- The remove_* comments still described the superseded "disable -> drain -> destroy"
flow; the code keeps hooks alive (persistent) and re-enables on re-install. Updated
the comments to match, and corrected the XInput note (its detours return synthesized
state and never call the trampoline, so destroying its vector is safe -- unlike the
trampoline-calling present/MKB/focus-cursor hooks).
- hook_install_test: a fast, single-threaded contract test for hook_install.hpp --
install_inline creates the hook once and reuses the SAME trampoline across 50
install/remove cycles (never freed -> no stale-detour UAF), toggling enable/disable
cleanly. Fills the guard the removed (flaky, concurrency-bound) reproducer left, with
no threads so it can't flake on SafetyHook's enable/disable atomicity.
x64 23/23, x86 3/3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The uncapped, input-polling mock_game_test storm (thousands of presents/s, now
also driving the input/focus/MKB hooks) drove out a family of install/remove races
the slow vsync'd mock had masked. Fixes (hook/src/hook_install.hpp + hook_guard.hpp):
- Persistent hooks. The old model created a hook on install and DESTROYED it on
remove (= {}), freeing the trampoline; a detour about to call it (.stdcall) then
hit freed memory -> 0xC0000005. drain() can't fully close that window (a thread
can be inside the detour but not past its Guard ctor). So hooks are now created
ONCE and only enable()/disable()d across install/remove cycles -- never destroyed
during the session -- so a stale detour always calls a live trampoline (disabled,
it just runs the original). Reused, so no churn and no leak. remove_* therefore
disable()s + drain()s but does not destroy; install guards check .enabled().
- Install race. create_inline() enables the hook before the result is move-assigned
into the global the detour reads; a call landing in the detour mid-assign reads a
torn hook -> AV. install_inline() creates StartDisabled, assigns, then enable()s.
- drain() Sleep(1)s BEFORE each zero-check, so a thread that entered the detour but
hasn't reached its Guard registers before we conclude zero.
- Focus: publish g_orig_proc before SetWindowLongPtr activates the subclass (and
subclass_proc falls back to DefWindowProc if null); and disable the focus-query
hooks in reverse install order, because GetForegroundWindow shares user32 code
with GetActiveWindow (keep GFW hooked until GAW is unhooked).
- disable()/enable() [[nodiscard]] results are handled (logged), not (void)-discarded.
Storm now survives on every backend across repeated runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Uncapping the mock game (next commit) turned mock_game_test's hook/unhook storm
into a real stress test (thousands of presents/s instead of tens), which reliably
crashed the game on remove (0xC0000005) for dx9/dx11/dx12. Two races the slow
vsync'd mock had masked:
1. Trampoline use-after-free. remove_*_hooks did `hook = {}` (destroy) BEFORE the
DetourGate drain. Destroying a SafetyHook InlineHook frees its trampoline
immediately, but an in-flight detour about to call the original via .stdcall()
(the trampoline) then used freed memory. Fix: disable() first (restores the
original bytes under thread suspension, but KEEPS the trampoline alive) -> drain
-> only then destroy. Applied to present/d3d9/opengl/vk/xinput/mkb/focus.
2. Entry-window race in DetourGate::drain(). It returned the instant the active
count read zero, but a thread can be inside the detour yet not have reached its
Guard constructor (the prologue is unguarded), so the count reads zero while a
detour is about to run -- and the freed state is then used. Fix: Sleep(1) BEFORE
each zero-check; with the hook disabled no new detour starts, so any
already-entered thread registers within that window. This alone fixed dx11 (the
highest present rate, ~11000/s, which hit the window every storm).
Audio is unaffected (it uses vtable swaps, which keep a real original pointer, not
a trampoline). Full suite 21/21, and the storm now survives on every backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Spamming a subsystem toggle (the "Mirror video" button) could crash the game:
remove_*_hooks freed a hook's shared D3D / Vulkan / IPC state immediately, while a
capture detour was still mid-flight on the game's render thread -> use-after-free.
Only the audio hooks had the safe-unhook drain; the video (Present/D3D9/D3D10/GL/
Vulkan) and XInput/focus/MKB hooks did not.
Test-first: mock_game_test now runs an aggressive hook/unhook storm -- a separate
thread thrashes every subsystem on/off while the game presents, across all backends.
It crashed gl + vk (0xC0000005) and failed dx9 capture-resume before the fix.
Fix (hook/src/hook_guard.hpp, DetourGate): each detour wraps its body in an RAII
active-count Guard; remove_* restores the hook first (so no new detour starts),
drains the in-flight detours to zero, and only then frees the shared state. Vulkan
is special-cased -- the game caches hk_vkQueuePresentKHR, so removal closes an
atomic capture gate (detours then pass through to the real present), drains, then
frees the read-back resources. Storm now passes on every backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Makes it possible to isolate an input->tool problem from a tool->game one in the
Controllers panel (under Debug details):
- which backend fed each slot is already shown via the per-pad source tag
("XInput #0" / "Steam Input") in the Incoming section;
- a new "Round-trip" table shows, per slot, the state we forwarded (the active
backend's pad) next to what the game actually read back, highlighting matches.
For the round-trip, the XInput hook now echoes the state it returns to the game into
the status (protocol v9->v10: per-slot read_state in HookStatus).
Verified: hook_selftest (x64 + x86) asserts the hook records the game-read state;
full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64 9/9, x86 3/3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The XInput hook used to swallow XInputSetState; now it records the requested
left/right motor speeds into the status back-channel (protocol v8->v9: per-slot
rumble_left/right in HookStatus). Each frame the host reads them and, only on
change, drives the guest's actuator via the active backend:
- XInput: XInputSetState on the guest's slot (the open question is whether Steam's
RPT virtual pad accepts vibration and routes it to the guest -- needs live RPT);
- Steam Input: SteamInput TriggerVibration on the slot's controller handle, with the
XInput fallback for slots Steam isn't driving.
