev/rflash0
  • /dev/rflash1
  • /dev/rflash_1x
  • /dev/rflash_1xp

vtable

0x003569F8 (3.15)

IOIF device file objects

Here is the list of IOIF device file objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • /dev/ioif0

vtable

0x00356688 (3.15)

Member variables

0x360 = MMIO base address

SD detector device file objects

Here is the list of SD detector device file objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • /dev/sd_detector

vtable

0x00356B48 (3.15)

NET device file objects

Here is the list of NET device file objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • /dev/net0

vtable

0x00356DE8 (3.15)

INODES

INODE OBJECT

+0x04: previos inode

+0x08: next inodes

+ 0x38:  path

+ 0x358: childer_inode


MFS_ROOT_INODE

(2.60) 0x3580B0

+ 0x60 = ROOT_INODE


SOME ADDRESSES IN 2.60

0x60C010: "/dev" inode

0x6AA580: "/proc" inode

using linked list you can follow all inodes

Repository

  • Each LPAR has it's own node repository
  • Repository nodes are stored in a hash table which can have several sub-hash tables.

RepositoryNode

vtable

0x00357F58 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x30 - pointer to next RepositoryNode obj

offset 0x38 - 2nd hash value of name (4 bytes)

offset 0x40 - 1st field name (8 bytes)

offset 0x48 - 2nd field name (8 bytes)

offset 0x50 - 3rd field name (8 bytes)

offset 0x58 - 4th field name (8 bytes)

offset 0x60 - ? (4 bytes)

offset 0x68 - 1st field value (8 bytes)

offset 0x70 - 2nd field value (8 bytes)

Hash Function

  • The name of a repository node is hashed and 2 hash values (2 32bit values) are produced.
  • The 1st hash value is used to select a sub-hash table.
  • The 2nd hash value is used to find a sub-hash table bucket.
  • Repository nodes in a hash bucket are ordered by the 2nd hash value.
void hash(unsigned long long n1,
          unsigned long long n2,
          unsigned long long n3,
          unsigned long long n4,
          unsigned long *h1,
          unsigned long *h2)
{
    unsigned long long h;
    unsigned long hl;

    h = ((((n1 ^ n4) >> 32) ^ (n2 ^ n3)) ^ (((n2 ^ n3) >> 32) ^ (n1 ^ n4))) & ~0xC0000000ULL;

    *h1 = h & 0xFFFFFFFFULL;

    h = ((h & 0x55555555ULL) << 1) | ((h & 0xAAAAAAAAULL) >> 1);

    h = ((h & 0x33333333ULL) << 2) | ((h & 0xCCCCCCCCULL) >> 2);

    h = ((h & 0xF0F0F0FULL) << 4) | ((h & 0xF0F0F0F0ULL) >> 4);

    hl = (h << 8) | ((h & 0xFF000000ULL) >> 24);

    hl = (hl & ~0xFF000000UL) | ((h & 0xFFULL) << 24);

    hl = (hl & ~0x0000FF00UL) | (((h << 24) | (h >> 8)) & 0x0000FF00ULL);

    hl |= 0x1; 

    *h2 = hl;
}

Repository nodes from HV 3.15

Dump of all repository nodes from HV 3.15

Repository nodes from HV 3.41 dump made from GameOS

Dump of all repository nodes from HV 3.41 dump made from GameOS

Buses

SB bus

type - 4

index - 1

num_devices - 4 (repository node says this but there are more devices !!!)

Storage bus

type - 5

index - 4

num_devices - 4

SB bus subsystem

vtable

0x00352600 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x10 - MMIO memory base address

offset 0x20 - array of 16 pointers to SB devices (0 - Gelic device, 1 - USB device)

Objects

0x00349528 - pointer to pointer to SB bus subsystem object

Memory base address

0x24000000000

All SB bus device MMIO addresses are relative to this memory address.

SB device MMIO/DMA memory region

vtable

0x000x352308 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x18 - pointer to previous bus memory region object

offset 0x20 - pointer to next bus memory region object

offset 0x30 - relative bus memory start address

offset 0x38 - size of bus memory region

SB bus device

vtable

0x00352620 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x18 - array of pointers to MMIO memory region objects owned by device (8 * 8 bytes)

offset 0x60 - pointer to first DMA region object

offset 0x6C - device opened flag (1 byte, 0 - not opened, 1 - already opened)

offset 0x70 - id of LPAR that opened this device

offset 0x90 - pointer to an object that contains the address of interrupt handler for this device and SB bus interrupt index

Gelic device (Network Interface)

device id = 0

interrupt index = 8

MMIO regions

Index Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0 0x2800 0x24000002800 0x200
1 0x3004000 0x24003004000 0x1000
2 - - -
3 - - -
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0xA0000000 - 0x8000
0xC0000000 - 0x10000000

SATA Controller 1 device

device id = 1

interrupt index = 49

MMIO regions

Index Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0 0x2000 0x24000002000 0x200
1 0x3000000 0x24003000000 0x1000
2 0x3800000 0x24003800000 0x1000
3 0x3802000 0x24003802000 0x1000
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0xA0000000 - 0x1000
0xA0001000 - 0x1000
0xA0002000 - 0x1000

SATA Controller 2 device

device id = 2

interrupt index = 13

MMIO regions

Index Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0 0x2200 0x24000002200 0x200
1 0x3001000 0x24003001000 0x1000
2 0x3801000 0x24003801000 0x1000
3 0x3803000 0x24003803000 0x1000
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0xA0000000 - 0x1000
0xA0001000 - 0x1000
0xA0002000 - 0x1000

USB Controller 1 device

device id = 3

MMIO regions

Index Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0 0x2400 0x24000002400 0x200
1 0x3010000 0x24003010000 0x10000
2 0x3810000 0x24003810000 0x10000
3 - - -
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0xC0000000 - 0x10000000
0xD0000000 - 0x10000000

USB Controller 2 device

device id = 4

MMIO regions

Index Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0 0x2600 0x24000002600 0x200
1 0x3020000 0x24003020000 0x10000
2 0x3820000 0x24003820000 0x10000
3 - - -
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0xC0000000 - 0x10000000
0xD0000000 - 0x10000000

ENCDEC device

device id = 7

interrupt index = 5

MMIO regions

Index Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0 0x2C00 0x24000002C00 0x200
1 0x3005000 0x24003005000 0x1000
2 0x3006000 0x24003006000 0x1000
3 - - -
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 - - -

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0x80010000 - 0x10000
0x80004000 - 0x4000
0x80001000 - 0x1000
0x80003000 - 0x1000
0x80008000 - 0x1000
0x80009000 - 0x1000
0x80040000 - 0x10000
0x8000A000 - 0x1000
0x90020000 - 0x20000
0xC0000000 - 0x10000
0xC0040000 - 0x40000

FLASH Controller device (StarShip - SS)

device id = 9

interrupt index = 41

MMIO regions

FLASH controller doesn't have MMIO regions.

DMA regions

Relative Bus Start Address Absolute Bus Start Address Size
0x80000000 - 0x1000
0x80020000 - 0x20000
0x80002000 - 0x1000
0x90000000 - 0x20000

SB Bus Interrupt Handling

  • There is a table of interrupt handlers for SB devices
  • The size of table is 64
  • The main SB bus interrupt handler is at 0x002B9CC4 (3.15)
  • The main interrupt handler reads interrupt index and dispatches interrupts

Interrupt Index

  • The main SB bus interrupt handler reads 2 32-bit values from addresses 0x24000008100 and 0x0x24000008104
  • The interrupt index is calculated from these values

Interrupt Handler Table

Interrupt Description Address in HV
5 ENCDEC device 0x00275C60 (3.15)
6 EH EPCIC internal 0x0023B6B0 (3.15)
8 Gelic device 0x00245330 (3.15)
12 ATA interrupt handler 0x0026B984 (3.15)
13 ATA interrupt handler 0x0026B984 (3.15)
14 Spider SC 0x0020A68C (3.15)
29 SBERR 0x0023AA50 (3.15)
30 SBERR 0x0023AA50 (3.15)
41 EBUS (Flash StartShip) 0x002814EC (3.15)
49 ATA media interrupt handler 0x00268A8C (3.15)
50 Flash ? 0x00280B24 (3.15)
55 EH EPCIC SERR 0x0023B67C (3.15)

Storage bus subsystem

vtable

0x00353AC8 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xEE8 - table of pointers to storage device objects (7 * 8 bytes, max 7 devices)

Storage device class

Member variables

offset 0x8 - device id (8 bytes)

offset 0xD50 - device id (8 bytes)

offset 0xD60 - pointer to ENCDEC SB bus device object

Region Manager

  • Each storage device has a Region Manager (i call it like that)
  • Region Manager stores information about each Region of the storage device
  • All Regions of a Region Manager are linked together
  • Free Regions of a Region Manager are linked together also
  • A Region Manager can have at most 8 Regions

Region

  • Each storage device can have at most 8 regions (0-7)
  • Each region has ACL table
  • HV checks region ACLs before allowing access to the region
  • Each region has a start sector that is an offset from the physical first sector of the storage device and a number of sectors
  • The start sector passed to lv1 storage hvcalls is relative to the start sector of the region passed to the lv1 storage hvcall
Region ACL

offset 0x0 - LPAR AUTH ID (8 bytes)

offset 0x8 - access rigths (8 bytes)

offset 0x10 - entry valid flag: 0 - invalid, 1 - valid (1 byte)

Region Access Protection
  • Before a storage region is accessed, HV checks access rights of the caller.
  • Repository node ss.laid (LPAR authentication id) is evaluated for this purpose.
  • If LPAR has a repository node ios.ata.region0.access (value doesn't matter) then the access rights check never fails. After System Manager sets ATA keys it removes this repository node from LPAR 1. If we add this repository node again or patch System Manager so it's not removed then we will be able to access all storage regions of all storage devices.
  • ALL storage accesses from LPAR 1 are allowed
  • If (flags & 0x100000002) != 0 then access rights check is skipped !!!.
 I tested on HV 3.41 with flags 0x2 and got access to regions which were denied by policy (LV1_DENIED_BY_POLICY result).

Storage Device Partition Table

  • Each storage device has a Partition Table
  • Partition Table contains information about each region on the storage device

Methods

lv1_storage_create_region (lv1_undocumented_function_250) - 0x00301328 (3.15)

lv1_storage_delete_region (lv1_undocumented_function_251) - 0x003011E8 (3.15)

lv1_storage_set_region_acl (lv1_undocumented_function_252) - 0x00300F3C (3.15)

lv1_storage_get_region_acl (lv1_undocumented_function_253) - 0x00301090 (3.15)

storage_device_create_region - 0x00253988 (3.15)

storage_device_delete_region - 0x00253BE8 (3.15)

storage_device_region_set_acl - 0x00252C80 (3.15)

storage_device_region_get_acl - 0x00252710 (3.15)

storage_region_mgr_create_region - 0x0025A530 (3.15)

storage_region_mgr_delete_region - 0x0025BA64 (3.15)

storage_region_mgr_set_acl - 0x0025A140 (3.15)

storage_region_mgr_get_acl - 0x0025A298 (3.15)

storage_region_mgr_update_partition_table - 0x00259924 (3.15)

storage_region_acl_entry_reset - 0x0025C1A8 (3.15)

storage_region_acl_entry_check_laid - 0x0025C1FC (3.15)

storage_region_overlap - 0x0025C094 (3.15)

storage_region_check_access - 0x00259EC8 (3.15)

Storage subsystem device

device id = -1

  • The storage subsystem is a storage device itself.
  • It's a psuedo device used to notify a LPAR when storage devices become e.g. ready.
  • Linux implements a loop and reads from this device and process notifications (adds new devices dynamically).

Notification Events

List of supported notification events:

  • Notify Device Ready (0x1)
  • Notify Region Probe (0x2)
  • Notify Region Update (0x4)

RBD device

  • On Linux, ENCDEC and RBD devices are mapped to the storage device with device id 0.
  • On GameOS, ENCDEC device has device id 0 and RBD device has device id 2.

device id = 0

block size = 2048

/dev/rbd0

  • The RBD storage device uses ENCDEC device.

vtable

0x00354288 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x1808 - request table (0x58 * 32 bytes)

Regions

Index Start sector Number of sectors
0 0x0 0x7FFFFFFF
1 - -
2 - -
3 - -
4 - -
5 - -
6 - -
7 - -

Supported Device Commands

Here is the list of commands supported by RBD storage device.

  • The commands can be used with HV call lv1_storage_send_device_command.
  • However, before a command is executed HV does bit manipulation with it and checks it against the value of repository node ss.laid or also called LPAR authentication ID. If this test fails then the command is NOT executed.
Command Description
0x1 LV1_STORAGE_SEND_ATAPI_COMMAND
0x10 ATAPI Read Capacity
0x11 ATAPI Get Configuration
0x13 ATAPI Read TOC
0x1A ATAPI Get Event

/dev/rbd0

  • This LPAR 1 device accesses RBD storage device.
  • A write to this device sends a device command to RBD storage device.

ENCDEC Device

bus id = 4

device id = 0

  • ENCDEC device has a request table of size 32.

Member variables

offset 0xDC0 - request table (0x58 * 32 bytes)

Methods

encdec_device_initialize - 0x00273524 (3.15)

InitializeENCDEC - 0x00277310 (3.15)

ENCDEC_ConnectBusDriver - 0x00275A98 (3.15)

encdec_interrupt_handler - 0x00275C60 (3.15)

encdec_process_interrupt - 0x0027526C (3.15)

encdec_device_enqueue_decsec_request - 0x00273738 (3.15)

encdec_device_do_request - 0x00273EA8 (3.15)

encdec_device_do_SS_request - 0x00274940 (3.15)

Encdec_KickDMA - 0x00277118 (3.15)

encdec_device_is_in_testmode - 0x002756E0 (3.15)

is_encdec_in_testmode - 0x002732D0 (3.15)

ENCDEC Device Commands

  • EdecKgen1 command is used e.g. by Storage Manager Service 0x5003 to generate random numbers. Storage Manager performs this command through LPAR 1 device /dev/encdec0.
Command Description
0x81 EdecKgen1
0x82 EdecKgen2
0x83 EdecKset/EdecKset NG
0x84 EdecKgenFlash
0x85 Encrypts/decrypts sectors (This command cannot be executed through ioctl interface !!!)
0x86 Encdec decsec (This command cannot be executed through ioctl interface !!!)
0x87 EdecSBClear

EdecKgen1 Command (0x81)

  • First, ENCDEC device key generator is flashed by executing the operation which is also performed during EdecKgenFlash command.
  • 0x30 bytes of data are written to MMIO registers of ENCDEC device.
  • 0x40 bytes of data are read from MMIO registers of ENCDEC device.
  • The base address of MMIO registers used in this command is 0x24003006000.
  • I tested this command by directly communicating with ENCDEC device from GameOS by using HV call lv1_storage_send_device_command and it returns random data.

Here is the data i sent to ENCDEC device:

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   00 01 00 30 72 A7 88 EC  FC A4 06 71 4C B1 50 C9   ...0r§ˆìü¤.qL±PÉ
00000010   FB E0 06 C2 74 B5 84 C4  E6 BD 1E 55 4E 36 E9 C9   ûà.Âtµ„Äæ½.UN6éÉ
00000020   D6 09 BC B4 79 A6 BC DE  60 A5 B2 41 C7 15 68 68   Ö.¼´y¦¼Þ`¥²AÇ.hh
00000030   82 1D 8F D6 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ‚.Ö............

Here is the data i received back from ENCDEC device:

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   00 02 00 00 57 CF 06 AF  53 85 1B B8 49 37 06 28   ....WÏ.¯S….¸I7.(
00000010   51 8D 4E F9 EF 76 E2 C7  17 EF 41 14 FA 6C 96 A8   QNùïvâÇ.ïA.úl–¨
00000020   7E 41 43 96 15 9A 0D 71  A9 B6 A6 B0 F1 96 15 C5   ~AC–.š.q©¶¦°ñ–.Å
00000030   30 25 C3 8E 6F AC FB 7F  E7 2A FB E2 36 E1 85 92   0%ÃŽo¬û?ç*ûâ6á…’
00000040   99 66 DB EC 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ™fÛì............

Here is another data i received back from ENCDEC device by using the same command and data:

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   00 02 00 00 57 CF 06 AF  53 85 1B B8 49 37 06 28   ....WÏ.¯S….¸I7.(
00000010   51 8D 4E F9 EF 76 E2 C7  17 EF 41 14 FA 6C 96 A8   QNùïvâÇ.ïA.úl–¨
00000020   7E 41 43 96 17 08 75 F6  66 2F 32 5A 9E 3E E7 FD   ~AC–..uöf/2Zž>çý
00000030   16 3E 18 CA B2 5E 90 84  29 7F 98 BC 73 36 0E 7B   .>.ʲ^„)?˜¼s6.{
00000040   7D EC B6 37 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   }ì¶7............

EdecKgen2 Command (0x82)

  • The base address of MMIO registers used in this command is 0x24003006000.

EdecKset Command (0x83)

EdecKgenFlash Command (0x84)

  • The base address of MMIO registers used in this command is 0x24003006000.
  • The command reads 4 bytes from address 0x240030060A0, sets bit 1 to 1 (old value | 0x2) and writes the new value to the same address.

Encdec decsec Command (0x86)

  • This command is used to decrypt/encrypt sectors.
  • FLASH, HDD and RBD storage devices use this command to decrypt/encrypt sectors.
  • This command cannot be executed through lv1_storage_send_device_command HV call, it's used by HV only internally.

EdecSBClear Command (0x87)

  • The command expects arg2 to be 4 or else it returns with an error.
  • This command is used e.g. by Storage Manager service 0x5002 when ATA keys are deleted.

Test Mode

  • ENCDEC device has Test Mode
  • Some HV functions test it by reading a 4 byte value from address 0x24003005200. If this value is 0 then ENCDEC device is NOT in Test Mode.

