diff --git a/Android.mk b/Android.mk
index 569ef9fd5a32bf53cb9744745c93be989a8195c9..7fc03a442d3bbf304c1d15d63f5e0fbfc3762939 100644
--- a/Android.mk
+++ b/Android.mk
@@ -26,13 +26,9 @@ ifdef BOARD_SEPOLICY_M4DEFS
 LOCAL_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS := $(addprefix -D, $(BOARD_SEPOLICY_M4DEFS))
 endif
 
-# Builds paths for all policy files found in BOARD_SEPOLICY_DIRS and the LOCAL_PATH.
-# $(1): the set of policy name paths to build
-build_policy = $(foreach type, $(1), $(foreach file, $(addsuffix /$(type), $(LOCAL_PATH) $(BOARD_SEPOLICY_DIRS)), $(sort $(wildcard $(file)))))
-
 # Builds paths for all policy files found in BOARD_SEPOLICY_DIRS.
 # $(1): the set of policy name paths to build
-build_device_policy = $(foreach type, $(1), $(foreach file, $(addsuffix /$(type), $(BOARD_SEPOLICY_DIRS)), $(sort $(wildcard $(file)))))
+build_policy = $(foreach type, $(1), $(foreach file, $(addsuffix /$(type), $(LOCAL_PATH) $(BOARD_SEPOLICY_DIRS)), $(sort $(wildcard $(file)))))
 
 # Add a file containing only a newline in-between each policy configuration
 # 'contexts' file. This will allow OEM policy configuration files without a
@@ -182,68 +178,30 @@ LOCAL_MODULE_PATH := $(TARGET_ROOT_OUT)
 
 include $(BUILD_SYSTEM)/base_rules.mk
 
-# The file_contexts.bin is built in the following way:
-# 1. Collect all file_contexts files in THIS repository and process them with
-#    m4 into a tmp file called file_contexts.local.tmp.
-# 2. Collect all device specific file_contexts files and process them with m4
-#    into a tmp file called file_contexts.device.tmp.
-# 3. Run checkfc and fc_sort on file_contexts.device.tmp and output to
-#    file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp.
-# 4. Concatenate file_contexts.local.tmp and file_contexts.device.tmp into
-#    file_contexts.concat.tmp.
-# 5. Run checkfc and sefcontext_compile on file_contexts.concat.tmp to produce
-#    file_contexts.bin.
-#
-#  Note: That a newline file is placed between each file_context file found to
-#        ensure a proper build when an fc file is missing an ending newline.
-
-local_fc_files := $(LOCAL_PATH)/file_contexts
+all_fc_files := file_contexts
 ifneq ($(filter address,$(SANITIZE_TARGET)),)
-  local_fc_files := $(local_fc_files) $(LOCAL_PATH)/file_contexts_asan
+  all_fc_files := $(all_fc_files) file_contexts_asan
 endif
-local_fcfiles_with_nl := $(call add_nl, $(local_fc_files), $(built_nl))
-
-file_contexts.local.tmp := $(intermediates)/file_contexts.local.tmp
-$(file_contexts.local.tmp): $(local_fcfiles_with_nl)
-	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(hide) m4 -s $^ > $@
-
-device_fc_files := $(call build_device_policy, file_contexts)
-device_fcfiles_with_nl := $(call add_nl, $(device_fc_files), $(built_nl))
-
-file_contexts.device.tmp := $(intermediates)/file_contexts.device.tmp
-$(file_contexts.device.tmp): PRIVATE_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS := $(LOCAL_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS)
-$(file_contexts.device.tmp): $(device_fcfiles_with_nl)
-	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(hide) m4 -s $(PRIVATE_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS) $^ > $@
-
-file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp := $(intermediates)/file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp
-$(file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp): PRIVATE_SEPOLICY := $(built_sepolicy)
-$(file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp): $(file_contexts.device.tmp) $(built_sepolicy) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/fc_sort $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/checkfc
-	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(hide) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/checkfc $(PRIVATE_SEPOLICY) $<
-	$(hide) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/fc_sort $< $@
+all_fc_files := $(call build_policy, $(all_fc_files))
+all_fcfiles_with_nl := $(call add_nl, $(all_fc_files), $(built_nl))
 
-file_contexts.concat.tmp := $(intermediates)/file_contexts.concat.tmp
-$(file_contexts.concat.tmp): $(file_contexts.local.tmp) $(file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp)
+file_contexts.tmp := $(intermediates)/file_contexts.tmp
+$(file_contexts.tmp): PRIVATE_FC_FILES := $(all_fcfiles_with_nl)
+$(file_contexts.tmp): PRIVATE_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS := $(LOCAL_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS)
+$(file_contexts.tmp): $(all_fcfiles_with_nl)
 	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(hide) m4 -s $^ > $@
+	$(hide) m4 -s $(PRIVATE_ADDITIONAL_M4DEFS) $(PRIVATE_FC_FILES) > $@
 
