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authorblasty <blasty@local>2026-07-25 22:33:16 +0200
committerblasty <blasty@local>2026-07-25 22:33:16 +0200
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projects phase 3: follow an import into the binary that implements it
Following a call to strcmp reached the PLT/extern entry and stopped there — Hex-Rays has nothing to decompile, because the code lives in a library this binary only references. With the other binary open in the same project we already had everything needed to cross that gap; we just weren't indexing it. Index each binary's imports and exports (KIND_IMPORT / KIND_EXPORT) alongside its functions and strings. On a follow, _import_stub asks whether the target address is one of this binary's import stubs; if so _cross_binary_impl asks the index who exports that name, and we switch there instead of landing on the thunk. Verified end to end on a real echo + libc project: Enter on `strrchr(a1, 47)` in echo's pseudocode switches to libc.so.6 and lands on strrchr at 0xaf960. Three things it turns on: * ELF symbol versioning. The importer sees strrchr@@GLIBC_2.2.5 while the provider may export any of three spellings, so raw names resolve almost nothing. domain.link_name() cuts at the first '@'; Linkage.raw keeps what IDA reported, which is what the listing shows. * Exact match, not substring — ProjectIndex.exact(), so `read` doesn't bind to pread/read_line/thread_start. It also answers below the 3-char trigram floor, and plenty of real exports are that short. * Resolution reads the on-disk index, so a provider resolves while its worker is evicted. That's what the index was for. When nothing in the project provides the symbol _follow_import declines and the normal navigation runs: landing on the stub is still the honest answer, and a single-binary session is unchanged. The PLT-stub PRESENTATION item stays open — an unprovided import should say "imported, provider not in project" rather than show a decompiler error. server/patch_server.py gains list_linkage (idautils.Entries + enum_import_names); a worker without it degrades to no linkage rather than failing. tests: index join +8 (exact vs substring, short names, exclude-self, reverse join, kind isolation, forget unresolves) and link_name +4. 36/0 index, 195/0 scenarios, 23/0 project UI, 33/0 project, 22/0 pool.
Diffstat (limited to 'server')
-rw-r--r--server/patch_server.py35
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/server/patch_server.py b/server/patch_server.py
index 09bca86..0e43ea5 100644
--- a/server/patch_server.py
+++ b/server/patch_server.py
@@ -733,6 +733,41 @@ def list_strings(
"total": len(items),
"next_offset": offset + len(page),
}
+
+@tool
+@idasync
+def list_linkage(
+ kind: Annotated[str, "'import', 'export' or 'both'"] = "both",
+) -> dict:
+ """What this binary imports from, and exports to, other modules:
+ {imports:[{addr,name,module}], exports:[{addr,name,ordinal}]}. Feeds the
+ project-wide import/export join, which resolves a PLT stub in one binary to
+ the real implementation in another."""
+ import idaapi
+ import idautils
+ import ida_nalt
+ want = str(kind or "both").lower()
+ imports = []
+ exports = []
+ if want in ("import", "both"):
+ n = ida_nalt.get_import_module_qty()
+ for i in range(n):
+ mod = ida_nalt.get_import_module_name(i) or ""
+
+ def _cb(ea, name, ordinal, _mod=mod):
+ # An ordinal-only import has no name; skip rather than invent one.
+ if name:
+ imports.append({"addr": hex(ea), "name": name, "module": _mod})
+ return True
+
+ ida_nalt.enum_import_names(i, _cb)
+ if want in ("export", "both"):
+ for index, ordinal, ea, name in idautils.Entries():
+ if name:
+ exports.append({"addr": hex(ea), "name": name,
+ "ordinal": int(ordinal)})
+ return {"imports": imports, "exports": exports,
+ "n_imports": len(imports), "n_exports": len(exports)}
'''
SNIPPET = f"{BEGIN}\n{BODY.strip()}\n{END}\n"