diff -u -r ../busybox-1.29.2/networking/ftpd.c ./networking/ftpd.c
--- ../busybox-1.29.2/networking/ftpd.c	2018-07-02 11:23:06.000000000 +0000
+++ ./networking/ftpd.c	2018-08-30 09:14:29.299721780 +0000
@@ -177,13 +177,9 @@
 	char msg_ok [(sizeof("NNN " MSG_OK ) + 3) & 0xfffc];
 	char msg_err[(sizeof("NNN " MSG_ERR) + 3) & 0xfffc];
 } FIX_ALIASING;
-#define G (*ptr_to_globals)
-/* ^^^ about 75 bytes smaller code than this: */
-//#define G (*(struct globals*)bb_common_bufsiz1)
+#define G (*(struct globals*)bb_common_bufsiz1)
 #define INIT_G() do { \
-	SET_PTR_TO_GLOBALS(xzalloc(sizeof(G))); \
-	/*setup_common_bufsiz();*/ \
-	\
+	setup_common_bufsiz(); \
 	/* Moved to main */ \
 	/*strcpy(G.msg_ok  + 4, MSG_OK );*/ \
 	/*strcpy(G.msg_err + 4, MSG_ERR);*/ \
@@ -1301,7 +1297,14 @@
 		G.root_fd = xopen("/", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY);
 		close_on_exec_on(G.root_fd);
 #endif
+
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+		/* Do not try chroot() as seccomp filtering in
+		 * android 9 kills the process. */
+		if (false)
+#else
 		if (chroot(basedir) == 0)
+#endif
 			basedir = "/";
 #if !BB_MMU
 		else {