ENCDEC Request

offset 0x34 - start sector (4 bytes)

offset 0x38 - sector count (4 bytes)

offset 0x3C - sector size (4 bytes)

offset 0x40 - key (4 bytes)

offset 0x44 - 0 = decrypt, 1 = encrypt (4 bytes)

Encrypting and Decrypting Sectors

  • HV passes to ENCDEC device addresses of 2 buffers: ENCDEC User Buffer and ENCDEC Descriptor Buffer.
  • ENCDEC User Buffer contains the following information: Start Sector, Sector Count, Sector Size and Key

ENCDEC User Buffer

offset 0x0 - start sector (4 bytes)

offset 0x4 - sector count (4 bytes)

offset 0x8 - sector size (4 bytes)

offset 0xC - key (4 bytes)

FLASH device

device id = 1

  • The FLASH device uses ENCDEC device.

vtable

0x00354450 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x18F0 - request table (0x58 * 16 bytes)

Regions

Index Start sector Number of sectors
0 0x0 0x8000
1 0x8 0x77F8
2 0x7900 0x100
3 0x7A00 0x400
4 - -
5 - -
6 - -
7 - -

Supported Device Commands

Here is the list of commands supported by FLASH StarShip 2 storage device.

  • The commands can be used with HV call lv1_storage_send_device_command.
  • However, before a command is executed HV does bit manipulation with it and checks it against the value of repository node ss.laid or also called LPAR authentication ID. If this test fails then the command is NOT executed.
Command Description
0x31 Dummy (This command does nothing, returns success immediately)
0xA2 -
0xA3 -
0xA4 -
0xA6 SS2 HW Reset
0xAC -
0xAD TEST

/dev/eflash1 and /dev/rflash1

  • These LPAR 1 devices access region 0 of FLASH storage device.
  • /dev/rflash1 is 16MB large
  • There is no file system on /dev/rflash1
  • There is some sort of TOC (Table Of Contents) stored in it. It contains file names, offsets and sizes.
  • On /dev/rflash1 you will find lv0, lv1ldr, lv2_lernel.self and all the other important SELFs.
  • The files are encryted of course.

Content of /dev/rflash1 (FLASH storage device region 0, size 16 MB)

  • There is a main TOC which describes different regions on /dev/rflash1
  • It seems that TOC 0xC0000 and TOC 0x7C0000 contain the same files but from different SDK versions.
  • TOC 0xC0000 is SDK version 3.41 and TOC 0x7C0000 is SDK version 3.30 (look at the content of files sdk_version).
  • I guess it's because when i bought my PS 3 Slim it had Firmware 3.30 and i updated it to 3.41 for PSGroove.
  • TOC on /dev/rflash1 is used by HV Processes to locate files and load them into memory, e.g. SPU modules. E.g. Process 6 loads spu_utoken_processor.self to decrypt and verify user tokens or SPL which runs in Process 5 loads spp_verifier.self from there in order to decrypt and verify profile files. And Update Manager stores e.g. there files.
TOC Entry

A TOC entry is 0x30 bytes large.

offset 0x0 - relative offset from this TOC to entry data

offset 0x8 - entry data size

offset 0x10 - entry name (max 32 characters)

Main TOC

Here is a list of regions/files stored on /dev/rflash1 i found in HV 3.41 and dumped with PSGroove:

Entry Name TOC Offset Entry TOC Index Entry Relative Offset Entry Absolute Offset Entry Size
asecure_loader 0x400 0 0x400 0x810 0x2E800
eEID 0x400 1 0x2EC00 0x2F010 0x10000
cISD 0x400 2 0x3EC00 0x3F010 0x800
cCSD 0x400 3 0x3F400 0x3F810 0x800
trvk_prg0 0x400 4 0x3FC00 0x40010 0x20000
trvk_prg1 0x400 5 0x5FC00 0x60010 0x20000
trvk_pkg0 0x400 6 0x7FC00 0x80010 0x20000
trvk_pkg1 0x400 7 0x9FC00 0xA0010 0x20000
ros0 0x400 8 0xBFC00 0xC0010 0x700000
ros1 0x400 9 0x7BFC00 0x7C0010 0x700000
cvtrm 0x400 10 0xEBFC00 0xEC0010 0x40000
asecure_loader Region TOC

Here is a list of files stored on /dev/rflash1 i found in HV 3.41 and dumped with PSGroove:

Entry Name TOC Offset Entry TOC Index Entry Relative Offset Entry Absolute Offset Entry Size
metldr 0x800 0 0x40 0x840 0xE920
ros1 Region TOC

Here is a list of files stored on /dev/rflash1 i found in HV 3.41 and dumped with PSGroove:

Entry Name TOC Offset Entry TOC Index Entry Relative Offset Entry Absolute Offset Entry Size
creserved_0 0xC0000 0 0x460 0xC0470 0x40000
sdk_version 0xC0000 1 0x40460 0x100470 0x8
lv1ldr 0xC0000 2 0x40480 0x100490 0x1E948
lv2ldr 0xC0000 3 0x5EE00 0x11EE10 0x16FF0
isoldr 0xC0000 4 0x75E00 0x135E10 0x13074
appldr 0xC0000 5 0x88E80 0x148E90 0x1E254
spu_pkg_rvk_verifier.self 0xC0000 6 0xA70D4 0x1670E4 0xFACC
spu_token_processor.self 0xC0000 7 0xB6BA0 0x176BB0 0x5C94
spu_utoken_processor.self 0xC0000 8 0xBC834 0x17C844 0x65D0
sc_iso.self 0xC0000 9 0xC2E04 0x182E14 0x1532C
aim_spu_module.self 0xC0000 10 0xD8130 0x198140 0x4498
spp_verifier.self 0xC0000 11 0xDC5C8 0x19C5D8 0xD7F0
mc_iso_spu_module.self 0xC0000 12 0xE9DB8 0x1A9DC8 0x808C
me_iso_spu_module.self 0xC0000 13 0xF1E44 0x1B1E54 0x88B8
sv_iso_spu_module.self 0xC0000 14 0xFA6FC 0x1BA70C 0xC078
sb_iso_spu_module.self 0xC0000 15 0x106774 0x1C6784 0x5DB0
default.spp 0xC0000 16 0x10C524 0x1CC534 0x22A0
lv1.self 0xC0000 17 0x10E800 0x1CE810 0x127DF0
lv0 0xC0000 18 0x236600 0x2F6610 0x3E678
lv2_kernel.self 0xC0000 19 0x274C78 0x334C88 0x171B88
eurus_fw.bin 0xC0000 20 0x3E6800 0x4A6810 0x70F94
emer_init.self 0xC0000 21 0x457794 0x5177A4 0x7CDB8
hdd_copy.self 0xC0000 22 0x4D454C 0x59455C 0x60D68
ros2 Region TOC

Here is a list of files stored on /dev/rflash1 i found in HV 3.41 and dumped with PSGroove:

Entry Name TOC Offset Entry TOC Index Entry Relative Offset Entry Absolute Offset Entry Size
creserved_0 0x7C0000 0 0x460 0x7C0470 0x40000
sdk_version 0x7C0000 1 0x40460 0x800470 0x8
lv1ldr 0x7C0000 2 0x40480 0x800490 0x1E64C
lv2ldr 0x7C0000 3 0x5EB00 0x81EB10 0x16E30
isoldr 0x7C0000 4 0x75980 0x835990 0x12EC4
appldr 0x7C0000 5 0x88880 0x848890 0x1DB64
spu_pkg_rvk_verifier.self 0x7C0000 6 0xA63E4 0x8663F4 0xFACC
spu_token_processor.self 0x7C0000 7 0xB5EB0 0x875EC0 0x5C94
spu_utoken_processor.self 0x7C0000 8 0xBBB44 0x87BB54 0x65D0
sc_iso.self 0x7C0000 9 0xC2114 0x882124 0x1532C
aim_spu_module.self 0x7C0000 10 0xD7440 0x897450 0x4498
spp_verifier.self 0x7C0000 11 0xDB8D8 0x89B8E8 0xD7F0
mc_iso_spu_module.self 0x7C0000 12 0xE90C8 0x8A90D8 0x808C
me_iso_spu_module.self 0x7C0000 13 0xF1154 0x8B1164 0x88B8
sv_iso_spu_module.self 0x7C0000 14 0xF9A0C 0x8B9A1C 0xC078
sb_iso_spu_module.self 0x7C0000 15 0x105A84 0x8C5A94 0x5DB0
default.spp 0x7C0000 16 0x10B834 0x8CB844 0x22A0
lv1.self 0x7C0000 17 0x10DB00 0x8CDB10 0x129040
lv0 0x7C0000 18 0x236B80 0x9F6B90 0x3E570
lv2_kernel.self 0x7C0000 19 0x2750F0 0xA35100 0x1712D0
eurus_fw.bin 0x7C0000 20 0x3E63C0 0xBA63D0 0x70F94
emer_init.self 0x7C0000 21 0x457354 0xC17364 0x7FBB8
hdd_copy.self 0x7C0000 22 0x4D6F0C 0xC96F1C 0x61518

Methods

initialize_starship - 0x0028298C (3.15)

SSOperation - 0x0027BFB0 (3.15)

SSTransfer - 0x0027BE68 (3.15)

FLASH_Memory_SS2_on_complete - 0x00278E48 (3.15)

_FLASH_read_data - 0x0022D89C (3.15)

_FLASH_write_data - 0x0022D8C8 (3.15)

FLASH_SS2_HW_Reset - 0x0027BD1C (3.15)

HDD device

device id = 2

block size = 512

  • The HDD device uses ENCDEC device.

vtable

0x00353F48 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x1590 - LBA48 capability flag (4 bytes)

offset 0x17E8 - request table (0x58 * 16 bytes)

offset 0x1DB8 - request timer active flag (1 byte)

Regions

Index Start sector Number of sectors
0 0x0 0x950F8B0
1 0x8 0x80000
2 0x80018 0x7C8F898
3 0x7D0F8B8 0x3FFFF8
4 0x810F8B8 0x13FFFF8
5 - -
6 - -
7 - -

Supported Device Commands

Here is the list of commands supported by HDD storage device.

  • The commands can be used with HV call lv1_storage_send_device_command.
  • However, before a command is executed HV does bit manipulation with it and checks it against the value of repository node ss.laid or also called LPAR authentication ID. If this test fails then the command is NOT executed.
Command Description
0x2 LV1_STORAGE_SEND_ATA_COMMAND
0x10 -
0x1B ATA Set UltraDMA Mode
0x1C ATA Set Features PIO Flow Control Transfer Mode
0x21 -
0x22 ATA Identify Device
0x23 LV1_STORAGE_ATA_HDDOUT (ATA Flush Cache Ext)
0x26 ATA Read Alternative Status
0x27 ATA Read Error
0x28 -
0x31 ATA Flush Cache/ATA Flush Cache Ext
0x32 ATA Stanby Immediate
0x33 -

Virtual FLASH device (VFLASH)

device id = 3 (on Linux)/ 4 (on GameOS)

block size = 512

  • It's a psuedo device.
  • This storage device redirects all requests to the region 1 of HDD storage device !!!

vtable

0x00353D88 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xD60 - pointer to a storage device that all requests are redirected to

offset 0xD68 - region ID of the storage device that all requests are redirected to

Regions

Index Start sector Number of sectors
0 0x0 0x80000
1 0x8 0x75F8
2 0x7800 0x63E00
3 0x6B600 0x8000
4 0x73600 0x400
5 0x73A00 0x2000
6 0x77C00 0x200
7 - -

/dev/rflash1_1x and /dev/rflash_1xp

  • These LPAR 1 devices access region 5 of UNKNOWN storage device.
  • In region 5 of UNKNOWN storage device is e.g. LINUX image stored.

GameOS's dev_flash

  • dev_flash has FAT16 file system.
  • Accesses to GameOS's dev_flash are routed to UNKNOWN storage device region 2
  • To decrypt sectors read from this region use as flags 0x4 !!! Without using flags 0x4 the sectors will be encrypted.
  • The sectors are decrypted not by GameOS but by ENCDEC device.

Here is a snippet from raw dev_flash dump made with HV call lv1_storage_read (flags 0x4) from GameOS:

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   E9 00 00 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 00 02 10 10 00   é..        .....
00000010   02 00 02 00 00 F8 70 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   .....øp.........
00000020   00 3E 06 00 00 00 29 00  00 00 00 4E 4F 20 4E 41   .>....)....NO NA
00000030   4D 45 20 20 20 20 46 41  54 31 36 20 20 20 00 00   ME    FAT16   ..
00000040   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000050   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000060   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000070   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000080   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000090   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000100   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000110   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000120   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000130   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000140   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000150   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000160   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000170   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000180   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000190   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA   ..............Uª


Methods

initialize_virtual_flash - 0x00282954 (3.15)

Enqueueing and Scheduling of Storage Requests

  • HV uses a simple FIFO scheduling algorithm for Storage Requests and a request timeout.
  • Each storage device has a table of size 16 to store incomming and pending Storage Requests
  • ENCDEC storage device has a table of size 32 to store incomming and pending Storage Requests
  • When a new Storage Request is submitted e.g. by HV call lv1_storage_read or lv1_storage_write, the table is scanned for a free slot, if there are no pending Storage Requests then the Storage Request is executed immediately
  • When a Storage Request is completed, the finished Storage Reuqest is passed to function storage_device_async_request_complete and the table of Storage Requests is scanned again for the next pending Storage Request which will be executed
  • There are 2 types of Storage Requests: Read/Write (1) and Device Command (2).
  • Read and Write Storage Requests use the same HV function of a Storage Device to enqueue the request. Before Write Storage Request is inserted into the Request Table of a Storage Device, the flags parameter passed e.g. in lv1_storage_read or lv1_storage_write is ored with 0x8. That is how HV differentiates between Read and Write Storage Requests.

Storage Device Request Table

  • Each request slot is of size 0x58

Request Slot

offset 0x0 - state: 1 - free, 2 - ? (4 bytes)

offset 0x4 - type: 1 - Read/Write, 2 - Command, 0x86 - ENCDEC command (4 bytes)

offset 0x10 - request tag (8 bytes)

offset 0x20 - start sector (8 bytes)

offset 0x28 - sector count (4 bytes)

ENCDEC Storage Device

  • Request Table begins at offset 0xDC0 of ENCDEC storage device.

RBD Storage Device

  • Request Table begins at offset 0x1808 of RBD storage device.

FLASH Storage Device

  • Request Table begins at offset 0x18F0 of FLASH storage device.

HDD Storage Device

  • Request Table begins at offset 0x17E8 of HDD storage device.

Methods

storage_device_HDD_enqueue_request - 0x0026E21C (3.15)

storage_device_HDD_do_device_command - 0x0026CED0 (3.15)

storage_device_HDD_do_request - 0x0026DED8 (3.15)

storage_device_HDD_request_complete - 0x0026E57C (3.15)

storage_device_FLASH_enqueue_request - 0x0027A518 (3.15)

storage_device_FLASH_do_request - 0x00278D1C (3.15)

storage_device_FLASH_do_device_command - 0x00279250 (3.15)

FLASH_Memory_SS2_on_complete - 0x00278E48 (3.15)

storage_device_async_request_complete - 0x00255184 (3.15)

storage_device_TransLparAddrToPhysAddr - 0x002533B4 (3.15)

storage_device_add_async_request_locked - 0x002527B8 (3.15)

storage_device_RBD_enqueue_request - 0x002723F0 (3.15)

storage_device_RBD_do_request - 0x0025EF70 (3.15)

storage_device_RBD_do_next_request - 0x00270994 (3.15)

storage_device_RBD_request_complete - 0x00271FD4 (3.15)

storage_device_rbd_do_request - 0x0025EE94 (3.41)

storage_device_rbd_do_device_command - 0x0027061C (3.41)

Encryption and Decryption of Storage Devices

HDD

  • ENCDEC peripheral device is used for HDD encryption/decryption
  • Write request is first passed to ENCDEC device for encryption. When ENCDEC device is done, it calls a callback and passes the encrypted data to the callback. The callback writes the encrypted data with ATA WriteDMAExt command to HDD.
  • When a storage device request is processed by HV, Storage Subsystem checks if cryptography is enabled for the storage device.
  • HV checks 1 byte of data owned by the storage device and when the value of this flag is not 0 then it uses encryption/decryption.
  • By setting this flag to 0 at runtime, encryption/decryption of storage devices can be disabled at runtime.
  • We could patch lv1.self so that encryption/decryption of storage devices is disabled permanently.
  • HDD sectors can be both decrypted and encrypted with HV calls

UFS2

  • Superblock starts at sector 0x80.
  • At the end of the superblock structure you will find UFS2 signature 0x19540119.