 $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE): PRIVATE_SEPOLICY := $(built_sepolicy)
-$(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE): $(file_contexts.concat.tmp) $(built_sepolicy) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/sefcontext_compile $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/checkfc
+$(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE): $(file_contexts.tmp) $(built_sepolicy) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/sefcontext_compile $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/checkfc
 	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
 	$(hide) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/checkfc $(PRIVATE_SEPOLICY) $<
 	$(hide) $(HOST_OUT_EXECUTABLES)/sefcontext_compile -o $@ $<
 
 built_fc := $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE)
-local_fc_files :=
-local_fcfiles_with_nl :=
-device_fc_files :=
-device_fcfiles_with_nl :=
-file_contexts.concat.tmp :=
-file_contexts.device.sorted.tmp :=
-file_contexts.device.tmp :=
-file_contexts.local.tmp :=
+all_fc_files :=
+all_fcfiles_with_nl :=
+file_contexts.tmp :=
 
 ##################################
 include $(CLEAR_VARS)
@@ -469,7 +427,6 @@ $(LOCAL_BUILT_MODULE): $(built_sepolicy) $(built_pc) $(built_fc) $(built_sc) $(b
 ##################################
 
 build_policy :=
-build_device_policy :=
 sepolicy_build_files :=
 built_sepolicy :=
 built_sepolicy_recovery :=
diff --git a/tools/fc_sort/Android.mk b/tools/fc_sort/Android.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index f78d5501018b17398d722ee74359b4b0ca6abace..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/fc_sort/Android.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
-
-include $(CLEAR_VARS)
-
-LOCAL_MODULE := fc_sort
-LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional
-LOCAL_SRC_FILES := fc_sort.c
-LOCAL_CXX_STL := none
-
-include $(BUILD_HOST_EXECUTABLE)
-
-###################################
diff --git a/tools/fc_sort/MODULE_LICENSE_GPL b/tools/fc_sort/MODULE_LICENSE_GPL
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
diff --git a/tools/fc_sort/README b/tools/fc_sort/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 0210dc784b39eed00ad42f5fc57c565f278a8d1d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/fc_sort/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-fc_sort is a tool used for sorting the file_contexts entries based on a heuristic that is
- covered by a Fedora document. That document can be found here:
- * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/ManagingFileContext
-
-The tool itself originates from:
- * https://github.com/TresysTechnology/refpolicy
-
-It can be updated to the current tip of master branch with the below command:
-$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TresysTechnology/refpolicy/master/support/fc_sort.c
diff --git a/tools/fc_sort/fc_sort.c b/tools/fc_sort/fc_sort.c
deleted file mode 100644
index f4d2cd0b83aeb7d116c3ff0d9adf4c493fb588d0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/fc_sort/fc_sort.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,567 +0,0 @@
-/* Copyright 2005,2013 Tresys Technology
- *
- * Some parts of this came from matchpathcon.c in libselinux
- */
-
-/* PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM
- * The original setfiles sorting algorithm did not take into
- * account regular expression specificity. With the current
- * strict and targeted policies this is not an issue because
- * the file contexts are partially hand sorted and concatenated
- * in the right order so that the matches are generally correct.
- * The way reference policy and loadable policy modules handle
- * file contexts makes them come out in an unpredictable order
- * and therefore setfiles (or this standalone tool) need to sort
- * the regular expressions in a deterministic and stable way.
- */
-
-#define BUF_SIZE 4096;
-#define _GNU_SOURCE
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <ctype.h>
-
-typedef unsigned char bool_t;
-
-/* file_context_node
- * A node used in a linked list of file contexts.c
- * Each node contains the regular expression, the type and
- *  the context, as well as information about the regular
- *  expression. The regular expression data (meta, stem_len
- *  and str_len) can be filled in by using the fc_fill_data
- *  function after the regular expression has been loaded.
- * next points to the next node in the linked list.
