[Regression?] 1ea0ce4069 ("selinux: allow changing labels for cgroupfs") stops Android from booting

From: John Stultz
Date: Thu Feb 23 2017 - 13:51:02 EST


Hey folks,
I've not been able to figure out why yet, but I wanted to raise the
issue that last night I found I couldn't boot Android on my Hikey
board with Linus' HEAD kernel. It seems to cause logd to crash
repeatedly so I'm not able to get debug info from logcat.

I do see the following over and over on the console:

[ 12.505838] init: computing context for service 'logd'
[ 12.506355] init: starting service 'logd'...
[ 12.507683] init: property_set("ro.boottime.logd", "12500792498")
failed: property already set
[ 12.508701] init: Created socket '/dev/socket/logd', mode 666, user
1036, group 1036
[ 12.509294] init: Created socket '/dev/socket/logdr', mode 666,
user 1036, group 1036
[ 12.509891] init: Created socket '/dev/socket/logdw', mode 222,
user 1036, group 1036
[ 12.510132] init: Opened file '/proc/kmsg', flags 0
[ 12.510187] init: Opened file '/dev/kmsg', flags 1
[ 12.510353] init: couldn't write 1941 to
/dev/cpuset/system-background/tasks: No such file or directory
[ 12.533046] init: Service 'logd' (pid 1941) exited with status 255


I did some bisection and narrowed it down to 1ea0ce4069 ("selinux:
allow changing labels for cgroupfs"), which was merged in yesterday.
I've not yet been able to figure out the root cause, but reverting
that patch makes things work again.

So I wanted to raise the issue here so folks were aware.

If there is anything folks want me to test or try, please let me know.

thanks
-john