1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2010 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 - use consistent non-capitalization in error messages
23 - add standard GNU copyleft comment
25 - Add -r/-R/--recursive
26 - Add -i/--interactive
29 - Add an unlink-all option to emulate rm.
33 * Do a more secure overwrite of given files or devices, to make it harder
34 * for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
36 * Although this process is also known as "wiping", I prefer the longer
37 * name both because I think it is more evocative of what is happening and
38 * because a longer name conveys a more appropriate sense of deliberateness.
40 * For the theory behind this, see "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic
41 * and Solid-State Memory", on line at
42 * http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
44 * Just for the record, reversing one or two passes of disk overwrite
45 * is not terribly difficult with hardware help. Hook up a good-quality
46 * digitizing oscilloscope to the output of the head preamplifier and copy
47 * the high-res digitized data to a computer for some off-line analysis.
48 * Read the "current" data and average all the pulses together to get an
49 * "average" pulse on the disk. Subtract this average pulse from all of
50 * the actual pulses and you can clearly see the "echo" of the previous
53 * Real hard drives have to balance the cost of the media, the head,
54 * and the read circuitry. They use better-quality media than absolutely
55 * necessary to limit the cost of the read circuitry. By throwing that
56 * assumption out, and the assumption that you want the data processed
57 * as fast as the hard drive can spin, you can do better.
59 * If asked to wipe a file, this also unlinks it, renaming it to in a
60 * clever way to try to leave no trace of the original filename.
62 * This was inspired by a desire to improve on some code titled:
63 * Wipe V1.0-- Overwrite and delete files. S. 2/3/96
64 * but I've rewritten everything here so completely that no trace of
65 * the original remains.
68 * Bob Jenkins, for his good RNG work and patience with the FSF copyright
70 * Jim Meyering, for his work merging this into the GNU fileutils while
71 * still letting me feel a sense of ownership and pride. Getting me to
72 * tolerate the GNU brace style was quite a feat of diplomacy.
73 * Paul Eggert, for lots of useful discussion and code. I disagree with
74 * an awful lot of his suggestions, but they're disagreements worth having.
76 * Things to think about:
77 * - Security: Is there any risk to the race
78 * between overwriting and unlinking a file? Will it do anything
79 * drastically bad if told to attack a named pipe or socket?
82 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
83 #define PROGRAM_NAME "shred"
85 #define AUTHORS proper_name ("Colin Plumb")
93 #include <sys/types.h>
100 #include "quotearg.h" /* For quotearg_colon */
102 #include "randread.h"
104 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
105 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES
= 3 };
107 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
108 verbose output line. */
109 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE
= 5 };
111 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
112 The size must be a power of 2. */
113 enum { SECTOR_SIZE
= 512 };
114 enum { SECTOR_MASK
= SECTOR_SIZE
- 1 };
115 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE
&& (SECTOR_SIZE
& SECTOR_MASK
) == 0);
119 bool force
; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
120 size_t n_iterations
; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
121 off_t size
; /* -s flag: size of file */
122 bool remove_file
; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
123 bool verbose
; /* -v flag: Print progress */
124 bool exact
; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
125 bool zero_fill
; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
128 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
129 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
132 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
135 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
137 {"exact", no_argument
, NULL
, 'x'},
138 {"force", no_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
139 {"iterations", required_argument
, NULL
, 'n'},
140 {"size", required_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
141 {"random-source", required_argument
, NULL
, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
},
142 {"remove", no_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
143 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
144 {"zero", no_argument
, NULL
, 'z'},
145 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
146 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
153 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
154 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
158 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
160 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
161 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
165 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
168 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
169 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
170 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
171 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
174 -u, --remove truncate and remove file after overwriting\n\
175 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
176 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
177 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
178 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
180 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
181 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
184 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
186 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
187 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
188 and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular\n\
189 files, most people use the --remove option.\n\
193 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
194 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
195 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
196 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
197 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
201 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
202 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
204 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
205 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
207 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
211 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
214 * compressed file systems\n\
218 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
219 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
220 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
221 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
222 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
223 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
224 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
228 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
229 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
230 to be recovered later.\n\
232 emit_ancillary_info ();
239 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
241 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
242 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
245 fillpattern (int type
, unsigned char *r
, size_t size
)
248 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
251 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
252 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
254 for (i
= 3; i
< size
/ 2; i
*= 2)
255 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, i
);
257 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, size
- i
);
259 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
261 for (i
= 0; i
< size
; i
+= SECTOR_SIZE
)
266 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
267 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
269 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
271 passname (unsigned char const *data
, char name
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
])
274 sprintf (name
, "%02x%02x%02x", data
[0], data
[1], data
[2]);
276 memcpy (name
, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE
);
279 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
280 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
282 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val
)
284 return (errno_val
== EINVAL
285 || errno_val
== EBADF
286 /* HP-UX does this */
287 || errno_val
== EISDIR
);
290 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
291 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
292 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
293 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
294 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
295 writable file descriptor. */
297 dosync (int fd
, char const *qname
)
302 if (fdatasync (fd
) == 0)
305 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
307 error (0, err
, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname
);
316 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
318 error (0, err
, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname
);
327 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
328 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
330 direct_mode (int fd
, bool enable
)
334 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
337 int new_flags
= (enable
338 ? (fd_flags
| O_DIRECT
)
339 : (fd_flags
& ~O_DIRECT
));
340 if (new_flags
!= fd_flags
)
341 fcntl (fd
, F_SETFL
, new_flags
);
345 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
346 /* This is Solaris-specific. See the following for details:
347 http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0213/6m6ne37so?q=directio&a=view */
348 directio (fd
, enable
? DIRECTIO_ON
: DIRECTIO_OFF
);
353 * Do pass number k of n, writing "size" bytes of the given pattern "type"
354 * to the file descriptor fd. Qname, k and n are passed in only for verbose
355 * progress message purposes. If n == 0, no progress messages are printed.
