1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 Colin Plumb.
6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
19 Written by Colin Plumb. */
22 * Do a more secure overwrite of given files or devices, to make it harder
23 * for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
25 * Although this process is also known as "wiping", I prefer the longer
26 * name both because I think it is more evocative of what is happening and
27 * because a longer name conveys a more appropriate sense of deliberateness.
29 * For the theory behind this, see "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic
30 * and Solid-State Memory", on line at
31 * http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
33 * Just for the record, reversing one or two passes of disk overwrite
34 * is not terribly difficult with hardware help. Hook up a good-quality
35 * digitizing oscilloscope to the output of the head preamplifier and copy
36 * the high-res digitized data to a computer for some off-line analysis.
37 * Read the "current" data and average all the pulses together to get an
38 * "average" pulse on the disk. Subtract this average pulse from all of
39 * the actual pulses and you can clearly see the "echo" of the previous
42 * Real hard drives have to balance the cost of the media, the head,
43 * and the read circuitry. They use better-quality media than absolutely
44 * necessary to limit the cost of the read circuitry. By throwing that
45 * assumption out, and the assumption that you want the data processed
46 * as fast as the hard drive can spin, you can do better.
48 * If asked to wipe a file, this also unlinks it, renaming it to in a
49 * clever way to try to leave no trace of the original filename.
51 * This was inspired by a desire to improve on some code titled:
52 * Wipe V1.0-- Overwrite and delete files. S. 2/3/96
53 * but I've rewritten everything here so completely that no trace of
54 * the original remains.
57 * Bob Jenkins, for his good RNG work and patience with the FSF copyright
59 * Jim Meyering, for his work merging this into the GNU fileutils while
60 * still letting me feel a sense of ownership and pride. Getting me to
61 * tolerate the GNU brace style was quite a feat of diplomacy.
62 * Paul Eggert, for lots of useful discussion and code. I disagree with
63 * an awful lot of his suggestions, but they're disagreements worth having.
65 * Things to think about:
66 * - Security: Is there any risk to the race
67 * between overwriting and unlinking a file? Will it do anything
68 * drastically bad if told to attack a named pipe or socket?
71 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
72 #define PROGRAM_NAME "shred"
74 #define AUTHORS proper_name ("Colin Plumb")
82 #include <sys/types.h>
89 #include "quotearg.h" /* For quotearg_colon */
92 #include "stat-size.h"
94 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
95 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 3 };
97 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
98 verbose output line. */
99 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE = 5 };
101 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
102 The size must be a power of 2. */
103 enum { SECTOR_SIZE = 512 };
104 enum { SECTOR_MASK = SECTOR_SIZE - 1 };
105 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE && (SECTOR_SIZE & SECTOR_MASK) == 0);
109 bool force; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
110 size_t n_iterations; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
111 off_t size; /* -s flag: size of file */
112 bool remove_file; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
113 bool verbose; /* -v flag: Print progress */
114 bool exact; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
115 bool zero_fill; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
118 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
119 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
122 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
125 static struct option const long_opts[] =
127 {"exact", no_argument, NULL, 'x'},
128 {"force", no_argument, NULL, 'f'},
129 {"iterations", required_argument, NULL, 'n'},
130 {"size", required_argument, NULL, 's'},
131 {"random-source", required_argument, NULL, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION},
132 {"remove", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
133 {"verbose", no_argument, NULL, 'v'},
134 {"zero", no_argument, NULL, 'z'},
135 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
136 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
143 if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
147 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
149 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
150 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
153 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
156 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
157 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
158 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
159 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
162 -u, --remove truncate and remove file after overwriting\n\
163 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
164 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
165 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
166 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
168 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
169 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
172 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
174 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
175 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
176 and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular\n\
177 files, most people use the --remove option.\n\
181 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
182 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
183 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
184 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
185 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
189 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
190 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
192 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
193 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
195 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
199 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
202 * compressed file systems\n\
206 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
207 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
208 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
209 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
210 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
211 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
212 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
216 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
217 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
218 to be recovered later.\n\
220 emit_ancillary_info ();
227 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
229 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
230 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
233 fillpattern (int type, unsigned char *r, size_t size)
236 unsigned int bits = type & 0xfff;
239 r[0] = (bits >> 4) & 255;
240 r[1] = (bits >> 8) & 255;
242 for (i = 3; i < size / 2; i *= 2)
243 memcpy (r + i, r, i);
245 memcpy (r + i, r, size - i);
247 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
249 for (i = 0; i < size; i += SECTOR_SIZE)
254 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
255 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
257 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
259 passname (unsigned char const *data, char name[PASS_NAME_SIZE])
262 sprintf (name, "%02x%02x%02x", data[0], data[1], data[2]);
264 memcpy (name, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE);
267 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
268 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
270 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val)
272 return (errno_val == EINVAL
273 || errno_val == EBADF
274 /* HP-UX does this */
275 || errno_val == EISDIR);
278 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
279 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
280 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
281 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
282 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
283 writable file descriptor. */
285 dosync (int fd, char const *qname)
290 if (fdatasync (fd) == 0)
293 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err))
295 error (0, err, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname);
304 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err))
306 error (0, err, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname);
315 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
316 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
318 direct_mode (int fd, bool enable)
322 int fd_flags = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL);
325 int new_flags = (enable
326 ? (fd_flags | O_DIRECT)
327 : (fd_flags & ~O_DIRECT));
328 if (new_flags != fd_flags)
329 fcntl (fd, F_SETFL, new_flags);
333 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
334 /* This is Solaris-specific. See the following for details:
335 http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0213/6m6ne37so?q=directio&a=view */
336 directio (fd, enable ? DIRECTIO_ON : DIRECTIO_OFF);
341 * Do pass number k of n, writing "size" bytes of the given pattern "type"
342 * to the file descriptor fd. Qname, k and n are passed in only for verbose
343 * progress message purposes. If n == 0, no progress messages are printed.
