diff --git a/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk b/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk
index 2197eb968c..4aba87ea59 100644
--- a/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk
+++ b/core/android_soong_config_vars.mk
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ $(call add_soong_config_var,ANDROID,TARGET_ENABLE_MEDIADRM_64)
 $(call add_soong_config_var,ANDROID,BOARD_USES_ODMIMAGE)
 $(call add_soong_config_var,ANDROID,BOARD_USES_RECOVERY_AS_BOOT)
 $(call add_soong_config_var,ANDROID,BOARD_BUILD_SYSTEM_ROOT_IMAGE)
+$(call add_soong_config_var,ANDROID,PRODUCT_INSTALL_DEBUG_POLICY_TO_SYSTEM_EXT)
 
 # TODO(b/172480615): Remove when platform uses ART Module prebuilts by default.
 ifeq (,$(filter art_module,$(SOONG_CONFIG_NAMESPACES)))
diff --git a/core/product.mk b/core/product.mk
index 9aaf5eb300..41cd310745 100644
--- a/core/product.mk
+++ b/core/product.mk
@@ -429,6 +429,11 @@ _product_list_vars += PRODUCT_INTER_PARTITION_JAVA_LIBRARY_ALLOWLIST
 
 _product_single_value_vars += PRODUCT_INSTALL_EXTRA_FLATTENED_APEXES
 
+# Install a copy of the debug policy to the system_ext partition, and allow
+# init-second-stage to load debug policy from system_ext.
+# This option is only meant to be set by GSI products.
+_product_single_value_vars += PRODUCT_INSTALL_DEBUG_POLICY_TO_SYSTEM_EXT
+
 .KATI_READONLY := _product_single_value_vars _product_list_vars
 _product_var_list :=$= $(_product_single_value_vars) $(_product_list_vars)
 
diff --git a/core/product_config.mk b/core/product_config.mk
index 8045337e29..08974efd2c 100644
--- a/core/product_config.mk
+++ b/core/product_config.mk
@@ -396,6 +396,12 @@ ifneq ($(filter-out 0 1,$(words $(PRODUCT_ADB_KEYS))),)
   $(error Only one file may be in PRODUCT_ADB_KEYS: $(PRODUCT_ADB_KEYS))
 endif
 
+ifdef PRODUCT_INSTALL_DEBUG_POLICY_TO_SYSTEM_EXT
+  ifeq (,$(filter gsi_arm gsi_arm64 gsi_x86 gsi_x86_64,$(PRODUCT_NAME)))
+    $(error Only GSI products are allowed to set PRODUCT_INSTALL_DEBUG_POLICY_TO_SYSTEM_EXT)
+  endif
+endif
+
 ifndef PRODUCT_USE_DYNAMIC_PARTITIONS
   PRODUCT_USE_DYNAMIC_PARTITIONS := $(PRODUCT_RETROFIT_DYNAMIC_PARTITIONS)
 endif