1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2024 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 <https://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 * https://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 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")
81 #include <sys/types.h>
82 #if defined __linux__ && HAVE_SYS_MTIO_H
83 # include <sys/mtio.h>
87 #include "alignalloc.h"
90 #include "xdectoint.h"
95 #include "renameatu.h"
96 #include "stat-size.h"
98 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
99 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES
= 3 };
101 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
102 verbose output line. */
103 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE
= 5 };
105 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
106 The size must be a power of 2. */
107 enum { SECTOR_SIZE
= 512 };
108 enum { SECTOR_MASK
= SECTOR_SIZE
- 1 };
109 static_assert (0 < SECTOR_SIZE
&& (SECTOR_SIZE
& SECTOR_MASK
) == 0);
113 remove_none
= 0, /* the default: only wipe data. */
114 remove_unlink
, /* don't obfuscate name, just unlink. */
115 remove_wipe
, /* obfuscate name before unlink. */
116 remove_wipesync
/* obfuscate name, syncing each byte, before unlink. */
119 static char const *const remove_args
[] =
121 "unlink", "wipe", "wipesync", nullptr
124 static enum remove_method
const remove_methods
[] =
126 remove_unlink
, remove_wipe
, remove_wipesync
131 bool force
; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
132 size_t n_iterations
; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
133 off_t size
; /* -s flag: size of file */
134 enum remove_method remove_file
; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
135 bool verbose
; /* -v flag: Print progress */
136 bool exact
; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
137 bool zero_fill
; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
140 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
141 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
144 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
147 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
149 {"exact", no_argument
, nullptr, 'x'},
150 {"force", no_argument
, nullptr, 'f'},
151 {"iterations", required_argument
, nullptr, 'n'},
152 {"size", required_argument
, nullptr, 's'},
153 {"random-source", required_argument
, nullptr, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
},
154 {"remove", optional_argument
, nullptr, 'u'},
155 {"verbose", no_argument
, nullptr, 'v'},
156 {"zero", no_argument
, nullptr, 'z'},
157 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
158 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
159 {nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0}
165 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
169 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
171 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
172 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
176 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
179 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
182 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
183 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
184 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
185 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
188 -u deallocate and remove file after overwriting\n\
189 --remove[=HOW] like -u but give control on HOW to delete; See below\n\
190 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
191 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
192 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
193 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
195 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
196 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
199 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
200 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
201 and those files usually should not be removed.\n\
202 The optional HOW parameter indicates how to remove a directory entry:\n\
203 'unlink' => use a standard unlink call.\n\
204 'wipe' => also first obfuscate bytes in the name.\n\
205 'wipesync' => also sync each obfuscated byte to the device.\n\
206 The default mode is 'wipesync', but note it can be expensive.\n\
210 CAUTION: shred assumes the file system and hardware overwrite data in place.\n\
211 Although this is common, many platforms operate otherwise. Also, backups\n\
212 and mirrors may contain unremovable copies that will let a shredded file\n\
213 be recovered later. See the GNU coreutils manual for details.\n\
215 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
221 * Determine if pattern type is periodic or not.
