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1# 2025 2 36 0 0 # 25q2 sdk/api level 36.0 - Android 16 Baklava QPR0
2
3# Note: This will actually execute /apex/com.android.tethering/bin/netbpfload
4# by virtue of 'service bpfloader' being overridden by the apex shipped .rc
5# Warning: most of the below settings are irrelevant unless the apex is missing.
6service bpfloader /system/bin/false
7    # netbpfload will do network bpf loading, then execute /system/bin/bpfloader
8    #! capabilities CHOWN SYS_ADMIN NET_ADMIN
9    # The following group memberships are a workaround for lack of DAC_OVERRIDE
10    # and allow us to open (among other things) files that we created and are
11    # no longer root owned (due to CHOWN) but still have group read access to
12    # one of the following groups.  This is not perfect, but a more correct
13    # solution requires significantly more effort to implement.
14    #! group root graphics network_stack net_admin net_bw_acct net_bw_stats net_raw system
15    user root
16    #
17    # Set RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to 1GiB for bpfloader
18    #
19    # Actually only 8MiB would be needed if bpfloader ran as its own uid.
20    #
21    # However, while the rlimit is per-thread, the accounting is system wide.
22    # So, for example, if the graphics stack has already allocated 10MiB of
23    # memlock data before bpfloader even gets a chance to run, it would fail
24    # if its memlock rlimit is only 8MiB - since there would be none left for it.
25    #
26    # bpfloader succeeding is critical to system health, since a failure will
27    # cause netd crashloop and thus system server crashloop... and the only
28    # recovery is a full kernel reboot.
29    #
30    # We've had issues where devices would sometimes (rarely) boot into
31    # a crashloop because bpfloader would occasionally lose a boot time
32    # race against the graphics stack's boot time locked memory allocation.
33    #
34    # Thus bpfloader's memlock has to be 8MB higher then the locked memory
35    # consumption of the root uid anywhere else in the system...
36    # But we don't know what that is for all possible devices...
37    #
38    # Ideally, we'd simply grant bpfloader the IPC_LOCK capability and it
39    # would simply ignore it's memlock rlimit... but it turns that this
40    # capability is not even checked by the kernel's bpf system call.
41    #
42    # As such we simply use 1GiB as a reasonable approximation of infinity.
43    #
44    #! rlimit memlock 1073741824 1073741824
45    oneshot
46    #
47    # How to debug bootloops caused by 'bpfloader-failed'.
48    #
49    # 1. On some lower RAM devices (like wembley) you may need to first enable developer mode
50    #    (from the Settings app UI), and change the developer option "Logger buffer sizes"
51    #    from the default (wembley: 64kB) to the maximum (1M) per log buffer.
52    #    Otherwise buffer will overflow before you manage to dump it and you'll get useless logs.
53    #
54    # 2. comment out 'reboot_on_failure reboot,bpfloader-failed' below
55    # 3. rebuild/reflash/reboot
56    # 4. as the device is booting up capture bpfloader logs via:
57    #    adb logcat -s 'bpfloader:*' 'LibBpfLoader:*' 'NetBpfLoad:*' 'NetBpfLoader:*'
58    #
59    # something like:
60    #   $ adb reboot; sleep 1; adb wait-for-device; adb root; sleep 1; adb wait-for-device; adb logcat -s 'bpfloader:*' 'LibBpfLoader:*' 'NetBpfLoad:*' 'NetBpfLoader:*'
61    # will take care of capturing logs as early as possible
62    #
63    # 5. look through the logs from the kernel's bpf verifier that bpfloader dumps out,
64    #    it usually makes sense to search back from the end and find the particular
65    #    bpf verifier failure that caused bpfloader to terminate early with an error code.
66    #    This will probably be something along the lines of 'too many jumps' or
67    #    'cannot prove return value is 0 or 1' or 'unsupported / unknown operation / helper',
68    #    'invalid bpf_context access', etc.
69    #
70    reboot_on_failure reboot,netbpfload-missing
71    updatable
72