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Targeting the iOS Kernel - Reverse Engineering Mac OS X

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IOKit Driver Classes (II) - MetaClass<br />

• most <strong>i<strong>OS</strong></strong> IOKit classes come without symbols<br />

• however IOKit defines for almost all classes a so called MetaClass<br />

• MetaClass contains runtime information about <strong>the</strong> original object<br />

• constructors of MetaClass‘es leak name and parent objects<br />

Stefan Esser • <strong>Targeting</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>i<strong>OS</strong></strong> <strong>Kernel</strong> • April 2011 •<br />

R1 = Object Name<br />

R2 = Parent‘s MetaClass<br />

R3 = Methods of MetaClass<br />

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