1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 Colin Plumb.
6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
19 Written by Colin Plumb. */
22 * Do a more secure overwrite of given files or devices, to make it harder
23 * for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
25 * Although this process is also known as "wiping", I prefer the longer
26 * name both because I think it is more evocative of what is happening and
27 * because a longer name conveys a more appropriate sense of deliberateness.
29 * For the theory behind this, see "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic
30 * and Solid-State Memory", on line at
31 * http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
33 * Just for the record, reversing one or two passes of disk overwrite
34 * is not terribly difficult with hardware help. Hook up a good-quality
35 * digitizing oscilloscope to the output of the head preamplifier and copy
36 * the high-res digitized data to a computer for some off-line analysis.
37 * Read the "current" data and average all the pulses together to get an
38 * "average" pulse on the disk. Subtract this average pulse from all of
39 * the actual pulses and you can clearly see the "echo" of the previous
42 * Real hard drives have to balance the cost of the media, the head,
43 * and the read circuitry. They use better-quality media than absolutely
44 * necessary to limit the cost of the read circuitry. By throwing that
45 * assumption out, and the assumption that you want the data processed
46 * as fast as the hard drive can spin, you can do better.
48 * If asked to wipe a file, this also unlinks it, renaming it to in a
49 * clever way to try to leave no trace of the original filename.
51 * This was inspired by a desire to improve on some code titled:
52 * Wipe V1.0-- Overwrite and delete files. S. 2/3/96
53 * but I've rewritten everything here so completely that no trace of
54 * the original remains.
57 * Bob Jenkins, for his good RNG work and patience with the FSF copyright
59 * Jim Meyering, for his work merging this into the GNU fileutils while
60 * still letting me feel a sense of ownership and pride. Getting me to
61 * tolerate the GNU brace style was quite a feat of diplomacy.
62 * Paul Eggert, for lots of useful discussion and code. I disagree with
63 * an awful lot of his suggestions, but they're disagreements worth having.
65 * Things to think about:
66 * - Security: Is there any risk to the race
67 * between overwriting and unlinking a file? Will it do anything
68 * drastically bad if told to attack a named pipe or socket?
71 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
72 #define PROGRAM_NAME "shred"
74 #define AUTHORS proper_name ("Colin Plumb")
82 #include <sys/types.h>
89 #include "quotearg.h" /* For quotearg_colon */
92 #include "stat-size.h"
94 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
95 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES
= 3 };
97 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
98 verbose output line. */
99 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE
= 5 };
101 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
102 The size must be a power of 2. */
103 enum { SECTOR_SIZE
= 512 };
104 enum { SECTOR_MASK
= SECTOR_SIZE
- 1 };
105 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE
&& (SECTOR_SIZE
& SECTOR_MASK
) == 0);
109 bool force
; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
110 size_t n_iterations
; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
111 off_t size
; /* -s flag: size of file */
112 bool remove_file
; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
113 bool verbose
; /* -v flag: Print progress */
114 bool exact
; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
115 bool zero_fill
; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
118 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
119 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
122 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
125 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
127 {"exact", no_argument
, NULL
, 'x'},
128 {"force", no_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
129 {"iterations", required_argument
, NULL
, 'n'},
130 {"size", required_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
131 {"random-source", required_argument
, NULL
, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
},
132 {"remove", no_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
133 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
134 {"zero", no_argument
, NULL
, 'z'},
135 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
136 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
143 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
147 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
149 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
150 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
154 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
157 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
158 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
159 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
160 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
163 -u, --remove truncate and remove file after overwriting\n\
164 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
165 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
166 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
167 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
169 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
170 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
173 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
175 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
176 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
177 and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular\n\
178 files, most people use the --remove option.\n\
182 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
183 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
184 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
185 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
186 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
190 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
191 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
193 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
194 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
196 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
200 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
203 * compressed file systems\n\
207 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
208 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
209 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
210 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
211 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
212 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
213 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
217 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
218 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
219 to be recovered later.\n\
221 emit_ancillary_info ();
228 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
230 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
231 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
234 fillpattern (int type
, unsigned char *r
, size_t size
)
237 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
240 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
241 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
243 for (i
= 3; i
< size
/ 2; i
*= 2)
244 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, i
);
246 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, size
- i
);
248 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
250 for (i
= 0; i
< size
; i
+= SECTOR_SIZE
)
255 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
256 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
258 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
260 passname (unsigned char const *data
, char name
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
])
263 sprintf (name
, "%02x%02x%02x", data
[0], data
[1], data
[2]);
265 memcpy (name
, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE
);
268 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
269 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
271 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val
)
273 return (errno_val
== EINVAL
274 || errno_val
== EBADF
275 /* HP-UX does this */
276 || errno_val
== EISDIR
);
279 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
280 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
281 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
282 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
283 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
284 writable file descriptor. */
286 dosync (int fd
, char const *qname
)
291 if (fdatasync (fd
) == 0)
294 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
296 error (0, err
, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname
);
305 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
307 error (0, err
, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname
);
316 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
317 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
319 direct_mode (int fd
, bool enable
)
323 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
326 int new_flags
= (enable
327 ? (fd_flags
| O_DIRECT
)
328 : (fd_flags
& ~O_DIRECT
));
329 if (new_flags
!= fd_flags
)
330 fcntl (fd
, F_SETFL
, new_flags
);
334 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
335 /* This is Solaris-specific. See the following for details:
336 http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0213/6m6ne37so?q=directio&a=view */
337 directio (fd
, enable
? DIRECTIO_ON
: DIRECTIO_OFF
);
342 * Do pass number k of n, writing "size" bytes of the given pattern "type"
343 * to the file descriptor fd. Qname, k and n are passed in only for verbose
344 * progress message purposes. If n == 0, no progress messages are printed.
