not quite  logically yes  but practically  never extremely  impossible scenario since ashmem open return checking was performed  it is only possible to get a makedev if someone did a  mknod  dev ashmem c lines are virtually useless lines of paranoia  and i  want  aloge to print in the message to catch this  very  bad situation however  this also means  in the next cl  that one can use  mknod  dev ashmem c to brick the device  well  actually  brick binder  which adbd and logd do  not  depend upon fortunately we do not check other  bad  mknod activities in  dev ashmem 