224 periodic_pattern (int type
)
230 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
233 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
234 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
237 return (r
[0] != r
[1]) || (r
[0] != r
[2]);
241 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
243 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
244 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
247 fillpattern (int type
, unsigned char *r
, size_t size
)
250 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
253 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
254 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
256 for (i
= 3; i
<= size
/ 2; i
*= 2)
257 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, i
);
259 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, size
- i
);
261 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
263 for (i
= 0; i
< size
; i
+= SECTOR_SIZE
)
268 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
269 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
271 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
273 passname (unsigned char const *data
, char name
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
])
276 sprintf (name
, "%02x%02x%02x", data
[0], data
[1], data
[2]);
278 memcpy (name
, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE
);
281 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
282 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
284 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val
)
286 return (errno_val
== EINVAL
287 || errno_val
== EBADF
288 /* HP-UX does this */
289 || errno_val
== EISDIR
);
292 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
293 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
294 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
295 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
296 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
297 writable file descriptor. */
299 dosync (int fd
, char const *qname
)
303 if (fdatasync (fd
) == 0)
306 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
308 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. */
347 directio (fd
, enable
? DIRECTIO_ON
: DIRECTIO_OFF
);
351 /* Rewind FD; its status is ST. */
353 dorewind (int fd
, struct stat
const *st
)
355 if (S_ISCHR (st
->st_mode
))
357 #if defined __linux__ && HAVE_SYS_MTIO_H
358 /* In the Linux kernel, lseek does not work on tape devices; it
359 returns a randomish value instead. Try the low-level tape
360 rewind operation first. */
364 if (ioctl (fd
, MTIOCTOP
, &op
) == 0)
368 off_t offset
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_SET
);
374 /* By convention, negative sizes represent unknown values. */
383 * Do pass number K of N, writing *SIZEP bytes of the given pattern TYPE
384 * to the file descriptor FD. K and N are passed in only for verbose
385 * progress message purposes. If N == 0, no progress messages are printed.
387 * If *SIZEP == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
388 * as writing fails with ENOSPC.
390 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
393 dopass (int fd
, struct stat
const *st
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
,
394 int type
, struct randread_source
*s
,
395 unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
398 off_t offset
; /* Current file position */
399 time_t thresh
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
400 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
401 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
402 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
403 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
405 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a page so we can do direct I/O. */
406 size_t page_size
= getpagesize ();
407 #define PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (60 * 1024)
408 #define NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (64 * 1024)
409 static_assert (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% 3 == 0);
410 size_t output_size
= periodic_pattern (type
)
411 ? PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
: NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
;
412 #define FILLPATTERN_SIZE (((output_size + 2) / 3) * 3) /* Multiple of 3 */
413 unsigned char *pbuf
= xalignalloc (page_size
, FILLPATTERN_SIZE
);
415 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
416 bool write_error
= false;
417 bool other_error
= false;
419 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
420 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
421 char const *previous_human_offset
;
423 /* As a performance tweak, avoid direct I/O for small sizes,
424 as it's just a performance rather then security consideration,
425 and direct I/O can often be unsupported for small non aligned sizes. */
426 bool try_without_directio
= 0 < size
&& size
< output_size
;
427 if (! try_without_directio
)
428 direct_mode (fd
, true);
430 if (! dorewind (fd
, st
))
432 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
434 goto free_pattern_mem
;
437 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
440 lim
= known (size
) && size
< FILLPATTERN_SIZE
? size
: FILLPATTERN_SIZE
;
441 fillpattern (type
, pbuf
, lim
);
442 passname (pbuf
, pass_string
);
446 passname (0, pass_string
);
449 /* Set position if first status update */
452 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
453 thresh
= time (nullptr) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
454 previous_human_offset
= "";
460 /* How much to write this time? */
462 if (known (size
) && size
- offset
< output_size
)
471 randread (s
, pbuf
, lim
);
472 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
473 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
)
475 ssize
= write (fd
, pbuf
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
478 if (! known (size
) && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
480 /* We have found the end of the file. */
481 if (soff
<= OFF_T_MAX
- offset
)
482 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
488 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
490 /* Retry without direct I/O since this may not be supported
491 at all on some (file) systems, or with the current size.
