commit 38a77c404807426661d0ab878ade7afc3bad3c0e
author Tom Cherry <tomcherry@google.com> Wed Oct 18 09:25:17 2017 -0700
committer Tom Cherry <tomcherry@google.com> Wed Oct 18 09:25:17 2017 -0700
tree c17d6a49ecac739d7639bb6ef799cb1234eda555
parent e994b4b584a23be4574b725f6b5e654535f8e1d0

Allow ro. properties to have arbitrary lengths

Bug: 23102347
Bug: 34954705
Test: build
Change-Id: I99b074633c60e95cdd2284bf8a708b9187c1e310

core/java/android/os/SystemProperties.java

diff --git a/core/java/android/os/SystemProperties.java b/core/java/android/os/SystemProperties.java
index 84111fb..4f6d322 100644
--- a/core/java/android/os/SystemProperties.java
+++ b/core/java/android/os/SystemProperties.java
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the {@code val} exceeds 91 characters
      */
     public static void set(@NonNull String key, @Nullable String val) {
-        if (val != null && val.length() > PROP_VALUE_MAX) {
+        if (val != null && !val.startsWith("ro.") && val.length() > PROP_VALUE_MAX) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("value of system property '" + key
                     + "' is longer than " + PROP_VALUE_MAX + " characters: " + val);
         }