//! Console commands — the third place a stripped Source-2 module names its own functions, and the only //! one that is not a table. //! //! A `ConCommand` used to be a static object with a vtable, and scanning for that shape is the obvious //! route. It does not work on CS2: commands are registered through a handle-based `ConCommandRef` whose //! registry lives in tier0, so `libserver.so` holds no `ConCommand` object and no `_ZTV10ConCommand` //! relocation to one. Nothing static points at a command name — which is why this was carried for a long //! time as needing a LIVE process to walk the registry. //! //! It does not. The registration is an ordinary call from a static initialiser, and every argument is a //! constant in the instruction stream: //! //! ```text //! lea rdi, [rip+ref] ; the ConCommandRef this call fills in //! lea rsi, [rip+"bot_add"] ; the command name //! lea rdx, [rip+handler] ; the callback //! mov ecx, 0 ; which FORM the callback takes //! lea r8, [rip+"bot_add ..."] //! mov r9d, 0x80004 ; flags //! call //! ``` //! //! So the walk is offline: decode each function, track what the argument registers provably hold, and //! read the vector at every call. The name, the handler, the description and the flags all come from ONE //! instruction sequence, which is what makes the result checkable — Valve's own command dump states the //! name and description of each command, and those two arguments agreeing is evidence about the third. //! //! Like the table readers this is deliberately shape-driven: the registrar is recognised by what it DOES //! (it opens by writing the invalid-handle sentinel), a handler is accepted only if it lands in //! executable code, and a name only if it resolves to a plausible string. A layout change yields //! FEWER commands, never wrong ones. //! //! # ConVars, the other half of the same surface //! //! Convars register the same way and are read by the same pass, which is why they live here rather than in //! a module of their own — and, more importantly, they share the FCVAR flag space, so [`flag_names`] decodes //! both. A registration looks like: //! //! ```text //! lea r14, [rip+object] ; the ConVar itself — in .bss, so zero on disk //! lea rsi, [rip+"mp_maxrounds"] ; the name //! mov ecx, 0x282100 ; flags (bit 13 replicated, bit 19 release) //! lea r8, [rip+"max number of rounds…"] ; the help text //! call //! ``` //! //! **The object is in `.bss`**, so the scan-a-static-record route every other reader here uses is not //! available: on disk a ConVar is 344 zero bytes, and its name, flags and help exist only as arguments to //! the constructor call. Reading the call site is not a shortcut, it is the only offline route. //! //! The registrar is identified differently from the command one, and the difference is deliberate. A //! ConVar constructor has no equivalent of the invalid-handle sentinel to recognise it by, so the test is //! on the CALL SITE's argument shape — a convar-shaped name, prose-or-absent help, a flags word — and then //! on AGREEMENT: only a call target that presents that shape at `MIN_CONVAR_SITES` or more sites is //! accepted as a registrar. The doc on `inits_invalid_handle` warns that ranking call targets is wrong, //! and it is, for the shape it was warning about: "an argument that lands in executable code" fits far too //! much. Two strings with different character profiles plus a flags word plus a `.bss` pointer, repeated //! across dozens of sites, is a different order of evidence. use crate::elf::CodeImage; use iced_x86::{ Decoder, DecoderOptions, FlowControl, Instruction, InstructionInfoFactory, Mnemonic, OpAccess, OpKind, Register, }; use std::collections::HashMap; /// SysV argument registers, by the GPR index [`gpr`] produces. const RCX: usize = 1; const RDX: usize = 2; const RSI: usize = 6; const RDI: usize = 7; const R8: usize = 8; const R9: usize = 9; /// Caller-saved under SysV: a call destroys any constant we were tracking in these. The `this` a /// constructor threads through its registrations is callee-saved (rbx, r12-r15), so it survives — which /// is what makes the member-callback form readable at all. /// /// DERIVED from `abi::CALLER_SAVED` rather than re-listed. It is a fixed SysV fact and was spelled out /// three times across two readers and the ABI measurer; a register present in one list and missing from /// another is a tracker that either forgets a value the machine kept or keeps one it destroyed. fn clobbered() -> [usize; 9] { let mut out = [0usize; 9]; for (i, &r) in crate::abi::CALLER_SAVED.iter().enumerate() { out[i] = crate::abi::gp_slot(r).expect("every caller-saved register is a GPR"); } out } /// Longest string accepted as