357 * If *sizep == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
360 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
363 dopass (int fd
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
, int type
,
364 struct randread_source
*s
, unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
367 off_t offset
; /* Current file posiiton */
368 time_t thresh
IF_LINT (= 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
369 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
370 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
371 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
372 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
374 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a 32-bit boundary speeds up randread
376 typedef uint32_t fill_pattern_buffer
[3 * 1024];
379 fill_pattern_buffer buffer
;
380 char c
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
381 unsigned char u
[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer
)];
384 off_t sizeof_r
= sizeof r
;
385 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
386 bool write_error
= false;
387 bool first_write
= true;
389 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
390 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
391 char const *previous_human_offset
IF_LINT (= 0);
393 if (lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_SET
) == -1)
395 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
399 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
402 lim
= (0 <= size
&& size
< sizeof_r
? size
: sizeof_r
);
403 fillpattern (type
, r
.u
, lim
);
404 passname (r
.u
, pass_string
);
408 passname (0, pass_string
);
411 /* Set position if first status update */
414 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
415 thresh
= time (NULL
) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
416 previous_human_offset
= "";
422 /* How much to write this time? */
424 if (0 <= size
&& size
- offset
< sizeof_r
)
433 randread (s
, &r
, lim
);
434 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
435 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
, first_write
= false)
437 ssize
= write (fd
, r
.c
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
440 if (size
< 0 && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
442 /* Ah, we have found the end of the file */
443 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
449 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
451 /* If the first write of the first pass for a given file
452 has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O
453 and try again. This works around a bug in Linux kernel
454 2.4 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
455 file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to
456 access a file through the resulting descriptor would
458 if (k
== 1 && first_write
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
460 direct_mode (fd
, false);
464 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
465 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
467 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
468 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
469 code works because lim is always a multiple of
470 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. */
471 verify (sizeof r
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
472 if (errnum
== EIO
&& 0 <= size
&& (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
474 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
475 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
477 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
478 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
482 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
489 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
491 if (offset
> OFF_T_MAX
- (off_t
) soff
)
493 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
499 /* Time to print progress? */
501 && ((offset
== size
&& *previous_human_offset
)
502 || thresh
<= (now
= time (NULL
))))
504 char offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
505 char size_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
506 int human_progress_opts
= (human_autoscale
| human_SI
507 | human_base_1024
| human_B
);
508 char const *human_offset
509 = human_readable (offset
, offset_buf
,
510 human_floor
| human_progress_opts
, 1, 1);
513 || !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
516 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
517 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
520 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
521 int percent
= (size
== 0
523 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
525 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
526 char const *human_size
527 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
528 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
531 human_offset
= human_size
;
532 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
533 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
537 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
538 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
539 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
542 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
543 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
544 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
545 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
548 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
558 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
559 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
570 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
571 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
572 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
573 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
574 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
576 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
577 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
578 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
579 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
580 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
582 * The basic passes are:
583 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
584 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
585 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
586 * 100100100100 110110110110
588 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
589 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
590 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
591 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
593 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
594 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
595 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
596 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
598 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
599 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
600 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
602 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
603 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
604 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
605 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
606 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
609 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
612 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
613 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
614 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
615 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
617 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
618 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
620 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
621 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
626 -2, /* 2 random passes */
627 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
628 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
629 -1, /* 1 random pass */
630 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
631 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
632 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
633 -1, /* 1 random pass */
634 /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
635 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
636 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
637 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
638 -1, /* 1 random pass */
643 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
644 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
645 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
649 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
655 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
661 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
664 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
665 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
669 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
671 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
675 { /* -k random passes */
685 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
686 { /* Full block of patterns */
687 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
692 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
693 { /* Finish with random */
698 { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
701 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
712 top
= num
- randpasses
; /* Top of initialized data */
713 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
716 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
717 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
718 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
720 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
721 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
722 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
723 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
724 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
727 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
728 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
729 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
730 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
731 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
732 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
733 * and swap the current entry with that one.