345 * If *sizep == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
348 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
351 dopass (int fd, char const *qname, off_t *sizep, int type,
352 struct randread_source *s, unsigned long int k, unsigned long int n)
355 off_t offset; /* Current file posiiton */
356 time_t thresh IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
357 time_t now = 0; /* Current time */
358 size_t lim; /* Amount of data to try writing */
359 size_t soff; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
360 ssize_t ssize; /* Return value from write */
362 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a 32-bit boundary speeds up randread
364 typedef uint32_t fill_pattern_buffer[3 * 1024];
367 fill_pattern_buffer buffer;
368 char c[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer)];
369 unsigned char u[sizeof (fill_pattern_buffer)];
372 off_t sizeof_r = sizeof r;
373 char pass_string[PASS_NAME_SIZE]; /* Name of current pass */
374 bool write_error = false;
375 bool first_write = true;
377 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
378 char previous_offset_buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
379 char const *previous_human_offset IF_LINT ( = 0);
381 if (lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_SET) == -1)
383 error (0, errno, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname);
387 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
390 lim = (0 <= size && size < sizeof_r ? size : sizeof_r);
391 fillpattern (type, r.u, lim);
392 passname (r.u, pass_string);
396 passname (0, pass_string);
399 /* Set position if first status update */
402 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname, k, n, pass_string);
403 thresh = time (NULL) + VERBOSE_UPDATE;
404 previous_human_offset = "";
410 /* How much to write this time? */
412 if (0 <= size && size - offset < sizeof_r)
421 randread (s, &r, lim);
422 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
423 for (soff = 0; soff < lim; soff += ssize, first_write = false)
425 ssize = write (fd, r.c + soff, lim - soff);
428 if (size < 0 && (ssize == 0 || errno == ENOSPC))
430 /* Ah, we have found the end of the file */
431 *sizep = size = offset + soff;
437 char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
439 /* If the first write of the first pass for a given file
440 has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O
441 and try again. This works around a bug in Linux kernel
442 2.4 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
443 file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to
444 access a file through the resulting descriptor would
446 if (k == 1 && first_write && errno == EINVAL)
448 direct_mode (fd, false);
452 error (0, errnum, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
453 qname, umaxtostr (offset + soff, buf));
455 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
456 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
457 code works because lim is always a multiple of
458 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. */
459 verify (sizeof r % SECTOR_SIZE == 0);
460 if (errnum == EIO && 0 <= size && (soff | SECTOR_MASK) < lim)
462 size_t soff1 = (soff | SECTOR_MASK) + 1;
463 if (lseek (fd, offset + soff1, SEEK_SET) != -1)
465 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
466 ssize = soff1 - soff;
470 error (0, errno, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname);
477 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
479 if (offset > OFF_T_MAX - (off_t) soff)
481 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname);
487 bool done = offset == size;
489 /* Time to print progress? */
490 if (n && ((done && *previous_human_offset)
491 || thresh <= (now = time (NULL))))
493 char offset_buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
494 char size_buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
495 int human_progress_opts = (human_autoscale | human_SI
496 | human_base_1024 | human_B);
497 char const *human_offset
498 = human_readable (offset, offset_buf,
499 human_floor | human_progress_opts, 1, 1);
501 if (done || !STREQ (previous_human_offset, human_offset))
504 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
505 qname, k, n, pass_string, human_offset);
508 uintmax_t off = offset;
509 int percent = (size == 0
511 : (off <= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
513 : off / (size / 100)));
514 char const *human_size
515 = human_readable (size, size_buf,
516 human_ceiling | human_progress_opts,
519 human_offset = human_size;
520 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
521 qname, k, n, pass_string, human_offset, human_size,
525 strcpy (previous_offset_buf, human_offset);
526 previous_human_offset = previous_offset_buf;
527 thresh = now + VERBOSE_UPDATE;
530 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
531 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
532 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
533 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
536 if (dosync (fd, qname) != 0)
546 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
547 if (dosync (fd, qname) != 0)
558 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
559 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
560 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
561 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
562 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
564 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
565 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
566 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
567 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
568 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
570 * The basic passes are:
571 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
572 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
573 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
574 * 100100100100 110110110110
576 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
577 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
578 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
579 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
581 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
582 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
583 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
584 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
586 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
587 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
588 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
590 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
591 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
592 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
593 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
594 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
597 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
600 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
601 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
602 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
