1810736 - Media decoding is not compatible with isolated process

Status: NEW

(GeckoView :: Sandboxing, task, P3)

Description

[Jamie Nicol [:jnicol]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1706656 +++

In bug 1706656 we made it so that the SurfaceAllocator works correctly in an isolated process. This means we are now able to successfully allocate Surfaces and proceed to creating the decoder, which fails:

W/System.err( 3953): java.lang.SecurityException: Isolated process not allowed to call bindService
W/System.err( 3953): 	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1683)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1636)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.bindService(ActivityManagerNative.java:4374)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1491)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1450)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:636)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.RemoteManager$RemoteConnection.connect(RemoteManager.java:65)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.RemoteManager$RemoteConnection.-$$Nest$mconnect(RemoteManager.java)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.RemoteManager.init(RemoteManager.java:127)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.RemoteManager.getInstance(RemoteManager.java:33)
W/System.err( 3953): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.CodecProxy.create(CodecProxy.java:158)

Isolated processes are not allowed to call bindService, so we need to find another way to start and communicate with the media process.

Comment 1

[Jamie Nicol [:jnicol]]

(I'm not going to work on this, just filing a bug so that I can link to it when I mark tests as failing in bug 1706656)