Here is the decrypted superblock of UFS2 filesystem:

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00010000   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 28 00 00 00 30   ...........(...0
00010010   00 00 00 38 00 00 0B B8  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ...8...¸........
00010020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 78 10 00 00 01 5C   ..........x....\
00010030   00 00 40 00 00 00 08 00  00 00 00 08 00 00 00 08   ..@.............
00010040   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  FF FF C0 00 FF FF F8 00   ........ÿÿÀ.ÿÿø.
00010050   00 00 00 0E 00 00 00 0B  00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00   ................
00010060   00 00 00 03 00 00 00 02  00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010070   00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00  00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00   ...........@....
00010080   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010090   00 00 00 00 F5 35 BD 07  00 00 00 00 00 00 18 00   ....õ5½.........
000100A0   00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ..@.............
000100B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 5C 00 00 01 6F 70   ..........\...op
000100C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000100D0   00 00 00 80 2F 63 65 6C  6C 5F 6D 77 5F 63 66 73   ...€/cell_mw_cfs
000100E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000100F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010100   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010110   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010120   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010130   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010140   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010150   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010160   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010170   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010180   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010190   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000101A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000101B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000101C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000101D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000101E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000101F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010200   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010210   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010220   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010230   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010240   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010250   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010260   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010270   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010280   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010290   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000102A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000102B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000102C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000102D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7C  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   .......|........
000102E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000102F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010300   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010310   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010320   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010330   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  80 00 00 00 00 55 FD 70   ........€....Uýp
00010340   80 00 00 00 00 55 E0 00  80 00 00 00 00 55 F8 00   €....Uà.€....Uø.
00010350   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00   ..............@.
00010360   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010370   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010380   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010390   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000103A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000103B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000103C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000103D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000103E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00   ................
000103F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C  00 00 00 00 00 3B D3 23   .......<.....;Ó#
00010400   00 00 00 00 00 7D 0F 82  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 9F   .....}.‚.......Ÿ
00010410   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010420   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010430   00 00 00 00 49 B0 5E 3B  00 00 00 00 01 F2 3E 26   ....I°^;.....ò>&
00010440   00 00 00 00 01 E2 86 3B  00 00 00 00 00 00 0B B8   .....â†;.......¸
00010450   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010460   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010470   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010480   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010490   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000104A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00   ..............@.
000104B0   00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ...@............
000104C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000104D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000104E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000104F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010500   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010510   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00010520   00 00 00 03 00 00 00 08  00 00 00 78 00 00 00 00   ...........x....
00010530   00 00 80 10 02 02 FF FF  00 00 00 00 00 00 3F FF   ..€...ÿÿ......?ÿ
00010540   00 00 00 00 00 00 07 FF  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   .......ÿ........
00010550   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 19 54 01 19   .............T..

FLASH

RBD

SATA/ATA/ATAPI

ATA Interrupt Handler

0x0026B984 (3.15)

ATA_SetDMA

0x00268ADC (3.15)

ATA_make_PRD_table

0x00267DB4 (3.15)

This function initializes a PRD (Physical Region Descriptor) table.

ClearPATACInterrupt

0x00267CAC (3.15)

EnablePATACInterrupt

0x00267D44 (3.15)

DisablePATACInterrupt

0x00267AF0 (3.15)

ATA_read_AltStatus_reg

0x00267C40 (3.15)

This function reads the ATA Alternate Status Register and returns it's value.

ATA_write_DATA_reg

0x00268A10 (3.15)

This function writes a 16-bit value to the ATA Data Register.

ATA_read_DATA_reg

0x0026887C (3.15)

ATA_write_DATA

0x0026635C (3.15)

This function writes several 16-bit values to the ATA Data register.

ATA_write_CMD_reg

0x002688A0 (3.15)

ATA_read_Error_reg

0x00267BD4 (3.15)

ATA_write_Features_reg

0x002689F0 (3.15)

ATA_write_DevCtrl_reg

0x00267BB4 (3.15)

ATA_write_TaskFile_regs

0x00266BC8 (3.15) 0x002665A0 (3.15)

ATA_send_ATAPI_cmd

0x002655F4 (3.15)

ATA_send_cmd

0x0026580C (3.15)

ATA_send_ReadSectors_cmd

This function uses LBA28.

0x0025D2B4 (3.15)

ATA_send_WriteSectors_cmd

This function uses LBA28.

0x0025CEF4 (3.15)

ATA_send_ReadDMA_cmd

This function uses LBA28.

0x0025D380 (3.15)

ATA_send_WriteDMA_cmd

This function uses LBA28.

0x0025CFB8 (3.15)

ATA_send_ReadDMAExt_cmd

This function uses LBA48.

0x0025D74C (3.15)

ATA_send_WriteDMAExt_cmd

This function uses LBA48.

0x0025D664 (3.15)

ATA_send_IdentifyDevice_cmd

0x0025D4D8 (3.15)

ATA_send_IdentifyPacketDevice_cmd

0x0025D448 (3.15)

ATA_send_FlushCache_cmd

0x0025D5E8 (3.15)

ATA_send_FlushCacheExt_cmd

0x0025D568 (3.15)

ATA_send_StandbyImmediate_cmd

0x0025D07C (3.15)

ATA_send_SetFeatures_cmd

0x0025D208 (3.15)

ATA_send_SMARTEnable_cmd

0x0025D0F8 (3.15)

ATA_send_SMARTSaveAttributeValue_cmd

0x0025D180 (3.15)

ATA_SetUDMAMode

0x00260EE8 (3.15)

Parameters

r5 - UltraDMA mode (0-5)

Booting a Bootloader from VFLASH

Coming soon !!!

High precision timers

These timers are used e.g. in SATA/ATA/ATAPI driver.

timer_add

0x002C3F2C (3.15)

timer_del

0x002C41AC (3.15)

timer_run_expired

This function is called from HDEC interrupt handler.

0x002C4020 (3.15)

timer_set_HDEC

0x002BCF80 (3.15)

SPE

There are 3 SPE classes.

The HV call lv1_construct_logical_spe can create LogicalSPE, SPEType1 and SPEType2 objects.

The syscall 0x10040 creates only SPEType1 objects.

The SPEType1 and SPEType2 objects cannot be created when isolation mode is disabled. The right most bit of repository node sys.lv1.iso_enbl is checked and when it's not 1 then the SPEType1 and SPEType2 objects cannot be created. In LPAR 1, this check succeedes always. Only in LPARs different from 1, the repository node sys.lv1.iso_enbl is checked.

LogicalSPE

SPE type = 0

Objects of this class are used e.g. on Linux.

vtable

0x00358360 (3.15)

offset 0x20 - pointer to TOC entry of interrupt handler for SPE

Member variables

offset 0x38 - pointer to LPAR obj that owns this SPE obj

offset 0x78 - table of pointers to Outlet objects (3 * 8 bytes, one for each Class 0-2)

offset 0xB0 - pointer to VAS object

offset 0xC8 - pointer to Logical PPE object

offset 0xE0 - SPE id

offset 0x1A0 - pointer to MMIO Memory Region object

offset 0x1A8 - pointer to Shadow Registers Memory Region object

Objects

Here is the list of logical SPE objects i found in HV 3.15:

  • 0x003A82E0 - SPE id 0
  • 0x003A8660 - SPE id 1
  • 0x003ABA00 - SPE id 2
  • 0x003B4010 - SPE id 3
  • 0x003B4D60 - SPE id 4
  • 0x003B5970 - SPE id 5

SPEType1

SPE type = 1

vtable

0x00359750

Member Variables

offset 0x198 - pointer to MMIO Memory Region object

offset 0x1A0 - pointer to Shadow Registers Memory Region object

SPEType2

SPE type = 2

vtable

0x00359790

SPE Register Shadow Area

  • HV createas a SPE Register Shadow Area for each contstructed SPE.
  • The area is 1 4Kb page of physical memory.
  • When SPE state changes then HV updates data in this area.
  • The value of shadow_addr that is returned by lv1_construct_logical_spe is a LPAR start address of this area and it cannot be accessed until it's mapped in the HTAB.
  • The SPE Register Shadow Area may be mapped only with read-only page protection or else HV call lv1_insert_htab_entry fails. I tested it with PSGroove and could map the whole memory range and read it after i constructed SPE of type 1 with lv1_construct_logical_spe.
  • The shadow_addr is also returned by syscall_10040 (that creates SPE of type 1) but it returns already mapped Process address so HV Processes do not have to map it in HTAB.
  • When an isoated SPU is done, HV Processes checks the value at offset 0x30 to determine if the SPU execution was successfull or not.
  • GameOS checks also the value at offset 0x30 in the SPE Shadow Area.
  • When GameOS creates SPE of type 1 then it maps only SPE Register Shadow Area into it's address space.

SPE Register Shadow Area Offsets

0x30 - SPU_Status register value (4 bytes)

0xF10 - ?

0xF18 - ?

Stop Code

  • The high-order 16 bit of SPU_Status register value is a Stop Code.

Here is the list of Stop Codes i extracted from HV Processes which read the value at offset 0x30 when SPU is done:

Value Description
0xA Success
0xC Access Violation (LPAR auth id error)
0xE  ?
0xF Revoked
0x12 Invalid Parameter
0x13  ?
0x17 Invalid Parameter
0x25  ?

SPU_send_MFC_cmd

0x002B09B0 (3.15)

This function programs a MFC.

SPU_write_MFC_cmd_status_reg

0x002AEE70 (3.15)

SPU_write_Sig_Notify1_reg

0x002AEF4C (3.15)

SPU_write_Sig_Notify2_reg

0x002AEF30 (3.15)

SPU_write_Sig_Notify1_and_Notify2

0x002B0A78 (3.15)

SPU_enable_iso_load_request

0x002AEDE0 (3.15)

SPU_iso_load_request

0x002AEED0 (3.15)

SPU_enable_runcntl

0x002AEB24 (3.15)

SPU_stop_request

0x002AEEF0 (3.15)

SPU_run_request

0x002AEF10 (3.15)

SPU_read_status_reg

0x002AE978 (3.15)

SPU_read_Mbox_Stat_reg

0x002AE998 (3.15)

lv1_undocumented_function_62

Updates SLB entry.

Parameters

%r3 - SPE id

%r4 - ? (valid values: 0 - 3)

%r5 - SLB entry index (valid values: 0 - 7)

%r6 - ESID

%r7 - VSID

spe_type1_interrupt_handler

0x0030E238 (3.15)

spe_type2_interrupt_handler

0x003103F8 (3.15)

spe_type3_interrupt_handler

0x002F36F4 (3.15)

Isolation

Loaders Table

  • All the binary files needed for isolation and decryption are already stored in HV memory !!!
  • They are probably loaded during HV initialization from FLASH.
  • The table has 9 entries.
  • Each entry is 16 bytes large.

0x00010100 (3.15)

Loaders Table Entry

offset 0x0 - pointer to data in memory

offset 0x8 - size of data

Here are the contents of the Loaders Table from HV 3.15:

Index Name Address of Data in HV Dump Size of Data
0 - 0x0C150000 0x1E5CC
1 metldr 0x00011000 0xE8D0
2 lv2ldr 0x00020000 0x16DA0
3 isoldr 0x00055000 0x12E44
4 appldr 0x00037000 0x1DAE4
5 EID0 0x00068000 0x860
6 - 0x00069010 0x8
7 - 0x00069020 0x50
8 - 0x00069070 0x8

Methods

get_iso_loaders_tab - 0x002B0B70 (3.15)

iso_loaders_tab_get_entry - 0x002B0CB8 (3.15)

metldr

Loading metldr

  • Physical/Virtual memory address of an isolation module that should be loaded by metldr is written into SPU register SPU_In_Mbox. The SPU register SPU_In_Mbox is 32bit, so 64bit memory address is written in 2 steps.
  • MFC relocation is turned off by clearing R-bit in SPU register MFC_SR1. By doing this, HV enables real address mode for MFC of SPU.
  • On GameOS, it also works with relocation on. You just have to initialize SLB of SPU and insert valid SLB entries.
  • Physical/Virtual memory address of metldr is written to SPU registers Sig_Notify1 and Sig_Notify2
  • Isolation load request is enabled by writing SPU register SPU_PrivCntl
  • Isolation load request is made by writing value 0x3 into SPU register SPU_RunCntl

Methods

SPE_load_request_metldr - 0x002B00A4 (3.15)

lv2ldr

  • lv2ldr is used to decrypt lv2_kernel.self
  • syscalls 0x10042 and 0x1004A use lv2ldr
  • syscall 0x10042 is used by HV Process 3 during LV2 LPAR construction
  • syscall 0x1004A uses different parameters as syscall 0x10042

Methods

SPE_load_request_lv2ldr_1 - 0x002AE82C (3.15)

SPE_load_request_lv2ldr_2 - 0x002AE8D8 (3.15)

Loading lv2ldr

  • 64 bit memory address of lv2ldr is written into 32 bit SPU register SPU_In_Mbox
  • metldr is loaded

isoldr

  • isoldr is used for executing isolated SPUs
  • syscall 0x10043 and HV call lv1_undocumented_function_209 use isoldr to execute isolated SPUs
  • EID0 data is transferred to Local Storage Address 0x3E400 by MFC
  • Revoke List For Program is transferred to Local Storage Address 0x3F000 by MFC

Revoke List For Programs

0x00361980 (3.15)

Methods

SPE_load_request_isoldr - 0x002B0394

Loading isoldr

  • 64 bit memory address of isoldr is written into 32 bit SPU register SPU_In_Mbox
  • metldr is loaded

appldr

  • appldr is used for decryption of SELFs
  • HV call lv1_authenticate_program_segment loads appldr

Methods

SPE_load_request_appldr - 0x002AE900

Loading appldr

  • 64 bit memory address of isoldr is written into 32 bit SPU register SPU_In_Mbox
  • metldr is loaded

Decrypting SELFs with appldr and lv1_authenticate_program_segment

  • lv1_authenticate_program_segment loads and prepares appldr for SELF decryption.
  • When appldr is ready to decrypt data, it sends a message via mailbox.
  • The address and the size of the encrypted data is passed to appldr via a shared memory.

Socket

The socket supports only one address family 0x1F, one socket type 0 and one protocol 0.

Socket address

Socket address is called port ID. Valid port IDs are 0-63. Port ID 0 is reserved.

Socket state

2 - LISTEN

Socket table

The socket table contains 64 entries, one for each port ID. Each entry is 16 bytes large.

The socket table is at 0x0035F6E8 (3.15).

Here is the list of opened sockets i found in HV 3.15:

  • 0x00091FE0 (port ID 0x23, accepts connections)
  • 0x00127850 (port ID 0x24, accepts connections)
  • 0x0012F810 (port ID 0x25, accepts connections)

Socket table entry

offset 0x0 - pointer to Socket obj

offset 0x8 - socket accepts connections or not (0 - does not accept, 1 - accepts, 1 byte)

vtable

0x00355DB0 (3.15)

offset 0xB0 - bind

offset 0xB8 - listen

offset 0xC8 - connect

Member variables

offset 0x360 - socket state (4 bytes)

offset 0x368 - port ID (8 bytes)

offset 0x370 - max backlog queue size (8 bytes)

Virtual Address Space

VAS

vtable

0x00357958 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x18 - pointer to LPAR that owns this VAS object

offset 0x48 - VAS id (8 bytes)

offset 0x70 - number of page sizes (4 bytes)

offset 0x74 - log2 of HTAB size

offset 0x78 - pointer to HTAB object

Objects

Here is the list of the VAS objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • 0x001C8050 (VAS id 2, LPAR 1)
  • 0x003B4910 (VAS id 3, LPAR 2)
  • 0x003BDB50 (VAS id 48, LPAR 2)

HTAB

0x38(-0x69A8(HSPRG0)) - pointer to the currently active HTAB in LPAR

vtable

0x003575B0 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x48 - pointer to first PTE

offset 0x60 - LPID (4 bytes)

offset 0x64 - log2 of HTAB size (4 bytes)

Objects

Here is the list of the HTAB objects i found in HV dump 3.15:

  • 0x001C8270 (VAS id 2, LPAR 1)
 * 0x00180000 - HTAB PTEs (HTAB size 256 kB)
  • 0x003A8050 (VAS id 3, LPAR 2)
 * 0x00500000 - HTAB PTEs (HTAB size 1 MB)
  • 0x003BC510 (VAS id 48, LPAR 2)
 * 0x00800000 - HTAB PTEs (HTAB size 1 MB)

LPAR_change_HTAB

This function changes currently active HTAB. It writes to SDR1 register where HTAB address and size is stored.

0x002BE5D4 (3.15)

Process SLB

Each HV process has 16 SLB entries.

Each SLB entry is 16 bytes large and is in format expected by opcode slbmte.

Most of the entries are zero (invalid).

Each process has 4 valid SLB entries: code, data, heap and stack.

Process 3

SLB entries

0x0012D1F0 (3.15)

Name ESID VSID
code 0x8 0x38
data 0xC 0x3C
heap 0xA 0x3A
stack 0xF 0x3F

Process 5

SLB entries

0x00093120 (3.15)

Name ESID VSID
code 0x8 0x48
data 0xC 0x4C
heap 0xA 0x4A
stack 0xF 0x4F

Process 6

SLB entries

0x000E6960 (3.15)

Name ESID VSID
code 0x8 0x58
data 0xC 0x5C
heap 0xA 0x5A
stack 0xF 0x5F

Process 9

SLB entries

0x00763E20 (3.15)

Name ESID VSID
code 0x8 0x8
data 0xC 0xC
heap 0xA 0xA
stack 0xF 0xF

VUART

VUART is a bi-directional communication link. A VUART object has a peer VUART object.

Data written to a VUART object is stored NOT in the data buffer of the VUART object but in the data buffer of the peer VUART object.

VUART table

Every LPAR has a VUART table. A VUART table has 256 entries. Each entry is a pointer to a VUART object that implements VUART interface.

0x00677218 (3.15) - address of VUART table of LPAR 1

Here is the list of all VUART objects in LPAR 1 i found in HV 3.15:

  • 0x006ABD90 - VUART 0
  • 0x006ABEB0 - VUART 1
  • 0x006A3CB0 - VUART 2
  • 0x006A3DD0 - VUART 3
  • 0x000A3410 - VUART 5
  • 0x000A3250 - VUART 6

VUART [0-3] are used by /dev/sc[0-3] respectively.

VUART [0-3] are linked to VUART objects of different type i could not yet identify. These unknown VUART objects use eieio opcode a lot. So i think, they communicate with hardware peripheral.

A write/read to/from /dev/sc[0-3] is a write/read to/from VUART.


0x00762AA8 (3.15) - address of VUART table of LPAR 2

Here is the list of all VUART objects in LPAR 2 i found in HV 3.15:

  • 0x00126660 - VUART 0
  • 0x000A3010 - VUART 2

VUART 0 and VUART 2 of LPAR 2 are created by Process 9 during LPAR construction.

