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1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2018 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
40 * data on the disk.
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.
56 * Thanks to:
57 * Bob Jenkins, for his good RNG work and patience with the FSF copyright
58 * paperwork.
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")
76 #include <config.h>
78 #include <getopt.h>
79 #include <stdio.h>
80 #include <assert.h>
81 #include <setjmp.h>
82 #include <sys/types.h>
83 #if defined __linux__ && HAVE_SYS_MTIO_H
84 # include <sys/mtio.h>
85 #endif
87 #include "system.h"
88 #include "argmatch.h"
89 #include "xdectoint.h"
90 #include "die.h"
91 #include "error.h"
92 #include "fcntl--.h"
93 #include "human.h"
94 #include "randint.h"
95 #include "randread.h"
96 #include "renameat2.h"
97 #include "stat-size.h"
99 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
100 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 3 };
102 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
103 verbose output line. */
104 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE = 5 };
106 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
107 The size must be a power of 2. */
108 enum { SECTOR_SIZE = 512 };
109 enum { SECTOR_MASK = SECTOR_SIZE - 1 };
110 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE && (SECTOR_SIZE & SECTOR_MASK) == 0);
112 enum remove_method
114 remove_none = 0, /* the default: only wipe data. */
115 remove_unlink, /* don't obfuscate name, just unlink. */
116 remove_wipe, /* obfuscate name before unlink. */
117 remove_wipesync /* obfuscate name, syncing each byte, before unlink. */
120 static char const *const remove_args[] =
122 "unlink", "wipe", "wipesync", NULL
125 static enum remove_method const remove_methods[] =
127 remove_unlink, remove_wipe, remove_wipesync
130 struct Options
132 bool force; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
133 size_t n_iterations; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
134 off_t size; /* -s flag: size of file */
135 enum remove_method remove_file; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
136 bool verbose; /* -v flag: Print progress */
137 bool exact; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
138 bool zero_fill; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
141 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
142 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
143 enum
145 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
148 static struct option const long_opts[] =
150 {"exact", no_argument, NULL, 'x'},
151 {"force", no_argument, NULL, 'f'},
152 {"iterations", required_argument, NULL, 'n'},
153 {"size", required_argument, NULL, 's'},
154 {"random-source", required_argument, NULL, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION},
155 {"remove", optional_argument, NULL, 'u'},
156 {"verbose", no_argument, NULL, 'v'},
157 {"zero", no_argument, NULL, 'z'},
158 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
159 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
160 {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
163 void
164 usage (int status)
166 if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
167 emit_try_help ();
168 else
170 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
171 fputs (_("\
172 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
173 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
174 "), stdout);
175 fputs (_("\
177 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
178 "), stdout);
180 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
182 printf (_("\
183 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
184 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
185 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
186 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
187 "), DEFAULT_PASSES);
188 fputs (_("\
189 -u deallocate and remove file after overwriting\n\
190 --remove[=HOW] like -u but give control on HOW to delete; See below\n\
191 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
192 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
193 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
194 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
195 "), stdout);
196 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
197 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
198 fputs (_("\
200 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
201 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
202 and those files usually should not be removed.\n\
203 The optional HOW parameter indicates how to remove a directory entry:\n\
204 'unlink' => use a standard unlink call.\n\
205 'wipe' => also first obfuscate bytes in the name.\n\
206 'wipesync' => also sync each obfuscated byte to disk.\n\
207 The default mode is 'wipesync', but note it can be expensive.\n\
209 "), stdout);
210 fputs (_("\
211 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
212 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
213 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
214 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
215 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
217 "), stdout);
218 fputs (_("\
219 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
220 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
222 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
223 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
225 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
227 "), stdout);
228 fputs (_("\
229 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
230 version 3 clients\n\
232 * compressed file systems\n\
234 "), stdout);
235 fputs (_("\
236 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
237 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
238 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
239 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
240 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
241 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
242 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
244 "), stdout);
245 fputs (_("\
246 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
247 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
248 to be recovered later.\n\
249 "), stdout);
250 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME);
252 exit (status);
256 * Determine if pattern type is periodic or not.
