If you recently updated your version of SuperSU to 0.97, you may have noticed a random command requesting super user access. Continual prompts to grant root access to “mksh: ip route add 224.0.0.0/4 dev wlan0″ have been popping up on HTC Sense devices.
Interestingly enough, the command running is not a new thing – only that SuperSU is reporting it is. SuperSU, until 0.97 allowed shell and system processes root automatically.
The random command is run by a piece of software included in most if not all Sense 4.x ROMs be they stock or not.
At this time it’s unknown why a stock piece of software is attempting to run a command by calling SU to execute it.
Chainfire has a post (linked below) that explains in more details what has been found so far. The short of it is that the command itself is not malicious; there’s just no reason for a system level process to bother calling SU to accomplish it.
The only result of the finding so far is to know why you’re getting mksh requests, and that it’s probably not something to be too concerned about. Or maybe it’s HTC tracking rooted Sense users. But most likely just some piece of code left over.
Thank you! That was driving me crazy yesterday. Finally I went into setting and disabled notifications on it but I was still wondering what it was. Good too know.
The notification can be disabled by opening up SuperSU and clicking on MKSH and hitting disable under “Notification”
My tinfoilhat went on when I received an SU request from EPST when I went into edit mode on ##DATA# and entered my MSL on my 4G LTE. I don’t recall that ever happening in the past.
I thought I was the only one! Glad to know it’s a universal issue.
Mikey for MeanRom related it to the new Sweep to Wake kernel. Never had it before that.
It’s not – I’m not running the sweep to wake kernel
Me neither but it did start happening when I installed Meanrom. But I’m using the Thicklizard awesomesauce Kernal. Is it a Meanrom thing?
Nope, prior to this version of SuperSU if an app was a system app and requested to run SU to execute a command, it was not logged as, well, it is a system command… shouldn’t even need to run SU to execute anything.
Now it logs it. That’s the only difference. If you switched back to another Sense-based ROM and updated to 0.97 SuperSU you’d see the issue appear on that ROM.
Thanks for writing this, Paul.
I am also a MeanRom user, and find it interesting that, even though this issue pertains to SU and Sense 4+, that there are several MeanRom users experience this seemingly.
Has anyone else noticed its notifications in conjunction with other apps, or perhaps with a disconnect and reconnect of WiFi?
Thanks again,
/steven
Everyone using a sense-based ROM is having it – you see more meanrom people because Meanrom has the most users (because it’s updated 3 times a week.)
Thanks for the response, Paul. Yes, that makes “sense” … ;-p
It looks as if Mickey may have released something to address this with 5.7. I’ll report back after flashing.
Best,
/s
I got it viper4G 2.0.2 with Enoch Sense Kernel v0.3. It surprised me, so I denied it. Good to know it’s not a demon.
MeanRom users experience this, because mikey updated the SuperSu app and binary… Don’t suggest that this error is a meanrom issue when it’s not. It is the SuperSu apps fault!
That’s why I don’t like SuperSU, I only use Superuser.