InputSource gains a set_rumble(slot,left,right) hook (default no-op) implemented by
both backends; SteamInputSource now tracks per-slot controller handles + which slots
it drives.
Verified: hook_selftest (x64 + x86) now asserts the hook records the rumble from
XInputSetState into the status; full build x64 + x86 clean; ctest x64 9/9, x86 3/3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a host->hook control channel (protocol v5 -> v6: HookControl in SharedBlock,
per-subsystem "disabled" flags, 0 = install so the zero-filled default is
unchanged). The worker now reconciles each subsystem every tick: install what's
requested-and-missing, remove what's no longer wanted -- so the audio hooks
re-attach the ring and republish format on a reinstall, and XInput/focus clear
their stale status flags on removal.
Injection panel: a checkbox per subsystem (input forwarding / focus spoof /
audio render-hook) toggles it at runtime, showing the requested vs actual
installed state from the registry, plus DLL heartbeat liveness. The hook-status
section now keys off whether a DLL was injected (host-side) rather than the
input-hook "attached" flag, so it stays visible with input unhooked.
Guards for dependent features: the synthetic-input control is disabled when
input forwarding is off, and the Audio panel explains that mirroring uses
loopback (echo) when the render-hook is off.
Verified against Phantom Brave via coop_audio_probe: starting with audio
requested off installs only input+focus (8 hooks, no capture); re-enabling at
runtime installs the audio hooks (13) and capture starts immediately. All four
tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a process-wide hook registry (hook/src/hook_registry) that every hook
module registers its hooks with and bumps a counter from each detour. The
XInput, focus-spoof, and audio render-hooks now register their individual
hooks (XInputGetState/Ex/Caps/SetState; GetForegroundWindow/GetActiveWindow/
GetFocus/WndProc guard; IMMDevice::Activate, IAudioClient::Initialize/
GetService, IAudioRenderClient::GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer) and count calls.
The worker publishes the table to the host each tick over a new HookStatus
field (protocol v4 -> v5: HookEntry[] + count). The Injection panel shows it
as a collapsible table grouped by subsystem with an installed flag and call
count per hook; coop_audio_probe prints the same table headless.
Verified against Phantom Brave: 13 hooks listed with live counts (focus APIs
polled heavily, GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer ticking with the audio render loop).
All four tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Surfaced by a game (Life is Strange: Before the Storm) that ignores
controller input when it lacks true OS focus even though it still polls
XInput. To find the focus-gated detection path, instrument the hook.
Protocol v3 status back-channel now reports:
- per-slot XInputGetState and XInputGetCapabilities counters (replacing the
single aggregate), so the overlay shows exactly which slots the game polls
and how fast;
- focus-API call counts (GetForegroundWindow/GetActiveWindow/GetFocus) to see
whether the game consults the APIs we spoof;
- input-path diagnostics: whether the process registered Raw Input for a
gamepad usage and whether it set RIDEV_INPUTSINK (background delivery), and
whether a DirectInput dll is loaded.
Host overlay gains a per-slot poll table and an "Input path" section. The DLL
refreshes input diagnostics each worker tick via GetRegisteredRawInputDevices.
hook_selftest updated for per-slot counters; passes.
This is diagnostic-only: once a real run shows which path LiS uses, the
targeted focus fix (e.g. forcing RIDEV_INPUTSINK or DI background coop) follows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two problems surfaced in testing: (1) no way to tell whether the injected
hook was actually the input source, and (2) the final design needs the tool
window focused for Steam RPT capture, which would pause/silence games that
react to focus loss. Both are addressed here.
- Focus spoofing (hook/focus_spoof): find the game's main window, subclass it
to rewrite/swallow WM_ACTIVATE/ACTIVATEAPP/NCACTIVATE/KILLFOCUS, and inline-
hook GetForegroundWindow/GetActiveWindow/GetFocus to always report the game
as active. The game keeps running and polling while unfocused.
- Status back-channel (protocol v2): the DLL reports attached/focus-spoof
flags, game pid/hwnd, a heartbeat, and a cumulative XInputGetState counter.
The host overlay turns the counter into a live poll rate, so "is the hook
working" is directly observable.
- Synthetic test-input toggle in the host: forwards a known automated pattern
(stick circle + periodic A) to prove forwarding independent of the physical
pad.
- hook_selftest extended to assert the status channel; passes.
Documented the windowed/borderless requirement and the new observable test
flow in the README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The host can now inject coop_hook.dll into a running game and forward
controller state to it over shared memory, so the game reads the host's
(eventually the guest's) input and nothing else.
- hook/: coop_hook.dll. DllMain spawns a worker that opens the shared-memory
channel (named by the game's pid) and installs SafetyHook inline hooks on
XInputGetState/GetStateEx/GetCapabilities/SetState. Detours synthesize state
from shared memory; unmanaged slots report disconnected, hiding physical pads.
- host/: process picker (Toolhelp32), CreateRemoteThread(LoadLibraryW) injector
with an IsWow64Process2 bitness guard, IPC server publishing pads each frame,
and an ImGui Injection panel wiring it together.
- tests/: hook_selftest exercises the IPC seqlock + hook detours in-process
(no game/controller needed); passes.
Build: SafetyHook wired in (COOP_BUILD_HOOK=ON), Zydis via FetchContent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
