libhardware: load with dlopen if the library is in system.

am: a6ff1a4698

Change-Id: I234995fca08e058318c500314cbed230cdaeb480

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hardware.c b/hardware.c
index 37b61c44..8faac074 100644
--- a/hardware.c
+++ b/hardware.c
@@ -82,7 +82,14 @@ static int load(const char *id,
      * dlopen returns. Since RTLD_GLOBAL is not or'd in with
      * RTLD_NOW the external symbols will not be global
      */
-    handle = android_load_sphal_library(path, RTLD_NOW);
+    if (strncmp(path, "/system/", 8) == 0) {
+        /* If the library is in system partition, no need to check
+         * sphal namespace. Open it with dlopen.
+         */
+        handle = dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW);
+    } else {
+        handle = android_load_sphal_library(path, RTLD_NOW);
+    }
     if (handle == NULL) {
         char const *err_str = dlerror();
         ALOGE("load: module=%s\n%s", path, err_str?err_str:"unknown");