- */
-typedef struct file_context_node {
-	char *path;
-	char *file_type;
-	char *context;
-	bool_t meta;
-	int stem_len;
-	int str_len;
-	struct file_context_node *next;
-} file_context_node_t;
-
-void file_context_node_destroy(file_context_node_t *x)
-{
-	free(x->path);
-	free(x->file_type);
-	free(x->context);
-}
-
-
-
-/* file_context_bucket
- * A node used in a linked list of buckets that contain
- *  file_context_node's.
- * Each node contains a pointer to a file_context_node which
- *  is the header of its linked list. This linked list is the
- *  content of this bucket.
- * next points to the next bucket in the linked list.
- */
-typedef struct file_context_bucket {
-	file_context_node_t *data;
-	struct file_context_bucket *next;
-} file_context_bucket_t;
-
-
-
-/* fc_compare
- * Compares two file contexts' regular expressions and returns:
- *    -1 if a is less specific than b
- *     0 if a and be are equally specific
- *     1 if a is more specific than b
- * The comparison is based on the following statements,
- *  in order from most important to least important, given a and b:
- *     If a is a regular expression and b is not,
- *      -> a is less specific than b.
- *     If a's stem length is shorter than b's stem length,
- *      -> a is less specific than b.
- *     If a's string length is shorter than b's string length,
- *      -> a is less specific than b.
- *     If a does not have a specified type and b does,
- *      -> a is less specific than b.
- */
-int fc_compare(file_context_node_t *a, file_context_node_t *b)
-{
-	/* Check to see if either a or b have meta characters
-	 *  and the other doesn't. */
-	if (a->meta && !b->meta)
-		return -1;
-	if (b->meta && !a->meta)
-		return 1;
-
-	/* Check to see if either a or b have a shorter stem
-	 *  length than the other. */
-	if (a->stem_len < b->stem_len)
-		return -1;
-	if (b->stem_len < a->stem_len)
-		return 1;
-
-	/* Check to see if either a or b have a shorter string
-	 *  length than the other. */
-	if (a->str_len < b->str_len)
-		return -1;
-	if (b->str_len < a->str_len)
-		return 1;
-
-	/* Check to see if either a or b has a specified type
-	 *  and the other doesn't. */
-	if (!a->file_type && b->file_type)
-		return -1;
-	if (!b->file_type && a->file_type)
-		return 1;
-
-	/* If none of the above conditions were satisfied,
-	 * then a and b are equally specific. */
-	return 0;
-}
-
-
-
-/* fc_merge
- * Merges two sorted file context linked lists into one
- *  sorted one.
- * Pass two lists a and b, and after the completion of fc_merge,
- *  the final list is contained in a, and b is empty.
- */
-file_context_node_t *fc_merge(file_context_node_t *a,
-				   file_context_node_t *b)
-{
-	file_context_node_t *a_current;
-	file_context_node_t *b_current;
-	file_context_node_t *temp;
-	file_context_node_t *jumpto;
-
-
-
-	/* If a is a empty list, and b is not,
-	 *  set a as b and proceed to the end. */
-	if (!a && b)
-		a = b;
-	/* If b is an empty list, leave a as it is. */
-	else if (!b) {
-	} else {
-		/* Make it so the list a has the lesser
-		 *  first element always. */
-		if (fc_compare(a, b) == 1) {
-			temp = a;
-			a = b;
-			b = temp;
-		}
-		a_current = a;
-		b_current = b;
-
-		/* Merge by inserting b's nodes in between a's nodes. */
-		while (a_current->next && b_current) {
-			jumpto = a_current->next;
-
-			/* Insert b's nodes in between the current a node
-			 *  and the next a node.*/
-			while (b_current && a_current->next &&
-			       fc_compare(a_current->next,
-					  b_current) != -1) {
-
-
-				temp = a_current->next;
-				a_current->next = b_current;
-				b_current = b_current->next;
-				a_current->next->next = temp;
-				a_current = a_current->next;
-			}
-
-			/* Skip all the inserted node from b to the
-			 *  next node in the original a. */
-			a_current = jumpto;
-		}
-
-
-		/* if there is anything left in b to be inserted,
-		   put it on the end */
-		if (b_current) {
-			a_current->next = b_current;
-		}
-	}
-
-	return a;
-}
-
-
-
-/* fc_merge_sort
- * Sorts file contexts from least specific to more specific.
- * The bucket linked list is passed and after the completion
- *  of the fc_merge_sort function, there is only one bucket
- *  (pointed to by master) that contains a linked list
- *  of all the file contexts, in sorted order.
- * Explanation of the algorithm:
- *  The algorithm implemented in fc_merge_sort is an iterative
- *   implementation of merge sort.
