1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 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 2, or (at your option)
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, write to the Free Software Foundation,
18 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20 Written by Colin Plumb. */
23 - use consistent non-capitalization in error messages
24 - add standard GNU copyleft comment
26 - Add -r/-R/--recursive
27 - Add -i/--interactive
30 - Add an unlink-all option to emulate rm.
34 * Do a more secure overwrite of given files or devices, to make it harder
35 * for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
37 * Although this process is also known as "wiping", I prefer the longer
38 * name both because I think it is more evocative of what is happening and
39 * because a longer name conveys a more appropriate sense of deliberateness.
41 * For the theory behind this, see "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic
42 * and Solid-State Memory", on line at
43 * http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
45 * Just for the record, reversing one or two passes of disk overwrite
46 * is not terribly difficult with hardware help. Hook up a good-quality
47 * digitizing oscilloscope to the output of the head preamplifier and copy
48 * the high-res digitized data to a computer for some off-line analysis.
49 * Read the "current" data and average all the pulses together to get an
50 * "average" pulse on the disk. Subtract this average pulse from all of
51 * the actual pulses and you can clearly see the "echo" of the previous
54 * Real hard drives have to balance the cost of the media, the head,
55 * and the read circuitry. They use better-quality media than absolutely
56 * necessary to limit the cost of the read circuitry. By throwing that
57 * assumption out, and the assumption that you want the data processed
58 * as fast as the hard drive can spin, you can do better.
60 * If asked to wipe a file, this also unlinks it, renaming it to in a
61 * clever way to try to leave no trace of the original filename.
63 * This was inspired by a desire to improve on some code titled:
64 * Wipe V1.0-- Overwrite and delete files. S. 2/3/96
65 * but I've rewritten everything here so completely that no trace of
66 * the original remains.
69 * Bob Jenkins, for his good RNG work and patience with the FSF copyright
71 * Jim Meyering, for his work merging this into the GNU fileutils while
72 * still letting me feel a sense of ownership and pride. Getting me to
73 * tolerate the GNU brace style was quite a feat of diplomacy.
74 * Paul Eggert, for lots of useful discussion and code. I disagree with
75 * an awful lot of his suggestions, but they're disagreements worth having.
77 * Things to think about:
78 * - Security: Is there any risk to the race
79 * between overwriting and unlinking a file? Will it do anything
80 * drastically bad if told to attack a named pipe or socket?
83 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
84 #define PROGRAM_NAME "shred"
86 #define AUTHORS "Colin Plumb"
94 #include <sys/types.h>
100 #include "getpagesize.h"
102 #include "inttostr.h"
103 #include "quotearg.h" /* For quotearg_colon */
104 #include "quote.h" /* For quotearg_colon */
106 #include "randread.h"
108 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
109 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES
= 25 };
111 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
112 verbose output line. */
113 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE
= 5 };
115 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
116 The size must be a power of 2. */
117 enum { SECTOR_SIZE
= 512 };
118 enum { SECTOR_MASK
= SECTOR_SIZE
- 1 };
119 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE
&& (SECTOR_SIZE
& SECTOR_MASK
) == 0);
123 bool force
; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
124 size_t n_iterations
; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
125 off_t size
; /* -s flag: size of file */
126 bool remove_file
; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
127 bool verbose
; /* -v flag: Print progress */
128 bool exact
; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
129 bool zero_fill
; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
132 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
133 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
136 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
139 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
141 {"exact", no_argument
, NULL
, 'x'},
142 {"force", no_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
143 {"iterations", required_argument
, NULL
, 'n'},
144 {"size", required_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
145 {"random-source", required_argument
, NULL
, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
},
146 {"remove", no_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
147 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
148 {"zero", no_argument
, NULL
, 'z'},
149 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
150 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
154 /* Global variable for error printing purposes */
155 char const *program_name
; /* Initialized before any possible use */
160 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
161 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
165 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTIONS] FILE [...]\n"), program_name
);
167 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
168 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
172 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
175 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
176 -n, --iterations=N Overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
177 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE (default /dev/urandom)\n\
178 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
181 -u, --remove truncate and remove file after overwriting\n\
182 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
183 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
184 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
185 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
187 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
188 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
191 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
193 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
194 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
195 and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular\n\
196 files, most people use the --remove option.\n\
200 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
201 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
202 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
203 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
204 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
208 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
209 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
211 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
212 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
214 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
218 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
221 * compressed file systems\n\
225 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
226 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
227 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
228 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
229 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
230 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
231 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
235 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
236 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
237 to be recovered later.\n\
239 printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT
);
246 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
248 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
249 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
252 fillpattern (int type
, unsigned char *r
, size_t size
)
255 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
258 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
259 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
261 for (i
= 3; i
< size
/ 2; i
*= 2)
262 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, i
);
264 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, size
- i
);
266 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
268 for (i
= 0; i
< size
; i
+= SECTOR_SIZE
)
273 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
274 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
276 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
278 passname (unsigned char const *data
, char name
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
])
281 sprintf (name
, "%02x%02x%02x", data
[0], data
[1], data
[2]);
283 memcpy (name
, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE
);
286 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
287 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
288 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
289 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
290 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
291 writable file descriptor. */
293 dosync (int fd
, char const *qname
)
298 if (fdatasync (fd
) == 0)
301 if (err
!= EINVAL
&& err
!= EBADF
)
303 error (0, err
, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname
);
312 if (err
!= EINVAL
&& err
!= EBADF
)
314 error (0, err
, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname
);
323 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
324 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
326 direct_mode (int fd
, bool enable
)
330 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
333 int new_flags
= (enable
334 ? (fd_flags
| O_DIRECT
)
335 : (fd_flags
& ~O_DIRECT
));
336 if (new_flags
!= fd_flags
)
337 fcntl (fd
, F_SETFL
, new_flags
);
341 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
342 /* This is Solaris-specific. See the following for details:
343 http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0213/6m6ne37so?q=directio&a=view */
344 directio (fd
, enable
? DIRECTIO_ON
: DIRECTIO_OFF
);
349 * Do pass number k of n, writing "size" bytes of the given pattern "type"
350 * to the file descriptor fd. Qname, k and n are passed in only for verbose
