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Getting information that vmmap gets with a program on Mac OS

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I was trying to print all the memory regions of a process using the mach_vm_region and it seemed to work fine but when I compared it to the vmmap command vmmap -v -interleaved <PID>, I realized that I was still missing many memory regions.

For instance, after my program and vmmap were giving the same memory regions for about 50 regions straight, , in a certain region my program got this:

180000000 to 1f8000000
1f8000000 to 1f869c000
1f869c000 to 1f86bc000
1f86bc000 to 1f86c0000
1f86c0000 to 1fa000000
1fa000000 to 1faeac000
1faeac000 to 1fc5a0000
1fc5a0000 to 1ff928000
1ff928000 to 200000000

while in the same space, vmmap got this:

Submap                      180000000-1f8000000    [  1.9G     0K     0K     0K] r--/r-- SM=SHM          machine-wide VM submap
unused shlib __TEXT         1a2174000-1a21c5000    [  324K   324K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__TEXT                      1a21c5000-1a21c7000    [    8K     8K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_blocks.dylib
__TEXT                      1a21c7000-1a2209000    [  264K   264K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib
__TEXT                      1a2209000-1a2223000    [  104K   104K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_trace.dylib
__TEXT                      1a2223000-1a22ad000    [  552K   536K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcorecrypto.dylib
__TEXT                      1a22ad000-1a22d8000    [  172K   172K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_malloc.dylib
__TEXT                      1a22d8000-1a231f000    [  284K   284K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib
__TEXT                      1a231f000-1a235d000    [  248K   248K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
__TEXT                      1a235d000-1a2360000    [   12K    12K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_featureflags.dylib
__TEXT                      1a2360000-1a23e2000    [  520K   488K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib
__TEXT                      1a23e2000-1a2449000    [  412K   396K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
__TEXT                      1a2449000-1a2461000    [   96K    96K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/libc++abi.dylib
__TEXT                      1a2461000-1a2499000    [  224K   224K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib
__TEXT                      1a2499000-1a24a6000    [   52K    52K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib
__TEXT                      1a24a6000-1a24b3000    [   52K    52K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
__TEXT                      1a24b3000-1a24bb000    [   32K    32K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_platform.dylib
__TEXT                      1a24bb000-1a24e8000    [  180K   164K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_info.dylib
__TEXT                      1a24e8000-1a2a2f000    [ 5404K  4092K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
unused shlib __TEXT         1a2a2f000-1a4921000    [ 30.9M  17.4M     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__TEXT                      1a4921000-1a4bd7000    [ 2776K  2568K     0K     0K] r-x/r-x SM=COW          /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib

...

