From 4b8234bead2f8195466706d38cf60208bf8b58b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: daemonhorn <daemonhorn@nullcore.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:41:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add 53xc family driver (confirmed working for USB PID 0x533c)

Reverse-engineered from the closed libfprint-tod blob shipped for
Ubuntu/Canonical OEM images (libfprint-2-tod1-goodix, "53xc" TOD
module), plus a live USB capture of that blob's own traffic against
real 0x533c hardware. Reuses this repo's existing wire protocol
(goodix.py) entirely -- only the model-specific constants (PSK,
DEVICE_CONFIG, sensor dimensions) and three protocol-quirk workarounds
are new.

This chip doesn't reply with a fixed [ack][data] pair for reset,
mcu_switch_to_fdt_mode, write_sensor_register, or mcu_get_image's ack
-- responses were observed in both orders and sometimes duplicated.
tolerant_* helpers classify each read by decoded command instead of
assuming position, used only for those commands; everything else goes
through the existing Device methods unmodified.

Confirmed against real hardware for PID 0x533c only (produces a real,
non-degenerate 108x88 image via run_533c.py). 0x530c/0x538c share the
same firmware/command set per the same .so but weren't tested -- the
five other named DEVICE_CONFIG templates found alongside "MilanFn" in
that binary are documented but unused here.

PSK writing is intentionally not implemented: this unit's PSK was
already correctly provisioned from the factory, and its
COMMAND_PRESET_PSK_WRITE_R success convention was found to be inverted
relative to every other model in this repo (documented in the driver
as a note for anyone implementing it later).

Full methodology and static-analysis findings:
https://github.com/daemonhorn/goodix-533c-re

Closes/references #31.
---
 driver_53xc.py | 317 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 run_533c.py    |   3 +
 2 files changed, 320 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 driver_53xc.py
 create mode 100644 run_533c.py