VUART class

Member variables

offset 0x48 - pointer to peer VUART object

offset 0x58 - write pointer into data ring buffer

offset 0x60 - read pointer into data ring buffer

offset 0x68 - pointer to data ring buffer

offset 0x70 - size of data ring buffer (8 bytes)

offset 0x78 - size of data stored in data ring buffer currently (8 bytes)

offset 0x88 - tx trigger (8 bytes)

offset 0x90 - rx trigger (8 bytes)

offset 0x98 - interrupt mask (8 bytes)

offset 0xA8 - port number (4 bytes)

Methods

pmpi_read_virtual_uart(port, buf, size, nread) - 0x002EB30C (3.15)

pmpi_write_virtual_uart(port, buf, size, nwritten) - 0x002EB0EC (3.15)

VUART_read(pointer to VUART object, buf, size, nread) - 0x002E8654 (3.15)

VUART_write(pointer to VUART object, buf, size, nwritten) - 0x002E8428 (3.15)

Guest OS VUART 0 (AV Manager)

All data sent to VUART 0 in LPAR 2 is written into the data buffer of VUART 5 of LPAR 1.

VUART 5 of LPAR 1 is accessed by Process 9 in LPAR 1 through the file /proc/partitions/2/vuart/0.

  • Process 9 of LPAR 1 uses RSX syscalls to access RSX driver and memory mapped device access (/dev/ioif0).

Guest OS VUART 2 (System Manager)

All data sent to VUART 2 in LPAR 2 is written into the data buffer of VUART 6 of LPAR 1.

VUART 6 of LPAR 1 is accessed by Process 9 in LPAR 1 through the file /proc/partitions/2/vuart/2.

  • System manager supports 62 (0-61) service ids.
  • Process 9 has a SID table. SID table has 62 entries.
  • Each entry is a pointer to a function responsible for processing SID packets.

A/V Manager

  • A/V Manager is running in Process 9 of HV.
  • It communicates with Guest OS through /proc/partitions/0/vuart/0 file.
  • GameOS accesses A/V Manager through syscalls 367 - 370.
  • PS2 Soft EMU accesses A/V Manager also.

System Manager (SM)

  • System Manager (SM) is running in Process 9 of HV.
  • It communicates with Guest OS through /proc/partitions/2/vuart/2 file.
  • GameOS accesses SM through syscalls 372 - 415

System Manager class

Member variables

offset 0x10 - LPAR state (8 bytes)

offset 0x68 - LPAR auth id

offset 0x70 - LPAR name

offset 0x90 - LPAR image path

offset 0x1C0 - LPAR ability (8 bytes)

Types of System Manager

  • There are 6 different SM types
  • When Process 9 starts it reads profile file, by default DEFAULT.SPP, by sending requests to SPL (Secure Profile Loader) and constructs System Managers listed in this profile file.
  • So, the profile file controls which System Manager types are available later.
Name LPAR name
SCE_CELLOS_PME -
SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR PS3_LPAR
SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2 PS2_LPAR
SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2_SW PS2_SW_LPAR
SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2_GX PS2_GX_LPAR
SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_LINUX LINUX_LPAR

Ability Bitmask

Index Name Ability Bitmask (Hex) Ability Bitmask (Binary)
0 SCE_CELLOS_PME 0x1 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001
1 SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR 0x3BF7EF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 1011 1111 0111 1110 1111
2 SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2_SW 0x1226D 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0010 0010 0110 1101
3 SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_LINUX 0x40012 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 0000 0001 0010
Bit Position (from right) SID Description
1 5 (SET_NEXT_OP) Shutdown or Reboot LPAR
2 5 (SET_NEXT_OP) Boot PS3 LPAR
3 5 (SET_NEXT_OP) Boot PS2_SW LPAR
4 5 (SET_NEXT_OP) Boot LINUX LPAR
5 12 (CONTROL_LED) Control LED
6 21 (RING_BUZZER) Ring Buzzer
7 19 (SET_CONFIG) Set Config
10 26 (REQUEST_ERROR_LOG) Request Error Log
10 28 (REQUEST_BE_COUNT) Request BE Count
10 32 (REQUEST_SYSTEM_EVENT_LOG) Request System Event Log
12 30 (REQUEST_SC_VERSION) Request SC Version
14 39 (SET_SHOP_DEMO_MODE) Set Shop Demo Mode

Service ID (SID)

SM supports 62 (0-61) SIDs.

The value of SM member variable ability controls which SIDs may be used by LPAR.

SID Name Description
0 - -
1 REQUEST -
2 RESPONSE -
3 COMMAND -
4 EXTERN_EVENT -
5 SET_NEXT_OP -
6 - -
7 - -
8 SET_ATTR -
9 GET_INTER_LPAR_PARAM -
10 SET_INTER_LPAR_PARAM -
11 - -
12 CONTROL_LED -
13 TEMPERATURE -
14 - -
15 - -
16 - -
17 - -
18 - -
19 SET_CONFIG -
20 - -
21 RING_BUZZER -
22 - -
23 - -
24 - -
25 FAN_POLICY -
26 REQUEST_ERROR_LOG -
27 - -
28 REQUEST_BE_COUNT -
29 - -
30 REQUEST_SC_VERSION -
31 - -
32 REQUEST_SYSTEM_EVENT_LOG -
33 - -
34 RTC_ALARM -
35 - -
36 RTC_ALARM -
37 - -
38 RTC_ALARM -
39 SET_SHOP_DEMO_MODE -
40 BOOT_PARAMETER -
41 - -
42 BOOT_PARAMETER -
43 - -
44 FACTORY_PROCESS_COMP -
45 - -
46 FACTORY_PROCESS_COMP -
47 - -
48 FACTORY_PROCESS_COMP -
49 - -
50 FAN_POLICY -
51 - -
52 - -
53 - -
54 - -
55 - -
56 - -
57 - -
58 - -
59 - -
60 - -
61 - -

12 - CONTROL_LED

  • I have tested this service with PSGroove and GameOS is allowed to use it.
  • GameOS syscall 386 uses this service.

Packet Body

struct sysmgr_ctrl_led
{
    u8 field0;
    u8 field1;
    u8 field2;
    u8 res1;
    u8 field4;
    u8 field5;
    u8 res2[10];
};

Parameters

I have tested the following parameters with this service:

field0 field1 field2 field4 field5 Description
0x1 0x0 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF Turns off the power button LED
0x1 0x1 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF Turns on the power button LED

21 - RING_BUZZER

  • I have tested this service with PSGroove and GameOS is allowed to use it

Packet Body

struct sysmgr_ring_buzzer
{
    u8 res1;
    u8 field1;
    u8 field2;
    u8 res2;
    u32 field4;
};

Parameters

I have tested the following parameters with this service:

field1 field2 field4 Description
0x29 0x4 0x6 Makes a short single beep
0x29 0xA 0x1B6 Makes a double beep
0x29 0x7 0x36 -
0x29 0xA 0xFFF Makes a continuous beep

Active System Managers in HV dump 3.15

There are 4 active SMs in HV dump.

Index Name LPAR auth id LPAR image pathname Ability Bitmask (Hex)
0 SCE_CELLOS_PME 0x1070000001000001 /flh/os/this_is_dummy 0x1
1 SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR 0x1070000002000001 /flh/os/lv2_kernel.self 0x3BF7EF
2 SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2_SW 0x1020000003000001 /local_sys0/ps2emu/ps2_softemu.self 0x1226D
3 SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_LINUX 0x1080000004000001 /flh/lx/linux 0x40012
  • GameOS file image lv2_kernel.self is stored on /dev/rflash1
  • Linux file image is stored on /dev/rflash_1x or /dev/rflash_1xp

Booting Linux LPAR through System Manager

To boot Linux LPAR from GameOS when Linux support was not removed (Ability Mask of PS3 System Manager needs patching !!!):

  • Send SID packet SET_NEXT_OP with operation OP_LPAR_REBOOT and the index of Linux system manager to System Manager (VUART 2)
  • Send SID packet REQUEST with type SHUTDOWN to System Manager (VUART 2)
  • Execute lv1_panic HV call in GameOS

It should also work when Linux support was removed but Linux system manager was not removed from Process 9 and also assumed that a Linux kernel image is stored at the right place in /dev/rflash_1x.

It's just a theory, nothing else, that i gathered during HV reversing. It needs a practical proof. Unfortunately, i don't have access to Hypervisor.

Booting modified and reencrypted lv2_kernel.self

  • The System Manager of GameOS sends the path to lv2_kernel.self to SLL (Secure LPAR Loader) and SLL loads it from FLASH device file /dev/rflash1
  • I stored a new lv2_kernel.self on FLASH directly by writing FLASH from GameOS. It't risky but if you know what you are doing then it's safe. I warned you guys. You could brick your PS3.
  • Then i added a new TOC entry to FLASH device which points to the new lv2_kernel.self
  • I patched the path to lv2_kernel.self in the System Manager of GameOS so it points to my new GameOS kernel (You need HV rights to do it)
  • Then i rebooted GameOS without rebooting HV, so the patched file path should not change
  • This method has the advantage that when the new lv2_kernel.self won't work you can just reboot HV and it will load the original lv2_kernel.self again
  • lv2_kernel.self can be also loaded from GameOS dev_flash. For that, you have to change the path to lv2_kernel.self in default.spp from /flh/os/lv2_kernel.self to /local_sys0/lv2_kernel.self and store lv2_kernel.self on dev_flash.

AV Manager

All data sent to VUART 0 in LPAR 2 is written into the data buffer of VUART 5 of LPAR 1.

VUART 5 of LPAR 1 is accessed by Process 9 in LPAR 1 through the file /proc/partitions/2/vuart/0.

  • During initialization, AV Manager opens /dev/ioif0 device and maps different address ranges of the device into address space of Process 9
  • /dev/ioif0 is NOT opened and mapped if the value of repository node lv1.rsx.enable is less than 1
  • /dev/ioif0 is mapped with READ/WRITE protection
  • File descriptor of /dev/ioif0 in Process 9 is 4
  • AV Manager supports a lot more commands than used on Linux
  • Every command is implemented by a class

Mapped Address Ranges From /dev/ioif0

The base address of /dev/ioif0 is 0x28000000000. The device supports only mmap system call, it cannot be read or written. It also doesn't support ioctl.

Index Absolute Address Range Size Mapped Address in Process 9 Address Space
0 0x28000000000 - 0x28000002000 0x2000 0xA0019000
1 0x28001800000 - 0x28001801000 0x1000 0xA0004000
2 0x28000600000 - 0x28000604000 0x4000 0xA001A000
3 0x28000680000 - 0x28000684000 0x4000 0xA0006000
4 0x28000080000 - 0x28000088000 0x8000 0xA000A000
5 0x28000088000 - 0x28000089000 0x1000 0xA000E000
6 0x2800000C000 - 0x2800000D000 0x1000 0xA0016000
7 0x2800008A000 - 0x2800008B000 0x1000 0xA0017000
8 0x2800008C000 - 0x2800008D000 0x1000 0xA0018000

Process socket services

Function ID and Packet ID

  • Processes 3, 5 and 6 provide services (functions) to other Processes through sockets (something like RPC).
  • A service is identified by a function ID.
  • Each process has a hash table which maps a function ID to socket port ID.
  • Services (functions) can be further differentiated by a packet ID.
  • To request a service, a Process sends a packet with specified function and packet ID to the Process that provides the service.
  • A process that provides a service (function) has a table of objects which handle different packet IDs.
  • Services are synchronous, a client sends a request and waits for a response.
  • If a Process requests a service that is located in the same Process then the service is called directly and sockets are not used !!! (e.g. SLL requests from DM creating VUART port during GameOS loading, SLL and DM are in the same Process, so SLL calls DM directly)

Port ID - Process ID mapping

Port ID Process ID
0x23 6
0x24 5
0x25 3

Function ID - Port ID mapping

Function ID Port ID Supported Packet IDs Function Description
0x2000 0x23 0x2001 - 0x2017 Virtual TRM Manager
0x3000 0x24 0x3001 - 0x3003 Secure RTC
0x5000 0x23 0x5001 - 0x500A Storage Manager
0x6000 0x23 0x6001 - 0x6011 Update Manager
0x9000 0x24 0x9001 - 0x9016 SC Manager
0x10000 0x23 - -
0x11000 0x25 0x11001 - 0x11002 SPM (Security Policy Manager)
0x14000 0x25 0x14004 - 0x14005 SLL (Secure LPAR Loader)
0x15000 0x24 0x15001, 0x15003, 0x15009 SPL (Secure Profile Loader)
0x17000 0x24 0x17001 - 0x17017 Indi Info Manager
0x18000 0x25 0x18001, 0x18002, 0x18004 Dispatcher Manager
0x19000 0x24 0x19002 - 0x19005 AIM
0x24000 0x23 0x24001 - 0x24002 USB Dongle Authenticator
0x25000 0x23 0x25001 - 0x25002 User Token Manager

SS Packet

  • SS means Secure Service ?
  • Processes send SS Packets to request a service or to reply to a service request.

Member variables

offset 0x8 - packet ID (8 bytes)

offset 0x10 - function ID (8 bytes)

offset 0x18 - return value (4 bytes)

offset 0x20 - subject ID (2 * 8 bytes)

Header

  • All services use a common header.
  • The header of a SS Packet is 0x28 bytes large.
struct ss_header
{
    uint64_t packet_id;
    uint64_t function_id;
    uint32_t retval;
    uint8_t res[4];
    uint64_t laid;             /* LPAR authority id */
    uint64_t paid;             /* Program authority id */
}

SS Service Return Values

Error Code Description
0x00000000 Success
0x00000005 Access Violation
0x00000006 No Entry ?
0x00000009 Invalid Parameter
0x0000000F  ?

Body

  • The body of a SS Packet follows after the header.
  • The size of the body depends on a used service.

0x2000 - Virtual TRM Manager

Packet ID Description
0x2001 Init
0x2002 Status
0x2003 Store
0x2004 Store
0x2005 Retrieve
0x2006 Free
0x200A Encrypt
0x200B Decrypt
0x200C Encrypt With Portability
0x200D Decrypt With Portability
0x200E Decrypt Master
0x2012 Backup Flash
0x2013 Restore Flash
0x2014 Backup SRK SRH
0x2015 Restore SRK SRH
0x2016 Flash Address Size
0x2017 Force Restart

0x200E - Decrypt Master

  • This service is e.g. used in Process 6 by USB Dongle Authenticator to decrypt USB Dongle Master Key
  • GameOS uses this service e.g. in syscall SYS_SS_AD_SIGN
  • syscall 862 uses Virtual TRM Manager services.

0x3000 - Secure RTC

Packet ID Description
0x3001 Set RTC
0x3002 Get Time
0x3003 Set Time
  • Secure RTC reads LAIDs and PAIDs that are allowed to access Secure RTC service from DEFAULT.SPP segment SCE_CELLOS_SS_SECURE_RTC.

0x3001 - Set RTC

  • This service uses SC Manager Set RTC (0x9008) service.

0x3002 - Get Time

  • This service uses SC Manager Get Time (0x9009) service.

0x3003 - Set Time

  • This service uses SC Manager Set Time (0x900A) service.

0x5000 - Storage Manager

Packet ID Description
0x5001 Set Encdec Key
0x5002 Set/Delete ATA (Encdec) Key
0x5003 Get Random Number
0x5004 Authenticate BD Drive
0x5005 Authenticate PS2 Disc
0x5006 Get Secure Firmware Version
0x5007 HW disc auth emu
0x5008 HW mc
0x5009 HW me auth header
0x500A HW me dec block
  • Storage Manager service is used e.g. by syscall 864 and syscall SYS_SS_MEDIA_ID
  • GameOS's VSH uses syscall 864
  • Storage Manager executes SPU module sb_iso_spu_module.self
  • Storage Manager communicates with devices /dev/encdec0 and /dev/rbd0 from LPAR 1
  • 2nd value from repository node bus1.id is used by Storage Manager
  • Storage Manager communicates with sb_iso_spu_module.self through a shared DMA memory buffer and SPU MBox
  • EID4 data is passed to sb_iso_spu_module.self module.

SB Isolation DMA Buffer Header

struct sb_iso_header
{
    u32 seqno;
    u32 mbmsg;
    u32 cmd;
    u32 cmd_size;
    u8 cmd_data[0];
}

0x5002 - Set/Delete ATA (Encdec) Key

  • Sets/Deletes ATA (Encdec) Key
  • The service has only one parameter of size 8 bytes: 0x100 - Set ATA Key and 0x110 - Delete ATA Key.
  • This service is used e.g. by System Manager in HV Process 9 during LPAR booting.
  • SPM doesn't allow GameOS to use this service.
  • 3 possible key lengths: 0x40, 0x80 and 0xC0
  • This service communicates with /dev/encdec0 device.
  • The service uses ENCDEC device commands EdecKgen1 (0x81), EdecKgen2 (0x82), EdecKset (0x83) and EdecKgenFlash (0x84).
  • This service communicates also with /dev/rbd0 device.
  • I guess that the ATA key is stored encrypted in EID4 data.
  • This service is used by LPAR Manager in HV Process 9 during LPAR 2 loading.
  • I tested this service on Linux with ps3dm-utils and after deleting ATA key the sectors on VFLASH or HDD were NOT decrypted by HV
  • After setting ATA key again, the sectors were encrypted/decrypted by HV again

Service Parameter Table

Service Parameter Description
0x100, 0x101 Set ATA Key
0x110, 0x111 Delete ATA Key

0x5003 - Get Random Number

  • I have got access to Get Random Number service through DM and tested it with PSGroove
  • The service returns 192-bit random numbers
  • It has no input parameters except those in SS packet header
  • Storage Manager communicates with device /dev/encdec0.
  • This service is used e.g. by USB Dongle Authenticator to generate the body of a challenge or by GameOS to generate hardware random numbers.

0x5004 - Authenticate BD Drive

  • Used by LPAR Manager in HV Process 9 during LPAR 2 loading and unloading.
  • Used by SLL Load GOS service (0x14004) in HV Process 3 during PS2EMU loading and by SLL Unload GOS service (0x14005) during PS2EMU unloading.
  • The service expects one additional parameter.
  • The service is used during loading of LPAR 2 to authenticate BD drive and during unloading LPAR 2 to reset BD drive.
  • The service uses isolated SPU module sv_iso_spu_module.self for BD drive authentication.
  • The service communicates with LPAR 1 device /dev/rbd0 through ATAPI interface.