258 static bool
259 periodic_pattern (int type)
261 if (type <= 0)
262 return false;
264 unsigned char r[3];
265 unsigned int bits = type & 0xfff;
267 bits |= bits << 12;
268 r[0] = (bits >> 4) & 255;
269 r[1] = (bits >> 8) & 255;
270 r[2] = bits & 255;
272 return (r[0] != r[1]) || (r[0] != r[2]);
276 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
278 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
279 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
281 static void
282 fillpattern (int type, unsigned char *r, size_t size)
284 size_t i;
285 unsigned int bits = type & 0xfff;
287 bits |= bits << 12;
288 r[0] = (bits >> 4) & 255;
289 r[1] = (bits >> 8) & 255;
290 r[2] = bits & 255;
291 for (i = 3; i <= size / 2; i *= 2)
292 memcpy (r + i, r, i);
293 if (i < size)
294 memcpy (r + i, r, size - i);
296 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
297 if (type & 0x1000)
298 for (i = 0; i < size; i += SECTOR_SIZE)
299 r[i] ^= 0x80;
303 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
304 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
306 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
307 static void
308 passname (unsigned char const *data, char name[PASS_NAME_SIZE])
310 if (data)
311 sprintf (name, "%02x%02x%02x", data[0], data[1], data[2]);
312 else
313 memcpy (name, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE);
316 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
317 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
318 static bool
319 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val)
321 return (errno_val == EINVAL
322 || errno_val == EBADF
323 /* HP-UX does this */
324 || errno_val == EISDIR);
327 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
328 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
329 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
330 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
331 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
332 writable file descriptor. */
333 static int
334 dosync (int fd, char const *qname)
336 int err;
338 #if HAVE_FDATASYNC
339 if (fdatasync (fd) == 0)
340 return 0;
341 err = errno;
342 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err))
344 error (0, err, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname);
345 errno = err;
346 return -1;
348 #endif
350 if (fsync (fd) == 0)
351 return 0;
352 err = errno;
353 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err))
355 error (0, err, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname);
356 errno = err;
357 return -1;
360 sync ();
361 return 0;
364 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
365 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
366 static void
367 direct_mode (int fd, bool enable)
369 if (O_DIRECT)
371 int fd_flags = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL);
372 if (0 < fd_flags)
374 int new_flags = (enable
375 ? (fd_flags | O_DIRECT)
376 : (fd_flags & ~O_DIRECT));
377 if (new_flags != fd_flags)
378 fcntl (fd, F_SETFL, new_flags);
382 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
383 /* This is Solaris-specific. */
384 directio (fd, enable ? DIRECTIO_ON : DIRECTIO_OFF);
385 #endif
388 /* Rewind FD; its status is ST. */
389 static bool
390 dorewind (int fd, struct stat const *st)
392 if (S_ISCHR (st->st_mode))
394 #if defined __linux__ && HAVE_SYS_MTIO_H
395 /* In the Linux kernel, lseek does not work on tape devices; it
396 returns a randomish value instead. Try the low-level tape
397 rewind operation first. */
398 struct mtop op;
399 op.mt_op = MTREW;
400 op.mt_count = 1;
401 if (ioctl (fd, MTIOCTOP, &op) == 0)
402 return true;
403 #endif
405 off_t offset = lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
406 if (0 < offset)
407 errno = EINVAL;
408 return offset == 0;
411 /* By convention, negative sizes represent unknown values. */
413 static bool
414 known (off_t size)
416 return 0 <= size;
420 * Do pass number K of N, writing *SIZEP bytes of the given pattern TYPE
421 * to the file descriptor FD. K and N are passed in only for verbose
422 * progress message purposes. If N == 0, no progress messages are printed.
424 * If *SIZEP == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
425 * as writing fails with ENOSPC.
