Merge "libutils: clearer abort on overflow." into tm-dev
diff --git a/init/bootchart.cpp b/init/bootchart.cpp
index b7db9b6..f46fb09 100644
--- a/init/bootchart.cpp
+++ b/init/bootchart.cpp
@@ -140,6 +140,20 @@
static void bootchart_thread_main() {
LOG(INFO) << "Bootcharting started";
+ // Unshare the mount namespace of this thread so that the init process itself can switch
+ // the mount namespace later while this thread is still running.
+ // Otherwise, setns() call invoked as part of `enter_default_mount_ns` fails with EINVAL.
+ //
+ // Note that after unshare()'ing the mount namespace from the main thread, this thread won't
+ // receive mount/unmount events from the other mount namespace unless the events are happening
+ // from under a sharable mount.
+ //
+ // The bootchart thread is safe to unshare the mount namespace because it only reads from /proc
+ // and write to /data which are not private mounts.
+ if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) == -1) {
+ PLOG(ERROR) << "Cannot create mount namespace";
+ return;
+ }
// Open log files.
auto stat_log = fopen_unique("/data/bootchart/proc_stat.log", "we");
if (!stat_log) return;