diff --git a/driver_53xc.py b/driver_53xc.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a07904c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/driver_53xc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,317 @@
+"""
+Driver for the Goodix 53xc GTLS sensor family (USB PID 0x530c/0x533c/0x538c).
+
+Reverse-engineered from the closed libfprint-tod blob shipped for Ubuntu/
+Canonical OEM images (`libfprint-tod-goodix-53xc`, package
+`libfprint-2-tod1-goodix`), plus a live USB capture of that blob's own
+traffic against real hardware. Full methodology, static analysis notes,
+and a working end-to-end capture script:
+https://github.com/daemonhorn/goodix-533c-re
+
+Confirmed against real hardware for PID 0x533c only. 0x530c/0x538c share
+the same firmware/command set in the same .so (five other named
+DEVICE_CONFIG templates exist alongside the "MilanFn" one used here -- see
+goodix-533c-re/findings/device-config.md), but their constants were not
+extracted or tested; treat this file as a starting point for those PIDs,
+not a working driver for them.
+
+Device-specific quirk (533c): unlike every other model in this repo, this
+firmware does not reply with a fixed [ack][data] pair for `reset`,
+`mcu_switch_to_fdt_mode`, `write_sensor_register`, or `mcu_get_image`'s
+ack -- responses have been observed in ack-then-data order, data-then-ack
+order, and with duplicated packets. goodix.Device's equivalent methods
+assume the fixed order and raise ValueError against this chip. The
+tolerant_* helpers below classify each USB read by its decoded command
+rather than assuming position, and are used in place of the equivalent
+Device methods for just those commands.
+"""
+import select
+import socket
+import struct
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+import goodix
+import protocol
+import tool
+
+TARGET_FIRMWARE = "GF5288_GM168SEC_APP_13016"
+
+# Confirmed via a live capture of the closed blob's own traffic: this
+# unit's PSK was already correctly provisioned to all-zero from the
+# factory -- COMMAND_PRESET_PSK_WRITE_R was never observed in that
+# capture, and this all-zero PSK's PMK_HASH matched what the device
+# already had stored. This driver does not implement PSK writing.
+PSK = bytes.fromhex(
+    "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
+
+PMK_HASH = bytes.fromhex(
+    "66687aadf862bd776c8fc18b8e9f8e20089714856ee233b3902a591d0d5f2925")
+
+# NOTE for anyone implementing PSK writing for this chip: its
+# COMMAND_PRESET_PSK_WRITE_R response uses the OPPOSITE success
+# convention from every other model in this repo -- message[0] == 0x01
+# means success here, not the 0x00 that goodix.Device.preset_psk_write()
+# checks for. Found by observing a write that goodix.py logged as
+# "failed" actually take effect (the PSK read back correctly afterward,
+# and the real vendor driver never rewrote it on a later run). Do not
+# reuse Device.preset_psk_write()'s return value unmodified for this chip.
+
+# Extracted from libfprint-tod-goodix-53xc-0.0.4.so's rodata, offset
+# 0x103380 (the "MilanFn" config template; five other named sibling
+# templates exist in the same blob for other 53xc PIDs/variants -- see
+# goodix-533c-re/findings/device-config.md). This is a template, not a
+# ready-to-send config: its last 2 bytes are a placeholder checksum, not
+# a valid one, matching the pattern in driver_53x5.py's
+# DEFAULT_CONFIG/fix_config_checksum. No OTP-derived calibration data is
+# spliced in here (unlike 53x5's TCODE_TAG/DAC_L_TAG patching) -- a
+# checksum fix alone was confirmed sufficient to get upload_config_mcu()
+# accepted and produce a real image, but calibration quality with a
+# finger actually present has not been evaluated.
+DEFAULT_CONFIG = bytes.fromhex(
+    "6011607124952cc114d510e500e514f9030402000008001111ba000180ca000700"
+    "8400c0b38600bbc48800baba8a00b2b28c00aaaa8e00c1c19000bbbb9200b1b194"
+    "0000a8960000b6980000bf9a0000ba50000105d000000070000000720078567400"
+    "34122600001220001040120003042a0102002200012024003200800001005c0080"
+    "00560008205800010032002c028200800cba000180ca0007002a01820320001040"
+    "2200012024001400800005005c0000015600082058000300820080152a0108005c"
+    "0080006200090364001800220000202a0108005c00800052000800000000000000"
+    "00000000000000fdf02e2e2f73656e736f722f4d696c616e46")
+
+
+def fix_config_checksum(config: bytearray):
+    """Seed 0xa5a5, running 16-bit LE sum over bytes [0:254], negated mod
+    0x10000, stored LE in bytes [254:256]. Matches driver_53x5.py's
+    fix_config_checksum exactly; confirmed via disassembly of this .so
+    (VA 0x2d0a0) and required since DEFAULT_CONFIG's stored checksum is
+    stale template data, not a checksum of the template as-is."""
+    checksum = 0xa5a5
+    for i in range(0, 254, 2):
+        checksum = (checksum + int.from_bytes(config[i:i + 2], "little")) & 0xffff
+    checksum = (0x10000 - checksum) & 0xffff