351 * progress message purposes. If n == 0, no progress messages are printed.
353 * If *sizep == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
356 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
359 dopass (int fd
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
, int type
,
360 struct randread_source
*s
, unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
363 off_t offset
; /* Current file posiiton */
364 time_t thresh
IF_LINT (= 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
365 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
366 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
367 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
368 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
370 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a 32-bit boundary speeds up randread
372 typedef uint32_t fill_pattern_buffer
[3 * 1024];
375 fill_pattern_buffer buffer
;
376 char c
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
377 unsigned char u
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
380 off_t sizeof_r
= sizeof r
;
381 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
382 bool write_error
= false;
383 bool first_write
= true;
385 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
386 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
387 char const *previous_human_offset
IF_LINT (= 0);
389 if (lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_SET
) == -1)
391 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
395 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
398 lim
= (0 <= size
&& size
< sizeof_r
? size
: sizeof r
);
399 fillpattern (type
, r
.u
, lim
);
400 passname (r
.u
, pass_string
);
404 passname (0, pass_string
);
407 /* Set position if first status update */
410 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
411 thresh
= time (NULL
) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
412 previous_human_offset
= "";
418 /* How much to write this time? */
420 if (0 <= size
&& size
- offset
< sizeof_r
)
429 randread (s
, &r
, lim
);
430 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
431 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
, first_write
= false)
433 ssize
= write (fd
, r
.c
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
436 if (size
< 0 && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
438 /* Ah, we have found the end of the file */
439 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
445 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
447 /* If the first write of the first pass for a given file
448 has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O
449 and try again. This works around a bug in linux-2.4
450 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
451 file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to
452 access a file through the resulting descriptor would
454 if (k
== 1 && first_write
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
456 direct_mode (fd
, false);
460 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
461 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
463 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
464 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
465 code works because lim is always a multiple of
466 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. */
467 verify (sizeof r
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
468 if (errnum
== EIO
&& 0 <= size
&& (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
470 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
471 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
473 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
474 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
478 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
485 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
487 if (offset
+ soff
< offset
)
489 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
495 /* Time to print progress? */
497 && ((offset
== size
&& *previous_human_offset
)
498 || thresh
<= (now
= time (NULL
))))
500 char offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
501 char size_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
502 int human_progress_opts
= (human_autoscale
| human_SI
503 | human_base_1024
| human_B
);
504 char const *human_offset
505 = human_readable (offset
, offset_buf
,
506 human_floor
| human_progress_opts
, 1, 1);
509 || !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
512 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
513 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
516 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
517 int percent
= (size
== 0
519 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
521 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
522 char const *human_size
523 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
524 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
527 human_offset
= human_size
;
528 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
529 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
533 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
534 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
535 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
538 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
539 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
540 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
541 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
544 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
554 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
555 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
566 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
567 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
568 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
569 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
570 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
572 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
573 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
574 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
575 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
576 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
578 * The basic passes are:
579 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
580 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
581 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
582 * 100100100100 110110110110
584 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
585 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
586 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
587 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
589 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
590 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
591 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
592 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
594 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
595 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
596 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
598 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
599 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
600 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
601 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
602 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
605 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
608 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
609 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
610 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
611 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
613 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
614 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
616 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
617 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
622 -2, /* 2 random passes */
623 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
624 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
625 -1, /* 1 random pass */
626 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
627 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
628 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
629 -1, /* 1 random pass */
630 /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
631 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
632 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
633 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
634 -1, /* 1 random pass */
639 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
640 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
641 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
645 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
651 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
657 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
660 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
661 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
665 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
667 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
671 { /* -k random passes */
682 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
683 { /* Full block of patterns */
684 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
689 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
690 { /* Finish with random */
695 { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
698 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
709 top
= num
- randpasses
; /* Top of initialized data */
710 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
713 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
714 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
715 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
717 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
718 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
719 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
720 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
721 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
724 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
725 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
726 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
727 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
728 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
729 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
730 * and swap the current entry with that one.