427 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
429 static int
430 dopass (int fd, struct stat const *st, char const *qname, off_t *sizep,
431 int type, struct randread_source *s,
432 unsigned long int k, unsigned long int n)
434 off_t size = *sizep;
435 off_t offset; /* Current file position */
436 time_t thresh IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
437 time_t now = 0; /* Current time */
438 size_t lim; /* Amount of data to try writing */
439 size_t soff; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
440 ssize_t ssize; /* Return value from write */
442 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a page so we can do direct I/O. */
443 size_t page_size = getpagesize ();
444 #define PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (60 * 1024)
445 #define NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (64 * 1024)
446 verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE % 3 == 0);
447 size_t output_size = periodic_pattern (type)
448 ? PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE : NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE;
449 #define PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP (page_size - 1) /* So directio works */
450 #define FILLPATTERN_SIZE (((output_size + 2) / 3) * 3) /* Multiple of 3 */
451 #define PATTERNBUF_SIZE (PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP + FILLPATTERN_SIZE)
452 void *fill_pattern_mem = xmalloc (PATTERNBUF_SIZE);
453 unsigned char *pbuf = ptr_align (fill_pattern_mem, page_size);
455 char pass_string[PASS_NAME_SIZE]; /* Name of current pass */
456 bool write_error = false;
457 bool other_error = false;
459 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
460 char previous_offset_buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
461 char const *previous_human_offset IF_LINT ( = 0);
463 /* As a performance tweak, avoid direct I/O for small sizes,
464 as it's just a performance rather then security consideration,
465 and direct I/O can often be unsupported for small non aligned sizes. */
466 bool try_without_directio = 0 < size && size < output_size;
467 if (! try_without_directio)
468 direct_mode (fd, true);
470 if (! dorewind (fd, st))
472 error (0, errno, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname);
473 other_error = true;
474 goto free_pattern_mem;
477 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
478 if (type >= 0)
480 lim = known (size) && size < FILLPATTERN_SIZE ? size : FILLPATTERN_SIZE;
481 fillpattern (type, pbuf, lim);
482 passname (pbuf, pass_string);
484 else
486 passname (0, pass_string);
489 /* Set position if first status update */
490 if (n)
492 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname, k, n, pass_string);
493 thresh = time (NULL) + VERBOSE_UPDATE;
494 previous_human_offset = "";
497 offset = 0;
498 while (true)
500 /* How much to write this time? */
501 lim = output_size;
502 if (known (size) && size - offset < output_size)
504 if (size < offset)
505 break;
506 lim = size - offset;
507 if (!lim)
508 break;
510 if (type < 0)
511 randread (s, pbuf, lim);
512 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
513 for (soff = 0; soff < lim; soff += ssize)
515 ssize = write (fd, pbuf + soff, lim - soff);
516 if (0 < ssize)
517 assume (ssize <= lim - soff);
518 else
520 if (! known (size) && (ssize == 0 || errno == ENOSPC))
522 /* We have found the end of the file. */
523 if (soff <= OFF_T_MAX - offset)
524 *sizep = size = offset + soff;
525 break;
527 else
529 int errnum = errno;
530 char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
532 /* Retry without direct I/O since this may not be supported
533 at all on some (file) systems, or with the current size.
534 I.e., a specified --size that is not aligned, or when
535 dealing with slop at the end of a file with --exact. */
536 if (! try_without_directio && errno == EINVAL)
538 direct_mode (fd, false);
539 ssize = 0;
540 try_without_directio = true;
541 continue;
543 error (0, errnum, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
544 qname, umaxtostr (offset + soff, buf));
546 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
547 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
548 code works because lim is always a multiple of
549 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. This size constraint
550 also enables direct I/O on some (file) systems. */
551 verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE % SECTOR_SIZE == 0);
552 verify (NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE % SECTOR_SIZE == 0);
553 if (errnum == EIO && known (size)
554 && (soff | SECTOR_MASK) < lim)
556 size_t soff1 = (soff | SECTOR_MASK) + 1;
557 if (lseek (fd, offset + soff1, SEEK_SET) != -1)
559 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
560 ssize = soff1 - soff;
561 write_error = true;
562 continue;
564 error (0, errno, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname);
566 other_error = true;
567 goto free_pattern_mem;
572 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
574 if (OFF_T_MAX - offset < soff)
576 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname);
577 other_error = true;
578 goto free_pattern_mem;
581 offset += soff;
583 bool done = offset == size;
585 /* Time to print progress? */
586 if (n && ((done && *previous_human_offset)
587 || thresh <= (now = time (NULL))))
589 char offset_buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
590 char size_buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1];
591 int human_progress_opts = (human_autoscale | human_SI
592 | human_base_1024 | human_B);
593 char const *human_offset
594 = human_readable (offset, offset_buf,
595 human_floor | human_progress_opts, 1, 1);
597 if (done || !STREQ (previous_human_offset, human_offset))
599 if (! known (size))
600 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
601 qname, k, n, pass_string, human_offset);
602 else
604 uintmax_t off = offset;
605 int percent = (size == 0
606 ? 100
607 : (off <= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
608 ? off * 100 / size
609 : off / (size / 100)));
610 char const *human_size
611 = human_readable (size, size_buf,
612 human_ceiling | human_progress_opts,
613 1, 1);
614 if (done)
615 human_offset = human_size;
616 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
617 qname, k, n, pass_string, human_offset, human_size,
618 percent);
621 strcpy (previous_offset_buf, human_offset);
622 previous_human_offset = previous_offset_buf;
623 thresh = now + VERBOSE_UPDATE;
626 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
627 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
628 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
629 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
630 * like mkfs.
