MTR7 / memctl-kext-core

A memctl core for macOS that uses a kernel extension.

memctl-kext-core

memctl-kext-core is a memctl core for macOS that uses a custom kernel extension to access the kernel task port. Since it relies on loading an unsigned kernel extension, System Integrity Protection must be disabled first.

It has been tested with macOS 10.12.4 and 10.12.6.

Building

To set up memctl to use this core:

$ git clone https://github.com/bazad/memctl
$ cd memctl
$ git clone https://github.com/bazad/memctl-kext-core
$ ln -s memctl-kext-core/core core

To build the core:

$ cd memctl-kext-core/core
$ ln -s ../.. memctl
$ make
$ cd ../..

To build and load the kernel extension:

$ cd memctl-kext-core/kext
$ xcodebuild
$ sudo cp -R ./build/Release/KernelTask.kext /tmp/
$ sudo kextload /tmp/KernelTask.kext
$ cd ../..

To build memctl with this core:

$ make ARCH=x86_64 SDK=macosx

Running

After memctl has been successfully built and the kernel extension has been loaded, you can run memctl without arguments to drop into a REPL:

$ bin/memctl
memctl> r _vm_kernel_slide
setting up kernel function call...
ffffff802528b750:  0000000024800000
memctl> 

License

memctl-kext-core is released under the MIT license.