a command name. Names are identifiers; anything longer is not one, so the /// cap doubles as a validity gate. const MAX_NAME: usize = 64; /// Bytes of the member-accessor object searched for the handler. The object holds a vtable, the receiver /// and the member function; the window is scanned for a UNIQUE executable pointer rather than indexed at /// a fixed slot, so a layout change drops the record instead of quietly moving the answer. const ACCESSOR_WINDOW: i64 = 0x40; /// Instruction bytes of a registrar prologue examined for the invalid-handle store. const PROLOGUE: u64 = 96; /// How a registration passes its callback. Recorded because it says how much inference produced the /// address: [`CallbackForm::Direct`] is read straight off the call, the other two resolve one step /// further. #[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)] pub enum CallbackForm { /// The argument IS the handler. Direct, /// The argument is a static interface object; the handler is its first virtual. Interface, /// The argument is a member of the object under construction; the handler is the executable pointer /// the enclosing constructor stores into it. Member, } impl CallbackForm { pub fn describe(self) -> &'static str { match self { CallbackForm::Direct => "direct", CallbackForm::Interface => "interface", CallbackForm::Member => "member", } } } /// One registered console command. #[derive(Clone, Debug)] pub struct ConsoleCommand { /// The console-facing name, exactly as Valve compiled it (`bot_add`, `+bugvoice`). pub name: String, /// Address of the handler. pub handler: u64, /// The raw flags word. Ships raw beside [`flag_names`] so a build that repurposes a bit can be /// re-read rather than silently mis-labelled. pub flags: u64, /// Valve's own help text. Empty when the registration passes none. pub description: String, pub form: CallbackForm, } /// The flag bits whose meaning is MEASURED, not assumed: each was matched against Valve's published /// command dump across 742 CS2 commands carrying both a derived flags word and Valve's flag names, and /// each of these twelve separates that dump exactly — every command with the bit has the name, every /// command with the name has the bit. /// /// Three further bits are set in the wild (1, 2 and 33) and are NOT listed, because no name in the dump /// matches them. Note also that the dump's `developmentonly`, `defensive` and `gamedll` are labels the /// dumper derives (the first two from the ABSENCE of `release`, the last from which module registered /// the command) rather than bits — inventing bits for them is the mistake this table exists to avoid. const FLAG_BITS: [(u32, &str); 12] = [ (0, "linked_concommand"), (4, "hidden"), (11, "unlogged"), (13, "replicated"), (14, "cheat"), (17, "dontrecord"), (19, "release"), (23, "vconsole_fuzzy_matching"), (24, "server_can_execute"), (25, "client_can_execute"), (27, "vconsole_set_focus"), (28, "clientcmd_can_execute"), ]; /// CONVAR flag bits. A SEPARATE table from [`FLAG_BITS`], and the separation is not cosmetic. /// /// The tempting assumption is that FCVAR is one flag space, so the command table decodes convars too. It /// does not, and shipping on that assumption mislabelled bit 0 as `linked_concommand` on 185 Dota and 56 CS2 /// convars — a name that Valve's own dump gives to NONE of them. Whatever transforms the word on the way in /// (the registrar visibly masks a bit of it), the convar encoding is its own and has to be measured as its /// own. /// /// Derived against Valve's published dumps for BOTH games — `GameTracking-{CS2,Dota2}/DumpSource2/ /// convars.txt`, 1,939 convars pooled — keeping only bits whose flag holds at 100% precision. Bits 0, 1 and /// 2 are set often and match nothing cleanly; they stay unnamed and survive in `flags_raw`, which is what /// that field is for. const CONVAR_FLAG_BITS: [(u32, &str); 9] = [ (4, "hidden"), (7, "archive"), (8, "notify"), (13, "replicated"), (14, "cheat"), (15, "per_user"), (17, "dontrecord"), (19, "release"), (21, "commandline_enforced"), ]; /// The names of the bits set in a CONVAR's flags word that have a measured meaning. pub fn convar_flag_names(flags: u64) -> Vec<&'static str> { CONVAR_FLAG_BITS .iter() .filter(|(b, _)| flags & (1u64 << b) != 0) .map(|&(_, n)| n) .collect() } /// The names of the bits set in `flags` that have a measured meaning. Bits without one are omitted here /// and preserved in [`ConsoleCommand::flags`]. pub fn flag_names(flags: u64) -> Vec<&'static str> { FLAG_BITS .iter() .filter(|(b, _)| flags & (1u64 << b) != 0) .map(|&(_, n)| n) .collect() } /// Index 0-15 of a GPR, after widening an 8/16/32-bit name to its 64-bit parent. /// The 64-bit parent register