632 if (dosync (fd, qname) != 0)
634 if (errno != EIO)
636 other_error = true;
637 goto free_pattern_mem;
639 write_error = true;
645 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
646 if (dosync (fd, qname) != 0)
648 if (errno != EIO)
650 other_error = true;
651 goto free_pattern_mem;
653 write_error = true;
656 free_pattern_mem:
657 free (fill_pattern_mem);
659 return other_error ? -1 : write_error;
663 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
664 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
665 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
666 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
667 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
669 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
670 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
671 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
672 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
673 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
675 * The basic passes are:
676 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
677 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
678 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
679 * 100100100100 110110110110
680 * 9 2 4 D B 6
681 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
682 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
683 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
684 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
686 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
687 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
688 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
689 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
691 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
692 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
693 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
695 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
696 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
697 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
698 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
699 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
702 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
704 * Here's how...
705 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
706 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
707 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
708 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
710 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
711 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
713 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
714 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
716 static int const
717 patterns[] =
719 -2, /* 2 random passes */
720 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
721 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
722 -1, /* 1 random pass */
723 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
724 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
725 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
726 -1, /* 1 random pass */
727 /* The following patterns have the first bit per block flipped */
728 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
729 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
730 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
731 -1, /* 1 random pass */
732 0 /* End */
736 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
737 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
738 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
739 * order.
741 static void
742 genpattern (int *dest, size_t num, struct randint_source *s)
744 size_t randpasses;
745 int const *p;
746 int *d;
747 size_t n;
748 size_t accum, top, swap;
749 int k;
751 if (!num)
752 return;
754 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
755 p = patterns;
756 randpasses = 0;
757 d = dest; /* Destination for generated pass list */
758 n = num; /* Passes remaining to fill */
760 while (true)
762 k = *p++; /* Block descriptor word */
763 if (!k)
764 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
765 p = patterns;
767 else if (k < 0)
768 { /* -k random passes */
769 k = -k;
770 if ((size_t) k >= n)
772 randpasses += n;
773 break;
775 randpasses += k;
776 n -= k;
778 else if ((size_t) k <= n)
779 { /* Full block of patterns */
780 memcpy (d, p, k * sizeof (int));
781 p += k;
782 d += k;
783 n -= k;
785 else if (n < 2 || 3 * n < (size_t) k)
786 { /* Finish with random */
787 randpasses += n;
788 break;
790 else
791 { /* Pad out with n of the k available */
794 if (n == (size_t) k || randint_choose (s, k) < n)
796 *d++ = *p;
797 n--;
799 p++;
800 k--;
802 while (n);
803 break;
806 top = num - randpasses; /* Top of initialized data */
807 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
810 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
811 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
812 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
814 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
815 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
816 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
817 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
818 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
819 * do this.)
821 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
822 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
823 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
824 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
825 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
826 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
827 * and swap the current entry with that one.
