fix(update): drop the GetNativeSystemInfo probe that lies under WoA emulation

The residual Windows-on-ARM integrity-gate fix added GetNativeSystemInfo as a
second "OS-native" probe behind IsWow64Process2. Microsoft documents the
opposite behavior: "the API GetNativeSystemInfo also returns emulated
processor details when run from an app under emulation."

On the exact hosts the probe was added to rescue -- an x64 hermes-setup.exe
emulated on an ARM64 Surface -- it therefore reports AMD64, making it a
duplicate of the PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE rung already below it rather than a
fallback for it. Its test only passed because the kernel32 fake was hand-fed
ARM64, asserting behavior real Windows does not exhibit.

Replace it with GetMachineTypeAttributes, which answers the question the gate
actually asks -- "can this host load a PE of machine X?" -- instead of
inferring it from an architecture name. It is also the only documented API
that reports AMD64-on-ARM64 emulation support. The gate prefers it and falls
back to the existing name-based mapping on pre-Windows-11 hosts.

The load-bearing half of the previous fix (typing GetCurrentProcess as HANDLE
so IsWow64Process2 stops failing ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE) is unchanged.

Co-authored-by: xxxigm <xxxigm@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Teknium <teknium1@users.noreply.github.com>
This commit is contained in:
Brooklyn Nicholson
2026-07-25 21:13:15 -05:00
parent a606d24cf2
commit c03a977a96
2 changed files with 106 additions and 87 deletions
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@@ -5556,26 +5556,15 @@ _PE_MACHINE_NAMES = {
_PE_MACHINE_ARM64: "ARM64",
}
# SYSTEM_INFO.wProcessorArchitecture values (winnt.h). Used by
# GetNativeSystemInfo as a second OS-native probe when IsWow64Process2 is
# unavailable or fails under a mistyped ctypes HANDLE.
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL = 0
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_ARM = 5
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 = 9
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_ARM64 = 12
_PE_MACHINE_TO_NAME = {
_PE_MACHINE_ARM64: "ARM64",
_PE_MACHINE_AMD64: "AMD64",
_PE_MACHINE_I386: "X86",
}
_SYSTEM_INFO_ARCH_TO_NAME = {
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_ARM64: "ARM64",
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64: "AMD64",
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL: "X86",
_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_ARM: "ARM",
}
# MACHINE_ATTRIBUTES bits (processthreadsapi.h). UserEnabled means the host
# can run user-mode code of that machine type — natively or under emulation.
_MACHINE_ATTRIBUTE_USER_ENABLED = 0x00000001
def _windows_native_machine_from_iswow64() -> Optional[str]:
@@ -5615,39 +5604,37 @@ def _windows_native_machine_from_iswow64() -> Optional[str]:
return _PE_MACHINE_TO_NAME.get(native_machine.value)
def _windows_native_machine_from_native_system_info() -> Optional[str]:
"""GetNativeSystemInfo — truthful under x64-on-ARM64 when IsWow64 fails.
def _windows_user_runnable_pe_machines() -> Optional[set]:
"""PE machines this host can run in user mode, via GetMachineTypeAttributes.
Unlike ``PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE`` (process/emulation view) this reports
the OS-native architecture, so it covers the residual #71218 failure mode
where ``IsWow64Process2`` returns FALSE and the env-var fallback would
otherwise lie as AMD64.
This asks the question the integrity gate actually cares about — "can this
Windows host load a PE of machine X?" — instead of inferring it from a
host-architecture name. It is also the only documented API that reports
AMD64-on-ARM64 emulation support; ``IsWow64GuestMachineSupported`` only
answers for 32-bit guests.
Returns None when the API is unavailable (pre-Windows-11 build 22000) or
reports nothing runnable, so callers fall back to name-based detection.
"""
import ctypes
from ctypes import wintypes
class _SYSTEM_INFO(ctypes.Structure):
_fields_ = [
("wProcessorArchitecture", wintypes.WORD),
("wReserved", wintypes.WORD),
("dwPageSize", wintypes.DWORD),
("lpMinimumApplicationAddress", ctypes.c_void_p),
("lpMaximumApplicationAddress", ctypes.c_void_p),
("dwActiveProcessorMask", ctypes.c_size_t),
("dwNumberOfProcessors", wintypes.DWORD),
("dwProcessorType", wintypes.DWORD),
("dwAllocationGranularity", wintypes.DWORD),
("wProcessorLevel", wintypes.WORD),
("wProcessorRevision", wintypes.WORD),
]
kernel32 = ctypes.WinDLL("kernel32", use_last_error=True)
kernel32.GetNativeSystemInfo.argtypes = [ctypes.POINTER(_SYSTEM_INFO)]
kernel32.GetNativeSystemInfo.restype = None
