@@ -515,6 +515,15 @@ int fscrypt_drop_inode(struct inode *ino
mk = ci->ci_master_key->payload.data[0];
/*
+ * With proper, non-racy use of FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY, all inodes
+ * protected by the key were cleaned by sync_filesystem(). But if
+ * userspace is still using the files, inodes can be dirtied between
+ * then and now. We mustn't lose any writes, so skip dirty inodes here.
+ */
+ if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
* Note: since we aren't holding ->mk_secret_sem, the result here can
* immediately become outdated. But there's no correctness problem with
* unnecessarily evicting. Nor is there a correctness problem with not