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
)
144 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
148 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
150 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
151 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
155 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
158 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
159 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
160 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
161 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
164 -u, --remove truncate and remove file after overwriting\n\
165 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
166 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
167 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
168 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
170 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
171 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
174 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
176 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
177 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
178 and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular\n\
179 files, most people use the --remove option.\n\
183 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
184 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
185 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
186 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
187 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
191 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
192 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
194 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
195 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
197 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
201 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
204 * compressed file systems\n\
208 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
209 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
210 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
211 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
212 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
213 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
214 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
218 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
219 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
220 to be recovered later.\n\
222 emit_ancillary_info ();
229 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
231 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
232 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
235 fillpattern (int type
, unsigned char *r
, size_t size
)
238 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
241 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
242 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
244 for (i
= 3; i
< size
/ 2; i
*= 2)
245 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, i
);
247 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, size
- i
);
249 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
251 for (i
= 0; i
< size
; i
+= SECTOR_SIZE
)
256 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
257 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
259 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
261 passname (unsigned char const *data
, char name
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
])
264 sprintf (name
, "%02x%02x%02x", data
[0], data
[1], data
[2]);
266 memcpy (name
, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE
);
269 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
270 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
272 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val
)
274 return (errno_val
== EINVAL
275 || errno_val
== EBADF
276 /* HP-UX does this */
277 || errno_val
== EISDIR
);
280 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
281 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
282 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
283 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
284 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
285 writable file descriptor. */
287 dosync (int fd
, char const *qname
)
292 if (fdatasync (fd
) == 0)
295 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
297 error (0, err
, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname
);
306 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
308 error (0, err
, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname
);
317 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
318 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
320 direct_mode (int fd
, bool enable
)
324 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
327 int new_flags
= (enable
328 ? (fd_flags
| O_DIRECT
)
329 : (fd_flags
& ~O_DIRECT
));
330 if (new_flags
!= fd_flags
)
331 fcntl (fd
, F_SETFL
, new_flags
);
335 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
336 /* This is Solaris-specific. See the following for details:
337 http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0213/6m6ne37so?q=directio&a=view */
338 directio (fd
, enable
? DIRECTIO_ON
: DIRECTIO_OFF
);
343 * Do pass number k of n, writing "size" bytes of the given pattern "type"
344 * to the file descriptor fd. Qname, k and n are passed in only for verbose
345 * progress message purposes. If n == 0, no progress messages are printed.
347 * If *sizep == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
350 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
353 dopass (int fd
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
, int type
,
354 struct randread_source
*s
, unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
357 off_t offset
; /* Current file posiiton */
358 time_t thresh
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
359 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
360 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
361 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
362 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
364 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a 32-bit boundary speeds up randread
366 typedef uint32_t fill_pattern_buffer
[3 * 1024];
369 fill_pattern_buffer buffer
;
370 char c
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
371 unsigned char u
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
374 off_t sizeof_r
= sizeof r
;
375 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
376 bool write_error
= false;
377 bool first_write
= true;
379 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
380 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
381 char const *previous_human_offset
IF_LINT ( = 0);
383 if (lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_SET
) == -1)
385 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
389 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
392 lim
= (0 <= size
&& size
< sizeof_r
? size
: sizeof_r
);
393 fillpattern (type
, r
.u
, lim
);
394 passname (r
.u
, pass_string
);
398 passname (0, pass_string
);
401 /* Set position if first status update */
404 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
405 thresh
= time (NULL
) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
406 previous_human_offset
= "";
412 /* How much to write this time? */
414 if (0 <= size
&& size
- offset
< sizeof_r
)
423 randread (s
, &r
, lim
);
424 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
425 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
, first_write
= false)
427 ssize
= write (fd
, r
.c
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
430 if (size
< 0 && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
432 /* Ah, we have found the end of the file */
433 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
439 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
441 /* If the first write of the first pass for a given file
442 has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O
443 and try again. This works around a bug in Linux kernel
444 2.4 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
445 file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to
446 access a file through the resulting descriptor would
448 if (k
== 1 && first_write
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
450 direct_mode (fd
, false);
454 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
455 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
457 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
458 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
459 code works because lim is always a multiple of
460 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. */
461 verify (sizeof r
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
462 if (errnum
== EIO
&& 0 <= size
&& (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
464 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
465 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
467 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
468 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
472 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
479 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
481 if (offset
> OFF_T_MAX
- (off_t
) soff
)
483 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
489 /* Time to print progress? */
491 && ((offset
== size
&& *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);
503 || !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
506 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
507 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
510 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
511 int percent
= (size
== 0
513 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
515 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
516 char const *human_size
517 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
518 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
521 human_offset
= human_size
;
522 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
523 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
527 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
528 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
529 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
532 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
533 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
534 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
535 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
538 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
548 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
549 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
560 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
561 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
562 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
563 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
564 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
566 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
567 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
568 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
569 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
570 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
572 * The basic passes are:
573 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
574 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
575 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
576 * 100100100100 110110110110
578 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
579 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
580 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
581 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
583 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
584 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
585 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
586 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
588 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
589 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
590 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
592 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
593 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
594 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
595 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
596 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
599 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
602 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
603 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
604 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
605 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
607 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
608 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
610 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
611 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
616 -2, /* 2 random passes */
617 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
618 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
619 -1, /* 1 random pass */
620 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
621 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
622 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
623 -1, /* 1 random pass */
624 /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
625 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
626 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
627 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
628 -1, /* 1 random pass */
633 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
634 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
635 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
639 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
645 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
651 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
654 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
655 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
659 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
661 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
665 { /* -k random passes */
675 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
676 { /* Full block of patterns */
677 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
682 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
683 { /* Finish with random */
688 { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
691 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
702 top
= num
- randpasses
; /* Top of initialized data */
703 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
706 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
707 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
708 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
710 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
711 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
712 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
713 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
714 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
717 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
718 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
719 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
720 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
721 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
722 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
723 * and swap the current entry with that one.
