Binder: support storing interface stability
An internal CL adds stability annotations to interfaces. In order to make it easier to make changes against this on AOSP, the API only is merged here. This means, until Android Q is released, AOSP will have stability API annotations but not enforcement. Enforcement will only happen on internal branches. This is being done because of a mismatch between vndservicemanager (in the vendor.img blobs) and libbinder in the VNDK. (remaining comments are from the internal CL and aren't reflected in AOSP yet) This adds runtime information for what the stability class of a binder is in preparation for allowing binders system<->vendor. However, this shouldn't necessarily be restricted to this case. For instance, it may also be used to separate APEX interface stability levels. The idea is that for code serving an interface of a given stability, only intefaces of greater stability can be sent to it. This is slightly less restrictive than existing binder domains. For instance, this could potentially support having a single interface 'vintf' interface which is shared by both system and vendor (this removing the need for infra like ITokenManager). The API that is exposed only allows marking a binder as a specific stability class (see Stability.h). For instance, 'markVintf' marks an API as being exposed system<->vendor. Although, infrastructure in servicemanager, aidl, sepolicy, and VTS still need to support this in order to be useful. The actual implementation of these stability classes (bitmasks) is not exposed and may be changed arbitrarily. Currently these bitmasks are 32-bit integers. These are sent to other processes because the type system in AIDL cannot encode the stability requirements here without either dropping IBinder or differentating IBinder by stability level (which we don't want). So, where possible, AIDL will differentiate stability level at compile time, but when IBinder is used, for handwritten interfaces, and as a backup in case any other piece of the infrastructure fails, the stability is also checked at runtime. Bug: 136027762 Test: atest binderStabilityTest Change-Id: Ia637ee3652d55550e7fce78876458f391b1dd928 Merged-In: Ia637ee3652d55550e7fce78876458f391b1dd928
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