492 I.e., a specified --size that is not aligned, or when
493 dealing with slop at the end of a file with --exact. */
494 if (! try_without_directio
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
496 direct_mode (fd
, false);
498 try_without_directio
= true;
501 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
502 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
504 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
505 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
506 code works because lim is always a multiple of
507 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. This size constraint
508 also enables direct I/O on some (file) systems. */
509 static_assert (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
510 static_assert (NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
511 if (errnum
== EIO
&& known (size
)
512 && (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
514 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
515 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
517 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
518 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
522 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
525 goto free_pattern_mem
;
530 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
532 if (OFF_T_MAX
- offset
< soff
)
534 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
536 goto free_pattern_mem
;
541 bool done
= offset
== size
;
543 /* Time to print progress? */
544 if (n
&& ((done
&& *previous_human_offset
)
545 || thresh
<= (now
= time (nullptr))))
547 char offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
548 char size_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
549 int human_progress_opts
= (human_autoscale
| human_SI
550 | human_base_1024
| human_B
);
551 char const *human_offset
552 = human_readable (offset
, offset_buf
,
553 human_floor
| human_progress_opts
, 1, 1);
555 if (done
|| !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
558 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
559 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
562 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
563 int percent
= (size
== 0
565 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
567 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
568 char const *human_size
569 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
570 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
573 human_offset
= human_size
;
574 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
575 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
579 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
580 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
581 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
584 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
585 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
586 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
587 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
590 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
595 goto free_pattern_mem
;
603 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
604 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
609 goto free_pattern_mem
;
617 return other_error
? -1 : write_error
;
621 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
622 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
623 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
624 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the device
625 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
627 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
628 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
629 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
630 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
631 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
633 * The basic passes are:
634 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
635 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
636 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
637 * 100100100100 110110110110
639 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
640 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
641 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
642 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
644 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
645 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
646 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
647 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
649 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
650 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
651 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
653 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
654 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
655 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
656 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
657 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
660 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
663 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
664 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
665 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
666 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
668 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
669 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
671 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
672 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
677 -2, /* 2 random passes */
678 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
679 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
680 -1, /* 1 random pass */
681 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
682 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
683 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
684 -1, /* 1 random pass */
685 /* The following patterns have the first bit per block flipped */
686 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
687 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
688 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
689 -1, /* 1 random pass */
694 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
695 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
696 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
700 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
706 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
712 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
715 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
716 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
720 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
722 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
726 { /* -k random passes */
736 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
737 { /* Full block of patterns */
738 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
743 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
744 { /* Finish with random */
749 { /* Pad out with n of the k available */
752 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
764 top
= num
- randpasses
; /* Top of initialized data */
765 /* affirm (d == dest + top); */
768 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
769 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
770 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
772 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
773 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
774 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
775 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
776 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
779 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
780 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
781 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
782 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
783 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
784 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
785 * and swap the current entry with that one.
787 randpasses
--; /* To speed up later math */
788 accum
= randpasses
; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
789 for (n
= 0; n
< num
; n
++)
791 if (accum
<= randpasses
)
794 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
799 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
801 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
806 /* affirm (top == num); */
810 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
811 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
814 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
815 struct Options
const *flags
)
819 off_t size
; /* Size to write, size to read */
820 off_t i_size
= 0; /* For small files, initial size to overwrite inode */
821 unsigned long int n
; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
824 struct randread_source
*rs
;
826 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n == 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
828 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
832 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
836 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
837 Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
838 find that we can't rewind the device. */
839 if ((S_ISCHR (st
.st_mode
) && isatty (fd
))
840 || S_ISFIFO (st
.st_mode
)
841 || S_ISSOCK (st
.st_mode
))
843 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname
);
846 else if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
) && st
.st_size
< 0)