- *  At first, each bucket has a linked list of file contexts
- *   that are 1 element each.
- *  Each pass, each odd numbered bucket is merged into the bucket
- *   before it. This halves the number of buckets each pass.
- *  It will continue passing over the buckets (as described above)
- *   until there is only  one bucket left, containing the list of
- *   file contexts, sorted.
- */
-void fc_merge_sort(file_context_bucket_t *master)
-{
-
-
-	file_context_bucket_t *current;
-	file_context_bucket_t *temp;
-
-	/* Loop until master is the only bucket left
-	 * so that this will stop when master contains
-	 * the sorted list. */
-	while (master->next) {
-		current = master;
-
-		/* This loop merges buckets two-by-two. */
-		while (current) {
-
-			if (current->next) {
-
-				current->data =
-				    fc_merge(current->data,
-					     current->next->data);
-
-
-
-				temp = current->next;
-				current->next = current->next->next;
-
-				free(temp);
-
-			}
-
-
-			current = current->next;
-		}
-	}
-
-
-}
-
-
-
-/* fc_fill_data
- * This processes a regular expression in a file context
- *  and sets the data held in file_context_node, namely
- *  meta, str_len and stem_len.
- * The following changes are made to fc_node after the
- *  the completion of the function:
- *     fc_node->meta =		1 if path has a meta character, 0 if not.
- *     fc_node->str_len =	The string length of the entire path
- *     fc_node->stem_len = 	The number of characters up until
- *				 the first meta character.
- */
-void fc_fill_data(file_context_node_t *fc_node)
-{
-	int c = 0;
-
-	fc_node->meta = 0;
-	fc_node->stem_len = 0;
-	fc_node->str_len = 0;
-
-	/* Process until the string termination character
-	 *  has been reached.
-	 * Note: this while loop has been adapted from
-	 *  spec_hasMetaChars in matchpathcon.c from
-	 *  libselinux-1.22. */
-	while (fc_node->path[c] != '\0') {
-		switch (fc_node->path[c]) {
-		case '.':
-		case '^':
-		case '$':
-		case '?':
-		case '*':
-		case '+':
-		case '|':
-		case '[':
-		case '(':
-		case '{':
-			/* If a meta character is found,
-			 *  set meta to one */
-			fc_node->meta = 1;
-			break;
-		case '\\':
-			/* If a escape character is found,
-			 *  skip the next character. */
-			c++;
-		default:
-			/* If no meta character has been found yet,
-			 *  add one to the stem length. */
-			if (!fc_node->meta)
-				fc_node->stem_len++;
-			break;
-		}
-
-		fc_node->str_len++;
-		c++;
-	}
-}
-
-/* main
- * This program takes in two arguments, the input filename and the
- *  output filename. The input file should be syntactically correct.
- * Overall what is done in the main is read in the file and store each
- *  line of code, sort it, then output it to the output file.
- */
-int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
-	int lines;
-	size_t start, finish, regex_len, context_len;
-	size_t line_len, buf_len, i, j;
-	char *input_name, *output_name, *line_buf;
-
-	file_context_node_t *temp;
-	file_context_node_t *head;
-	file_context_node_t *current;
-	file_context_bucket_t *master;
-	file_context_bucket_t *bcurrent;
-
-	FILE *in_file, *out_file;
-
-
-	/* Check for the correct number of command line arguments. */
-	if (argc < 2 || argc > 3) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <infile> [<outfile>]\n",argv[0]);
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	input_name = argv[1];
-	output_name = (argc >= 3) ? argv[2] : NULL;
-
-	i = j = lines = 0;
-
-	/* Open the input file. */
-	if (!(in_file = fopen(input_name, "r"))) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Error: failure opening input file for read.\n");
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	/* Initialize the head of the linked list. */
-	head = current = (file_context_node_t*)malloc(sizeof(file_context_node_t));
-	head->next = NULL;
-
-	/* Parse the file into a file_context linked list. */
-	line_buf = NULL;
-
-	while ( getline(&line_buf, &buf_len, in_file) != -1 ){
-		line_len = strlen(line_buf);
-		if( line_len == 0 || line_len == 1)
-			continue;
-		/* Get rid of whitespace from the front of the line. */
-		for (i = 0; i < line_len; i++) {
-			if (!isspace(line_buf[i]))
-				break;
-		}
-
-
-		if (i >= line_len)
-			continue;
-		/* Check if the line isn't empty and isn't a comment */
-		if (line_buf[i] == '#')
-			continue;
-
-		/* We have a valid line - allocate a new node. */
-		temp = (file_context_node_t *)malloc(sizeof(file_context_node_t));