as a slot index. Thin wrapper over [`crate::abi::gp_slot`] — the mapping is a /// fixed SysV fact, and this file only narrows it to the `u8` its `[_; 16]` arrays index by. fn gpr(r: Register) -> Option { crate::abi::gp_slot(r).map(|s| s as u8) } /// What a register provably holds. `Sym` is an offset from a value we never learned — a constructor's /// `this` — which is what lets a `lea rdx,[this+0x1c8]` argument be matched against a /// `mov [this+0x1e8],rax` store made by the same function. /// /// The epoch is what makes that safe. Stores are collected across the WHOLE function, because the /// compiler sinks an accessor's handler store past the registration that consumes it. Over that span the /// base register is eventually reloaded — an epilogue's `pop rbx` alone would otherwise either discard /// every store or, worse, re-point them at a different object. Bumping a counter instead keeps each run /// of a register's life distinct, and only same-epoch pairs ever match. #[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Debug)] enum V { Unknown, Const(u64), Sym(u8, u32, i64), } impl V { fn offset(self, d: i64) -> V { match self { V::Const(c) => V::Const(c.wrapping_add(d as u64)), V::Sym(b, e, dd) => V::Sym(b, e, dd.wrapping_add(d)), V::Unknown => V::Unknown, } } fn konst(self) -> Option { match self { V::Const(c) => Some(c), _ => None, } } } /// End a register's current life, because something has overwritten it. /// /// Called by EVERY arm that assigns to a register, not only the catch-all — which is the correction that /// matters. `mov`, `lea` and `xor` re-point a register just as surely as an unmodelled instruction does, /// so leaving their epoch alone let a base register be aimed at a second object while stores made against /// the FIRST still keyed to the same `(register, epoch)` pair — and a `lea rdx,[rbx+0x1c8]` for object B /// could then match a `mov [rbx+0x1e8],rax` that belonged to object A, attributing one constructor's /// handler to another's registration. fn end_life(epoch: &mut [u32; 16], d: u8) { epoch[d as usize] = epoch[d as usize].saturating_add(1); } /// Address of a `this`-relative slot: base register, that register's epoch, displacement. type Slot = (u8, u32, i64); /// One call to a registrar, with what its argument registers held and the `this`-relative constants its /// enclosing function stored. struct Site { /// The call target — which registrar this site went to. Convar registrars are identified by agreement /// across their sites, so the target has to survive collection. target: u64, args: [V; 16], stores: std::sync::Arc>, } /// Does `f` open by storing the invalid-handle sentinel into `*rdi`? That is what a `ConCommandRef` /// constructor does before it registers, and it identifies the registrar SEMANTICALLY. /// /// Ranking call targets by how many look like registrations is the tempting alternative and it is wrong /// twice over: libvscript's top-ranked such target is not the registrar (it yields six confident, /// entirely fictional commands), and libschemasystem passes an object rather than a function so its /// registrar never ranks at all. fn inits_invalid_handle(img: &CodeImage, f: u64) -> bool { // Saturating: `f` is a decoded near-branch target, so a crafted image can put it at the top of the // address space and a plain add wraps the range inside out. Found by `fuzz_concmd`. let Some(code) = img.code_range(f, f.saturating_add(PROLOGUE)) else { return false; }; let mut insn = Instruction::default(); let mut dec = Decoder::with_ip(64, code, f, DecoderOptions::NONE); while dec.can_decode() { dec.decode_out(&mut insn); if insn.mnemonic() == Mnemonic::Mov && insn.op0_kind() == OpKind::Memory && insn.memory_base() == Register::RDI && insn.memory_index() == Register::None && insn.memory_displacement64() == 0 && insn.memory_size().size() == 8 && matches!( insn.op1_kind(), OpKind::Immediate32 | OpKind::Immediate32to64 | OpKind::Immediate64 ) && insn.immediate64() == 0xffff { return true; } if insn.flow_control() == FlowControl::Return { break; } } false } /// A plausible console-command name: short, printable, no spaces or quoting. /// Whether `s` is shaped like a console COMMAND name. /// /// Split from the read so a test can call the rule instead of restating it — restating it is how the /// convar test came to assert this rule while claiming to pin the other one, and would have passed with /// the two gates swapped. /// /// Deliberately looser than [`is_convar_name`]: a command name may lead with punctuation, because the /// `+bugvoice` / `-bugvoice` on/off pairs are real commands and a convar can never be spelled that way. fn is_cmd_name(s: &str) -> bool { !s.is_empty() && s.len() <= MAX_NAME && s.bytes() .all(|c| c.is_ascii_graphic() && c != b'"' && c != b'%') } fn cmd_name(img: &CodeImage, va: u64) -> Option { let s = img.read_c_string(va)?; is_cmd_name(&s).then_some(s) } /// Every console command `img` registers. pub fn console_commands(img: &CodeImage) -> Vec { // Memoised so the prologue test runs once per distinct call target rather than once per call, and so // only registrar calls are ever materialised as a Site. let mut is_reg: HashMap = HashMap::new(); let sites = collect_sites(img, |img, t, _| { *is_reg .entry(t) .or_insert_with(|| inits_invalid_handle(img, t)) }); interpret_commands(img, &sites) } /// Walk every function, constant-propagate the argument registers, and keep the call sites `accept` wants. /// /// Single-sourced deliberately: this pass is subtle — the epoch counter, the write-only invalidation, the /// straight-line reset per function — and two copies of it would drift. The command and convar readers differ /// only in which calls they keep and how they read the arguments, so that is all `accept` decides. fn collect_sites( img: &CodeImage, mut accept: impl FnMut(&CodeImage, u64, &[V; 16]) -> bool, ) -> Vec { let entries = crate::locate::function_entries(img); let mut sites: Vec = Vec::new(); let mut factory = InstructionInfoFactory::new(); for (i, &start) in entries.iter().enumerate() { let end = entries.get(i + 1).copied().unwrap_or(u64::MAX); let Some(code) = img.code_range(start, end) else { continue; }; // Values are tracked straight-line and reset at each function entry. A branch into the middle of // a tracked run could carry a stale value forward, which is why every recovered command is // re-validated against the image: the name string resolves, the handler is executable. let mut val = [V::Unknown; 16]; let mut epoch = [0u32; 16]; let mut stores: HashMap = HashMap::new(); let mut found: Vec<(u64, [V; 16])> = Vec::new(); let mut insn = Instruction::default(); let mut dec = Decoder::with_ip(64, code, start, DecoderOptions::NONE); while dec.can_decode() { dec.decode_out(&mut insn); if insn.flow_control() == FlowControl::Call && matches!( insn.op0_kind(), OpKind::NearBranch16 | OpKind::NearBranch32 | OpKind::NearBranch64 ) { let t = insn.near_branch_target(); if accept(img, t, &val) { found.push((t, val)); } // A call assigns to NINE registers at once, so it ends nine lives — the arm that most // needs the epoch bump and the one that was missing it. The Lea arm below mints a fresh // symbolic base for any unknown-valued register, and the store arm keys that base as // `(reg, epoch, disp)`: without the bump, `rax` after two successive calls is ONE key // space shared by two objects, where same-displacement stores overwrite each other. for c in clobbered() { end_life(&mut epoch, c as u8); val[c] = V::Unknown; } continue; } // A store of a known constant to a `this`-relative slot: how the member form records its // handler. if insn.mnemonic() == Mnemonic::Mov && insn.op0_kind() == OpKind::Memory && insn.memory_index() == Register::None && insn.op1_kind() == OpKind::Register && let Some(b) = gpr(insn.memory_base()) && let Some(s) = gpr(insn.op1_register()) && let Some(v) = val[s as usize].konst() { let d = insn.memory_displacement64() as i64; match val[b as usize] { V::Unknown => { stores.insert((b, epoch[b as usize], d), v); } V::Sym(bb, e, dd) => { stores.insert((bb, e, dd.wrapping_add(d)), v); } // An absolute address needs no note: it can be read back off the image directly. V::Const(_) => {} } continue; } match insn.mnemonic() { // `lea r,[rip+d]` is a string/global/function address; `lea r,[base+d]` walks to a member. Mnemonic::Lea => { if let Some(d) = gpr(insn.op0_register()) { end_life(&mut epoch, d); val[d as usize] = if insn.is_ip_rel_memory_operand() { V::Const(insn.ip_rel_memory_address()) } else if insn.memory_index() == Register::None { gpr(insn.memory_base()) .map_or(V::Unknown, |b| match val[b as usize] { V::Unknown => V::Sym(b, epoch[b as usize], 0), v => v, }) .offset(insn.memory_displacement64() as i64) } else { V::Unknown }; } } Mnemonic::Mov => { if let Some(d) = gpr(insn.op0_register()) { end_life(&mut epoch, d); val[d as usize] = match insn.op1_kind() { OpKind::Immediate8to64 | OpKind::Immediate32to64 | OpKind::Immediate64 => V::Const(insn.immediate64()), OpKind::Immediate8 | OpKind::Immediate16 | OpKind::Immediate32 => { V::Const(u64::from(insn.immediate32())) } OpKind::Register => { gpr(insn.op1_register()).map_or(V::Unknown, |s| val[s as usize]) } _ => V::Unknown, }; } } // the compiler's idiomatic zero Mnemonic::Xor => { if let (Some(d), Some(s)) = (gpr(insn.op0_register()), gpr(insn.op1_register())) { end_life(&mut epoch, d); val[d as usize] = if d == s { V::Const(0) } else { V::Unknown }; } } // Anything else: forget only what it WRITES. Invalidating every register OPERAND instead // ends the epoch of the `this` register on the first `push`/`cmp` against it, which is // most of a constructor and loses every store it made. _ => { for ur in factory.info(&insn).used_registers() { if matches!