I'm trying to add a new group permission in Android but it is not taking effect in my application (new CTS test). Below are the changes :
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/system/core$ git diff
diff --git a/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h b/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h
index d2193b7..7725126 100644
--- a/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h
+++ b/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
#define AID_SDCARD_ALL 1035 /* access all users external storage */
#define AID_LOGD 1036 /* log daemon */
#define AID_SHARED_RELRO 1037 /* creator of shared GNU RELRO files */
+#define AID_XYZ 1038 /* files which XYZ needs to access */
#define AID_SHELL 2000 /* adb and debug shell user */
#define AID_CACHE 2001 /* cache access */
@@ -189,6 +190,7 @@ static const struct android_id_info android_ids[] = {
{ "sdcard_all", AID_SDCARD_ALL, },
{ "logd", AID_LOGD, },
{ "shared_relro", AID_SHARED_RELRO, },
+ { "xyz", AID_XYZ, },
{ "shell", AID_SHELL, },
{ "cache", AID_CACHE, },
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/system/core$
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/system/core$ cd ../../frameworks/base/
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/frameworks/base$
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/frameworks/base$
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/frameworks/base$ git diff
diff --git a/data/etc/platform.xml b/data/etc/platform.xml
index d3d7559..2e5d8c24 100644
--- a/data/etc/platform.xml
+++ b/data/etc/platform.xml
@@ -109,6 +109,10 @@
<group gid="media" />
</permission>
+ <permission name="android.permission.XYZ" >
+ <group gid="xyz" />
+ </permission>
+
<!-- ================================================================== -->
<!-- ================================================================== -->
<!-- ================================================================== -->
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/frameworks/base$
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/frameworks/base$ cd ../../cts/tests/tests/newCtsTest/
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/cts/tests/tests/newCtsTest$
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/cts/tests/tests/newCtsTest$ git diff .
diff --git a/tests/tests/newCtsTest/AndroidManifest.xml b/tests/tests/newCtsTest/AndroidManifest.xml
index 52a0332..9dc3b1b 100755
--- a/tests/tests/newCtsTest/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/tests/tests/newCtsTest/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
package="android.newCtsTest.cts">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD" />
+ <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.XYZ" />
+
<application>
<uses-library android:name="android.test.runner" />
<activity android:name="android.newCtsTest.SampleDeviceActivity" >
test@test-ubuntu:~/android_aosp/cts/tests/tests/newCtsTest$
Following is the file that I'm trying to write to from the application but it is not working :
root@board:/ # ls -l /sys/class/leds/led1/brightness
-rw-rw-r-- system xyz 4096 2018-03-29 10:49 brightness
root@board:/ #
Note the permission for above file is 664. If I change it to 666 it works so the code itself doesn't have any issues, but somehow the group permission isn't applied to the application