735 randpasses
--; /* To speed up later math */
736 accum
= randpasses
; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
737 for (n
= 0; n
< num
; n
++)
739 if (accum
<= randpasses
)
742 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
747 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
749 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
754 /* assert (top == num); */
758 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
759 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
762 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
763 struct Options
const *flags
)
767 off_t size
; /* Size to write, size to read */
768 unsigned long int n
; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
771 struct randread_source
*rs
;
773 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n -- 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
775 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
779 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
783 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
784 Otherwise, we may go into a infinite loop writing data before we
785 find that we can't rewind the device. */
786 if ((S_ISCHR (st
.st_mode
) && isatty (fd
))
787 || S_ISFIFO (st
.st_mode
)
788 || S_ISSOCK (st
.st_mode
))
790 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname
);
794 direct_mode (fd
, true);
796 /* Allocate pass array */
797 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
802 /* Accept a length of zero only if it's a regular file.
803 For any other type of file, try to get the size another way. */
804 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
809 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
815 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
818 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
819 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
824 /* Allow `rounding up' only for regular files. */
825 if (0 <= size
&& !(flags
->exact
) && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
827 size
+= ST_BLKSIZE (st
) - 1 - (size
- 1) % ST_BLKSIZE (st
);
829 /* If in rounding up, we've just overflowed, use the maximum. */
831 size
= TYPE_MAXIMUM (off_t
);
835 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
836 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
838 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
841 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
; i
++)
843 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, passarray
[i
], rs
, i
+ 1, n
);
848 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
856 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
859 if (flags
->zero_fill
)
861 int err
= dopass (fd
, qname
, &size
, 0, rs
, flags
->n_iterations
+ 1, n
);
870 /* Okay, now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
871 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
872 errors reported for them. */
873 if (flags
->remove_file
&& ftruncate (fd
, 0) != 0
874 && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
876 error (0, errno
, _("%s: error truncating"), qname
);
883 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
885 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
886 struct Options
const *flags
)
888 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
892 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
895 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
897 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
900 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
903 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
905 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
906 static char const nameset
[] =
907 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
909 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
910 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if
911 successful if not (because NAME already has the greatest possible
915 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
919 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
921 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
928 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
929 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
936 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
937 * to obliterate all traces of the file name on any system that
938 * adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
939 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
940 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
941 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
942 * it fails for some reason.)
944 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
945 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
946 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
947 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
948 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
949 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
951 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
952 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
955 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
956 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
957 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
958 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
959 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
962 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
964 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
965 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
966 size_t len
= base_len (base
);
967 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
968 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir
));
972 int dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
975 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
979 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
984 if (lstat (newname
, &st
) < 0)
986 if (rename (oldname
, newname
) == 0)
988 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
993 * People seem to understand this better than talking
994 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
995 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
996 * be quoted only the first time.
998 char const *old
= (first
? qoldname
: oldname
);
999 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"), old
, newname
);
1002 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1007 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1013 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1016 while (incname (base
, len
));
1019 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1021 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1024 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1025 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1028 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1030 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1032 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1043 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1044 * it into hamburger.
1047 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1048 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1049 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1050 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1051 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1052 * Does anyone disagree?
1055 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1056 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1061 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1063 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1064 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1065 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1068 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1072 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1073 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1075 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1078 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1079 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1084 /* Buffers for random data. */
1085 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1087 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1088 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1091 clear_random_data (void)
1093 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1098 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1101 DECLARE_ZEROED_AGGREGATE (struct Options
, flags
);
1106 char const *random_source
= NULL
;
1108 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1109 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
1110 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1111 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1112 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1114 atexit (close_stdout
);
1116 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1119 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
1130 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 10, &tmp
, NULL
) != LONGINT_OK
1131 || MIN (UINT32_MAX
, SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)) < tmp
)
1133 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid number of passes"),
1134 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1136 flags
.n_iterations
= tmp
;
1140 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1141 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1142 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1143 random_source
= optarg
;
1147 flags
.remove_file
= true;
1153 if (xstrtoumax (optarg
, NULL
, 0, &tmp
, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0")
1156 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("%s: invalid file size"),
1157 quotearg_colon (optarg
));
1164 flags
.verbose
= true;
1172 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1175 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1177 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1180 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1184 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1185 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1189 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1190 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1193 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1194 if (! randint_source
)
1195 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotearg_colon (random_source
));
1196 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1198 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1200 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (file
[i
]));
1201 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1203 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1207 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1208 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1213 exit (ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
);