( ur.access(), OpAccess::Write | OpAccess::ReadWrite | OpAccess::CondWrite ) && let Some(d) = gpr(ur.register()) { end_life(&mut epoch, d); val[d as usize] = V::Unknown; } } } } } if !found.is_empty() { let stores = std::sync::Arc::new(stores); sites.extend(found.into_iter().map(|(target, args)| Site { target, args, stores: stores.clone(), })); } } sites } /// Read command registrations out of collected sites. fn interpret_commands(img: &CodeImage, sites: &[Site]) -> Vec { let mut out: Vec = Vec::new(); for s in sites { let Some(name) = s.args[RSI].konst().and_then(|v| cmd_name(img, v)) else { continue; }; // The fourth argument is the callback TYPE, and several of its values (0, 2 and 4 all occur) // pass a raw function pointer. So accept on what the third argument provably IS rather than on // a decoded enum: if it lands in executable code, it is the handler. Type 1 alone passes an // INTERFACE, and that one does need the enum to tell the two indirections apart. let (handler, form) = match (s.args[RCX], s.args[RDX]) { (_, V::Const(p)) if img.is_code(p) => (Some(p), CallbackForm::Direct), (V::Const(1), V::Const(p)) => ( img.read_ptr(p) .and_then(|vt| img.read_ptr(vt)) .filter(|&f| img.is_code(f)), CallbackForm::Interface, ), (V::Const(1), V::Sym(b, e, d)) => { // The displacement is accumulated with wrapping arithmetic from file-controlled // values, so walking the window must wrap too rather than overflow. let mut hits: Vec = (0..ACCESSOR_WINDOW / 8) .filter_map(|k| s.stores.get(&(b, e, d.wrapping_add(k * 8))).copied()) .filter(|&v| img.is_code(v)) .collect(); // Sorted before de-duplicating so "exactly one" means one distinct address, not one // run of adjacent slots — an object may hold the same pointer at two offsets. hits.sort_unstable(); hits.dedup(); // Exactly one executable pointer in the object, or none is claimed. ((hits.len() == 1).then(|| hits[0]), CallbackForm::Member) } _ => (None, CallbackForm::Direct), }; // Flags are only recorded when they were actually read. Defaulting an untracked r9 to zero // would ship "no flags" for a command whose flags we merely failed to follow, and a consumer // cannot tell those apart. let (Some(handler), Some(flags)) = (handler, s.args[R9].konst()) else { continue; }; out.push(ConsoleCommand { name, handler, flags, description: s.args[R8] .konst() .and_then(|v| img.read_c_string(v)) .unwrap_or_default(), form, }); } out.sort_by(|a, b| (&a.name, a.handler).cmp(&(&b.name, b.handler))); out.dedup_by(|a, b| a.name == b.name && a.handler == b.handler); out } /// How many call sites must present the convar argument shape before a target counts as a registrar. /// /// This is the whole safety margin for identifying convar registration by shape rather than by a semantic /// sentinel. A coincidental `(object, name-ish string, int, prose string)` call happens; forty of them to the /// same target does not. Measured on CS2 libserver the real registrars carry hundreds of sites each, so the /// bar sits far below the signal and far above the noise. const MIN_CONVAR_SITES: usize = 12; /// A ConVar the module registers, as its registration states it. #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)] pub struct ConVar { /// The console-facing name, e.g. `mp_maxrounds`. pub name: String, pub library: String, /// Valve's own help text; absent when the registration passes none. pub description: String, /// Flag bits with a measured meaning, decoded by [`convar_flag_names`] — NOT the command table, whose /// bit 0 name applies to no convar in either game's published dump. pub flags: Vec, /// The raw flags word, kept beside the decoding so a build that repurposes a bit can be re-read rather /// than silently mis-labelled. Convars set bits commands never do (8 and 21 on CS2), and those have no /// name yet — this is where they survive. pub flags_raw: String, /// Address of the ConVar OBJECT. In `.bss`, so it holds nothing on disk; it is the anchor a runtime /// walks to reach the live value, and it is what distinguishes two registrations of the same name. pub addr: String, } /// A plausible convar name: an identifier, lowercase by convention but not required, no spaces or prose. /// /// Stricter than [`cmd_name`], which admits any printable run because commands like `+bugvoice` exist. /// A convar name is always an identifier, and the tighter gate is what keeps prose out of the name slot /// when the shape test is the only thing standing between a call site and a record. /// Whether `s` is shaped like a CONVAR name — stricter than [`is_cmd_name`] in both directions: it must /// LEAD with a letter or underscore, and its body admits only `[A-Za-z0-9_.]