848 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
852 /* Allocate pass array */
853 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
858 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
864 /* Round up to the nearest block size to clear slack space. */
865 off_t remainder
= size
% STP_BLKSIZE (&st
);
866 if (size
&& size
< STP_BLKSIZE (&st
))
870 off_t size_incr
= STP_BLKSIZE (&st
) - remainder
;
871 size
+= MIN (size_incr
, OFF_T_MAX
- size
);
877 /* The behavior of lseek is unspecified, but in practice if
878 it returns a positive number that's the size of this
880 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
883 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
884 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
889 else if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
)
890 && st
.st_size
< MIN (STP_BLKSIZE (&st
), size
))
893 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
894 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
896 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
901 unsigned long int pn
= n
;
914 /* TODO: consider handling tail packing by
915 writing the tail padding as a separate pass,
916 (that would not rewind). */
920 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
; i
++)
923 int type
= i
< flags
->n_iterations
? passarray
[i
] : 0;
925 err
= dopass (fd
, &st
, qname
, &pass_size
, type
, rs
, i
+ 1, pn
);
936 /* Now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate is specified
937 on regular files and shared memory objects (also directories, but
938 they are not possible here); don't worry about errors reported
939 for other file types. */
941 if (flags
->remove_file
&& ftruncate (fd
, 0) != 0
942 && (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
) || S_TYPEISSHM (&st
)))
944 error (0, errno
, _("%s: error truncating"), qname
);
954 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
956 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
957 struct Options
const *flags
)
959 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
963 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
966 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
968 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
971 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
974 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
976 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
977 static char const nameset
[] =
978 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
980 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
981 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
982 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
986 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
990 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
992 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
993 P will never be null here. */
995 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
1002 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
1003 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
1010 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
1011 * to obliterate all traces of the file name (and length) on any system
1012 * that adds a trailing delimiter to on-device file names and reuses
1013 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
1014 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
1015 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
1016 * it fails for some reason.)
1018 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
1019 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
1020 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
1021 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
1022 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
1023 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
1025 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
1026 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
1029 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
1030 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
1031 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
1032 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
1033 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
1036 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1038 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
1039 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
1040 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
1041 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotef (dir
));
1046 if (flags
->remove_file
== remove_wipesync
)
1047 dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
1050 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
1052 if (flags
->remove_file
!= remove_unlink
)
1053 for (size_t len
= base_len (base
); len
!= 0; len
--)
1055 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
1058 while (! (rename_ok
= (renameatu (AT_FDCWD
, oldname
, AT_FDCWD
, newname
,
1061 && errno
== EEXIST
&& incname (base
, len
))
1065 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1069 /* People seem to understand this better than talking
1070 about renaming OLDNAME. NEWNAME doesn't need
1071 quoting because we picked it. OLDNAME needs to be
1072 quoted only the first time. */
1073 char const *old
= first
? qoldname
: oldname
;
1075 _("%s: renamed to %s"), old
, newname
);
1078 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1082 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1084 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1087 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1088 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1091 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1093 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1095 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1106 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1107 * it into hamburger.
1110 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1111 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1112 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1113 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1114 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1115 * Does anyone disagree?
1118 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1119 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1124 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1126 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1127 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1128 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1131 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1135 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1136 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1138 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1141 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1142 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1147 /* Buffers for random data. */
1148 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1150 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1151 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1154 clear_random_data (void)
1156 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1161 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1164 struct Options flags
= {0};
1169 char const *random_source
= nullptr;
1171 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1172 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
1173 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1174 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1175 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1177 atexit (close_stdout
);
1179 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1182 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, nullptr)) != -1)
1191 flags
.n_iterations
= xdectoumax (optarg
, 0,
1193 SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)), "",
1194 _("invalid number of passes"), 0);
1197 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1198 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1199 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1200 random_source
= optarg
;
1204 if (optarg
== nullptr)
1205 flags
.remove_file
= remove_wipesync
;
1207 flags
.remove_file
= XARGMATCH ("--remove", optarg
,
1208 remove_args
, remove_methods
);
1212 flags
.size
= xnumtoumax (optarg
, 0, 0, OFF_T_MAX
, "cbBkKMGTPEZYRQ0",
1213 _("invalid file size"), 0);
1217 flags
.verbose
= true;
1225 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1228 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1230 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1233 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1237 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1238 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1242 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1243 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1246 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1247 if (! randint_source
)
1248 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s",
1249 quotef (random_source
? random_source
: "getrandom"));
1250 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1252 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1254 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotef (file
[i
]));
1255 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1257 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1261 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1262 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1267 return ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
;