Index: compiler-rt/trunk/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c
===================================================================
--- compiler-rt/trunk/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c
+++ compiler-rt/trunk/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c
@@ -39,8 +39,25 @@
 COMPILER_RT_VISIBILITY
 void __llvm_profile_recursive_mkdir(char *path) {
   int i;
+  int start = 1;
 
-  for (i = 1; path[i] != '\0'; ++i) {
+#if defined(__ANDROID__) && defined(__ANDROID_API__) &&                        \
+    defined(__ANDROID_API_FUTURE__) &&                                         \
+    __ANDROID_API__ == __ANDROID_API_FUTURE__
+  // Avoid spammy selinux denial messages in Android by not attempting to
+  // create directories in GCOV_PREFIX.  These denials occur when creating (or
+  // even attempting to stat()) top-level directories like "/data".
+  //
+  // Do so by ignoring ${GCOV_PREFIX} when invoking mkdir().
+  const char *gcov_prefix = getenv("GCOV_PREFIX");
+  if (gcov_prefix != NULL) {
+    const int gcov_prefix_len = strlen(gcov_prefix);
+    if (strncmp(path, gcov_prefix, gcov_prefix_len) == 0)
+      start = gcov_prefix_len;
+  }
+#endif
+
+  for (i = start; path[i] != '\0'; ++i) {
     char save = path[i];
     if (!IS_DIR_SEPARATOR(path[i]))
       continue;