346 * If *sizep == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
349 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
352 dopass (int fd
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
, int type
,
353 struct randread_source
*s
, unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
356 off_t offset
; /* Current file posiiton */
357 time_t thresh
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
358 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
359 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
360 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
361 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
363 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a 32-bit boundary speeds up randread
365 typedef uint32_t fill_pattern_buffer
[3 * 1024];
368 fill_pattern_buffer buffer
;
369 char c
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
370 unsigned char u
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
373 off_t sizeof_r
= sizeof r
;
374 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
375 bool write_error
= false;
376 bool first_write
= true;
378 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
379 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
380 char const *previous_human_offset
IF_LINT ( = 0);
382 if (lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_SET
) == -1)
384 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
388 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
391 lim
= (0 <= size
&& size
< sizeof_r
? size
: sizeof_r
);
392 fillpattern (type
, r
.u
, lim
);
393 passname (r
.u
, pass_string
);
397 passname (0, pass_string
);
400 /* Set position if first status update */
403 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
404 thresh
= time (NULL
) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
405 previous_human_offset
= "";
411 /* How much to write this time? */
413 if (0 <= size
&& size
- offset
< sizeof_r
)
422 randread (s
, &r
, lim
);
423 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
424 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
, first_write
= false)
426 ssize
= write (fd
, r
.c
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
429 if (size
< 0 && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
431 /* Ah, we have found the end of the file */
432 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
438 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
440 /* If the first write of the first pass for a given file
441 has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O
442 and try again. This works around a bug in Linux kernel
443 2.4 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
444 file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to
445 access a file through the resulting descriptor would
447 if (k
== 1 && first_write
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
449 direct_mode (fd
, false);
453 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
454 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
456 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
457 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
458 code works because lim is always a multiple of
459 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. */
460 verify (sizeof r
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
461 if (errnum
== EIO
&& 0 <= size
&& (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
463 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
464 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
466 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
467 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
471 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
478 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
480 if (offset
> OFF_T_MAX
- (off_t
) soff
)
482 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
488 bool done
= offset
== size
;
490 /* Time to print progress? */
491 if (n
&& ((done
&& *previous_human_offset
)
492 || thresh
<= (now
= time (NULL
))))
494 char offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
495 char size_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
496 int human_progress_opts
= (human_autoscale
| human_SI
497 | human_base_1024
| human_B
);
498 char const *human_offset
499 = human_readable (offset
, offset_buf
,
500 human_floor
| human_progress_opts
, 1, 1);
502 if (done
|| !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
505 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
506 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
509 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
510 int percent
= (size
== 0
512 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
514 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
515 char const *human_size
516 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
517 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
520 human_offset
= human_size
;
521 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
522 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
526 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
527 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
528 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
531 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
532 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
533 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
534 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
537 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
547 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
548 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
559 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
560 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
561 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
562 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
563 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
565 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
566 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
567 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
568 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
569 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
571 * The basic passes are:
572 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
573 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
574 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
575 * 100100100100 110110110110
577 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
578 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
579 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
580 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
582 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
583 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
584 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
585 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
587 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
588 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
589 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
591 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
592 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
593 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
594 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
595 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
598 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
601 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
602 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
603 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
604 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
606 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
607 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
609 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
610 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
615 -2, /* 2 random passes */
616 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
617 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
618 -1, /* 1 random pass */
619 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
620 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
621 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
622 -1, /* 1 random pass */
623 /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
624 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
625 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
626 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
627 -1, /* 1 random pass */
632 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
633 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
634 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
638 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
644 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
650 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
653 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
654 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
658 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
660 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
664 { /* -k random passes */
674 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
675 { /* Full block of patterns */
676 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
681 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
682 { /* Finish with random */
687 { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
690 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
701 top
= num
- randpasses
; /* Top of initialized data */
702 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
705 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
706 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
707 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
709 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
710 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
711 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
712 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
713 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
716 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
717 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
718 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
719 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
720 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
721 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
722 * and swap the current entry with that one.