603 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
605 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
606 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
608 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
609 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
614 -2, /* 2 random passes */
615 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
616 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
617 -1, /* 1 random pass */
618 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
619 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
620 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
621 -1, /* 1 random pass */
622 /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
623 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
624 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
625 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
626 -1, /* 1 random pass */
631 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
632 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
633 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
637 genpattern (int *dest, size_t num, struct randint_source *s)
643 size_t accum, top, swap;
649 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
652 d = dest; /* Destination for generated pass list */
653 n = num; /* Passes remaining to fill */
657 k = *p++; /* Block descriptor word */
659 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
663 { /* -k random passes */
673 else if ((size_t) k <= n)
674 { /* Full block of patterns */
675 memcpy (d, p, k * sizeof (int));
680 else if (n < 2 || 3 * n < (size_t) k)
681 { /* Finish with random */
686 { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
689 if (n == (size_t) k || randint_choose (s, k) < n)
700 top = num - randpasses; /* Top of initialized data */
701 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
704 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
705 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
706 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
708 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
709 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
710 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
711 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
712 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
715 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
716 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
717 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
718 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
719 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
720 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
721 * and swap the current entry with that one.
723 randpasses--; /* To speed up later math */
724 accum = randpasses; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
725 for (n = 0; n < num; n++)
727 if (accum <= randpasses)
730 dest[top++] = dest[n];
735 swap = n + randint_choose (s, top - n);
737 dest[n] = dest[swap];
742 /* assert (top == num); */
746 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
747 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
750 do_wipefd (int fd, char const *qname, struct randint_source *s,
751 struct Options const *flags)
755 off_t size; /* Size to write, size to read */
756 unsigned long int n; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
759 struct randread_source *rs;
761 n = 0; /* dopass takes n -- 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
763 n = flags->n_iterations + flags->zero_fill;
767 error (0, errno, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname);
771 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
772 Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
773 find that we can't rewind the device. */
774 if ((S_ISCHR (st.st_mode) && isatty (fd))
775 || S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode)
776 || S_ISSOCK (st.st_mode))
778 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname);
782 direct_mode (fd, true);
784 /* Allocate pass array */
785 passarray = xnmalloc (flags->n_iterations, sizeof *passarray);
790 /* Accept a length of zero only if it's a regular file.
791 For any other type of file, try to get the size another way. */
792 if (S_ISREG (st.st_mode))
797 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname);
803 size = lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_END);
806 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
807 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
812 /* Allow 'rounding up' only for regular files. */
813 if (0 <= size && !(flags->exact) && S_ISREG (st.st_mode))
815 size += ST_BLKSIZE (st) - 1 - (size - 1) % ST_BLKSIZE (st);
817 /* If in rounding up, we've just overflowed, use the maximum. */
819 size = TYPE_MAXIMUM (off_t);
823 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
824 genpattern (passarray, flags->n_iterations, s);
826 rs = randint_get_source (s);
829 for (i = 0; i < flags->n_iterations; i++)
831 int err = dopass (fd, qname, &size, passarray[i], rs, i + 1, n);
836 memset (passarray, 0, flags->n_iterations * sizeof (int));
844 memset (passarray, 0, flags->n_iterations * sizeof (int));
847 if (flags->zero_fill)
849 int err = dopass (fd, qname, &size, 0, rs, flags->n_iterations + 1, n);
858 /* Okay, now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
859 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
860 errors reported for them. */
861 if (flags->remove_file && ftruncate (fd, 0) != 0
862 && S_ISREG (st.st_mode))
864 error (0, errno, _("%s: error truncating"), qname);
871 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
873 wipefd (int fd, char const *qname, struct randint_source *s,
874 struct Options const *flags)
876 int fd_flags = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL);
880 error (0, errno, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname);
883 if (fd_flags & O_APPEND)
885 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname);
888 return do_wipefd (fd, qname, s, flags);
891 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
893 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
894 static char const nameset[] =
895 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
897 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
898 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
899 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
903 incname (char *name, size_t len)
907 char const *p = strchr (nameset, name[len]);
909 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
910 P will never be NULL here. */
913 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
920 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
921 name[len] = nameset[0];
928 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
929 * to obliterate all traces of the file name on any system that
930 * adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
931 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
932 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
933 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
934 * it fails for some reason.)