`. /// /// This gate is the only shape check between a call site and an emitted ConVar record, so it is what keeps /// prose out of the name slot. fn is_convar_name(s: &str) -> bool { !s.is_empty() && s.len() <= MAX_NAME && s.chars() .next() .is_some_and(|c| c.is_ascii_alphabetic() || c == '_') && s.bytes() .all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == b'_' || c == b'.') } fn convar_name(img: &CodeImage, va: u64) -> Option { let s = img.read_c_string(va)?; is_convar_name(&s).then_some(s) } /// Help text: prose, or nothing. Deliberately permissive about content and strict about being a real /// string — the point is to separate "this argument is a description" from "this argument is something else /// that happens to be a pointer". fn help_text(img: &CodeImage, va: u64) -> Option { let s = img.read_c_string(va)?; (!s.is_empty() && s.len() <= 512 && s.is_ascii()).then_some(s) } /// Does this call site look like a ConVar registration? /// /// `rsi` a convar-shaped name, `rdi` a non-code address (the object), `rcx` a plausible flags word, and `r8` /// either help text or absent. Nothing here is sufficient alone; the caller additionally requires agreement /// across [`MIN_CONVAR_SITES`] sites to the same target. fn looks_like_convar_site(img: &CodeImage, args: &[V; 16]) -> bool { let Some(name) = args[RSI].konst() else { return false; }; if convar_name(img, name).is_none() { return false; } // The object: a real address that is NOT code. A ConVar lives in writable data. match args[RDI].konst() { Some(o) if o != 0 && !img.is_code(o) => {} _ => return false, } // Flags: a 32-bit word. A pointer-sized value here means this is not the flags argument. match args[RCX].konst() { Some(f) if f <= u64::from(u32::MAX) => {} _ => return false, } // Help: present and prose, or genuinely absent. A non-zero value that is not a readable string means // the fifth argument is something else and this is not the registration shape. match args[R8] { V::Const(0) | V::Unknown => true, V::Const(p) => help_text(img, p).is_some(), V::Sym(..) => false, } } /// Functions `f` delegates to — direct calls AND tail jumps. /// /// The tail jumps are the point. A convar registrar is a thin wrapper that arranges arguments and then /// `jmp`s to the core rather than calling it, so a collector that only counts `call` sees a wrapper /// delegate to nothing and the convergence that identifies the family disappears. Only branches LEAVING the /// scanned span count as delegation; a jump within it is ordinary control flow. fn callees(img: &CodeImage, f: u64) -> Vec { const SPAN: u64 = 0x400; let end = f.saturating_add(SPAN); let Some(code) = img.code_range(f, end) else { return Vec::new(); }; let mut out = Vec::new(); let mut insn = Instruction::default(); let mut dec = Decoder::with_ip(64, code, f, DecoderOptions::NONE); while dec.can_decode() { dec.decode_out(&mut insn); if !matches!( insn.op0_kind(), OpKind::NearBranch16 | OpKind::NearBranch32 | OpKind::NearBranch64 ) { continue; } let t = insn.near_branch_target(); let delegates = match insn.flow_control() { FlowControl::Call => true, FlowControl::UnconditionalBranch => !(f..end).contains(&t), _ => false, }; if delegates && img.is_code(t) { out.push(t); } } out.sort_unstable(); out.dedup(); out } /// Which of the shape-matching targets are REAL convar registrars. /// /// The argument shape alone is not enough, and this is the measurement that says so: on CS2 libserver it /// matches eleven targets, of which five register convars and six register something else with an /// identical footprint — animation events, mostly, which are also `(static object, identifier, int, prose)`. /// Checked against Valve's published convar dump the split is absolute: every one of those eleven targets is /// either 100% real convars or 0%. So the families ARE separable; the shape just is not what separates them. /// /// What separates them is that the real registrars CONVERGE. Four of the five are wrappers that delegate to /// the fifth, which is itself a registrar — the cvar core. The false family shares no callee with them. So /// the core identifies itself: it is the candidate called by the most OTHER candidates. Accept it and its /// callers, reject everything else. On CS2 that yields exactly the five real registrars and 1,159 convars, /// with zero names absent from Valve's dump. /// /// Deliberately NOT keyed off an address, a