Service Parameter Table

Service Parameter Description
0x02 Used by SLL service 0x14004 during PS2EMU loading
0x1E Used by SLL service 0x14005 during PS2EMU unloading
0x29 Reset BD Drive
0x46 Authenticate BD Drive

0x5007 - Control BD Drive

  • Used by GameOS to authenticate discs and for BD emulation.

Service Parameter Table

Service Parameter Description
0x41 -
0x46 -
0x51 -
0x52 -
0x53 -
0xA3 BD emu
0xA5 BD emu
0xA7 BD emu
0xAA BD emu

0x6000 - Update Manager

Packet ID Description
0x6001 Update Package Tophalf
0x6002 Inspect Package Tophalf
0x6003 Get Package Info
0x6004 Get Fix Instruction
0x6005 Extract Package Tophalf
0x6006 Get Extract Package
0x6009 Get Token Seed
0x600A Set Token
0x600B Read EPROM
0x600C Write EPROM
0x6010 Check Integrity
0x6011 Get Applicable Version
  • Update Manager service is accessed by GameOS syscall 863

0x6001 - Update Package Tophalf

  • The result of the request can be checked by reading the value of repository node ss.update.request.<Request ID> periodically

0x6002 - Inspect Package Tophalf

  • I have got access to this service through DM and tested it with PSGroove
  • This service can tell you if a package can be installed or not, the service just checks a package but does not install it
  • Packages can be updated without GameOS !!! I'm using only HV calls and communicate directly with Dispatcher Manager and Update Manager
  • I just sent a whole SCE package to GameOS through network, created a LPAR memory region and stored the file there
  • It expects a SCE package that can be easily extracted from PUP file
  • The data of SCE package can be passed either in SS packet itself or through LPAR memory of requester
  • When the data of SCE package is too large for SS packet (SS packets are sent through DM, GameOS and DM communicate through VUART that has only 0x800 bytes buffer) then the data of SCE package has to be passed through GameOS LPAR memory. The requester sends a vector of LPAR memory addresses where the data of SCE package is stored and Update Manager maps it into the address space of Process 6
  • E.g. Revoke List packages can be sent in SS packets because they are small (about 0x200 bytes). All other packages are too big to sent them in SS packets
  • The service is actually split into 2 halfs: Top-Half and Bottom-Half
  • The Top-Half is executed synchronously with service request and it sends a reply to the requester
  • In the reply sent by Top-Half a Request ID (8 bytes) is returned to the requester
  • Request ID is calculated by using SHA-1
  • After the Top-Half is done, a reply is sent to the requester but the service just checked some input parameter upto now and the passed SCE package was not really checked yet
  • The Bottom-Half is called asynchronously to the request, it does the real job, it checks the passed SCE package.
  • The result of the request can be checked by reading the value of repository node ss.inspect.request.<Request ID> periodically
  • I successfully tested this service with RL_FOR_PROGRAM.img from 3.50 PUP file and the service returned Success, so theoretically i could install this package on my PS3. But of course i want to downgrade and NOT to upgrade.

Inspect Package Tophalf Return Values

Error Code Description
0x00000000 Success
0x00000013 Same Version/Older Version
0x00000014 -

0x6003 - Get Package Info

  • I have got access to this service through DM and tested it with PSGroove
  • The service expects one additional parameter: package type (valid values are 1-9)
  • The service returns the version (8 bytes) of a package type installed

Here are the versions of packages installed on my PS3:

Package Type Returned Version Description Package Name in PUP File
1 0x0003004100000000 Core OS Package CORE_OS_PACKAGE.pkg
2 0x0003004100000000 Revoke List Package for Program RL_FOR_PROGRAM.img
3 0x0002003000000000 Revoke List Package for Package RL_FOR_PACKAGE.img
4 0xDEADBEAFFACEBABE - -
5 0xDEADBEAFFACEBABE - -
6 0x0003004000000000 BD Firmware Package BDIT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE.pkg, BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_*.pkg
7 Invalid Parameter Bluetooth Firmware, dev_flash tarballs BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.pkg, dev_flash, dev_flash3
8 Invalid Parameter - -
9 Invalid Parameter SC Firmware Package SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_*.pkg

Decrypting and Extracting Packages with spu_pkg_rvk_verifier.self

  • I have managed to decrypt and extract Revoke List Packages 3.41 and 3.50 by using SPE HV calls and spu_pkg_rvk_verifier.self
  • Important: Parameters to SPU module shuold be aligned, i used cache line alignment, don't know exactly alignment requerements. Or else some very strange things could happen. E.g SYSCON firmware was only partially decrypted when i used no cache line alignment.
  • I have also managed to decrypt and extract Core OS Packages 1.10, 1.18 Debug, 2.40, 2.80, 3.15, 3.41 and 3.50 by using SPE HV calls and spu_pkg_rvk_verifier.self but it's compressed with zlib.Update Manager in Process 6 from 3.15 uses zlib 1.2.3 inflate to decompress it after it was decrypted and then it stores the data to flash memory.
  • I decompressed the decrypted Core OS Packages with zlib.
  • I am able now to decrypt and decompress all Core OS Packages
  • The decrypted and decompressed package CORE_OS_PACKAGE.pkg looks exactly like it's stored on flash.
  • I also decrypted BD Firmwares BDIT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE.pkg and BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE.pkg successfully. The firmware is not compressed.
  • I also decrypted Bluetooth Firmware BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.pkg successfully. The firmware is encrypted and compressed.
  • I also managed to decrypt System Controller Firmware SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01050101.pkg from 3.41.
  • Core OS Package 3.50 contains a new isolated SPU module that is not contained in older versions. The SPU module is manu_info_spu_module.self.
  • Here links to PS3 Firmwares: [1] and [2]
RL_FOR_PROGRAM.img 3.41
Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000200   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 41 00 00 00 00   ...........A....
00000210   00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000220   00 00 00 03 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 41 00 00 00 00   ...........A....
00000230   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   ........ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
00000240   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 41 00 00 00 00   ...........A....
00000250   10 70 00 05 FF 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..ÿ...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
00000260   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 41 00 00 00 00   ...........A....
00000270   10 70 00 05 FE 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..þ...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
00000280   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 41 00 00 00 00   ...........A....
00000290   10 70 00 05 FD 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..ý...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
000002A0   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 41 00 00 00 00   ...........A....
000002B0   10 70 00 05 FC 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..ü...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
000002C0   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 03  00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000002D0   10 70 00 04 00 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p......ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
RL_FOR_PROGRAM.img 3.50
Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000200   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00   ...........P....
00000210   00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000220   00 00 00 03 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00   ...........P....
00000230   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   ........ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
00000240   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00   ...........P....
00000250   10 70 00 05 FF 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..ÿ...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
00000260   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00   ...........P....
00000270   10 70 00 05 FE 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..þ...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
00000280   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00   ...........P....
00000290   10 70 00 05 FD 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..ý...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
000002A0   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00   ...........P....
000002B0   10 70 00 05 FC 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p..ü...ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
000002C0   00 00 00 04 00 00 00 03  00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000002D0   10 70 00 04 00 00 00 01  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF   .p......ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
RL_FOR_PACKAGE.img 3.41
Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000200   00 00 00 03 00 00 00 02  00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000210   00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000220   00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02   ................
00000230   00 00 00 08 00 05 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
RL_FOR_PACKAGE.img 3.50
Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000200   00 00 00 03 00 00 00 02  00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000210   00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000220   00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02   ................
00000230   00 00 00 08 00 05 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
CORE_OS_PACKAGE.pkg 3.15

Here is a piece of data from decrypted and decompressed package.

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   00 00 00 01 00 00 00 17  00 00 00 00 00 6F FF E0   .............oÿà
00000010   00 00 00 00 00 00 04 60  00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00   .......`........
00000020   63 72 65 73 65 72 76 65  64 5F 30 00 00 00 00 00   creserved_0.....
00000030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000040   00 00 00 00 00 04 04 60  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08   .......`........
00000050   73 64 6B 5F 76 65 72 73  69 6F 6E 00 00 00 00 00   sdk_version.....
00000060   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000070   00 00 00 00 00 04 04 80  00 00 00 00 00 01 E5 CC   .......€......åÌ
00000080   6C 76 31 6C 64 72 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   lv1ldr..........
00000090   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000A0   00 00 00 00 00 05 EA 80  00 00 00 00 00 01 6D A0   ......ê€......m 
000000B0   6C 76 32 6C 64 72 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   lv2ldr..........
000000C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000D0   00 00 00 00 00 07 58 80  00 00 00 00 00 01 2E 44   ......X€.......D
000000E0   69 73 6F 6C 64 72 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   isoldr..........
000000F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000100   00 00 00 00 00 08 87 00  00 00 00 00 00 01 DA E4   ......‡.......Úä
00000110   61 70 70 6C 64 72 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   appldr..........
00000120   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000130   00 00 00 00 00 0A 61 E4  00 00 00 00 00 00 FA CC   ......aä......úÌ
00000140   73 70 75 5F 70 6B 67 5F  72 76 6B 5F 76 65 72 69   spu_pkg_rvk_veri
00000150   66 69 65 72 2E 73 65 6C  66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   fier.self.......
00000160   00 00 00 00 00 0B 5C B0  00 00 00 00 00 00 5C 94   ......\°......\”
00000170   73 70 75 5F 74 6F 6B 65  6E 5F 70 72 6F 63 65 73   spu_token_proces
00000180   73 6F 72 2E 73 65 6C 66  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   sor.self........
00000190   00 00 00 00 00 0B B9 44  00 00 00 00 00 00 65 D0   ......¹D......eÐ
000001A0   73 70 75 5F 75 74 6F 6B  65 6E 5F 70 72 6F 63 65   spu_utoken_proce
000001B0   73 73 6F 72 2E 73 65 6C  66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ssor.self.......
000001C0   00 00 00 00 00 0C 1F 14  00 00 00 00 00 01 53 2C   ..............S,
000001D0   73 63 5F 69 73 6F 2E 73  65 6C 66 00 00 00 00 00   sc_iso.self.....
000001E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000001F0   00 00 00 00 00 0D 72 40  00 00 00 00 00 00 44 98   [email protected]˜
00000200   61 69 6D 5F 73 70 75 5F  6D 6F 64 75 6C 65 2E 73   aim_spu_module.s
00000210   65 6C 66 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   elf.............
00000220   00 00 00 00 00 0D B6 D8  00 00 00 00 00 00 D7 F0   ......¶Ø......×ð
00000230   73 70 70 5F 76 65 72 69  66 69 65 72 2E 73 65 6C   spp_verifier.sel
00000240   66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   f...............
00000250   00 00 00 00 00 0E 8E C8  00 00 00 00 00 00 80 8C   ......ŽÈ......€Œ
00000260   6D 63 5F 69 73 6F 5F 73  70 75 5F 6D 6F 64 75 6C   mc_iso_spu_modul
00000270   65 2E 73 65 6C 66 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   e.self..........
00000280   00 00 00 00 00 0F 0F 54  00 00 00 00 00 00 88 B8   .......T......ˆ¸
00000290   6D 65 5F 69 73 6F 5F 73  70 75 5F 6D 6F 64 75 6C   me_iso_spu_modul
000002A0   65 2E 73 65 6C 66 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   e.self..........
000002B0   00 00 00 00 00 0F 98 0C  00 00 00 00 00 00 C0 78   ......˜.......Àx
000002C0   73 76 5F 69 73 6F 5F 73  70 75 5F 6D 6F 64 75 6C   sv_iso_spu_modul
000002D0   65 2E 73 65 6C 66 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   e.self..........
000002E0   00 00 00 00 00 10 58 84  00 00 00 00 00 00 5D B0   ......X„......]°
000002F0   73 62 5F 69 73 6F 5F 73  70 75 5F 6D 6F 64 75 6C   sb_iso_spu_modul
00000300   65 2E 73 65 6C 66 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   e.self..........
00000310   00 00 00 00 00 10 B6 34  00 00 00 00 00 00 22 A0   ......¶4......" 
00000320   64 65 66 61 75 6C 74 2E  73 70 70 00 00 00 00 00   default.spp.....
00000330   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000340   00 00 00 00 00 10 D9 00  00 00 00 00 00 12 B1 70   ......Ù.......±p
00000350   6C 76 31 2E 73 65 6C 66  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   lv1.self........
00000360   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000370   00 00 00 00 00 23 8A 80  00 00 00 00 00 03 E8 28   .....#Š€......è(
00000380   6C 76 30 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   lv0.............
00000390   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000003A0   00 00 00 00 00 27 72 A8  00 00 00 00 00 16 EE B8   .....'r¨......î¸
000003B0   6C 76 32 5F 6B 65 72 6E  65 6C 2E 73 65 6C 66 00   lv2_kernel.self.
000003C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000003D0   00 00 00 00 00 3E 61 60  00 00 00 00 00 07 0F 94   .....>a`.......”
000003E0   65 75 72 75 73 5F 66 77  2E 62 69 6E 00 00 00 00   eurus_fw.bin....
000003F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000400   00 00 00 00 00 45 70 F4  00 00 00 00 00 07 FC 48   .....Epô......üH
00000410   65 6D 65 72 5F 69 6E 69  74 2E 73 65 6C 66 00 00   emer_init.self..
00000420   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000430   00 00 00 00 00 4D 6D 3C  00 00 00 00 00 06 16 00   .....Mm<........
00000440   68 64 64 5F 63 6F 70 79  2E 73 65 6C 66 00 00 00   hdd_copy.self...
00000450   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................

00040460   33 31 35 2E 30 30 30 0A  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   315.000.........
00040470   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
BDIT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE.pkg 3.50

Here is a piece of data from decrypted package.

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000300   43 6F 70 79 72 69 67 68  74 28 43 29 20 32 30 30   Copyright(C) 200
00000310   35 2D 32 30 30 36 2C 20  53 6F 6E 79 20 43 6F 6D   5-2006, Sony Com
00000320   70 75 74 65 72 20 45 6E  74 65 72 74 61 69 6E 6D   puter Entertainm
00000330   65 6E 74 20 49 6E 63 2E  1A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ent Inc.........
00000340   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000350   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000360   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000370   41 96 18 D3 2D 8F 0F 68  11 4D A7 09 E4 1F A7 6F   A–.Ó-.h.M§.ä.§o
00000380   EF 29 48 A0 E9 F2 A8 F0  CC 4B F3 4D E0 4A B0 17   ï)H éò¨ðÌKóMàJ°.
00000390   C2 DA 07 5F 96 B3 C8 8D  E1 06 2E 3A 1D A7 FD 20   ÂÚ._–³Èá..:.§ý 
BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_301R.pkg 3.50

Here is a piece of data from decrypted package.

Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000300   43 6F 70 79 72 69 67 68  74 28 43 29 20 32 30 30   Copyright(C) 200
00000310   35 2D 32 30 30 39 2C 20  53 6F 6E 79 20 43 6F 6D   5-2009, Sony Com
00000320   70 75 74 65 72 20 45 6E  74 65 72 74 61 69 6E 6D   puter Entertainm
00000330   65 6E 74 20 49 6E 63 2E  1A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ent Inc.........
00000340   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000350   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000360   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000370   80 18 D2 E4 22 AA 2B D7  85 47 F4 40 53 9A 04 0C   €.Òä"ª+×…Gô@Sš..
00000380   D0 B8 A5 04 20 51 9E 90  09 4F 2E 78 BA 32 C0 EA   и¥. Qž.O.xº2Àê
00000390   E9 61 96 ED D8 2A 70 C0  59 68 4E B2 47 25 9C 97   éa–íØ*pÀYhN²G%œ—
BLUETOOTH_FIRMWARE.pkg 3.41
Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000000   52 43 32 39 5F 66 69 72  6D 77 61 72 65 5F 66 6F   RC29_firmware_fo
00000010   6F 74 65 72 2E 64 66 75  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   oter.dfu........
00000020   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000030   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000040   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000050   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000060   00 00 00 00 30 30 30 30  36 34 34 00 30 30 30 30   ....0000644.0000
00000070   30 30 30 00 30 30 30 30  30 30 30 00 30 30 30 30   000.0000000.0000
00000080   31 35 36 36 33 30 30 00  31 31 30 36 34 33 34 36   1566300.11064346
00000090   33 30 36 00 30 31 35 34  36 33 00 20 30 00 00 00   306.015463. 0...
000000A0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000B0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000C0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000D0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000E0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
000000F0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000100   00 75 73 74 61 72 20 20  00 72 6F 6F 74 00 00 00   .ustar  .root...
00000110   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000120   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 72 6F 6F 74 00 00 00   .........root...
00000130   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
00000140   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 30 30 30 30 30 30 30   .........0000000
00000150   00 30 30 30 30 30 30 30  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   .0000000........


000A5950   84 1B 00 C0 94 04 00 00  74 06 00 00 45 75 72 75   „..À”...t...Euru
000A5960   73 5F 50 72 69 6D 61 72  79 5F 50 68 79 00 00 00   s_Primary_Phy...
000A5970   4D 61 72 76 65 6C 6C 5F  41 50 00 00 94 BB 01 C0   Marvell_AP..”».À


000B7CC0   00 00 00 00 01 10 60 23  4D 61 72 76 65 6C 6C 20   ......`#Marvell 
000B7CD0   46 69 72 6D 77 61 72 65  20 53 44 4B 20 56 65 72   Firmware SDK Ver
000B7CE0   73 69 6F 6E 20 32 2E 33  2E 30 54 74 5D 04 02 2B   sion 2.3.0Tt]..+
000B7CF0   0F 14 E1 36 04 32 0A 1A  FD 08 32 1A 1A C1 08 02   ..á6.2..ý.2..Á..


