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Commit 69538cf7 authored by Peter Collingbourne's avatar Peter Collingbourne
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Disable pointer authentication in app processes. 

Unfortunately we have discovered that some applications in the wild
are using PAC instructions incorrectly. To keep those applications
working on PAC enabled devices, disable PAC in application processes
for now.

Bug: 212660282
Change-Id: I3030c47be9d02a27505bd4775c1982a20755758c
parent 99da93a0

cmds/app_process/Android.bp

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@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ cc_binary { 
        "libwilhelm",

    ],



    header_libs: ["bionic_libc_platform_headers"],



    compile_multilib: "both",



    cflags: [

cmds/app_process/app_main.cpp

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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ 


#include <android-base/macros.h>

#include <binder/IPCThreadState.h>

#include <bionic/pac.h>

#include <hwbinder/IPCThreadState.h>

#include <utils/Log.h>

#include <cutils/memory.h>
@@ -182,6 +183,10 @@ int main(int argc, char* const argv[]) 
      ALOGV("app_process main with argv: %s", argv_String.string());

    }



    // Because of applications that are using PAC instructions incorrectly, PAC

    // is disabled in application processes for now.

    ScopedDisablePAC x;



    AppRuntime runtime(argv[0], computeArgBlockSize(argc, argv));

    // Process command line arguments

    // ignore argv[0]