name, or Valve's dump: all three are per-build inputs this tool /// exists to avoid. The convergence is a property of the code in front of it. fn convar_registrars(img: &CodeImage, per_target: &HashMap) -> Vec { let cands: Vec = per_target .iter() .filter(|&(_, &n)| n >= MIN_CONVAR_SITES) .map(|(&t, _)| t) .collect(); let calls: HashMap> = cands.iter().map(|&c| (c, callees(img, c))).collect(); // How many candidates delegate to each function. The core does NOT have to be a candidate itself: on // CS2 it happens to take 28 registrations directly, but on Dota the shared core takes none, and // requiring it to be a candidate found nothing there at all. let mut inbound: HashMap = HashMap::new(); for (&from, tos) in &calls { for t in tos { if *t != from { *inbound.entry(*t).or_default() += 1; } } } // Ties broken by site count then address, so the choice cannot depend on hash order — this feeds a // byte-reproducible artifact. let Some((&core, &votes)) = inbound.iter().max_by_key(|&(t, n)| { ( *n, per_target.get(t).copied().unwrap_or(0), std::cmp::Reverse(*t), ) }) else { return Vec::new(); }; // One wrapper proves nothing; a family of them is the signal. Below this the convergence is noise and // reporting NOTHING is the honest outcome — the profile floor then fails the release loudly. if votes < 2 { return Vec::new(); } let mut keep: Vec = Vec::new(); if cands.contains(&core) { keep.push(core); } keep.extend( cands .iter() .copied() .filter(|c| calls.get(c).is_some_and(|t| t.contains(&core))), ); keep.sort_unstable(); keep.dedup(); keep } /// Which argument slot holds the FLAGS, for one registrar. /// /// It is not the same slot for every registrar, and assuming it was is what first produced convars whose /// "flags" were `0x99dc60` — a `.rodata` pointer sitting in the slot a different overload uses for /// something else. The name slot is stable across all of them; nothing else is. /// /// Found statistically, because flags REPEAT and pointers do not: across a registrar's sites the flags slot /// takes a small set of recurring words (`0x4000` alone appears 188 times on CS2), while a slot holding a /// string or an object address is very nearly unique per site. So the flags slot is the integer-shaped one /// with the lowest distinct-value ratio — and if nothing is clearly repetitive, this returns `None` and the /// registrar's convars ship with no decoded flags rather than with invented ones. fn flags_slot(sites: &[&Site]) -> Option { const CANDIDATES: [usize; 4] = [RDX, RCX, R8, R9]; let mut best: Option<(usize, f64)> = None; for slot in CANDIDATES { let vals: Vec = sites.iter().filter_map(|s| s.args[slot].konst()).collect(); // Every value must fit a 32-bit flags word, and the slot must be present on nearly every site. if vals.len() * 4 < sites.len() * 3 || vals.iter().any(|&v| v > u64::from(u32::MAX)) { continue; } let mut d = vals.clone(); d.sort_unstable(); d.dedup(); let ratio = d.len() as f64 / vals.len() as f64; if best.is_none_or(|(_, b)| ratio < b) { best = Some((slot, ratio)); } } // A genuine flags slot repeats heavily. Anything above this is as unique as a pointer, which is what a // pointer is, and naming its bits would be fabrication. best.filter(|&(_, r)| r < 0.5).map(|(s, _)| s) } /// Every ConVar `img` registers. pub fn convars(img: &CodeImage, library: &str) -> Vec { let sites = collect_sites(img, |img, _, args| looks_like_convar_site(img, args)); let mut per_target: HashMap = HashMap::new(); for s in &sites { *per_target.entry(s.target).or_default() += 1; } let registrars = convar_registrars(img, &per_target); // Resolve the flags slot once per registrar, from all of that registrar's sites. let flag_of: HashMap> = registrars .iter() .map(|&r| { let mine: Vec<&Site> = sites.iter().filter(|s| s.target == r).collect(); (r, flags_slot(&mine)) }) .collect(); let mut out: Vec = Vec::new(); for s in &sites { if !registrars.contains(&s.target) { continue; } let (Some(name), Some(obj)) = ( s.args[RSI].konst().and_then(|v| convar_name(img, v)), s.args[RDI].konst(), ) else { continue; }; // Absent when this registrar has no identifiable flags slot: no decoded names, and a raw word of // zero that is honestly empty rather than a guess. let flags = flag_of .get(&s.target) .copied() .flatten() .and_then(|slot| s.args[slot].konst()); out.push(ConVar { name, library: library.to_string(), description: s.args[R8] .konst() .filter(|&p| p != 0) .and_then(|p| help_text(img, p)) .unwrap_or_default(), flags: flags .map(|f| { convar_flag_names(f) .into_iter() .map(str::to_string) .collect() }) .unwrap_or_default(), flags_raw: flags.map(|f| format!("{f:#x}")).unwrap_or_default(), addr: format!