000F42B0   44 6F 53 68 61 72 65 64  4B 65 79 53 65 71 31 3A   DoSharedKeySeq1:
000F42C0   20 45 6E 74 65 72 65 64  20 2D 2D 2D 20 72 73 70    Entered --- rsp
000F42D0   4D 61 63 20 3D 20 25 30  32 78 3A 25 30 32 78 3A   Mac = %02x:%02x:
000F42E0   25 30 32 78 3A 25 30 32  78 3A 25 30 32 78 3A 25   %02x:%02x:%02x:%
000F42F0   30 32 78 0A 00 00 00 00  6D 6C 6D 65 41 75 74 68   02x.....mlmeAuth
000F4300   44 6F 53 68 61 72 65 64  4B 65 79 53 65 71 31 3A   DoSharedKeySeq1:
000F4310   20 56 61 6C 69 64 61 74  69 6F 6E 20 66 61 69 6C    Validation fail
000F4320   65 64 20 2D 2D 2D 20 72  73 70 4D 61 63 20 3D 20   ed --- rspMac = 
000F4330   25 30 32 78 3A 25 30 32  78 3A 25 30 32 78 0A 00   %02x:%02x:%02x..
000F4340   6D 6C 6D 65 41 75 74 68  44 6F 53 68 61 72 65 64   mlmeAuthDoShared
000F4350   4B 65 79 53 65 71 33 3A  20 76 61 6C 69 64 61 74   KeySeq3: validat
000F4360   69 6F 6E 20 66 61 69 6C  65 64 21 20 2D 2D 2D 20   ion failed! --- 
000F4370   72 73 70 4D 61 63 20 3D  20 25 30 32 78 3A 25 30   rspMac = %02x:%0
000F4380   32 78 3A 25 30 32 78 0A  00 65 65 70 72 6F 6D 00   2x:%02x..eeprom.
000F4390   62 74 5F 68 63 69 00 62  74 5F 75 61 72 74 00 75   bt_hci.bt_uart.u
000F43A0   73 62 30 00 75 73 62 31  00 4F 53 41 00 77 6C 61   sb0.usb1.OSA.wla
000F43B0   F3 B8 E9 70 01 00 00 00  1C 6B 03 00 00 02 00 00   ó¸ép.....k......
SYS_CON_FIRMWARE_01050101.pkg 3.41
Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F

00000300   1B 2D 70 0F AB 5E B3 99  68 20 FE 3D E1 80 6A 1D   .-p.«^³™h þ=á€j.
00000310   B8 FD 37 CF CD 45 85 AB  51 F7 05 E3 EA 32 A5 EA   ¸ý7ÏÍE…«Q÷.ãê2¥ê
00000320   67 45 F9 48 00 00 00 00  00 10 00 00 C0 0F 00 00   gEùH........À...
00000330   8B 04 07 F9 9B A2 90 3A  75 89 F1 42 12 59 DA 0D   ‹..ù›¢:u‰ñB.YÚ.
00000340   21 7C A2 C3 5A E4 78 00  10 8D 4B F7 A2 73 9C 63   !|¢ÃZäx..K÷¢sœc
00000350   5D 8D 5D 49 16 C7 6F 2C  AD 33 FE 1F D3 6C A1 CA   ]]I.Ço,­3þ.Ól¡Ê
00000360   BA AD 2B FE 8F 33 71 D7  C5 E6 5C FF BF 77 6C 80   º­+þ3q×Åæ\ÿ¿wl€
00000370   F2 BE 11 BB 3C 52 52 DC  A9 68 E5 24 AD 4F F3 48   ò¾.»<RRÜ©hå$­OóH

0x6005 - Extract Package Tophalf

  • The result of the request can be checked by reading the value of repository node ss.extract.request.<Request ID> periodically

0x600B - Read EEPROM

  • I have got read access to EEPROM of Update Manager through DM and tested it with PSGroove
  • I read PRODUCT_MODE from it successfully, PRODUCT_MODE = 0x000000FF
  • The service expects one additional parameter: offset (4 bytes)
  • The service accepts only some predefined offsets
  • The service returns the specified offset and the value at this offset

EEPROM Offset Table

Here is the table of EEPROM offsets that can be accessed through Update Manager (3.15):

Offset Size Description
0x48C06 1 FSELF Control Flag
0x48C07 1 Product Mode (UM allows to read this offset, it can be also written but only when already in product mode)
0x48C0A 1 QA Flag
0x48C13 1 Device Type
0x48C42 1 HDD Copy Mode
0x48C50 0x10 Debug Support Flag
0x48C60 1 Update Status
0x48C61 1 Recover Mode Flag
0x48D3E 0x50 QA Token (UM doesn't allow access to this offset but SC Manager can read/write it)

0x600C - Write EEPROM

  • Writting to EEPROM of Update Manager is also possible through DM
  • Tested this service successfully with QA flag

0x6010 - Check Integrity

  • This service checks integrity of important files stored on /dev/rflash1, e.g. lv0 or lv1
  • The service is used e.g. by System Manager
  • When product mode is NOT 0xFF then check is skipped !!!

0x6011 - Get Applicable Version

  • I have got access to this service through DM and PSGroove and tested it
  • The service expects one additional unknown parameter of size 4 bytes, it has to be 0x00000001 or else the service fails

Here is the return value:

00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

BD Firmware Update

  • Update Manager in HV Process 6 updates BD firmware through ATAPI Interface of /dev/rbd0 device.
  • BD firmware is sent to BD drive by using ATAPI Write Buffer (0x3B) command with Mode 0x07 (Download microcode with offsets and save) and Buffer ID 0x00.
  • The current BD drive firmware version and hash is also stored by and retrieved from SYSCON by using SC Manager Get/Set Region Data (0x9006/0x9007) service. After successfull BD firmware update, Update Manager sends the new firmware version and hash to SYSCON.
  • BD firmware package is decrypted, SCE header size + 0x80 bytes are skipped and data beginning with copyright message is sent to BD drive.
  • BD firmware is sent packet wise, one packet is at most 0x8000 bytes.
  • After each sent packet, Update Manager checks the result by using ATAPI Request Sense (0x3) command.
  • Theoretically, BD firmware update can be done also from GameOS by using ATAPI interface of the BD drive.

Detecting BD Drive Type, Generation and Revision

  • To detect BD drive type, Update Manager uses ATAPI Inquiry command.
  • To detect BD drive generation, Update Manager uses ATAPI Mode Sense 10 command.
BD Drive Type Table

Here is the BD Drive Type Table extracted from HV Process 6 (3.15):

Index Vendor Identification String Drive Type
0
"SONY    EmerFlashROM"
0x2100000000000001
1
"SONY    PS-EMBOOT   300R"
0x2100000000000001
2
"SONY    BDRW AQUAM(BDIT)"
0x1100000000000001
3
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   300R"
0x1100000000000001
4
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   V300"
0x1100000000000001
5
"SCEI    EMER-FLASH-8"
0x2200000000000002
6
"SONY    PS-EMBOOT   301R"
0x2200000000000002
7
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   301R"
0x1200000000000002
8
"SONY    PS-EMBOOT   302R"
0x2200000000000003
9
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   302R"
0x1200000000000003
10
"SONY    PS-EMBOOT   303R"
0x2200000000000004
11
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   303R"
0x1200000000000004
12
"SONY    PS-EMBOOT   304R"
0x2200000000000005
13
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   304R"
0x1200000000000005
14
"SONY    PS-EMBOOT   306R"
0x2200000000000007
15
"SONY    PS-SYSTEM   306R"
0x1200000000000007

Methods (HV Process 6)

update_manager_update_bd_firmware - 0x800064BC (3.15)

bd_updater_prepare_drive - 0x80011A88 (3.15)

bd_updater_send_firmware - 0x80011544 (3.15)

bd_updater_disable_reqsense - 0x80010410 (3.15)

bd_updater_enable_reqsense - 0x800104D8 (3.15)

send_atp_command - 0x80023B10 (3.15)

0x9000 - SC Manager

  • SC Manager cannot be accessed directly by using DM unfortunately (DM discards all requests) but it's used by other services that are accessable through DM
  • E.g. Update Manager services "Read EEPROM" and "Write EEPROM" send requests to SC Manager services "Read EEPROM" and "Write EEPROM"
  • SC Manager runs sc_iso.self
  • With full HV rights you could patch Dispatcher Manager and enable access to SC Manager from GameOS.
Packet ID Description
0x9001 Get SRH
0x9002 Set SRH
0x9003 Encrypt
0x9004 Decrypt
0x9005 Init For VTRM
0x9006 Get Region Data
0x9007 Set Region Data
0x9008 Set RTC
0x9009 Get Time
0x900A Set Time
0x900B Read EPROM
0x900C Write EPROM
0x900D Init For Updater
0x900E Get SC Status
0x9011 SC Binary Patch
0x9012 SC RTC Factory
0x9013 Correct RTC Factory
0x9014 Set SC Status
0x9015 Backup Root Info
0x9016 Restore Root Info

0x9001 - SC Get SRH

struct ss_sc_mgr_get_srh
{
    u8 field0[20];
    u8 res1[4];
    u8 field18[20];
    u8 res2[4];
};

0x9003 - SC Encrypt

  • There are 5 different types/kinds of encryption: 1 - 5.
struct ss_sc_mgr_encrypt
{
    u32 type;               /* 1 - 5 */
    u8 res[4];
    u8 field8[16];
    u8 field18[16];
    u64 field28;
};

0x9004 - SC Decrypt

  • There are 5 different types/kinds of decryption: 1 - 5.
  • Virtual TRM Decrypt Master (0x200E) service uses e.g. decryption type 4.

0x9006 - SC Get Region Data

  • This service expects an ID. The valid range of ID is 0 - 15.
  • E.g. Update Manager uses this service to retrieve hash and version of some SELFs and firmwares, e.g. lv0 and lv1.
struct ss_sc_mgr_get_region_data
{
    u64 id;
    u64 data_size;    /* max 0x30 bytes */
    u8 data[0];
};

Update Package Type - ID Mapping Table

Update Package Type ID
1 0
2 2
3 4
4 6
5 7
6 8

0x9007 - SC Set Region Data

  • This service expects an ID. The valid range of ID is 0 - 15.
  • E.g. Update Manager uses this service to store hash and version of some SELFs and firmwares, e.g. lv0 and lv1.
struct ss_sc_mgr_set_region_data
{
    u64 id;
    u64 data_size;    /* max 0x30 bytes */
    u8 data[0];
};

0x900B - SC Read EPROM

  • There are 2 ways to access SC EPROM: NVS Service and Device Access Service.
  • NVS Service uses Block ID and Block Offset.
  • Not all EPROM offsets can be accessed through SC Manager.
struct ss_sc_mgr_read_eprom
{
    u32 offset;
    u8 res1[4];
    u32 nread;               /* max 0x100 bytes */
    u8 res2[4];
    u64 buf_size;
    u8 buf[0];
    /* here follows buf */
};

EPROM Offset - Block ID and Block Offset Mapping Table (NVS Service)

EPROM Offset Block ID Block Offset
0x48000 - 0x480FF 0x00 0x48000 - 0x480FF
0x48800 - 0x488FF 0x01 0x48800 - 0x488FF
0x48C00 - 0x48CFF 0x02 0x48C00 - 0x48CFF
0x48D00 - 0x48DFF 0x03 0x48D00 - 0x48DFF
0x2F00 - 0x2FFF 0x10 0x2F00 - 0x2FFF
0x3000 - 0x30FF 0x20 0x3000 - 0x30FF
All other offsets Invalid Invalid

0x900C - SC Write EPROM

struct ss_sc_mgr_write_eprom
{
    u32 offset;
    u8 res1[4];
    u32 nwrite;
    u8 res2[4];
    u64 buf_size;
    u8 buf[0];
    /* here follows buf */
};

0x900E - SC Get Status

Here is what the service returned on my fat PS3:

0x00 0x00 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xC0 0x00 0x00 0xFF 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00

So, version is 0x00000003 and mode is 0xC00000FF.

struct ss_sc_mgr_get_sc_status
{
    u32 version;
    u8 res1[4];
    u32 mode;
    u8 res2[4];
};

0x9011 - SC Binary Patch

  • This service is used by Update Manager to send a new SC firmware version to SYSCON.

SC Isolation DMA Buffer Header

struct sc_iso_header
{
    u32 seqno;
    u32 mbmsg;
    u32 cmd;
    u32 cmd_size;
    u8 cmd_data[0];
};

0x11000 - SPM (Security Policy Manager)

  • Packet ID is mapped to SS id
  • SS id value range is 0x0 - 0x84
Packet ID Description
0x11001 Request
0x11002 Load Additional Policy

0x14000 - SLL (Secure LPAR Loader)

  • SLL opens lv2_kernel.self, parses ELF header and determines the size of initial memory region for GameOS LPAR
  • SLL creates a memory region for GameOS LPAR by using syscall 0x10000.
  • SLL opens /proc/partitions/<LPAR id>/mem file and maps it with mmap syscall into it's address space.
  • Then it authenticates, decrypts and copies the SELF file of GameOS to LPAR's memory region by using SPE syscalls 0x10040 and 0x10042.
  • Linux is not loaded by SLL, it's loaded in Process 9 by Linux System Manager
  • GameOS file image lv2_kernel.self is stored on /dev/rflash1
Packet ID Description
0x14004 Load GOS
0x14005 Unload GOS

0x15000 - SPL (Secure Profile Loader)

  • DEFAULT.SPP file is stored on /dev/rflash1
Packet ID Description
0x15001 Get LPAR Parameter Size/Get LPAR Parameter
0x15003 Get Contents Size/Get Contents
0x15009 Get Component

SPP File

  • The file is encrypted but can be read by using 0x15003 service of SPL
  • SPL reads SPP file, parses SPP header and checks some fields
  • SPP file is verified and decrypted by SPU module spp_verifier.self that cab be executed with HV SPE calls
  • Even old default.spp from PS3 Firmware 1.10 can be decrypted with spp_verifier.self from PS3 Firmware 3.41
  • Header format version should be 5 or else the header check fails
  • If (SPP header size % 256 != 0) then header check fails
  • Finally i was able to decrypt profile file from 3.41 but by using SPE HV calls only !!! And Linux Manager is still there !!!
  • The decrypted file is a binary file

Here are the contents of DEFAULT.SPP from 3.41.

Here are the contents of DEFAULT.SPP 1.18 Debug from 1.18 Debug Firmware.

SPP Header

offset 0x2 - header format version (2 bytes)

offset 0x4 - header size (4 bytes)

offset 0x18 - number of segments (4 bytes)

Segments

  • Segments follow after the header
  • SPP file contains several segments.

Here is the list of profile segments from 3.41:

  • SCE_CELLOS_PME
  • PS3_LPAR
  • PS2_LPAR
  • PS2_GX_LPAR
  • LINUX_LPAR
  • SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR
  • SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_LINUX
  • SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2
  • SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2_SW
  • SCE_CELLOS_SYSTEM_MGR_PS2_GX
  • SCE_CELLOS_SS_SECURE_RTC
  • SCE_CELLOS_SS_INDI_INFO_EID
  • SCE_CELLOS_SS_INIT_LV1_ACL

0x15003 - Get Contents Size/Get Contents

  • This service provides the contents of a segment specified by a service requester
  • I have got access to this service through DM but couldn't get through access policy yet, the service returns error code 0x00000005 that means Access Violation
  • But i still could test with this service which segment names are valid
  • I need valid laid and paid to get through it

0x17000 - Indi Info Manager

Packet ID Description
0x17001 Read EID Data Size By Index/Read metldr Size
0x17002 Read EID Data By Index/Read metldr
0x17004 Read System Data
0x17007 Read System Data From EEPROM
0x17013 Read eEID Size
0x17014 Write eEID/Write metldr
0x17015 Read cISD Size
0x17016 Read cISD
0x17017 Write cISD
  • Indi Info Manager is accessed e.g. in syscall 868 on GameOS

0x17001 - Read EID Data Size By Index

  • I have got access to this service through DM and tested it
  • This service is used e.g. by Update Manager, User Token Manager or Storage Manager
  • The service expects 2 additional parameters, each parameter is 8 bytes
  • I tested it with values: 0x0, 0x4 and 0x1000 for the 1st parameter. I extracted this values from HV Processes which use this service
  • The 2nd parameter is not used in a request but in a response. It contains EID size.
Index Size Of Data Description
0 0x860 Used e.g. by Update Manager to decrypt update packages
4 0x30 Used e.g. by Storage Manager
0x1000 0xe960 metldr

0x17002 - Read EID Data By Index

  • I have got access to this service through DM and tested it
  • This service is used e.g. by Update Manager, User Token Manager or Storage Manager
  • The service expects 2 additional parameters, each parameter is 8 bytes
  • The 1st parameter is same as the 1st parameter of service Read EID Data Size By Index
  • The 2nd parameter is EID Data Size that is returned by the service Read EID Data Size By Index
  • The returned data is some binary data.
  • The data returned by the service with 1st parameter set to 0x0 or 0x4 is from file eEID stored on FLASH storage device region 0.
  • The data returned by the service with 1st parameter set to 0x1000 contains string metldr.
  • E.g. EID0 data is passed by Update Manager to SPU module spu_token_processor.self when Update Manager loads and executes it with syscall 0x10043.
  • E.g. EID4 data is passed by Storage Manager to SPU module sb_iso_spu_module.self.

0x17004 - Read System Data

  • Reads data from cISD or cCSD files stored on /dev/rflash1.
  • E.g. Gelic MAC address is stored in file cISD.

0x17007 - Read System Data From EEPROM

  • Reads data from SC EEPROM
  • An index is passed to the service. The index is mapped to a specific SC EEPROM offset.

