Android Crash on Android 8.0 Oreo: SecurityException: Permission Denial: null asks to run as user 450 but is calling from user 0

Question

I upgrade my phone to Android Oreo. When I'm running my app on this device. My app crashes. While it's running well on Android 7 and lower devices.

This is the log:

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                         Process: com.test.test, PID: 28271
                                                         java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: null asks to run as user 450 but is calling from user 0; this requires android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL or android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS
                                                             at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1942)
                                                             at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1888)
                                                             at android.view.autofill.IAutoFillManager$Stub$Proxy.addClient(IAutoFillManager.java:326)
                                                             at android.view.autofill.AutofillManager.ensureServiceClientAddedIfNeededLocked(AutofillManager.java:896)
                                                             at android.view.autofill.AutofillManager.notifyViewExited(AutofillManager.java:487)
                                                             at android.view.View.notifyEnterOrExitForAutoFillIfNeeded(View.java:6945)
                                                             at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:17413)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
                                                             at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1658)
                                                             at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1386)
                                                             at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6733)
                                                             at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:911)
                                                             at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:723)
                                                             at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:658)
                                                             at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:897)
                                                             at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
                                                             at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
                                                             at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
                                                             at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
                                                             at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                             at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
                                                             at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)

That looks a lot like [what was asked in this question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/45842943/115145). How are you causing this crash? — CommonsWare, Aug 23 '17 at 17:32

Isac · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-10T23:52:43.910

I have experienced this problem.

In my case, after perform a startActivity, the application throwed the following exception:

Fatal Exception: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: null asks to run as user 66853 but is calling from user 0; this requires android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL or android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1942)
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1888)
       at android.view.autofill.IAutoFillManager$Stub$Proxy.addClient(IAutoFillManager.java:326)
       at android.view.autofill.AutofillManager.ensureServiceClientAddedIfNeededLocked(AutofillManager.java:896)
       at android.view.autofill.AutofillManager.notifyViewExited(AutofillManager.java:487)
       at android.view.View.notifyEnterOrExitForAutoFillIfNeeded(View.java:6945)
       at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:17413)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3326)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner(ViewGroup.java:4955)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:4746)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java:4686)
       at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$5.addView(RecyclerView.java:711)
       at android.support.v7.widget.ChildHelper.addView(ChildHelper.java:107)
       at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager.addViewInt(RecyclerView.java:7877)
       at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager.addView(RecyclerView.java:7835)
       at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$LayoutManager.addView(RecyclerView.java:7823)
       at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.layoutChunk(LinearLayoutManager.java:1565)
       at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.fill(LinearLayoutManager.java:1511)
       at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(LinearLayoutManager.java:595)
       at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayoutStep2(RecyclerView.java:3583)
       at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.onMeasure(RecyclerView.java:3025)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1514)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:806)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:685)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChildHorizontal(RelativeLayout.java:715)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:461)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1514)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:806)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:685)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChildHorizontal(RelativeLayout.java:715)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:461)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1514)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:806)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:685)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.widget.ScrollView.measureChildWithMargins(ScrollView.java:1308)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:185)
       at android.widget.ScrollView.onMeasure(ScrollView.java:350)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:185)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChildHorizontal(RelativeLayout.java:715)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:461)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:185)
       at android.support.v7.widget.ContentFrameLayout.onMeasure(ContentFrameLayout.java:139)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1514)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:806)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:685)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:185)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1514)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:806)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:685)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:6580)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:185)
       at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.onMeasure(DecorView.java:721)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:21998)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performMeasure(ViewRootImpl.java:2410)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.measureHierarchy(ViewRootImpl.java:1498)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1751)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1386)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6733)
       at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:911)
       at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:723)
       at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:658)
       at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:897)
       at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)

After hours of investigation, I identified that my class BaseActivity, who is extended by all application activities, has implemented a protected method called getUserId, like the example below:

 class BaseActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

   ...

   protected int getUserId() {
     return getCurrentUserRepository().getId();
   }
 }

I just changed the method name to another and the application back to work again:

 class BaseActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

   ...

   protected int getApplicationUserId() {
     return getCurrentUserRepository().getId();
   }
 }

I could not find any method with same name in base classes, but as can we see in stacktrace, this method was probably called by Reflection.

Other important think is that just activities who implements any EditText view throws the exception. The problem occour after implementation of Autofill Framework in API 26.

I had the same issue, had a method called getUserId, I renamed it to getUserID and then i worked - unbelievable — Kasper Finne Nielsen, Sep 25 '17 at 07:18
i cant import or find the getCurrentUserRepository() class name in android studio @KasperFinneNielsen — Archu Mohan, Jun 26 '19 at 04:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '20 at 15:14

I have experienced same issue in kotlin. This Issue Happens only when Edittext is implemented in activity and Having getUserId() method in this Class or it parent class. Changing getUserId() to getUserIdd() fixed my problem.

In Kotlin I had a variable

var userId=0

I changed it to

var userIdd=0

Solved My problem.

score 0 · Answer 3 · 2017-08-23T17:45:12.350

To summarize from this answer, and looking at the sources of UserHandle.java we see the meaning of the framework user id's.

# | @UserIdInt            | Value  | Status     | Description |
# | --------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ------------| 
# | USER_OWNER            | 0      | deprecated | "owner" user of the device
# | USER_SYSTEM           | 0      | ok         | "system" user of the device
# | USER_ALL              | -1     | ok         | ALL users on the device
  | USER_CURRENT          | -2     | ok         | the currently active user
# | USER_CURRENT_OR_SELF  | -3     | ok         | id from which we would like to send to the current user
# | USER_NULL             | -10000 | ok         | An undefined user id

Then to understand what android:protectionLevel="signature" means, you'll have to read the page about permission-element. Which is summarized in the table:

So what you need to do in your AndroidManifest.xml depend a lot on what API's you need to support, as higher > 23 API's also require a android:permissionGroup= definition, for non-normal ("dangerous") permissions...

To be able to hold INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS, your app has to be signed by the firmware's signing key or it has to be installed on the system partition.

To be able to hold INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL, your app has to be signed by the firmware's signing key.

Therefore finally add this in your manifest file:

<permission android:name="android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL" android:protectionLevel="signature"/>

Hope it helps...

The crash only happens on Android 8.0. I tried this but it doesn't work — wei wang, Aug 24 '17 at 18:09

Android Crash on Android 8.0 Oreo: SecurityException: Permission Denial: null asks to run as user 450 but is calling from user 0

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