__DATA_DIRTY                1fb3fe3e8-1fb3fe3f0    [     8      8      8     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib
__DATA_DIRTY                1fb3fe3f0-1fb3fe404    [    20     20     20     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_platform.dylib
unused shlib __DATA         1fb3fe404-1fb400000    [    7K     7K     7K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          unused system shared lib __DATA, on dirty page
__DATA_DIRTY                1fb400000-1fb405838    [   22K    22K    22K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib
__DATA_DIRTY                1fb405838-1fb405848    [    16     16     16     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_symptoms.dylib
__DATA_DIRTY                1fb405848-1fb405cb8    [  1136   1136   1136     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_trace.dylib
__DATA_DIRTY                1fb405cb8-1fb406708    [  2640   2640   2640     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib
unused shlib __DATA         1fb406708-1fb408000    [    6K     6K     6K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          unused system shared lib __DATA, on dirty page
__AUTH                      1fb408000-1fb4081b8    [   440    440     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_trace.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb4081b8-1fb408218    [    96     96     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcorecrypto.dylib
unused shlib __DATA         1fb408218-1fb40c000    [   15K    15K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __DATA not used by this process
__AUTH                      1fb40c000-1fb414000    [   32K    32K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_malloc.dylib
__DATA                      1fb414000-1fb415400    [    5K     5K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb415400-1fb415478    [   120    120     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb415478-1fb416190    [  3352   3352     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb416190-1fb418628    [    9K     9K   1576     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb418628-1fb418670    [    72     72     72     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libc++abi.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb418670-1fb4186b0    [    64     64     64     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb4186b0-1fb418880    [   464    464    464     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_info.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb418880-1fb41a740    [    8K     8K     8K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
unused shlib __DATA         1fb41a740-1fb41c000    [    6K     6K     6K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          unused system shared lib __DATA, on dirty page
unused shlib __DATA         1fb41c000-1fb4a2640    [  538K   506K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __DATA not used by this process
__AUTH                      1fb4a2640-1fb4a2660    [    32     32     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcommonCrypto.dylib
__AUTH                      1fb4a2660-1fb4a2668    [     8      8     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
unused shlib __DATA         1fb4a2668-1fbb2c000    [ 6694K   982K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __DATA not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fbb2c000-1fbc08e80    [  884K   884K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
__OBJC_CONST                1fbc08e80-1fbc0f9f0    [   27K    27K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
unused shlib __DATA         1fbc0f9f0-1fc288000    [ 6626K  1250K     0K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __DATA not used by this process
__OBJC_RW                   1fc288000-1fc5a0000    [ 3168K  1616K    16K     0K] rw-/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5a0000-1fc5a0030    [    48     48     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_blocks.dylib
__OBJC_CONST                1fc5a0030-1fc5a0390    [   864    864     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_blocks.dylib
__DATA_CONST                1fc5a0390-1fc5a4e20    [   19K    19K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib
__OBJC_CONST                1fc5a4e20-1fc5a5f90    [    4K     4K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5a5f90-1fc5a6c90    [  3328   3328     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_trace.dylib
__OBJC_CONST                1fc5a6c90-1fc5a6e40    [   432    432     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_trace.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5a6e40-1fc5a7f10    [    4K     4K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcorecrypto.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5a7f10-1fc5a84e8    [  1496   1496     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_malloc.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc5a84e8-1fc5a8500    [    24     24     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__DATA_CONST                1fc5a8500-1fc5bb8e8    [   77K    29K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib
__OBJC_CONST                1fc5bb8e8-1fc5bc938    [    4K     4K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdispatch.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc5bc938-1fc5bc940    [     8      8     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5bc940-1fc5bd3c8    [  2696   2696     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
__OBJC_CONST                1fc5bd3c8-1fc5bd698    [   720    720     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5bd698-1fc5bd808    [   368    368     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_featureflags.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5bd808-1fc5be168    [  2400   2400     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5be168-1fc5c02a8    [    8K     8K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5c02a8-1fc5c34b8    [   13K    13K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libc++abi.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5c34b8-1fc5c35e0    [   296    296     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5c35e0-1fc5c3810    [   560    560     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5c3810-1fc5c3fc8    [  1976   1976     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5c3fc8-1fc5c4250    [   648    648     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_platform.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc5c4250-1fc5c53f0    [    4K     4K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_info.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc5c53f0-1fc6e1e10    [ 1139K   947K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fc6e1e10-1fc6f3d48    [   72K    72K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fc6f3d48-1fc6f41c8    [  1152   1152     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_darwin.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc6f41c8-1fc70fa80    [  110K   110K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fc70fa80-1fc70fe00    [   896    896     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_notify.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc70fe00-1fc896a40    [ 1563K  1451K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fc896a40-1fc897608    [  3016   3016     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_networkextension.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc897608-1fc8e5718    [  312K   136K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fc8e5718-1fc8e6160    [  2632   2632     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_asl.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc8e6160-1fc9af288    [  804K   724K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fc9af288-1fc9af560    [   728    728     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_symptoms.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fc9af560-1fcae6480    [ 1244K   892K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fcae6480-1fcae78c0    [    5K     5K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_containermanager.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fcae78c0-1fcbf6250    [ 1082K   842K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fcbf6250-1fcbf6560    [   784    784     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_configuration.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fcbf6560-1fcbf6768    [   520    520     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_sandbox.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fcbf6768-1fcc3f8b8    [  292K   212K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fcc3f8b8-1fcc3f9c0    [   264    264     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libquarantine.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fcc3f9c0-1fccc6ac0    [  540K   268K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fccc6ac0-1fccc6d50    [   656    656     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_coreservices.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fccc6d50-1fccf2d88    [  176K   144K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf2d88-1fccf2da8    [    32     32     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_m.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fccf2da8-1fccf2e28    [   128    128     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf2e28-1fccf2e98    [   112    112     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libmacho.dylib
unused shlib __TEXT         1fccf2e98-1fccf2fb0    [   280    280     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf2fb0-1fccf3d80    [  3536   3536     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcommonCrypto.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf3d80-1fccf3e98    [   280    280     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libunwind.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf3e98-1fccf4168    [   720    720     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/liboah.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4168-1fccf45a0    [  1080   1080     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcopyfile.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf45a0-1fccf4600    [    96     96     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcompiler_rt.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4600-1fccf4750    [   336    336     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_collections.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4750-1fccf4a18    [   712    712     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_secinit.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4a18-1fccf4b78    [   352    352     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libremovefile.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4b78-1fccf4bf8    [   128    128     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libkeymgr.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4bf8-1fccf4db0    [   440    440     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libsystem_dnssd.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4db0-1fccf4e70    [   192    192     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/system/libcache.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf4e70-1fccf5120    [   688    688     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf5120-1fccf5208    [   232    232     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /usr/lib/libfakelink.dylib
__AUTH_CONST                1fccf5208-1fccf5260    [    88     88     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SoftLinking.framework/Versions/A/SoftLinking
unused shlib __TEXT         1fccf5260-1ff928000    [ 44.2M  6603K     0K     0K] r--/rw- SM=COW          system shared lib __TEXT not used by this process
Submap                      1ff928000-200000000    [ 7008K     0K     0K     0K] r--/r-- SM=PRV          process-only VM submap