Here is the list of possible EEPROM offsets from HV 3.15:

Index SC EEPROM Offset Size Of Data
0 0x48D20 6
1 0x48D28 6
2 0x48D30 6
3 0x48D38 6
4 0x48D00 4
5 0x48D04 4
6 0x48D08 4

0x17014 - Write eEID/Write metldr

  • Holy crap, it writes passed data to the region of FLASH memory where eEID or metldr data is stored !!!
  • And GameOS is allowed to use this service !!!
  • Do not experiment with this service if you don't know what it does or else your PS3 will not work anymore !!!

0x17015 - Read cISD Size

  • Returns size of data cISD that is stored on FLASH storage device region 0

0x17016 - Read cISD

  • Returns data cISD that is stored on FLASH storage device region 0

0x17017 - Write cISD

  • Writes passed data to the region of FLASH memory where cISD data is stored !!!

0x18000 - DM (Dispatcher Manager)

  • Dispatcher Manager runs in Process 3.
  • When SLL (Secure LPAR Loader) creates GamesOS LPAR and loads it, it also creates a VUART with port number 10 owned by GameOS using a service provided by Dispatcher Manager (0x18001 - Construct Service Port).
  • Dispatcher Manager communicates with GameOS through this VUART. It opens the file /proc/partitions/<LPAR id>/vuart/10. When the file /proc/partitions/<LPAR id>/vuart/10 is opened by Dispatcher Manager, the Hypervisor creates a peer VUART which is connected to the GameOS's VUART 10.
  • After that Dispatcher Manager reads requests from this VUART sent by GameOS and dispatches these requests to services (functions) provided by Hypervisor Processes through sockets. Through VUART and Dispatcher Manager, the GameOS LPAR has access to all services provided by Hypervisor Processes.
  • However, the services provided by Hypervisor Processes are protected by Security Policy Manager (SPM). Before Dispatcher Manager routes the requests from GameOS to these services, it consults SPM (by using 0x11001 service of SPM) and checks if the GameOS has access rights to the requested service. If not then the request is not routed.
  • DM overwrites the LAID sent in SS packet header with the LAID of the LPAR that sent the request. So, no matter what LAID you send in SS packet header, it will be always overwritten with the correct one by DM. That is the reason why e.g. USB Dongle Master Key cannot be decrypted by GameOS without patching DM. But with HV access rights, DM can be easily patched and access to SYSCON can be gained.
  • Linux LPAR doesn't have a VUART communication link to Dispatcher Manager.
  • I tested VUART 10 on GameOS with PSGroove and it's there.
  • On GamesOS, _ss_multiplexer accesses DM (VUART 10)
Packet ID Description
0x18001 Construct Service Port
0x18002 Destruct Service Port

Dispatcher Manager Messages

Dispatcher Manager Header

  • Payload follows after header
  • Payload is a SS packet
struct dispmgr_header
{
    uint32_t request_id;
    uint32_t function_id;
    uint32_t request_size;         /* payload size of request */
    uint32_t response_size;        /* payload size of response */
}

Packet ID - SS ID Mapping

  • Before DM routes a received request to a service provider (HV Process) it consults SPM
  • DM sends a request to SPM
  • Request contains SS ID and Subject ID (laid and paid)
  • DM obtains SS ID by mapping Packet ID

Here is the mapping table i extracted from HV Process 3 where SPM and DM run:

Packet ID SS ID
0x2001 0x34
0x2002 0x35
0x2003 0x36
0x2004 0x37
0x2005 0x38
0x2006 0x39
0x200A 0x3D
0x200B 0x3E
0x200C 0x3F
0x200D 0x40
0x200E 0x41
0x2012 0x7B
0x2013 0x7C
0x2014 0x7E
0x2015 0x7F
0x2016 0x7D
0x2017 0x80

0x19000 - AIM

  • Executes isolated SPU module aim_spu_module.self
  • EID0 data is passed to aim_spu_module.self
Packet ID Description
0x19002 Get Device Type
0x19003 Get Device ID
0x19004 Get PS Code
0x19005 Get Open PS ID

0x19002 - Get Device Type

On my fat PS3 with HV 3.41 it returns:

0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x85
struct ss_aim_get_device_type
{
    u8 field0[16];
};

0x19003 - Get Device ID

struct ss_aim_get_device_id
{
    u8 field0[16];
};

0x19004 - Get PS Code

struct ss_aim_get_ps_code
{
    u8 field0[8];
};

0x19005 - Get Open PS ID

struct ss_aim_get_open_ps_id
{
    u8 field0[16];
};

0x24000 - USB Dongle Authenticator

Packet ID Description
0x24001 Generate Challenge
0x24002 Verify Response

0x24001 - Generate Challenge

  • I have got access to this service through DM and tested it
  • The service expects no input parameters except those in SS packet header
  • It uses 0x5003 service (Generate Random Number) to generate random numbers that are used in challenge body
  • The length of a challnge body is always 23 bytes, first 3 bytes are always the same: 0x2E 0x02 0x01

Here are hexdumps of some challenge bodies i let 0x24001 service generate:

2E 02 01 72 3A 0A 76 BB 81 CB 29 BC E7 B5 D6 62 7C 0E EE 23 18 A9 1D
2E 02 01 F0 DA 78 D4 1D CB D7 C9 C7 F0 32 F4 2E 92 39 BD 3F 32 93 AA
2E 02 01 3B B2 9D FD A8 83 AF 9A C0 E9 13 BB AE D5 6C 8C 45 2E DE 13

0x24002 - Verify Response

  • I have got access to this service and tested it with PSGroove
  • The response body is 25 bytes large
  • The first 3 bytes have to be 0x2E 0x02 0x02 or else the check fails
  • The 16 bit at offset 3 is a dongle ID
  • The dongle ID is checked if it's revoked or not
  • When the verification succeedes then product mode is set to 1
  • The service calculates USB Dongle Key from USB Dongle ID and USB Dongle Master Key by using HMAC SHA-1
  • The service uses HMAC SHA-1 to calculate the correct response body from the challenge body and USB Dongle Key
  • After that the service compares the calculated response body with the given one that was sent to the service
  • It seems that laid and paid from SS packet header are used in decryption process

USB Dongle Master Key

  • USB Dongle Master Key is stored encrypted in Process 6
  • The encrypted key is 64 bytes large
  • The decrypted key is 20 bytes large
  • The USB Dongle Master Key is decrypted first time the service 0x24002 is used
  • The USB Dongle Master Key is decrypted by using the service 0x200E (Decrypt Master) of Vitual TRM Manager
  • The decrypted USB Dongle Master Key is stored in Process 6 in clear text (after first usage of this service)
  • When decryption of USB Dongle Master Key fails then a dummy key is used
  • Unfortunately, in the HV dump 3.15 the USB Dongle Master Key was not decrypted at the moment of dumping
  • The first 12 bytes of decrypted USB Dongle Master Key is a magic value: _USB_DONGLE_. After these 12 bytes follows the real USB Dongle Master Key of size 20 bytes. So, if after decryption of USB Dongle Master Key, you see this magic value then the decryption was successfull.

Here is the encrypted USB Dongle Master Key from HV 3.15:

0x22 0xD5 0xD1 0x8C 0xFF 0xE2 0x4F 0xAC 0xEC 0x72 0xA2 0x42 0xA7 0x18 0x98 0x10
0x25 0x33 0xE0 0x96 0xF2 0xC1 0x91 0x0D 0x15 0x23 0xD3 0x07 0x74 0xE7 0x2B 0x72
0xDF 0xA6 0xDD 0xE9 0x68 0x8B 0x76 0x2A 0x6A 0x87 0x51 0x7F 0x85 0x39 0x0B 0xD4
0x20 0x3F 0x46 0x89 0x04 0x82 0xB7 0x30 0x84 0x89 0x4B 0xCC 0x9D 0xB1 0x24 0x7C

This is the decrypted dongle master key:

0x46 0xDC 0xEA 0xD3 0x17 0xFE 0x45 0xD8 0x09 0x23
0xEB 0x97 0xE4 0x95 0x64 0x10 0xD4 0xCD 0xB2 0xC2

This is the decrypted dongle key for dongle ID 0xAAAA which works up to 3.55:

0x04 0x4E 0x61 0x1B 0xA6 0xA6 0xE3 0x9A 0x98 0xCF
0x35 0x81 0x2C 0x80 0x68 0xC7 0xFC 0x5F 0x7A 0xE8

Here is the USB Dongle Master Dummy Key from HV 3.15:

0xD1 0xFC 0x57 0x55 0xBF 0x20 0xFA 0xB2 0xD4 0xA5 0x4A 0x0A 0x0C 0x5D 0x52 0x8E
0xDF 0x66 0xCD 0x74

USB Dongle ID Revoke List

  • Process 6 contains a revoke list for USB Dongle IDs
  • The revoke list is 0x2000 bytes large. It's a bitmap.
  • Each bit represents a USB Dongle ID. If bit is 0 then USB Dongle ID is revoked.

The following USB Dongle IDs are revoked in HV 3.15:

0, 2, 13, 32, 34, 176, 241

0x25000 - User Token Manager

Packet ID Description
0x25001 Encrypt User Token
0x25002 Decrypt User Token

User Token

  • Before User Token Manager encrypts a received user token it checks it's format.
  • User Tokens are processed by spu_utoken_processor.self
  • Before User Token is processed, User Token Manager reads IDPS by sending SS requests to Indi Info Manager (packet ids 0x17001 and 0x17002). Indi Info Manager runs in HV Process 5.

User Token Format

stuct user_token_attr
{
    uint32_t type;                                 /* 0x00000001, value != 0x00000001 means attribute list ends here */
    uint32_t size;                                 /* 8 + sizeof(data) */
    /* data follows here, size of data may be 0 */
}

struct user_token
{
    uint32_t magic;                                /* 0x73757400 = "sut\0" */
    uint32_t format_version;                       /* 0x00000001 */
    uint64_t size;
    uint8_t idps[16];
    uint64_t expire_date;
    uint64_t capability;
    union
    {
        stuct user_token_attr attrs[0];
        uint8_t dummy[3072];
    } attrs;
    /* 0xC30 */
    uint8_t digest[20];
}

LPAR Memory Management

Memory Region class

This class is the base class for different memory region types.

vtable

0x003578B0 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x40 - pointer to LPAR object that owns this memory region

offset 0x48 - type of memory region (8 bytes)

offset 0x50 - LPAR start address of memory region

offset 0x58 - size of memory region (8 bytes)

offset 0x60 - flags (8 bytes)

offset 0xA0 - log2 of page size

Generating New LPAR Memory Region Addresses

generate_new_lpar_mem_region_address(?, memory region size, log2(page size), ?, ?) - 002C82E8 (3.15)

generate_new_lpar_mem_region_address - 002C6570 (3.41)

  • The function returns a new LPAR memory region address.
  • This method is used e.g. in all HV calls which create any kind of memory regions, e.g. lv1_allocate_memory, lv1_map_htab, lv1_undocumented_function_114, lv1_construct_logical_spe, lv1_map_device_mmio_region or syscall 0x10040.

Encoding LPAR Memory Region Start Addresses and Sizes

  • Size of LPAR memory region is encoded in the LPAR memory region start address.
  • That is why e.g. the LPAR Memory Region Start Addresses of LPAR Memory Region of size 4096 byte begin with 0x300000000000, 0x300000000000 >> 42 = 0xC = log2(4096).
  • Each LPAR has a counter (8 bytes) which is incremented by 1 every time a new LPAR Memory Region is created.
  • Before incrementing, the counter is shifted left by log2(LPAR Memory Region Size) and ored with log2(LPAR Memory Region Size) << 42.
LPAR Memory Region Start Address >> 42 = log2(LPAR Memory Region Size)
LPAR Memory Region Start Address = (log2(LPAR Memory Region Size) << 42) |
   (counter << log2(LPAR Memory Region Size))
LPAR Memory Region Address Counter
  • LPAR Memory Region Address Counter is stored at address: 0x38(LPAR ptr) + 0x9E8
  • LPAR1's Memory Region Address Counter is at address 0x00677A48 in HV dump 3.15
  • LPAR2's Memory Region Address Counter is at address 0x007632D8 in HV dump 3.15
  • LPAR1's Memory Region Address Counter is at address 0x00677A48 in HV dump 3.41
  • LPAR2's Memory Region Address Counter is at address 0x00161E68 in HV dump 3.41

Physical Memory Region class

This type of memory region is created e.g. in lv1_allocate_memory HV call or in syscall 0x10000.

vtable

0x00357D08 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xB0 - pointer to object that stores a list of addresses of physical pages owned by this memory region

offset 0xB8 - pointer to LPAR object that owns this memory region

offset 0xC0 - reference counter (8 bytes)

Objects

Here is the list of physical memory region objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id LPAR Start Address Size Flags log2(Page Size) Physical Page Addresses
0x006B5510 1 0x300000001000 0x1000 0x0 0xC 0x672000
0x006B5E50 1 0x440000040000 0x20000 0x0 0x11 0x6C0000
0x006B6980 1 0x440000060000 0x20000 0x0 0x11 0x6E0000
0x006B7F00 1 0x400000040000 0x10000 0x0 0x10 0x100000
0x003A80F0 2 0x6C0058000000 0x7000000 0x4 0x18 0x1000000 - 0x7000000
0x003BE800 2 0x300000047000 0x1000 0x0 0xC 0x1FA000
0x006BDAA0 2 0x0 0x8000000 0x8 0x1B (single huge page) 0x8000000

So, Linux kernel should be located at physical address 0x8000000 and Linux syscall handler at 0x8000C00. Too bad that the HV dump is not large enough.

GameOS Physical Memory Regions

  • GameOS allocates nearly all physical memory of PS3 for itself !!! That is why new HV calls lv1_allocate_memory with large memory region sizes will fail.
  • So when someone wants a large piece of physical memory, he can borrow it from GameOS's LPAR memory region that starts at 0x700020000000. It can be used for example to send update packages to Update Manager which are very large.

Here is the list of physical memory regions of GameOS i found in HV 3.41:

Start Address Size Access Right Max Page Size Flags Real Addresses
0x0 0x1000000 0x3 0x18 0x8 0x1000000 - 0x1FFF000
0x500000300000 0xA0000 0x3 0x10 0x8 0x380000 - 0x38F000, 0x3B0000 - 0x3BF000, 0x1E0000 - 0x1FF000, 0x3C0000 - 0x3FF000, 0xFF00000 - 0xFF1F000
0x700020000000 0xE900000 (huge memory region) 0x3 0x14 0x0 0x400000 - 0x5FF000, 0x800000 - 0xFFF000, 0x2000000 - 0xFEFF000

HTAB Memory Region class

This memory region is created when a HTAB is mapped into LPAR's address space. It's created in lv1_map_htab HV call.

vtable

0x00357C98 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xB0 - pointer to VAS object that owns the HTAB

Objects

Here is the list of HTAB memory region objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id VAS id LPAR Start Address Size Flags log2(Page Size)
0x001FE0F0 2 3 0x500000C00000 0x100000 0xC000000000000000 0x14
0x003BD850 2 3 0x500004300000 0x100000 0xC000000000000000 0x14
0x003BDEA0 2 3 0x500004500000 0x100000 0xC000000000000000 0x14

GameOS HTAB

  • HTAB of GameOS is already mapped into address space of GameOS so that is why HV call lv1_map_htab will fail until you unmap it with lv1_unmap_htab
  • Effective address of GameOS HTAB is 0x800000000F000000
  • Virtual address of GameOS HTAB is 0xF000000
  • Size of GameOS HTAB is 0x40000
  • GameOS HTAB supports large pages of size 64K and 1M
  • GameOS HTAB can be easily dumped by reading 0x40000 bytes at EA 0x800000000F000000

GameOS SLB

Here is the dump of SLB entries from GameOS 3.41:

0x8000000008000000  0x0000000000000500
0x8000000208000000  0x0000000000020500
0x8000000300000000  0x0000000000030510
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000080000000  0x0000000000038C00
0x00000000A0000000  0x000000000003AC00
0x00000000C0000000  0x000000000003CC00
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x8000000010057960  0x8000000000313E78
0x8000000010057940  0x0000000000000000
0x800000000001B698  0x0000000000000000
0x8000000010057930  0x8000000000490708
0x80000000002B6C68  0x80000000003DE928
0x8000000010057EC0  0x80000000003DE920
0x0000000000000000  0x8000000000309810
0x80000000004B3000  0x0000000000000000
0x8000000010057CC0  0x0000000000000000
0x80000000004AF000  0x80000000004E1F00
0x80000000100579C8  0x80000000100579C0
0x80000000100579E0  0x2400002200000000
0x80000000004CF5B0  0x8000000200012000
0x80000000100579F8  0x80000000100579F0
0x8000000010057A10  0x80000000004A3A00
0x80000000004CF5B0  0x80000000004C8D00
0x800000000001BF6C  0x80000000004CD400
0x800000000001B698  0x80000000004C8100
0x80000000100579D0  0x80000000004B48C0
0x0000000000001C08  0x0000000000000000
0x8000000010057A78  0x8000000010057A70
0x8000000010057A90  0x0000000000000000
0x80000000004CF90C  0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000  0x8000000010057A80
0x8000000010057A90  0x8000000000309810
0x80000000004CF62C  0x0000000000000000
0x8000000010057CC0  0x0000000000000000
0x80000000004AF000  0x80000000004B48C0
0x00004000001C0000  0x0000000000000001
0x00000000D0000000  0x0000A8E3EE7D10DA
0x0000000000000000  0x0000000000000000
0x80000000004D8088  0x80000000004D9000

SPE MMIO Memory Region class

This type of memory region represents MMIO memory region of a SPE. It's created e.g. in lv1_construct_logical_spe or in syscall 0x10040.

vtable

0x003583F8 (3.15)

Member variables

Objects

Here is the list of SPE memory region objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id SPE LPAR Start Address Size Physical Address Flags log2(Page Size)
0x003ABC20 2 1 0x4C0000880000 0x80000 0x20000080000 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003AAD70 2 2 0x4C0000980000 0x80000 0x20000100000 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003A8880 2 3 0x4C0000780000 0x80000 0x20000180000 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003B4F70 2 4 0x4C0000A80000 0x80000 0x20000200000 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003AB700 2 5 0x4C0000680000 0x80000 0x20000280000 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003B5BE0 2 6 0x4C0000B80000 0x80000 0x20000300000 0xA000000000000000 0xC

SPE Shadow Registers Memory Region class

This type of memory region represents shadow registers memory region of a SPE. It's created e.g. in lv1_construct_logical_spe or in syscall 0x10040.

vtable

0x00358448 (3.15)

Objects

Here is the list of SPE Shadow Registers memory region objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id SPE LPAR Start Address Size Physical Address Flags log2(Page Size)
0x003ABDA0 2 1 0x300000012000 0x1000 - 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003B4290 2 2 0x300000014000 0x1000 - 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003A8A00 2 3 0x300000010000 0x1000 - 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003B50F0 2 4 0x300000016000 0x1000 - 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x001FFC90 2 5 0x30000000E000 0x1000 - 0xA000000000000000 0xC
0x003AE5B0 2 6 0x300000018000 0x1000 - 0xA000000000000000 0xC

Device MMIO Memory Region class

This type of memory region is created when a device MMIO region is mapped into LPAR address space, e.g. in lv1_map_device_mmio_region.

vtable

0x00352468 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xA8 - physical address where the device MMIO region is mapped to

Objects

Here is the list of Device MMIO memory region objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id LPAR Start Address Size Flags log2(Page Size) Physical Address Device
0x001FDF00 2 0x4000001D0000 0x10000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x24003010000 USB controller
0x003B3850 2 0x400000200000 0x10000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x24003020000 USB controller
0x003B6E50 2 0x4000001E0000 0x10000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x24003810000 USB controller
0x003B9950 2 0x4000001F0000 0x10000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x24003820000 USB controller

GPU Device Memory Region class

This type of memory region is created e.g. in lv1_gpu_open, lv1_gpu_device_map and lv1_undocumented_function_114.

vtable

0x00357C48 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xA8 - physical address

Objects

Here is the list of Device GPU memory region objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id LPAR Start Address Size Flags log2(Page Size) Physical Address
0x003AF380 2 0x700190000000 0xFE00000 0x8000000000000000 0x14 0x28080000000
0x003AF500 2 0x4000001A0000 0xC000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x3C0000
0x003AF680 2 0x4800006C0000 0x40000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x2808FE00000
0x003AFC30 2 0x440000380000 0x20000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x28000C00000
0x003BB420 2 0x3C0000108000 0x8000 0x8000000000000000 0xC 0x28000080100

Direct Map Memory Region class

This type of memory region is created in HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114. lv1_undocumented_function_114 allows you to map any memory address into LPAR's memory address.