+    config[254:256] = checksum.to_bytes(2, "little")
+
+
+_config = bytearray(DEFAULT_CONFIG)
+fix_config_checksum(_config)
+DEVICE_CONFIG = bytes(_config)
+
+# Not a confirmed firmware constant -- static analysis of this .so found
+# no SENSOR_WIDTH/HEIGHT for this PID (see goodix-533c-re/findings/
+# dims-and-inventory.md). Strongly shape-corroborated from a live capture
+# instead: of the 12 plausible (width, height) factorizations of the
+# resulting 9504-pixel decoded image, only width=108 reshapes into a
+# coherent 2D shape (a rounded vignette matching a capacitive sensor's
+# physical active area); every other candidate is pure horizontal banding
+# with no 2D structure -- the signature of reshaping row-major data at
+# the wrong row length. This also exactly matches driver_53x5.py's
+# SENSOR_WIDTH=108/SENSOR_HEIGHT=88, suggesting 530c/533c/538c may share
+# that sensor's physical die. Treat as likely, not certain.
+SENSOR_WIDTH = 108
+SENSOR_HEIGHT = 88
+
+
+def init_device(product: int):
+    device = goodix.Device(product, protocol.USBProtocol)
+    device.nop()
+    return device
+
+
+def check_psk(device: goodix.Device):
+    ok, flags, pmk_hash = device.preset_psk_read(0xbb020001, len(PMK_HASH), 0)
+    return ok and pmk_hash == PMK_HASH
+
+
+def _tolerant_read(device: goodix.Device, command: int, expect_data: bool):
+    """Drain packets until one ACK and (if expect_data) one data response
+    for `command` have been seen, discarding any duplicate/orphaned
+    extras -- order-agnostic, classifying each read by decoded command
+    rather than assuming position. Returns the data payload (or None)."""
+    ack_payload = None
+    data_payload = None
+    misses = 0
+    while misses < 2 and (ack_payload is None or
+                           (expect_data and data_payload is None)):
+        try:
+            raw = device.protocol.read(timeout=1)
+        except Exception:
+            misses += 1
+            continue
+
+        try:
+            inner, _flags, _length = goodix.decode_message_pack(raw)
+            payload, cmd, _plen = goodix.decode_message_protocol(inner)
+        except Exception:
+            continue
+
+        if cmd == goodix.COMMAND_ACK and ack_payload is None:
+            ack_payload = payload
+        elif cmd == command and data_payload is None:
+            data_payload = payload
+
+    if ack_payload is not None:
+        goodix.check_ack(ack_payload, command)
+
+    return data_payload
+
+
+def tolerant_reset(device: goodix.Device, reset_sensor: bool,
+                    soft_reset_mcu: bool, sleep_time: int):
+    payload = (struct.pack("<B", (0x1 if reset_sensor else 0x0) |
+                            (0x1 if soft_reset_mcu else 0x0) << 1 |
+                            (0x1 if reset_sensor else 0x0) << 2) +
+               struct.pack("<B", sleep_time))
+    device.protocol.write(
+        goodix.encode_message_pack(
+            goodix.encode_message_protocol(payload, goodix.COMMAND_RESET)))
+
+    message = _tolerant_read(device, goodix.COMMAND_RESET,
+                              expect_data=not soft_reset_mcu)
+    if soft_reset_mcu:
+        return None
+    if message is None or len(message) < 3 or message[0] != 0x01:
+        return False, None
+    return True, struct.unpack("<H", message[1:3])[0]
+
+
+def tolerant_fdt_mode(device: goodix.Device, mode: bytes, reply: bool):
+    device.protocol.write(
+        goodix.encode_message_pack(
+            goodix.encode_message_protocol(
+                mode, goodix.COMMAND_MCU_SWITCH_TO_FDT_MODE)))
+    return _tolerant_read(device, goodix.COMMAND_MCU_SWITCH_TO_FDT_MODE,
+                           expect_data=reply)
+
+
+def tolerant_write_sensor_register(device: goodix.Device, address: int,
+                                    value: bytes):
+    message = b"\x00" + struct.pack("<H", address) + value
+    device.protocol.write(
+        goodix.encode_message_pack(
+            goodix.encode_message_protocol(
+                message, goodix.COMMAND_WRITE_SENSOR_REGISTER)))
+    _tolerant_read(device, goodix.COMMAND_WRITE_SENSOR_REGISTER,
+                   expect_data=False)
+
+
+def tolerant_get_image(device: goodix.Device, payload: bytes, flags: int):
+    """goodix.Device.mcu_get_image() also assumes a fixed [ack][data]
+    order; read both manually instead of relying on it."""
+    device.protocol.write(
+        goodix.encode_message_pack(
+            goodix.encode_message_protocol(payload,
+                                           goodix.COMMAND_MCU_GET_IMAGE)))
+    device.protocol.read()  # ACK (ignored -- see module docstring)
+    resp = device.protocol.read()  # image data
+    return goodix.check_message_pack(resp, flags)
+
+
+def run_driver(device: goodix.Device):
+    """Assumes tolerant_reset() has already been called successfully --
+    see main(), which must reset before checking PSK state (this chip
