frida/frida-node

macOS spawngating - frida-helper crash/not functional with Node bindings

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Apologies if this is the wrong repository to file this under - please let me know!

When attaching to a local macOS device using these Node bindings, attempting to enable spawn gating has frida-helper crash. After recompiling Frida 16.1.10 and the binding with symbols, the following stacktrace is visible:

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   frida-helper                  	       0x10710e73b safe_fdwalk_with_invalid_fds + 92 (gspawn.c:1614)
1   frida-helper                  	       0x10710e174 safe_closefrom + 30 (gspawn.c:1725) [inlined]
2   frida-helper                  	       0x10710e174 do_exec + 626 (gspawn.c:1958)
3   frida-helper                  	       0x10710dc6b fork_exec + 3563
4   frida-helper                  	       0x10710de60 g_spawn_async_with_pipes_and_fds + 315 (gspawn.c:933)
5   frida-helper                  	       0x10709076b initable_init + 556 (gsubprocess.c:400)
6   frida-helper                  	       0x10707a087 g_initable_new_valist + 38 (ginitable.c:250)
7   frida-helper                  	       0x10707a043 g_initable_new + 131 (ginitable.c:164)
8   frida-helper                  	       0x10708fddd g_subprocess_newv + 67 (gsubprocess.c:585)
9   frida-helper                  	       0x107052f7d frida_dtrace_agent_enable_spawn_gating + 493 (frida-helper-backend.vala:695)
10  frida-helper                  	       0x107056922 frida_darwin_helper_backend_real_enable_spawn_gating_co + 66 (frida-helper-backend.vala:97)
[...]

This crash is reproducible with the included spawn gating example, and I was able to reproduce this under several macOS versions (primarily Monterey and Sonoma). It appears the issue regarding safe_fdwalk_with_invalid_fds was raised and resolved in upstream GLib on issue 3024.

However, after applying the upstream commit to Frida's GLib fork and rebuilding the SDK/Frida itself, spawngating continues to not be functional with the Node bindings. The spawn-added signal appears to never fire.

Frustratingly, when using frida-trace -W 'example' or the Python bindings directly, the GLib issue is not encountered whatsoever, and spawn gating functions. I'm uncertain on how to continue debugging - would very much appreciate pointers!