-		if (!temp) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "Error: failure allocating memory.\n");
-			return 1;
-		}
-		temp->next = NULL;
-		memset(temp, 0, sizeof(file_context_node_t));
-
-		/* Parse out the regular expression from the line. */
-		start = i;
-
-
-		while (i < line_len && (!isspace(line_buf[i])))
-			i++;
-		finish = i;
-
-
-		regex_len = finish - start;
-
-		if (regex_len == 0) {
-			file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-			free(temp);
-
-
-			continue;
-		}
-
-		temp->path = (char*)strndup(&line_buf[start], regex_len);
-		if (!temp->path) {
-			file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-			free(temp);
-			fprintf(stderr, "Error: failure allocating memory.\n");
-			return 1;
-		}
-
-		/* Get rid of whitespace after the regular expression. */
-		for (; i < line_len; i++) {
-
-			if (!isspace(line_buf[i]))
-				break;
-		}
-
-		if (i == line_len) {
-			file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-			free(temp);
-			continue;
-		}
-
-		/* Parse out the type from the line (if it
-			*  is there). */
-		if (line_buf[i] == '-') {
-			temp->file_type = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * 3);
-			if (!(temp->file_type)) {
-				fprintf(stderr, "Error: failure allocating memory.\n");
-				return 1;
-			}
-
-			if( i + 2 >= line_len ) {
-				file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-				free(temp);
-
-				continue;
-			}
-
-			/* Fill the type into the array. */
-			temp->file_type[0] = line_buf[i];
-			temp->file_type[1] = line_buf[i + 1];
-			i += 2;
-			temp->file_type[2] = 0;
-
-			/* Get rid of whitespace after the type. */
-			for (; i < line_len; i++) {
-				if (!isspace(line_buf[i]))
-					break;
-			}
-
-			if (i == line_len) {
-
-				file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-				free(temp);
-				continue;
-			}
-		}
-
-		/* Parse out the context from the line. */
-		start = i;
-		while (i < line_len && (!isspace(line_buf[i])))
-			i++;
-		finish = i;
-
-		context_len = finish - start;
-
-		temp->context = (char*)strndup(&line_buf[start], context_len);
-		if (!temp->context) {
-			file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-			free(temp);
-			fprintf(stderr, "Error: failure allocating memory.\n");
-			return 1;
-		}
-
-		/* Set all the data about the regular
-			*  expression. */
-		fc_fill_data(temp);
-
-		/* Link this line of code at the end of
-			*  the linked list. */
-		current->next = temp;
-		current = current->next;
-		lines++;
-
-
-		free(line_buf);
-		line_buf = NULL;
-	}
-	fclose(in_file);
-
-	/* Create the bucket linked list from the earlier linked list. */
-	current = head->next;
-	bcurrent = master =
-	    (file_context_bucket_t *)
-	    malloc(sizeof(file_context_bucket_t));
-	bcurrent->next = NULL;
-	bcurrent->data = NULL;
-
-	/* Go until all the nodes have been put in individual buckets. */
-	while (current) {
-		/* Copy over the file context line into the bucket. */
-		bcurrent->data = current;
-		current = current->next;
-
-		/* Detach the node in the bucket from the old list. */
-		bcurrent->data->next = NULL;
-
-		/* If there should be another bucket, put one at the end. */
-		if (current) {
-			bcurrent->next =
-			    (file_context_bucket_t *)
-			    malloc(sizeof(file_context_bucket_t));
-			if (!(bcurrent->next)) {
-				printf
-				    ("Error: failure allocating memory.\n");
-				return -1;
-			}
-
-			/* Make sure the new bucket thinks it's the end of the
-			 *  list. */
-			bcurrent->next->next = NULL;
-
-			bcurrent = bcurrent->next;
-		}
-
-	}
-
-	/* Sort the bucket list. */
-	fc_merge_sort(master);
-
-	/* Open the output file. */
-	if (output_name) {
-		if (!(out_file = fopen(output_name, "w"))) {
-			printf("Error: failure opening output file for write.\n");
-			return -1;
-		}
-	} else {
-		out_file = stdout;
-	}
-
-	/* Output the sorted file_context linked list to the output file. */
-	current = master->data;
-	while (current) {
-		/* Output the path. */
-		fprintf(out_file, "%s\t\t", current->path);
-
-		/* Output the type, if there is one. */
-		if (current->file_type) {
-			fprintf(out_file, "%s\t", current->file_type);
-		}
-
-		/* Output the context. */
-		fprintf(out_file, "%s\n", current->context);
-
-		/* Remove the node. */
-		temp = current;
-		current = current->next;
-
-		file_context_node_destroy(temp);
-		free(temp);
-
-	}
-	free(master);
-
-	if (output_name) {
-		fclose(out_file);
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}