Disable pidfd API on older Android versions

Author: mhsmith

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-09-24-19-32-14.gh-issue-123014.zVcfkZ.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:func:`os.pidfd_open` and :func:`signal.pidfd_send_signal` are now
+unavailable when building against Android API levels older than 31, since
+the underlying system calls may cause a crash.

Modules/clinic/posixmodule.c.h

@@ -10121,7 +10121,10 @@ os_wait_impl(PyObject *module)
 }
 #endif /* HAVE_WAIT */
 
-#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__NR_pidfd_open)
+
+// This system call always crashes on older Android versions.
+#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__NR_pidfd_open) && \
+    !(defined(__ANDROID__) && __ANDROID_API__ < 31)
 /*[clinic input]
 os.pidfd_open
   pid: pid_t

Modules/clinic/signalmodule.c.h

@@ -1299,7 +1299,9 @@ signal_pthread_kill_impl(PyObject *module, unsigned long thread_id,
 #endif   /* #if defined(HAVE_PTHREAD_KILL) */
 
 
-#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__NR_pidfd_send_signal)
+// This system call always crashes on older Android versions.
+#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__NR_pidfd_send_signal) && \
+    !(defined(__ANDROID__) && __ANDROID_API__ < 31)
 /*[clinic input]
 signal.pidfd_send_signal