732 randpasses
--; /* To speed up later math */
733 accum
= randpasses
; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
734 for (n
= 0; n
< num
; n
++)
736 if (accum
<= randpasses
)
739 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
744 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
746 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
751 /* assert (top == num); */
755 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
756 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
759 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
760 struct Options
const *flags
)
764 off_t size
; /* Size to write, size to read */
765 unsigned long int n
; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
768 struct randread_source
*rs
;
770 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n -- 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
772 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
776 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
780 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
781 Otherwise, we may go into a infinite loop writing data before we
782 find that we can't rewind the device. */
783 if ((S_ISCHR (st
.st_mode
) && isatty (fd
))
784 || S_ISFIFO (st
.st_mode
)
785 || S_ISSOCK (st
.st_mode
))
787 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname
);
791 direct_mode (fd
, true);
793 /* Allocate pass array */
794 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
799 /* Accept a length of zero only if it's a regular file.
800 For any other type of file, try to get the size another way. */
801 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
806 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
812 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
815 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
816 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
821 /* Allow `rounding up' only for regular files. */
822 if (0 <= size
&& !(flags
->exact
) && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
824 size
+= ST_BLKSIZE (st
) - 1 - (size
- 1) % ST_BLKSIZE (st
);
826 /* If in rounding up, we've just overflowed, use the maximum. */
828 size
= TYPE_MAXIMUM (off_t
);
832 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
833 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
835 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
838 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
; i
++)
840 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, passarray
[i
], rs
, i
+ 1, n
);
845 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
853 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
856 if (flags
->zero_fill
)
858 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, 0, rs
, flags
->n_iterations
+ 1, n
);
867 /* Okay, now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
868 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
869 errors reported for them. */
870 if (flags
->remove_file
&& ftruncate (fd
, 0) != 0
871 && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
873 error (0, errno
, _("%s: error truncating"), qname
);
880 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
882 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
883 struct Options
const *flags
)
885 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
889 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
892 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
894 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
897 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
900 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
902 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
903 static char const nameset
[] =
904 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
906 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
907 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if
908 successful if not (because NAME already has the greatest possible
912 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
916 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
918 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
925 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
926 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
933 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
934 * to obliterate all traces of the file name on any system that
935 * adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
936 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
937 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
938 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
939 * it fails for some reason.)
941 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
942 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
943 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
944 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
945 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
946 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
948 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
949 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
952 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
953 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
954 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
955 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
956 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
959 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
961 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
962 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
963 size_t len
= base_len (base
);
964 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
965 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir
));
969 int dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
972 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
976 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
981 if (lstat (newname
, &st
) < 0)
983 if (rename (oldname
, newname
) == 0)
985 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
990 * People seem to understand this better than talking
991 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
992 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
993 * be quoted only the first time.
995 char const *old
= (first
? qoldname
: oldname
);
996 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"), old
, newname
);
999 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1004 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1010 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1013 while (incname (base
, len
));
1016 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1018 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1021 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1022 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1025 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1027 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1029 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1040 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1041 * it into hamburger.
1044 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1045 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1046 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1047 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1048 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1049 * Does anyone disagree?
1052 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1053 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1058 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1060 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1061 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1062 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1065 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1069 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1070 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1072 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1075 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1076 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1081 /* Buffers for random data. */
1082 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1084 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1085 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1088 clear_random_data (void)
1090 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1095 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1098 struct Options flags
= { 0, };
1103 char const *random_source
= NULL
;
1105 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1106 program_name
= argv
[0];
1107 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1108 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1109 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1111 atexit (close_stdout
);
1113 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1116 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
1127 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 10, &tmp
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
1128 || MIN (UINT32_MAX
, SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)) < tmp
)
1130 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid number of passes"),
1131 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1133 flags
.n_iterations
= tmp
;
1137 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1138 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1139 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1140 random_source
= optarg
;
1144 flags
.remove_file
= true;
1150 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 0, &tmp
, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0")
1153 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid file size"),
1154 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1161 flags
.verbose
= true;
1169 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1172 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1174 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1177 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1181 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1182 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1186 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1187 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1190 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1191 if (! randint_source
)
1192 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotearg_colon (random_source
));
1193 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1195 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1197 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (file
[i
]));
1198 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1200 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1204 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1205 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1210 exit (ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);