[LG G8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developme] j4nn:
MAGISK SETUP FROM TEMP ROOT WITH LOCKED BOOTLOADER

To enjoy the temporal root with apps asking for root permission, you can now start magisk v20.4 from the root shell provided by the exploit.

download the v50g8-mroot3.zip with the exploit attached in the first post

download Magisk-v20.4.zip from magisk releases page on github here

use 'adb push v50g8-mroot3.zip Magisk-v20.4.zip /data/local/tmp' to copy the zips to the phone

unzip and prepare magisk setup with following commands in 'adb shell'

cd /data/local/tmp
unzip v50g8-mroot3.zip
chmod 755 v50g8-mroot3 magisk-setup.sh magisk-start.sh
./magisk-setup.sh

get temp root and start magisk up with following commands in 'adb shell':

cd /data/local/tmp
./v50g8-mroot3
./magisk-start.sh -1
./magisk-start.sh -2
./magisk-start.sh -3

just this point should be done after each reboot to get magisk running again.

NOTE: please be sure to enter each command separately, line after line - do not paste all in a single block and do not put them in a script.

There are reasons this is divided in 3 stages. With this approach I got the best stability, while putting ./v50g8-mroot3 together with -1 and/or -2 stuff in a single script run resulted with a reboot most of the time.

Phases 2 and 3 need to be split for functional reasons to start magisk with working su permission asking notification.

If it worked, you should see something like this:

alphalm:/ $ cd /data/local/tmp
alphalm:/data/local/tmp $ ./v50g8-mroot3
[+] factoryversion = LMV500NAT-00-V20m-LAO-COM-MAR-10-2020+0
[+] Mapped 200000
[+] selinux_enforcing before exploit: 1
[+] pipe file: 0xffffffd07822fa00
[+] file epitem at ffffffd102da6d00
[+] Reallocating content of 'write8_inode' with controlled data...............[DONE]
[+] Overwriting 0xffffffd07822fa20 with 0xffffffd102da6d50...[DONE]
[+] Write done, should have arbitrary read now.
[+] file operations: ffffff9dee01ebf8
[+] kernel base: ffffff9dece80000
[+] Reallocating content of 'write8_selinux' with controlled data..[DONE]
[+] Overwriting 0xffffff9def290000 with 0x0...[DONE]
[+] init_cred: ffffff9def02fcd0
[+] memstart_addr: 0xfffffff040000000
[+] First level entry: ae7f6003 -> next table at ffffffd06e7f6000
[+] Second level entry: ae419003 -> next table at ffffffd06e419000
[+] sysctl_table_root = ffffff9def05c710
[+] Reallocating content of 'write8_sysctl' with controlled data.......[DONE]
[+] Overwriting 0xffffffd1316fc268 with 0xffffffd0ba748000...[DONE]
[+] Injected sysctl node!
[+] Node write8_inode, pid 7109, kaddr ffffffd0c1193700
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Node write8_selinux, pid 6726, kaddr ffffffd08bfeb400
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Node write8_sysctl, pid 6772, kaddr ffffffd0afc0d000
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Replaced sendmmsg dangling reference
[+] Cleaned up sendmsg threads
[+] epitem.next = ffffffd07822fa20
[+] epitem.prev = ffffffd07822fad8
[+] Launching privileged shell
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/data/local/tmp # ./magisk-start.sh -1
+ FRESH=false
+ '[' -1 '=' --fresh ']'
+ '[' ! -e /data/adb/magisk/busybox ']'
+ ./magiskpolicy --live --magisk 'allow dumpstate * * *'
Load policy from: /sys/fs/selinux/policy
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/data/local/tmp # ./magisk-start.sh -2
+ FRESH=false
+ '[' -2 '=' --fresh ']'
+ '[' ! -e /data/adb/magisk/busybox ']'
+ STAGE=2
+ '[' 2 '=' 2 ']'
+ mount -t tmpfs -o 'mode=755' none /sbin
+ chcon u:object_r:rootfs:s0 /sbin
+ chmod 755 /sbin
+ cp -a magisk/boot_patch.sh /sbin
+ cp -a magisk/magiskboot /sbin
+ cp -a magisk/magiskinit64 /sbin
+ cp -a magisk/busybox /sbin
+ cp -a magisk/util_functions.sh /sbin
+ cd /sbin
+ chmod 755 boot_patch.sh busybox magiskboot magiskinit64 util_functions.sh
+ mkdir r
+ mount -o bind / r
+ cp -a r/sbin/. /sbin
+ umount r
+ rmdir r
+ mv magiskinit64 magiskinit
+ ./magiskinit -x magisk magisk
+ ln -s /sbin/magiskinit /sbin/magiskpolicy
+ ln -s /sbin/magiskinit /sbin/supolicy
+ false
+ chcon -R u:object_r:magisk_file:s0 /data/adb/magisk
+ rm -f magiskboot util_functions.sh boot_patch.sh
+ ln -s /sbin/magisk /sbin/su
+ ln -s /sbin/magisk /sbin/resetprop
+ ln -s /sbin/magisk /sbin/magiskhide
+ mkdir /sbin/.magisk
+ chmod 755 /sbin/.magisk
+ >/sbin/.magisk/config
+ echo 'KEEPVERITY=true'
+ >>/sbin/.magisk/config
+ echo 'KEEPFORCEENCRYPT=true'
+ chmod 000 /sbin/.magisk/config
+ mkdir -p /sbin/.magisk/busybox
+ chmod 755 /sbin/.magisk/busybox
+ mv busybox /sbin/.magisk/busybox
+ mkdir -p /sbin/.magisk/mirror
+ chmod 000 /sbin/.magisk/mirror
+ mkdir -p /sbin/.magisk/block
+ chmod 000 /sbin/.magisk/block
+ mkdir -p /sbin/.magisk/modules
+ chmod 755 /sbin/.magisk/modules
+ mkdir -p /data/adb/modules
+ chmod 755 /data/adb/modules
+ mkdir -p /data/adb/post-fs-data.d
+ chmod 755 /data/adb/post-fs-data.d
+ mkdir -p /data/adb/service.d
+ chmod 755 /data/adb/service.d
+ chcon -R -h u:object_r:rootfs:s0 /sbin/.magisk
+ chcon u:object_r:magisk_file:s0 /sbin/.magisk/busybox/busybox
+ /sbin/magisk --daemon
client: launching new main daemon process
+ pidof magiskd
+ MP=14148
+ '[' -z 14148 ']'
+ >/sbin/.magisk/escalate
+ echo 14148
+ '[' -e /sbin/.magisk/escalate ']'
+ sleep 1
+ '[' -e /sbin/.magisk/escalate ']'
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/data/local/tmp # ./magisk-start.sh -3
+ FRESH=false
+ '[' -3 '=' --fresh ']'
+ '[' ! -e /data/adb/magisk/busybox ']'
+ STAGE=3
+ '[' 3 '=' 2 ']'
+ >/sbin/.magisk/magiskd
+ echo -e '#!/system/bin/sh\n/sbin/magisk --daemon'
+ chmod 755 /sbin/.magisk/magiskd
+ chcon u:object_r:dumpstate_exec:s0 /sbin/.magisk/magiskd
+ getprop init.svc.dumpstate
+ SVC=''
+ timeout=10
+ '[' 10 -gt 0 ']'
+ stop dumpstate
+ killall -9 magiskd
+ stop dumpstate
+ mount -o bind /sbin/.magisk/magiskd /system/bin/dumpstate
+ start dumpstate
+ timeout=10
+ '[' 10 -le 0 ']'
+ pidof magiskd
+ MP=14165
+ '[' -n 14165 ']'
+ break
+ stop dumpstate
+ sleep 1
+ umount /system/bin/dumpstate
+ rm -f /sbin/.magisk/magiskd
+ '[' '' '=' running ']'
+ rm -f /dev/.magisk_unblock
+ /sbin/magisk --post-fs-data
+ timeout=10
+ '[' -e /dev/.magisk_unblock -o 10 -le 0 ']'
+ sleep 1
+ timeout=9
+ '[' -e /dev/.magisk_unblock -o 9 -le 0 ']'
+ /sbin/magisk --service
+ sleep 1
+ /sbin/magisk --boot-complete
+ chmod 751 /sbin
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/data/local/tmp # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1004(input),1007(log),1011(adb),1015(sdcard_rw),1028(sdcard_r),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),3006(net_bw_stats),3009(readproc),3011(uhid) context=u:r:magisk:s0
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/data/local/tmp # uname -a
Linux localhost 4.14.117-perf #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 10 18:44:38 KST 2020 aarch64
root_by_cve-2020-0041:/data/local/tmp # getenforce
Permissive