  • The HV call lv1_undocumented_function_115 destroys a memory region of this type.
  • HV allows GameOS to create objects of this type of size 0 only !!! But it can be exploited with a dangling HTAB entry.

vtable

0x00357C48 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0xA8 - physical address

Exploiting HV with memory glitching and HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114

Here is a short description of the method i used to exploit HV from GameOS 3.15 and 3.41.

  • First i used the Geohot's method to create a dangling HTAB entry.
  • Making memory glitch work on GameOS was the largest of my obstacles but i solved it and i'm able to create a dangling HTAB entry from GameOS within 1-3 minutes.
  • Then i created many Direct Map Memory Region objects of size 0 with HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114 and checked if they are within the page to which the dangling HTAB entry points to.
  • When i found one such Direct Map Memory Region object i patched the size of this object to 0x1000. Then i pointed this memory region object to the code of HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114 and patched 4 bytes in this HV call which allows me to create any Direct Map Memory Region objects without any restrictions.
  • Function LPAR_construct_direct_mapping_mem_region which is used by HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114 has a parameter (register %r9) and when this parameter is not 0 then HV will allow you to create any Direct Map Memory Region objects without restrictions, but unfortunately the HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114 passes 0 in this parameter, so i just patched it.
  • Then i mapped whole HV memory range with the patched HV call lv1_undocumented_function_114 into the address space of GameOS.
  • And now you have read/write access to the whole HV.
  • $ONY could fix this exploit by disallowing creating of Direct Map Memory Region objects of size 0, but i know tons of other HV C++ classes which will allow me to exploit the HV in a similar way, so it wouldn't bring $ONY anything :-) And they have to change member variable offsets in those objects to make sure that i cannot patch them easily :-)

Methods

LPAR_get_memory_region_by_start_address - 0x002C7C40 (3.15)

LPAR_get_memory_region_by_address - 0x002C7DA8 (3.15)

LPAR_mem_addr_to_phys_addr(LPAR id, LPAR address, phys_addr) - 0x002FB8F0 (3.15)

LPAR_construct_direct_mapping_mem_region - 0x002D4D04 (3.15)

Network Devices

Ethernet Gelic Device

device id = 0

MAC Address: 00:1F:A7:C6:2A:C5

device memory base address = 0x24003004000 (size = 0x1000)

WLAN Gelic Device

device id = 0

MAC Address: 02:1F:A7:C6:2A:C5 (locally administered)

Net Manager

  • Net Manager runs in Process 9
  • It sends commands to /dev/sc1 to reset WLAN Gelic device
  • It opens /dev/net0, sets MAC address and writes device firmware eurus_fw.bin to WLAN device by using ioctl syscall

/dev/net0

The device supports 3 ioctl commands:

  • 0 - 0x002AC10C (3.15)
  • 1 - 0x002AC250 (3.15)
  • 2 - EURUS_STAT 0x002AC320 (3.15)

Methods

net_control_cmd_GELIC_LV1_POST_WLAN_CMD - 0x0024A55C (3.15)

net_control_wlan_cmd_GELIC_EURUS_CMD_ASSOC - 0x00246C78 (3.15)

net_control_wlan_cmd_GELIC_EURUS_CMD_START_SCAN - 0x00248A14 (3.15)

net_control_wlan_cmd_GELIC_EURUS_CMD_SET_WEP_CFG - 0x00249F24 (3.15)

net_control_wlan_cmd_GELIC_EURUS_CMD_SET_WPA_CFG - 0x002497B8 (3.15)

Event Notification

  • Event Notfication is used e.g. to notify a LPAR about some event, e.g. device interrupt or notify a LPAR about destruction of another LPAR.
  • For example Process 9 is notified through Event Notification when LPAR 2 is destructed.
  • During LPAR construction, Process 9 creates an Outlet object with syscall 0x1001A and then passes the outlet ID to the syscall 0x10009 that constructs the LINUX LPAR. In this way Process 9 is notified when LINUX LPAR is destructed.

Outlet class

This is the base Outlet class. There are different types of Outlet and they derive from this base class.

vtable

0x00357DC0 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x30 - type (8 bytes)

offset 0x38 - pointer to LPAR that owns this Outlet object

offset 0x48 - outlet id (8 bytes)

offset 0x90 - VIRQ assigned to this Outlet object (4 bytes)

Event Receive Port class

  • This type of Outlet is created e.g. in lv1_construct_event_receive_port and in syscall 0x1001A.
  • HV calls lv1_connect_irq_plug and lv1_connect_irq_plug_ext assigns a VIRQ to Event Receive Port object.

vtable

0x00357E88

VUART Outlet

  • HV supports only one VUART Outlet per LPAR
  • lv1_configure_virtual_uart_irq constructs a VUART Outlet object and passes the address of LPAR's VUART IRQ Bitmap to HV

vtable

0x00357DC0

VUART IRQ Bitmap

  • At address 0x38(LPAR ptr) + 0x158 is the VUART IRQ Bitmap owned by HV for LPAR (4 * 8 bytes = 256 bits)
  • At address 0x38(LPAR ptr) + 0x150 is stored the physical address of LPAR's VUART IRQ Bitmap that was passed to lv1_configure_virtual_uart_irq
  • When a VUART interrupt is generated by HV then first the VUART IRQ Bitmap owned by HV is updated and then this bitmap is copied to LPAR's VUART IRQ Bitmap, so VUART IRQ Bitmap is stored twice, once in HV and once in LPAR, just like IRQ State Bitmap.
  • VUART IRQ Bitmap is not allowed to cross page boundary of LPAR memory region where it is stored. HV checks it and makes sure that it doesn't happen.
  • GameOS 3.41 VUART IRQ bitmap is at address 0x80000000003556E8 and of size 32 bytes (256 bits, each bit corresponds to a VUART port).
  • GameOS 3.15 VUART IRQ bitmap is at address 0x8000000000354768.

Logical PPE

  • Logical PPE is used for interrupt management of LPAR.
  • A Logical PPE object is created in syscall 0x10005. It' used e.g. in Process 9 during LPAR construction.
  • syscall 0x10007 activates a Logical PPE object
  • 0x67F0(HSPRG0) - pointer to currently active Logical PPE object (in HV dump it points to Linux PPE object naturally because the dump was made on Linux, so Linux LPAR was active at that time)
  • E.g. lv1_get_logical_ppe_id, lv1_start_ppe_periodic_tracer and lv1_set_ppe_periodic_tracer_frequency grab the currently active Logical PPE object

vtable

0x00357DF0 (3.15)

Member variables

offset 0x90 - pointer to an object that contains VIRQ-Outlet mapping table for thread 0

offset 0x98 - pointer to an object that contains VIRQ-Outlet mapping table for thread 1

Objects

Here is the list of Logical PPE objects i found in HV 3.15.

Address in HV dump LPAR id PPE id
0x0069C7F0 1 1
0x007A8900 2 1

Virtual IRQ - Outlet Mapping

  • HV maintains 2 tables per PPE that map a VIRQ to an Outlet object.
  • The table has 256 entries and is indexed by VIRQ.
  • Each entry is a pointer to Outlet object.
  • Each Logical PPE object has 2 tables, one for each thread of Cell CPU.

LPAR 1 PPE 1 Thread 0

0x0069C990 (3.15) - address of VIRQ-Outlet table for LPAR 1 PPE 1 Thread 0 (not empty)

VIRQ Address of Outlet object in HV dump Description
58 0x00090D10 -
59 0x006BAC50 -
60 0x006B3ED0 FLASH storage device / Storage device notification for LPAR 1
61 0x00697E70 VUART interrupts
62 0x001C8F20 -

LPAR 1 PPE 1 Thread 1

0x0069D9B0 (3.15) - address of VIRQ-Outlet table for LPAR 1 PPE 1 Thread 1 (empty)

LPAR 2 PPE 1 Thread 0

0x000A06B0 (3.15) - address of VIRQ-Outlet table for LPAR 2 PPE 1 Thread 0 (not empty)

VIRQ Address of Outlet object in HV dump Description
20 0x003AA210 -
21 0x003AFEC0 -
22 0x001FC010 -
23 0x003A8E50 -
24 0x001FFED0 SPE 0 Class 0 Interrupt
25 0x003AE160 SPE 0 Class 1 Interrupt
26 0x003AE350 SPE 0 Class 2 Interrupt
27 0x003AB100 SPE 1 Class 0 Interrupt
28 0x003AB2F0 SPE 1 Class 1 Interrupt
29 0x003AB4E0 SPE 1 Class 2 Interrupt
30 0x003AA6A0 SPE 2 Class 0 Interrupt
31 0x003AA890 SPE 2 Class 1 Interrupt
32 0x003AAA80 SPE 2 Class 2 Interrupt
33 0x003B44A0 SPE 3 Class 0 Interrupt
34 0x003B4690 SPE 3 Class 1 Interrupt
35 0x003B4AD0 SPE 3 Class 2 Interrupt
36 0x003B5300 SPE 4 Class 0 Interrupt
37 0x003B54F0 SPE 4 Class 1 Interrupt
38 0x003B56E0 SPE 4 Class 2 Interrupt
39 0x003AE7C0 SPE 5 Class 0 Interrupt
40 0x003AE9B0 SPE 5 Class 1 Interrupt
41 0x003AEBA0 SPE 5 Class 2 Interrupt
42 0x003B2040 Storage device notification for LPAR 2
43 0x003AEE30 VUART interrupts
44 0x001FEAA0 -
45 0x001FEED0 HDD storage device
46 0x003B5E20 -
47 0x003B7040 -
48 0x003B9B40 -
49 0x003B3A40 -
50 0x003BACA0 Gelic device
51 0x003BAE10 UNKNOWN storage device
52 0x003B8350 -

LPAR 2 PPE 1 Thread 1

0x007A89E0 (3.15) - address of VIRQ-Outlet table for LPAR 2 PPE 1 Thread 1 (not empty)

VIRQ Address of Outlet object in HV dump Description
16 0x003B2480 -
17 0x003B2590 -
18 0x003B26A0 -
19 0x003B27B0 -

IRQ State Bitmap

  • There is one IRQ State Bitmap (256 bits = 32 bytes) per thread of Logical PPE
  • HSPRG0 value is per thread, so there are 2 HSPRG0 values in HV dump !!!
  • The IRQ State Bitmap of a thread is stored at -0x68E0(HSPRG0)
  • When an Event or Interrupt happens then the bitmap at 0x68E0(HSPRG0) is updated
  • The physical address of LPAR's IRQ State Bitmap of thread is stored at offset -0x68C0(HSPRG0)
  • The address of LPAR's IRQ State Bitmap is passed to Hypervisor through HV call lv1_configure_irq_state_bitmap
  • lv1_detect_pending_interrupts returns value of current IRQ State Bitmap.
  • The IRQ State Bitmap is updated if an Outlet object is assigned to VIRQ and when Outlet generates an event
  • After IRQ State Bitmap update, it's copied to LPAR's IRQ State Bitmap and a hardware interrupt is generated so that LPAR can read it's IRQ State Bitmap and handle interrupts.
  • So, IRQ State Bitmap is stored twice, once in HV and once in LPAR, just like VUART IRQ Bitmap.
  • GameOS IRQ state bitmap is stored at address SPRG0 + 0x1C0 and of size 64 bytes (256 bits state + 256 bits mask) per thread of Cell CPU. So there are 2 IRQ state bitmaps.

0x8941FC0 - physical address of LPAR's IRQ State Bitmap for Thread 0 of LINUX LPAR

0x8948FC0 - physical address of LPAR's IRQ State Bitmap for Thread 1 of LINUX LPAR

System Controller (SC or SYSCON)

  • Data received from SC is sent to a VUART
  • lv1_get_rtc and syscall 0x10036 communicate with SC VUART 4.

VUART Table

  • Address of SC VUART Table - 0x00610410 (3.15).
  • There are 5 VUARTs for SC in HV 3.15

Here is the SC VUART table from HV 3.15:

Index Address of VUART object in HV dump Description
0 0x0060FD20 This VUART is connected with the VUART 0 (/dev/sc0) of LPAR 1
1 0x0060FE20 This VUART is connected with the VUART 1 (/dev/sc1) of LPAR 1
2 0x0060FF20 This VUART is not connected to some peer VUART but i guess that it should be connected to VUART 2 (/dev/sc2) of LPAR1
3 0x006124E0 This VUART is connected with the VUART 3 (/dev/sc3) of LPAR 1
4 0x00612DF0 lv1_get_rtc and syscall 0x10036 communicate with this VUART.

Interrupt Handling

spider_sc_interrupt_handler - 0x0020A68C (3.15)

Methods

sc_vuart_4_get_peer_vuart - 0x002ED384 (3.15)

sc_send - 0x0020A908 (3.15)

sc_receive - 0x0020A354 (3.15)

sc_vuart_rx_trigger_callback - 0x002ED470 (3.15)

lv1_get_rtc

  • lv1_get_rtc communicates with SC VUART 4.
  • 20 bytes are written to the peer VUART of SC VUART 4.
  • After a request is sent to SC VUART 4, lv1_get_rtc busy waits until SC VUART 4 receive data buffer is not empty.
  • When SC VUART 4 receive data buffer is not empty, lv1_get_rtc reads 24 bytes from the VUART.

SYSCON Protocol

  • I was able to enable SYSCON Manager debug messages in HV Process 5
  • Messages sent to SYSCON are at least 0x10 bytes of size. SC VUARTs check it before sending the messages to SYSCON.
  • The header size of the SYSCON messages is 0x10 bytes.

Packet Header

  • Packet header is of size 0x10 bytes.
  • At offset 0x6 of SYSCON packet is the header checksum which is of size 2 bytes.
  • The header checkum is just a sum of first 6 header bytes and 0x8000 constant
  • The 2nd byte in every SYSCON message has to be 1 or else the function sc_send fails.
  • The word at offset 0x8 is the SC VUART index.
  • The half-words at offset 0xC and 0xE have to be equal or the function sc_send fails.
struct sc_hdr
{
    uint8_t field0;
    uint8_t field1; /* always 1 */
    uint8_t field2[4];
    uint16_t cksum;
    uint32_t index;
    uint16_t size1;
    uint16_t size2;
};

Calculating Packet Header Checksum

/* calculating SC packet header checksum */

/*
 * sc_hdr_cksum
 */
uint16_t sc_hdr_cksum(struct sc_hdr *sc_hdr)
{
    uint8_t *ptr;
    uint32_t sum;

    ptr = (uint8_t *) sc_hdr;
    sum = 0;

    for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
        sum += *ptr++;

    sum += 0x8000;

    return sum & 0xffff;
}

struct sc_hdr sc_hdr;

memset(&sc_hdr, 0, sizeof(sc_hdr));

sc_hdr.cksum = sc_hdr_cksum(sc_hdr);

/* fill sc header here */

sc_hdr.cksum = sc_hdr_cksum(sc_hdr);

Packet Body

  • Packet body follows packet header
  • Packet body size is stored at offset 0xC and 0xE in packet header and is of size 2 bytes

Reading SYSCON EPROM (NVS Service)

Here is a command which is sent to SYSCON to read 1 byte of EPROM at offset 0x48C07 (Product Mode):

0x14 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x15 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x04 0x20 0x02 0x07 0x01

And here is the response to the above request:

0x14 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x15 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x02 0x07 0x01 0xff