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authorAndrew Chow <achow101-github@achow101.com>2018-02-20 16:08:36 -0500
committerJoão Barbosa <joao.paulo.barbosa@gmail.com>2019-03-11 13:19:56 +0000
commit048fda2a66df405cd98706612c87b59c2912c441 (patch)
treee6bc70bb683179c20d13f397a93a87f232f46260 /src
parentf455979eb1b65c9822b414aa9e6b04b5c43322a0 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-048fda2a66df405cd98706612c87b59c2912c441.tar.xz
After encrypting the wallet, reload the database environment
Calls ReloadDbEnv after encrypting the wallet so that the database environment is flushed, closed, and reopened to prevent unencrypted keys from being saved on disk. Github-Pull: #12493 Rebased-From: d7637c5
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-rw-r--r--src/wallet/wallet.cpp5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
index e86aa04d18..4bf2ec1e4e 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet.cpp
@@ -760,6 +760,11 @@ bool CWallet::EncryptWallet(const SecureString& strWalletPassphrase)
// bits of the unencrypted private key in slack space in the database file.
database->Rewrite();
+ // BDB seems to have a bad habit of writing old data into
+ // slack space in .dat files; that is bad if the old data is
+ // unencrypted private keys. So:
+ database->ReloadDbEnv();
+
}
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