+    doesn't respond reliably, including to firmware_version(), until
+    after a reset)."""
+    # -ign_eof (and keeping stdin open for the subprocess's whole
+    # lifetime, never letting it see EOF) is required: without it,
+    # openssl s_server sends close_notify as soon as its stdin sees EOF,
+    # which happens well before mcu_get_image's Application Data record
+    # arrives -- there are several seconds of USB round-trips in between
+    # (upload_config_mcu, two fdt_mode calls, write_sensor_register). The
+    # session is already closed server-side by the time the image
+    # arrives, and openssl silently discards records on a closed session,
+    # producing zero decrypted bytes with no visible error. See
+    # goodix-533c-re/findings/image-capture-success.md for the full
+    # diagnosis.
+    #
+    # -cipher PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA256:@SECLEVEL=0 forces the real vendor
+    # driver's negotiated suite (TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,
+    # 0x00AE) -- a legacy CBC suite OpenSSL 3.x won't offer by default.
+    tls_server = subprocess.Popen(
+        ["openssl", "s_server", "-nocert", "-psk", PSK.hex(), "-port",
+         "4433", "-quiet", "-ign_eof", "-cipher",
+         "PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA256:@SECLEVEL=0"],
+        stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+
+    try:
+        device.read_sensor_register(0x0000, 4)  # chip ID
+        device.read_otp()
+
+        tls_client = socket.socket()
+        tls_client.connect(("localhost", 4433))
+
+        try:
+            tool.connect_device(device, tls_client)
+
+            if not device.upload_config_mcu(DEVICE_CONFIG):
+                raise ValueError("Failed to upload config")
+
+            tolerant_fdt_mode(
+                device,
+                b"\x0d\x01\x28\x01\x22\x01\x28\x01\x24\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00"
+                b"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00",
+                False)
+            tolerant_fdt_mode(
+                device,
+                b"\x0d\x01\x28\x01\x22\x01\x28\x01\x24\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00"
+                b"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01",
+                True)
+
+            tolerant_write_sensor_register(device, 0x022c, b"\x0a\x03")
+
+            resp = tolerant_get_image(
+                device, b"\x01\x03\x28\x01\x22\x01\x28\x01\x24\x01",
+                goodix.FLAGS_TRANSPORT_LAYER_SECURITY_DATA)
+            tls_client.sendall(resp[9:])
+
+            # Drain whatever openssl decrypted; the exact byte count
+            # isn't a known firmware constant (see SENSOR_WIDTH note
+            # above), so poll with a deadline instead of a fixed-size
+            # blocking read.
+            raw = b""
+            deadline = time.time() + 6
+            while time.time() < deadline:
+                ready, _, _ = select.select([tls_server.stdout], [], [], 0.5)
+                if ready:
+                    chunk = tls_server.stdout.read1(65536)
+                    if not chunk:
+                        break
+                    raw += chunk
+                elif raw:
+                    break
+
+            if not raw:
+                raise ValueError("No plaintext image data decrypted")
+
+            trimmed = raw[:len(raw) - (len(raw) % 6)]
+            tool.write_pgm(tool.decode_image(trimmed), SENSOR_WIDTH,
+                           SENSOR_HEIGHT, "clear-0.pgm")
+
+        finally:
+            tls_client.close()
+    finally:
+        tls_server.terminate()
+
+
+def main(product: int):
+    # firmware_version() and other commands are unreliable on this chip
+    # until after a reset -- reset first, tolerantly, before anything
+    # else (including check_psk below). This ordering was found the hard
+    # way: an early version of this driver called firmware_version()
+    # immediately after nop() and got ValueError("Invalid message
+    # protocol") from every subsequent command, which looked like a wedged
+    # device but was actually just this same response-ordering quirk
+    # affecting firmware_version() too.
+    device = init_device(product)
+
+    reset_ok, _number = tolerant_reset(device, True, False, 20)
+    if not reset_ok:
+        raise ValueError("Reset failed")
+
+    if not check_psk(device):
+        raise ValueError(
+            "PSK not provisioned as expected on this device -- this "
+            "driver does not implement PSK writing for the 53xc family "
+            "(see the note above on its inverted write-ack convention)")
+
+    run_driver(device)
diff --git a/run_533c.py b/run_533c.py
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index 0000000..8ded8e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_533c.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import driver_53xc
+
+driver_53xc.main(0x533c)