kernel32.GetMachineTypeAttributes.argtypes = [
wintypes.USHORT,
ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int),
]
kernel32.GetMachineTypeAttributes.restype = ctypes.c_long
info = _SYSTEM_INFO()
kernel32.GetNativeSystemInfo(ctypes.byref(info))
return _SYSTEM_INFO_ARCH_TO_NAME.get(info.wProcessorArchitecture)
runnable = set()
for machine in (_PE_MACHINE_ARM64, _PE_MACHINE_AMD64, _PE_MACHINE_I386):
attributes = ctypes.c_int(0)
# HRESULT: zero is success, any nonzero value is a failure.
if kernel32.GetMachineTypeAttributes(machine, ctypes.byref(attributes)):
continue
if attributes.value & _MACHINE_ATTRIBUTE_USER_ENABLED:
runnable.add(machine)
return runnable or None
def _windows_native_machine() -> str:
@@ -5661,26 +5648,26 @@ def _windows_native_machine() -> str:
(#69179 follow-up report). Probe order:
1. ``IsWow64Process2`` with a correctly-typed current-process HANDLE
(#71218 + HANDLE-truncation fix).
2. ``GetNativeSystemInfo`` — still OS-native when (1) fails under
x64-on-ARM64 emulation (env vars alone cannot cover that case).
3. ``PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432`` / ``PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE`` — WOW64
(32-bit) hosts and pre-1511 Windows 10 without the newer APIs.
4. ``platform.machine()``.
(#71218 + HANDLE-truncation fix). This is the only API that tells the
truth from an x64 process emulated on ARM64.
2. ``PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432`` / ``PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE`` — WOW64
(32-bit) hosts and pre-1511 Windows 10 without the newer API.
3. ``platform.machine()``.
Note ``GetNativeSystemInfo`` is deliberately NOT used: Microsoft documents
that it "also returns emulated processor details when run from an app
under emulation", so on the very WoA hosts this function exists to serve
it reports AMD64 — no better than the env-var rung below it.
"""
if sys.platform == "win32":
for probe in (
_windows_native_machine_from_iswow64,
_windows_native_machine_from_native_system_info,
):
try:
name = probe()
except (OSError, AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError):
# API missing (pre-1511), DLL load failure in tests, or a
# mistyped ctypes binding — try the next probe.
name = None
if name:
return name
try:
name = _windows_native_machine_from_iswow64()
except (OSError, AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError):
# API missing (pre-1511), DLL load failure in tests, or a
# mistyped ctypes binding — fall through to the env vars.
name = None
if name:
return name
env_arch = os.environ.get("PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432") or os.environ.get(
"PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE"
)
@@ -5694,12 +5681,23 @@ def _windows_native_machine() -> str:
def _expected_windows_pe_machines() -> set:
"""PE machine values the current Windows host can natively load.
AMD64 hosts run x64 and (via WOW64) x86. ARM64 hosts run ARM64 and
(Windows 11 emulation) x64. 32-bit x86 hosts run only x86. Unknown
machines return the permissive full set so the integrity gate can never
brick launch on exotic hosts. Host detection uses the OS-native machine
(see ``_windows_native_machine``), not the process architecture.
Preferred source is ``GetMachineTypeAttributes``, which answers this
question directly (including AMD64-on-ARM64 emulation) instead of
inferring it from an architecture name.
Fallback is name-based: AMD64 hosts run x64 and (via WOW64) x86. ARM64
hosts run ARM64 and (Windows 11 emulation) x64. 32-bit x86 hosts run only
x86. Unknown machines return the permissive full set so the integrity gate
can never brick launch on exotic hosts. Host detection uses the OS-native
machine (see ``_windows_native_machine``), not the process architecture.
"""
if sys.platform == "win32":
try:
runnable = _windows_user_runnable_pe_machines()
except (OSError, AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError):
runnable = None
if runnable:
return runnable
machine = _windows_native_machine().upper()
if machine in ("AMD64", "X86_64", "X64"):
return {_PE_MACHINE_AMD64, _PE_MACHINE_I386}
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@@ -122,9 +122,8 @@ def test_expected_machines_unknown_host_is_permissive():
# ─── _windows_native_machine ────────────────────────────────────────────────
# winnt.h PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_* — mirrors hermes_cli.main constants.
_SYSINFO_AMD64 = 9
_SYSINFO_ARM64 = 12
# MACHINE_ATTRIBUTES.UserEnabled — mirrors hermes_cli.main.
_USER_ENABLED = 0x00000001
class _SettableFunc:
@@ -147,14 +146,16 @@ class _FakeKernel32:
native_pe_machine: int,
*,
wow64_ok: bool = True,
system_info_arch: int | None = None,
