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Commit 7970fff4 authored by Michael Groover's avatar Michael Groover
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Add a receiver exported flag to mark unaudited runtime receivers

Android T allows apps to declare a runtime receiver as not exported
by invoking registerReceiver with a new RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED flag;
receivers registered with this flag will only receive broadcasts from
the platform and the app itself. However to ensure developers can
properly protect their receivers, all apps targeting T or later
registering a receiver for non-system broadcasts must specify either
the exported or not exported flag when invoking #registerReceiver;
if one of these flags is not provided, the platform will throw a
SecurityException. The platform and system apps have several locations
where a receiver is registered for non-system broadcasts that have
not yet been audited to determine if they should be exported. This
commit introduces a temporary flag that can be used to meet the
new requirement that a flag be specified while also marking the
receiver as needing an audit before the T release to determine
whether the receiver should be exported or not.

Bug: 161145287
Test: atest ContextTest
Change-Id: Ie9d1e2ad6e2d831c374437ed65d085711b7dc3b7
parent 8704be36
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