Now you can exit the temp root shell and use 'su' to get a root shell controlled by magisk manager or allow other apps that need root as asking for root permission now works.

You can even re-enable selinux like this from 'adb shell':

su -c 'setenforce 1'

The magisk setup from exploit including working permission asking has been fully developed by me, it uses some novel techniques to overcome the limitations caused by magisk run from a temp root instead of being integrated in boot process as a service.

TIPS FOR BETTER STABILITY OF THE EXPLOIT

The exploit works based on use after free, that means it depends on state of memory heap and how it changes during exploit time.

That means there is some portion of unpredictability and a chance that something else is overwritten than hoped for by shaping the heap.

So to get best results, one should stop anything that could run in background, like:

set airplain mode, turn off wifi and bluetooth so there is no data connection at all

set "Stay awake" to ON while charging (i.e. using adb shell) in developer options

disable auto updates of system and apps

debloat your system so useless apps do not run in background

reboot your phone having all the above

wait two minutes after boot up with phone unlocked, screen on connected to PC via usb cable having 'adb shell' already active (checking with 'uptime' command)

start the exploit

after getting root shell and succesfuly starting magisk, do not forget to properly exit the temp root shell by use of 'exit' command two times, so the 'adb shell' with the exploit is ended with the rest of clean up

CHANGELOG

2020-05-16 : multiple targets supported (v50g8-root)

2020-05-20 : added v50g8-dump tool to dump kernel space memory

2020-05-24 : implemented support for magisk start from the exploit (v50g8-mroot), added support for 4 new G8 targets (3 x Sprint and one T-Mobile US)

2020-06-10 : fixed problem when V50 rebooted/crashed soon after obtaining temp root shell, added support for 3 new G8 targets (Verizon and 2 x AT&T), released as v50g8-mroot2

2020-06-23 : added support for Amazon G8 target and hopefully fixed not getting a root shell problem with mroot2 on G8, released as v50g8-mroot3