936 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
937 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
938 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
939 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
940 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
941 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
943 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
944 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
947 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
948 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
949 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
950 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
951 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
954 wipename (char *oldname, char const *qoldname, struct Options const *flags)
956 char *newname = xstrdup (oldname);
957 char *base = last_component (newname);
958 size_t len = base_len (base);
959 char *dir = dir_name (newname);
960 char *qdir = xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir));
964 int dir_fd = open (dir, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
967 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname);
971 memset (base, nameset[0], len);
976 if (lstat (newname, &st) < 0)
978 if (rename (oldname, newname) == 0)
980 if (0 <= dir_fd && dosync (dir_fd, qdir) != 0)
985 * People seem to understand this better than talking
986 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
987 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
988 * be quoted only the first time.
990 char const *old = (first ? qoldname : oldname);
991 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"), old, newname);
994 memcpy (oldname + (base - newname), base, len + 1);
999 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1005 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1008 while (incname (base, len));
1011 if (unlink (oldname) != 0)
1013 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname);
1016 else if (flags->verbose)
1017 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname);
1020 if (dosync (dir_fd, qdir) != 0)
1022 if (close (dir_fd) != 0)
1024 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir);
1035 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1036 * it into hamburger.
1039 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1040 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1041 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1042 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1043 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1044 * Does anyone disagree?
1047 wipefile (char *name, char const *qname,
1048 struct randint_source *s, struct Options const *flags)
1053 fd = open (name, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_BINARY);
1055 && (errno == EACCES && flags->force)
1056 && chmod (name, S_IWUSR) == 0)
1057 fd = open (name, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_BINARY);
1060 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname);
1064 ok = do_wipefd (fd, qname, s, flags);
1065 if (close (fd) != 0)
1067 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to close"), qname);
1070 if (ok && flags->remove_file)
1071 ok = wipename (name, qname, flags);
1076 /* Buffers for random data. */
1077 static struct randint_source *randint_source;
1079 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1080 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1083 clear_random_data (void)
1085 randint_all_free (randint_source);
1090 main (int argc, char **argv)
1093 struct Options flags = { 0, };
1098 char const *random_source = NULL;
1100 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
1101 set_program_name (argv[0]);
1102 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
1103 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
1104 textdomain (PACKAGE);
1106 atexit (close_stdout);
1108 flags.n_iterations = DEFAULT_PASSES;
1111 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts, NULL)) != -1)
1122 if (xstrtoumax (optarg, NULL, 10, &tmp, NULL) != LONGINT_OK
1123 || MIN (UINT32_MAX, SIZE_MAX / sizeof (int)) < tmp)
1125 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("%s: invalid number of passes"),
1126 quotearg_colon (optarg));
1128 flags.n_iterations = tmp;
1132 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION:
1133 if (random_source && !STREQ (random_source, optarg))
1134 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1135 random_source = optarg;
1139 flags.remove_file = true;
1145 if (xstrtoumax (optarg, NULL, 0, &tmp, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0")
1148 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("%s: invalid file size"),
1149 quotearg_colon (optarg));
1156 flags.verbose = true;
1164 flags.zero_fill = true;
1167 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
1169 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
1172 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
1176 file = argv + optind;
1177 n_files = argc - optind;
1181 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1182 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
1185 randint_source = randint_all_new (random_source, SIZE_MAX);
1186 if (! randint_source)
1187 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", quotearg_colon (random_source));
1188 atexit (clear_random_data);
1190 for (i = 0; i < n_files; i++)
1192 char *qname = xstrdup (quotearg_colon (file[i]));
1193 if (STREQ (file[i], "-"))
1195 ok &= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO, qname, randint_source, &flags);
1199 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1200 ok &= wipefile (file[i], qname, randint_source, &flags);
1205 exit (ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE);