Protect from viking killer! Wait, what?

Much similar to a previous post I had, “Brutal” Google coding humor…, I was perusing over some code in the AOSP and found an interesting comment:

// XXX: PROTECT FROM VIKING KILLER

Below is the full snippet from the file, logwrapper.c.

void child(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    // create null terminated argv_child array
    char* argv_child[argc + 1];
    memcpy(argv_child, argv, argc * sizeof(char *));
    argv_child[argc] = NULL;

    // XXX: PROTECT FROM VIKING KILLER
    if (execvp(argv_child[0], argv_child)) {
        LOG(LOG_ERROR, "logwrapper",
            "executing %s failed: %s", argv_child[0], strerror(errno));
        exit(-1);
    }
}

I’m not sure if “Viking Killer” is an inside joke, an actual good comment or what. Though read allowed - it sounds like a badly named european adult film…