725 randpasses
--; /* To speed up later math */
726 accum
= randpasses
; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
727 for (n
= 0; n
< num
; n
++)
729 if (accum
<= randpasses
)
732 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
737 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
739 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
744 /* assert (top == num); */
748 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
749 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
752 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
753 struct Options
const *flags
)
757 off_t size
; /* Size to write, size to read */
758 unsigned long int n
; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
761 struct randread_source
*rs
;
763 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n -- 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
765 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
769 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
773 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
774 Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
775 find that we can't rewind the device. */
776 if ((S_ISCHR (st
.st_mode
) && isatty (fd
))
777 || S_ISFIFO (st
.st_mode
)
778 || S_ISSOCK (st
.st_mode
))
780 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname
);
784 direct_mode (fd
, true);
786 /* Allocate pass array */
787 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
792 /* Accept a length of zero only if it's a regular file.
793 For any other type of file, try to get the size another way. */
794 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
799 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
805 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
808 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
809 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
814 /* Allow `rounding up' only for regular files. */
815 if (0 <= size
&& !(flags
->exact
) && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
817 size
+= ST_BLKSIZE (st
) - 1 - (size
- 1) % ST_BLKSIZE (st
);
819 /* If in rounding up, we've just overflowed, use the maximum. */
821 size
= TYPE_MAXIMUM (off_t
);
825 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
826 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
828 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
831 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
; i
++)
833 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, passarray
[i
], rs
, i
+ 1, n
);
838 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
846 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
849 if (flags
->zero_fill
)
851 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, 0, rs
, flags
->n_iterations
+ 1, n
);
860 /* Okay, now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
861 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
862 errors reported for them. */
863 if (flags
->remove_file
&& ftruncate (fd
, 0) != 0
864 && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
866 error (0, errno
, _("%s: error truncating"), qname
);
873 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
875 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
876 struct Options
const *flags
)
878 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
882 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
885 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
887 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
890 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
893 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
895 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
896 static char const nameset
[] =
897 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
899 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
900 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
901 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
905 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
909 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
911 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
912 P will never be NULL here. */
915 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
922 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
923 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
930 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
931 * to obliterate all traces of the file name on any system that
932 * adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
933 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
934 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
935 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
936 * it fails for some reason.)
938 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
939 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
940 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
941 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
942 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
943 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
945 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
946 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
949 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
950 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
951 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
952 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
953 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
956 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
958 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
959 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
960 size_t len
= base_len (base
);
961 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
962 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir
));
966 int dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
969 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
973 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
978 if (lstat (newname
, &st
) < 0)
980 if (rename (oldname
, newname
) == 0)
982 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
987 * People seem to understand this better than talking
988 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
989 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
990 * be quoted only the first time.
992 char const *old
= (first
? qoldname
: oldname
);
993 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"), old
, newname
);
996 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1001 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1007 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1010 while (incname (base
, len
));
1013 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1015 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1018 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1019 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1022 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1024 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1026 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1037 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1038 * it into hamburger.
1041 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1042 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1043 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1044 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1045 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1046 * Does anyone disagree?
1049 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1050 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1055 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1057 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1058 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1059 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1062 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1066 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1067 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1069 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1072 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1073 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1078 /* Buffers for random data. */
1079 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1081 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1082 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1085 clear_random_data (void)
1087 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1092 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1095 struct Options flags
= { 0, };
1100 char const *random_source
= NULL
;
1102 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1103 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
1104 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1105 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1106 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1108 atexit (close_stdout
);
1110 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1113 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
1124 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 10, &tmp
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
1125 || MIN (UINT32_MAX
, SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)) < tmp
)
1127 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid number of passes"),
1128 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1130 flags
.n_iterations
= tmp
;
1134 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1135 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1136 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1137 random_source
= optarg
;
1141 flags
.remove_file
= true;
1147 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 0, &tmp
, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0")
1150 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid file size"),
1151 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1158 flags
.verbose
= true;
1166 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1169 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1171 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1174 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1178 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1179 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1183 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1184 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1187 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1188 if (! randint_source
)
1189 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotearg_colon (random_source
));
1190 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1192 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1194 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (file
[i
]));
1195 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1197 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1201 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1202 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1207 exit (ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);