BCM4375

[savox-326]

Could you update patch for new binaries at S20, N20 series? From OneUI 3 even with permissive SELinux we cannot use monitor mode. please update

[savox-326]

@jlinktu I don't know what it should look like, but my compiled bcm4375 (s20 version) firmware (with patch) hasn't wlc_monitor_attach if check with strings command though compilation finished successfully

[jlinktu]

Not sure what I am supposed to do with this information... thank you for telling me, I guess.
Or is there a hidden question in there?

[savox-326]

@jlinktu Monitor mode finds nothing, maybe because of this

[jlinktu]

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[savox-326]

@jlinktu Sorry for that, I just thought you know what I was meaning about, cause thehe is many issues with that.
My device is N9860 (Snapdragon) running on Android 13 (OneUI 5.1), with custom kernel where SELinux always permessive. Stock version of bcmdhd_sta.bin_b1 was equal 18.41.113 or higher. I replaced it to nexmon's unpatched 18.41.8.9 (because that version has monitor and injection patch). It works as stock binary. After patching also works perfectly. But after running monitor mode (with nexutil, with libfakeioctl) airodump starts and sticks on 0 cnannel and finds nothing. Yesterday with strings command I noticed, that my compiled binary no has wlc_monitor_attach string though meanwhile bcm4358 and etc has it

[jlinktu]

1. strings outputs the printable characters contained in the file you are running it on. If your patched firmware file doesn't contain the character sequence "wlc_monitor_attach" in a printable form, strings can't output it. This is not equivalent to your firmware missing a function with the C-naming wlc_monitor_attach. Nevertheless, you are partly on the right track as the stock firmware 18.41.8.9 (STA) probably doesn't have the wlc_monitor_attach function compiled in. Therefore, Matthias added it manually to his patch code:

   nexmon/patches/bcm4375b1/18_41_8_9_sta/nexmon/src/monitormode.c

   Line 97 in ae8addb

   wlc_monitor_attach(struct wlc_info *wlc) {

   
   which means, that the your patched firmware contains it. Also if there is no string "wlc_monitor_attach" in it.
2. You write that you are "[...] running monitor mode (with nexutil, with libfakeioctl) [...]". How exactly are you doing this? (commands) Are there any additional commands involved regarding configuration of the interface? I am not too familiar with airodump, therefore I can't really help you at this end. But you can check if the monitor mode is working in general by listening on the interface with e.g. tcpdump.

[savox-326]

I write this for launch monitor mode:
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
nexutil -m2

Nexutil -m returns "monitor -2147483646" after -m2 parameter and "monitor -2147483647" after m1. Tcpdump also captures nothing

[jlinktu]

Try setting a channel before enabling monitor mode.
Make sure that there is traffic on this channel too.
E.g. for channel 6

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
nexutil -k6
nexutil -m2

Does this change anything?

[savox-326]

Also no result (channel also stuck on 0)

[jlinktu]

What does reading out the channel return?
nexutil -k

[savox-326]

Says "chanspec: 0x1006, 6" and nothing capturing

[jlinktu]

Well, I guess matthias has tested the patch before committing and pushing it, so I assume it will work somehow. Maybe not directly with airodump.
Are you sure there is traffic on that channel?
What about 5GHz channels? Does it work there?
Any obvious errors in the kernel log?
If none of the above helps, you could check directly on the chip if you receive frames in monitor mode by extending the patch.

[savox-326]

@jlinktu I was busy in last several days. Today I checked all that you wrote. 5ghz is also same as 2.4ghz. After that command:
ifconfig wlan0 up
Dmesg shows that spaming log (even after nexutil -m2\-m1\-m0)
I[0:dhd_rpm_state_t: 506] dhd_runtimepm_state: DHD Idle state!! - idletime :5, wdtick :100
Disappears only after wifi disable through android ui or ifconfig wlan down
Maybe it was working for matthias and others cause they had samsungs with Exynos

[jlinktu]

This just means that the bus is idle for a specific time duration.

But maybe you have to disable power saving. You could do this by adding the following calls

set_mpc(wlc_for_chanspec, 0);
set_mpc(wlc_other, 0);

here:

nexmon/patches/bcm4375b1/18_41_8_9_sta/nexmon/src/ioctl.c

Line 295 in 29d990b

I don't think that Exynos makes the difference. Its the same WiFi chip.

If the above still doesn't help, there might be a compatibility issue between the firmware and driver.

[savox-326]

I'll try to figure out how find target patching addresses in new firmware. I hope I will can do that. So, I use nexmon rom extraction tool, it works but fills the binary with these errors: ioctl -95, I also tried bcm4389 extraction tool, same result. Will I need bcm's rom?

[jlinktu]

You can find a ROM dump of the bcm4375b1 here. This is a clean dump - meaning that it comes without flashpatches applied. For analyzing firmwares you want to add the flashpatches of the firmware version you are currently looking into. Fortunately, we already provide Makefile targets for this purpose. All you have to do is:

• Dump a clean ROM; or use the already existing one
• Place this clean rom.bin in the chip specific firmware directory nexmon/firmwares/bcm4375b1
• Change into the firmware specific sub-directory nexmon/firmwares/bcm4375b1/18_41_113_sta
• Create a full firmware image from the clean ROM, flashpatches, and firmware blob by running make complete.bin
  The output complete.bin is what you want to analyze.

[savox-326]

Hi, again. I adapted 18.41.8.9 firmware patch to 18.41.113. Just replacing addresses. So the firmware works same as other versions. So, I found one bug on every firmware (18.38.18, 18.41.8.9, 18.41.113). If I switch mode to -m1 using nexutil, and choose open wifi (without password) airodump and tcpdump begins showing something about earlier connected AP (connecting fails, but after that something begins works). But that data is incorrect. Airodump shows incorrect MACs sometimes the first catched one ends with 45:10 (even with different devices). Tcpdump sometimes works a little correctly, recognizes reassoc but other packets marks as unknown.



nexutil -m2 is not showing anything even with any setting, like I said you before.
With nexutil -m2 that happening in dmesg

And after iw dev wlan0 set power_save off output is same

[savox-326]

@jlinktu I added printf into firmware for some debug but dhdutil consoledump says Operation not supported on transport endpoint. Though DHD_DEBUG have been enabled in bcmdhd long time. Yeah dmesg also empty. I don't know what's wrong with it. Do you sure that mattias tested patch before the realise?

[jlinktu]

If the firmware doesn't support the "membytes" get var, dumping the console this way won't work, even when compiling the driver with debugging enabled. But you can also read out the console by using an own IOCTL, e.g. like this.