user_runnable: set | None = None,
):
self._native_pe = native_pe_machine
self._wow64_ok = wow64_ok
self._system_info_arch = system_info_arch
self._user_runnable = user_runnable
self.GetCurrentProcess = _SettableFunc(lambda: -1)
self.IsWow64Process2 = _SettableFunc(self._is_wow64_process2)
self.GetNativeSystemInfo = _SettableFunc(self._get_native_system_info)
self.GetMachineTypeAttributes = _SettableFunc(
self._get_machine_type_attributes
)
def _is_wow64_process2(self, _handle, process_ref, native_ref):
if not self._wow64_ok:
@@ -163,22 +164,26 @@ class _FakeKernel32:
native_ref._obj.value = self._native_pe
return 1
def _get_native_system_info(self, info_ref):
if self._system_info_arch is None:
raise AttributeError("GetNativeSystemInfo unavailable in this fake")
info_ref._obj.wProcessorArchitecture = self._system_info_arch
def _get_machine_type_attributes(self, machine, attributes_ref):
if self._user_runnable is None:
raise AttributeError("GetMachineTypeAttributes unavailable in this fake")
if machine not in self._user_runnable:
attributes_ref._obj.value = 0
return 0
attributes_ref._obj.value = _USER_ENABLED
return 0
def _fake_windll(
native_pe_machine: int,
*,
wow64_ok: bool = True,
system_info_arch: int | None = None,
user_runnable: set | None = None,
):
kernel32 = _FakeKernel32(
native_pe_machine,
wow64_ok=wow64_ok,
system_info_arch=system_info_arch,
user_runnable=user_runnable,
)
def _windll(name, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -218,11 +223,10 @@ def test_native_machine_binds_current_process_handle_restype(monkeypatch):
assert kernel32.IsWow64Process2.argtypes is not None
def test_native_machine_system_info_fallback_when_iswow64_fails(monkeypatch):
"""Residual #71218 failure: IsWow64Process2 returns FALSE (e.g. invalid
handle) while PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE still lies as AMD64. GetNativeSystemInfo
must still report the real ARM64 host so the integrity gate accepts the
correctly-built ARM64 Hermes.exe."""
def test_expected_machines_prefers_user_runnable_api_over_arch_name(monkeypatch):
"""GetMachineTypeAttributes answers "can this host load PE machine X?"
directly, so a WoA host that reports AMD64 everywhere else still accepts an
ARM64 exe."""
import ctypes
monkeypatch.setattr(cli_main.sys, "platform", "win32")
@@ -231,14 +235,28 @@ def test_native_machine_system_info_fallback_when_iswow64_fails(monkeypatch):
with patch.object(
ctypes,
"WinDLL",
_fake_windll(PE_ARM64, wow64_ok=False, system_info_arch=_SYSINFO_ARM64),
_fake_windll(
PE_ARM64, wow64_ok=False, user_runnable={PE_ARM64, PE_AMD64}
),
create=True,
), patch("platform.machine", return_value="AMD64"):
assert cli_main._windows_native_machine() == "ARM64"
assert cli_main._expected_windows_pe_machines() == {PE_ARM64, PE_AMD64}
def test_expected_machines_falls_back_when_attributes_api_missing(monkeypatch):
"""Pre-Windows-11 hosts have no GetMachineTypeAttributes — the name-based
mapping must still drive the gate."""
import ctypes
monkeypatch.setattr(cli_main.sys, "platform", "win32")
with patch.object(
ctypes, "WinDLL", _fake_windll(PE_ARM64, user_runnable=None), create=True
), patch("platform.machine", return_value="AMD64"):
assert cli_main._expected_windows_pe_machines() == {PE_ARM64, PE_AMD64}
def test_native_machine_env_fallback_without_api(monkeypatch):
"""Pre-1511 Windows 10: no IsWow64Process2 / GetNativeSystemInfo → env."""
"""Pre-1511 Windows 10: no IsWow64Process2 → env."""
import ctypes
monkeypatch.setattr(cli_main.sys, "platform", "win32")
@@ -286,11 +304,12 @@ def test_integrity_gate_accepts_arm64_exe_from_emulated_x64_process(monkeypatch,
assert cli_main._desktop_exe_integrity_error(exe) is None
def test_integrity_gate_accepts_arm64_when_iswow64_fails_but_system_info_ok(
def test_integrity_gate_accepts_arm64_when_iswow64_fails_but_attributes_ok(
monkeypatch, tmp_path
):
"""End-to-end residual WoA shape: IsWow64Process2 fails, env lies as AMD64,
GetNativeSystemInfo reports ARM64, ARM64 Hermes.exe must pass the gate."""
"""End-to-end residual WoA shape: IsWow64Process2 fails and env lies as
AMD64, but GetMachineTypeAttributes reports ARM64 as user-runnable, so the
ARM64 Hermes.exe must pass the gate."""
import ctypes
monkeypatch.setattr(cli_main.sys, "platform", "win32")
@@ -300,7 +319,9 @@ def test_integrity_gate_accepts_arm64_when_iswow64_fails_but_system_info_ok(
with patch.object(
ctypes,
"WinDLL",
_fake_windll(PE_ARM64, wow64_ok=False, system_info_arch=_SYSINFO_ARM64),
_fake_windll(
PE_ARM64, wow64_ok=False, user_runnable={PE_ARM64, PE_AMD64}
),
create=True,
), patch("platform.machine", return_value="AMD64"):
assert cli_main._desktop_exe_integrity_error(exe) is None