diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c
--- a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingUtil.c
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@
     char save = path[i];
     if (!IS_DIR_SEPARATOR(path[i]))
       continue;
+
+#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".
+    const char *gcov_prefix = getenv("GCOV_PREFIX");
+    if (gcov_prefix != NULL && strncmp(path, gcov_prefix, i) == 0)
+      continue;
+#endif
+
     path[i] = '\0';
 #ifdef _WIN32
     _mkdir(path);