("{obj:#x}"), }); } // One row per (name, object): the same convar is registered once, but a name can legitimately appear // twice across libraries and the object is what tells those apart. out.sort_by(|a, b| a.name.cmp(&b.name).then_with(|| a.addr.cmp(&b.addr))); out.dedup_by(|a, b| a.name == b.name && a.addr == b.addr); out } #[cfg(test)] mod tests { use super::*; // ---- command reader ---- #[test] fn only_measured_flag_bits_are_named() { // bot_add ships 0x80004 = bits 2 and 19. Bit 19 is `release`; bit 2 stays unnamed because no // name in Valve's dump matches it, and naming it anyway is the whole mistake to avoid. assert_eq!(flag_names(0x80004), vec!["release"]); // bot_place ships 0x4004 = bits 2 and 14 — bit 14 is `cheat`. assert_eq!(flag_names(0x4004), vec!["cheat"]); // A command with no flags names none, rather than falling back to a default. assert!(flag_names(0).is_empty()); // Every listed bit is distinct and in range. let mut seen: Vec = FLAG_BITS.iter().map(|&(b, _)| b).collect(); seen.sort_unstable(); seen.dedup(); assert_eq!(seen.len(), FLAG_BITS.len()); assert!(FLAG_BITS.iter().all(|&(b, _)| b < 64)); } #[test] fn symbolic_offsets_keep_the_base_and_track_the_epoch() { // A `this`-relative walk composes, so `lea rax,[rbx+0x1c8]` then `lea rdx,[rax+0x40]` addresses // the same object the constructor stored into. assert_eq!(V::Sym(3, 0, 0x1c8).offset(0x40), V::Sym(3, 0, 0x208)); // A constant walk stays constant. assert_eq!(V::Const(0x1000).offset(8), V::Const(0x1008)); // Nothing is invented from nothing. assert_eq!(V::Unknown.offset(8), V::Unknown); // Two runs of the same register never address each other's slots. assert_ne!(V::Sym(3, 0, 0x1c8), V::Sym(3, 1, 0x1c8)); // Only a constant is a usable address. assert_eq!(V::Const(7).konst(), Some(7)); assert_eq!(V::Sym(3, 0, 7).konst(), None); } #[test] fn every_arm_that_clobbers_a_register_ends_its_life() { // The invariant `end_life` documents, checked against the arm that breaks it most cheaply. A // CALL assigns to nine caller-saved registers at once; leaving their epochs alone made `rax` // after two successive calls one key space shared by two objects, so a store to `[rax+0x18]` // made through the FIRST could be read back as a slot of the SECOND — and the member-callback // recovery ships whatever executable pointer that merged window holds. let mut epoch = [0u32; 16]; let clobber = clobbered(); let before: Vec = clobber.iter().map(|&c| epoch[c]).collect(); for c in clobbered() { end_life(&mut epoch, c as u8); } for (i, &c) in clobber.iter().enumerate() { assert_eq!( epoch[c], before[i] + 1, "register {c} kept its epoch across a call" ); // …and the two runs are therefore distinguishable keys, which is the point. assert_ne!( V::Sym(c as u8, before[i], 0x18), V::Sym(c as u8, epoch[c], 0x18) ); } // A callee-saved register is NOT clobbered: the registration `this` a constructor threads // through survives the call, which is what the epoch widening was for in the first place. for saved in [3u8 /* rbx */, 12, 13, 14, 15] { assert!( !clobber.contains(&(saved as usize)), "r{saved} is callee-saved and must survive a call" ); } } #[test] fn a_command_name_is_an_identifier_not_prose() { // Calls the shipped rule, for the same reason as the convar test below it. assert!(is_cmd_name("bot_add")); assert!(is_cmd_name("+bugvoice")); // an on/off pair is a real command name assert!(!is_cmd_name("")); // an empty string is not a name assert!(!is_cmd_name("Adds a bot matching the given criteria.")); // a description (spaces) assert!(!is_cmd_name("%s: no varname specified\n")); // a format string assert!(!is_cmd_name(&"x".repeat(MAX_NAME + 1))); } // ---- convar reader ---- #[test] fn a_convar_name_is_stricter_than_a_command_name() { // CALLS the gate rather than restating it. The previous version of this test re-implemented the // COMMAND rule and asserted only inputs both rules agree on, so it would have passed with the two // gates swapped — the exact regression it is named for. assert!(is_convar_name("sv_cheats")); assert!(is_convar_name("mp_roundtime_defuse")); assert!(is_convar_name("_internal.thing")); // leading underscore and a dot are both legal assert!(!is_convar_name("")); assert!(!is_convar_name("Set to 1 to enable cheats")); // help text, not a name assert!(!is_convar_name(&"x".repeat(MAX_NAME + 1))); // The DISCRIMINATING cases — the ones that fail if the two gates are confused. A command may lead // with punctuation (the `+`/`-` on/off pairs); a convar may not, and admits no other punctuation. assert!(is_cmd_name("+bugvoice") && !is_convar_name("+bugvoice")); assert!(is_cmd_name("1st_arg") && !is_convar_name("1st_arg")); // digit-led assert!(is_cmd_name("say/all") && !is_convar_name("say/all")); } }