Merge "Revert "Remove the emulator special case from the "adb root" code.""
diff --git a/adb/adb_main.cpp b/adb/adb_main.cpp
index a03fcf1..fb17e89 100644
--- a/adb/adb_main.cpp
+++ b/adb/adb_main.cpp
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@
#if defined(ALLOW_ADBD_ROOT)
char value[PROPERTY_VALUE_MAX];
+ // The emulator is never secure, so don't drop privileges there.
+ // TODO: this seems like a bug --- shouldn't the emulator behave like a device?
+ property_get("ro.kernel.qemu", value, "");
+ if (strcmp(value, "1") == 0) {
+ return false;
+ }
+
// The properties that affect `adb root` and `adb unroot` are ro.secure and
// ro.debuggable. In this context the names don't make the expected behavior
// particularly obvious.