#! /usr/bin/env python3 # Written by Ethan Roseman (ethteck) # MIT License # Copyright 2021 # Modified by EpochFlame import argparse # Byte sequences BLR_BYTE_SEQ = b"\x4E\x80\x00\x20" MTLR_BYTE_SEQ = b"\x7C\x08\x03\xA6" # Example invocation: ./frank.py vanilla.o target.o parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("vanilla", help="Path to the vanilla object", type=argparse.FileType('rb')) parser.add_argument("target", help="Path to the target object (to write)") args = parser.parse_args() # Read contents into bytearrays and close files vanilla_bytes = args.vanilla.read() args.vanilla.close() # Reunify mtlr/blr instructions, shifting intermediary instructions up idx = 0 while idx < len(vanilla_bytes): # Find mtlr position mtlr_found_pos = vanilla_bytes.find(MTLR_BYTE_SEQ, idx) if mtlr_found_pos == -1: break # break while loop when no targets remain if mtlr_found_pos % 4 != 0: # check 4-byte alignment idx += 4 continue # Find paired blr position blr_found_pos = vanilla_bytes.find(BLR_BYTE_SEQ, mtlr_found_pos) if blr_found_pos == -1: break # break while loop when no targets remain if blr_found_pos % 4 != 0: # check 4-byte alignment idx += 4 continue if mtlr_found_pos + 4 == blr_found_pos: idx += 4 continue # continue if mtlr is followed directly by blr vanilla_bytes = vanilla_bytes[:mtlr_found_pos] + vanilla_bytes[mtlr_found_pos+4:blr_found_pos] + vanilla_bytes[mtlr_found_pos:mtlr_found_pos+4] + vanilla_bytes[blr_found_pos:] idx = mtlr_found_pos + len(MTLR_BYTE_SEQ) with open(args.target, "wb") as f: f.write(vanilla_bytes)