Now I understand submaps and that all of these mini regions only happened after vmmap specified that the REGION TYPE (first column) was of type Submap and I did try along using mach_vm_region_recurse with depth greater than 0 however that only gave this:

1a2174000 to 1f1b30000
1f3b30000 to 1f669c000
1f869c000 to 1f86bc000

that was extra information - nothing even close to vmmap. I did try looking around and the closest thing I could try to find to fix this problem was the segment_command_64 struct defined as :

struct segment_command_64 { /* for 64-bit architectures */
    uint32_t    cmd;        /* LC_SEGMENT_64 */
    uint32_t    cmdsize;    /* includes sizeof section_64 structs */
    char        segname[16];    /* segment name */
    uint64_t    vmaddr;     /* memory address of this segment */
    uint64_t    vmsize;     /* memory size of this segment */
    uint64_t    fileoff;    /* file offset of this segment */
    uint64_t    filesize;   /* amount to map from the file */
    vm_prot_t   maxprot;    /* maximum VM protection */
    vm_prot_t   initprot;   /* initial VM protection */
    uint32_t    nsects;     /* number of sections in segment */
    uint32_t    flags;      /* flags */
};

along side the getsectbynamefromheader_64 function but I really couldn't figure anything out as there is 0 documentation for anything.

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For parsing Mach-O segments, there is a fair bit of information out on the web about the Mach-O executable file format, which is what you're dealing with here, it's just mapped directly into memory.

Essentially though, each Mach-O segment (segment_command_64) will contain some number of sections (section_64). The sections are described in an array of section_64 structs immediately following the segment_command_64 struct. There will be nsects array entries. You can skip from segment to segment by moving cmdsize bytes ahead in memory. (The number of load commands you will encounter is specified in the ncmds field of the mach_header_64 file header. They won't all be segments (cmd == LC_SEGMENT_64) but share the load_command struct prefix.

The other thing to bear in mind about vmmap is that it has a whole bunch of special security entitlements which allow it more access to kernel APIs and data structures than most processes:

$ codesign -d --entitlements - /usr/bin/vmmap 
Executable=/usr/bin/vmmap
??qq?<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>com.apple.private.iosurfaceinfo</key>
    <true/>
    <key>com.apple.private.security.storage.AppDataContainers</key>
    <true/>
    <key>com.apple.security.iokit-user-client-class</key>
    <array>
        <string>IOSurfaceRootUserClient</string>
    </array>
    <key>com.apple.system-task-ports</key>
    <true/>
    <key>com.apple.system-task-ports.read</key>
    <true/>
    <key>com.apple.system-task-ports.read.safe</key>
    <true/>
    <key>com.apple.system-task-ports.safe</key>
    <true/>
    <key>task_for_pid-allow</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

However most of that is for allowing inspection of other processes - I'm not sure if those entitlements enable it to view more information than a regular process can get about itself.

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