Merge "Don't drop as many caches when evicting CE key"

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Eric Biggers 2019-04-05 21:04:22 +00:00 committed by Gerrit Code Review
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@ -411,11 +411,18 @@ bool fscrypt_vold_create_user_key(userid_t user_id, int serial, bool ephemeral)
return true;
}
// "Lock" all encrypted directories whose key has been removed. This is needed
// because merely removing the keyring key doesn't affect inodes in the kernel's
// inode cache whose per-file key was already set up. So to remove the per-file
// keys and make the files "appear encrypted", these inodes must be evicted.
//
// To do this, sync() to clean all dirty inodes, then drop all reclaimable slab
// objects systemwide. This is overkill, but it's the best available method
// currently. Don't use drop_caches mode "3" because that also evicts pagecache
// for in-use files; all files relevant here are already closed and sync'ed.
static void drop_caches() {
// Clean any dirty pages (otherwise they won't be dropped).
sync();
// Drop inode and page caches.
if (!writeStringToFile("3", "/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches")) {
if (!writeStringToFile("2", "/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches")) {
PLOG(ERROR) << "Failed to drop caches during key eviction";
}
}