724 randpasses
--; /* To speed up later math */
725 accum
= randpasses
; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
726 for (n
= 0; n
< num
; n
++)
728 if (accum
<= randpasses
)
731 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
736 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
738 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
743 /* assert (top == num); */
747 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
748 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
751 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
752 struct Options
const *flags
)
756 off_t size
; /* Size to write, size to read */
757 unsigned long int n
; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
760 struct randread_source
*rs
;
762 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n -- 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
764 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
768 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
772 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
773 Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
774 find that we can't rewind the device. */
775 if ((S_ISCHR (st
.st_mode
) && isatty (fd
))
776 || S_ISFIFO (st
.st_mode
)
777 || S_ISSOCK (st
.st_mode
))
779 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname
);
783 direct_mode (fd
, true);
785 /* Allocate pass array */
786 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
791 /* Accept a length of zero only if it's a regular file.
792 For any other type of file, try to get the size another way. */
793 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
798 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
804 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
807 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
808 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
813 /* Allow 'rounding up' only for regular files. */
814 if (0 <= size
&& !(flags
->exact
) && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
816 size
+= ST_BLKSIZE (st
) - 1 - (size
- 1) % ST_BLKSIZE (st
);
818 /* If in rounding up, we've just overflowed, use the maximum. */
820 size
= TYPE_MAXIMUM (off_t
);
824 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
825 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
827 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
830 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
; i
++)
832 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, passarray
[i
], rs
, i
+ 1, n
);
837 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
845 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
848 if (flags
->zero_fill
)
850 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, 0, rs
, flags
->n_iterations
+ 1, n
);
859 /* Okay, now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
860 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
861 errors reported for them. */
862 if (flags
->remove_file
&& ftruncate (fd
, 0) != 0
863 && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
865 error (0, errno
, _("%s: error truncating"), qname
);
872 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
874 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
875 struct Options
const *flags
)
877 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
881 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
884 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
886 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
889 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
892 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
894 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
895 static char const nameset
[] =
896 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
898 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
899 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
900 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
904 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
908 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
910 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
911 P will never be NULL here. */
914 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
921 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
922 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
929 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
930 * to obliterate all traces of the file name on any system that
931 * adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
932 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
933 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
934 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
935 * it fails for some reason.)
937 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
938 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
939 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
940 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
941 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
942 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
944 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
945 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
948 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
949 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
950 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
951 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
952 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
955 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
957 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
958 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
959 size_t len
= base_len (base
);
960 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
961 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir
));
965 int dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
968 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
972 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
977 if (lstat (newname
, &st
) < 0)
979 if (rename (oldname
, newname
) == 0)
981 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
986 * People seem to understand this better than talking
987 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
988 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
989 * be quoted only the first time.
991 char const *old
= (first
? qoldname
: oldname
);
992 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"), old
, newname
);
995 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1000 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1006 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1009 while (incname (base
, len
));
1012 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1014 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1017 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1018 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1021 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1023 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1025 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1036 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1037 * it into hamburger.
1040 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1041 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1042 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1043 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1044 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1045 * Does anyone disagree?
1048 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1049 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1054 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1056 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1057 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1058 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1061 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1065 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1066 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1068 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1071 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1072 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1077 /* Buffers for random data. */
1078 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1080 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1081 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1084 clear_random_data (void)
1086 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1091 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1094 struct Options flags
= { 0, };
1099 char const *random_source
= NULL
;
1101 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1102 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
1103 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1104 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1105 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1107 atexit (close_stdout
);
1109 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1112 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
1123 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 10, &tmp
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
1124 || MIN (UINT32_MAX
, SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)) < tmp
)
1126 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid number of passes"),
1127 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1129 flags
.n_iterations
= tmp
;
1133 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1134 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1135 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1136 random_source
= optarg
;
1140 flags
.remove_file
= true;
1146 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 0, &tmp
, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0")
1149 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid file size"),
1150 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1157 flags
.verbose
= true;
1165 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1168 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1170 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1173 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1177 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1178 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1182 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1183 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1186 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1187 if (! randint_source
)
1188 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotearg_colon (random_source
));
1189 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1191 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1193 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (file
[i
]));
1194 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1196 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1200 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1201 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1206 exit (ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);