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-rw-r--r--core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp b/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp
index 7c8a52d1432b..b5fd7929eeae 100644
--- a/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp
+++ b/core/jni/com_android_internal_os_Zygote.cpp
@@ -666,7 +666,9 @@ static pid_t ForkAndSpecializeCommon(JNIEnv* env, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, jintArra
}
}
- if (!is_system_server) {
+ // If this zygote isn't root, it won't be able to create a process group,
+ // since the directory is owned by root.
+ if (!is_system_server && getuid() == 0) {
int rc = createProcessGroup(uid, getpid());
if (rc != 0) {
if (rc == -EROFS) {