829 randpasses--; /* To speed up later math */
830 accum = randpasses; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
831 for (n = 0; n < num; n++)
833 if (accum <= randpasses)
835 accum += num - 1;
836 dest[top++] = dest[n];
837 dest[n] = -1;
839 else
841 swap = n + randint_choose (s, top - n);
842 k = dest[n];
843 dest[n] = dest[swap];
844 dest[swap] = k;
846 accum -= randpasses;
848 /* assert (top == num); */
852 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
853 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
855 static bool
856 do_wipefd (int fd, char const *qname, struct randint_source *s,
857 struct Options const *flags)
859 size_t i;
860 struct stat st;
861 off_t size; /* Size to write, size to read */
862 off_t i_size = 0; /* For small files, initial size to overwrite inode */
863 unsigned long int n; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
864 int *passarray;
865 bool ok = true;
866 struct randread_source *rs;
868 n = 0; /* dopass takes n == 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
869 if (flags->verbose)
870 n = flags->n_iterations + flags->zero_fill;
872 if (fstat (fd, &st))
874 error (0, errno, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname);
875 return false;
878 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
879 Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
880 find that we can't rewind the device. */
881 if ((S_ISCHR (st.st_mode) && isatty (fd))
882 || S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode)
883 || S_ISSOCK (st.st_mode))
885 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname);
886 return false;
888 else if (S_ISREG (st.st_mode) && st.st_size < 0)
890 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname);
891 return false;
894 /* Allocate pass array */
895 passarray = xnmalloc (flags->n_iterations, sizeof *passarray);
897 size = flags->size;
898 if (size == -1)
900 if (S_ISREG (st.st_mode))
902 size = st.st_size;
904 if (! flags->exact)
906 /* Round up to the nearest block size to clear slack space. */
907 off_t remainder = size % ST_BLKSIZE (st);
908 if (size && size < ST_BLKSIZE (st))
909 i_size = size;
910 if (remainder != 0)
912 off_t size_incr = ST_BLKSIZE (st) - remainder;
913 size += MIN (size_incr, OFF_T_MAX - size);
917 else
919 /* The behavior of lseek is unspecified, but in practice if
920 it returns a positive number that's the size of this
921 device. */
922 size = lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_END);
923 if (size <= 0)
925 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
926 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
927 size = -1;
931 else if (S_ISREG (st.st_mode)
932 && st.st_size < MIN (ST_BLKSIZE (st), size))
933 i_size = st.st_size;
935 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
936 genpattern (passarray, flags->n_iterations, s);
938 rs = randint_get_source (s);
940 while (true)
942 off_t pass_size;
943 unsigned long int pn = n;
945 if (i_size)
947 pass_size = i_size;
948 i_size = 0;
949 pn = 0;
951 else if (size)
953 pass_size = size;
954 size = 0;
956 /* TODO: consider handling tail packing by
957 writing the tail padding as a separate pass,
958 (that would not rewind). */
959 else
960 break;
962 for (i = 0; i < flags->n_iterations + flags->zero_fill; i++)
964 int err = 0;
965 int type = i < flags->n_iterations ? passarray[i] : 0;
967 err = dopass (fd, &st, qname, &pass_size, type, rs, i + 1, pn);
969 if (err)
971 ok = false;
972 if (err < 0)
973 goto wipefd_out;
978 /* Now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
979 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
980 errors reported for them. */
981 if (flags->remove_file && ftruncate (fd, 0) != 0
982 && S_ISREG (st.st_mode))
984 error (0, errno, _("%s: error truncating"), qname);
985 ok = false;
986 goto wipefd_out;
989 wipefd_out:
990 free (passarray);
991 return ok;
994 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
995 static bool
996 wipefd (int fd, char const *qname, struct randint_source *s,
997 struct Options const *flags)
999 int fd_flags = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL);
1001 if (fd_flags < 0)
1003 error (0, errno, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname);
1004 return false;
1006 if (fd_flags & O_APPEND)
1008 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname);
1009 return false;
1011 return do_wipefd (fd, qname, s, flags);
1014 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
1016 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
1017 static char const nameset[] =
1018 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
1020 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
1021 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
1022 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
1023 return false. */
1025 static bool
1026 incname (char *name, size_t len)
1028 while (len--)
1030 char const *p = strchr (nameset, name[len]);
1032 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
1033 P will never be NULL here. */
1034 assert (p);
1036 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
1037 if (p[1])
1039 name[len] = p[1];
1040 return true;
1043 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
1044 name[len] = nameset[0];
1047 return false;
1051 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
1052 * to obliterate all traces of the file name (and length) on any system
1053 * that adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
1054 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
1055 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
1056 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
1057 * it fails for some reason.)
1059 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
1060 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
1061 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
1062 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
1063 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
1064 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
1066 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
1067 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
1068 * is ANSI-standard.
1070 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
1071 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
1072 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
1073 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
1074 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
1076 static bool
1077 wipename (char *oldname, char const *qoldname, struct Options const *flags)
1079 char *newname = xstrdup (oldname);
1080 char *base = last_component (newname);
1081 char *dir = dir_name (newname);
1082 char *qdir = xstrdup (quotef (dir));
1083 bool first = true;
1084 bool ok = true;
1085 int dir_fd = -1;
1087 if (flags->remove_file == remove_wipesync)
1088 dir_fd = open (dir, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
1090 if (flags->verbose)
1091 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname);
1093 if (flags->remove_file != remove_unlink)
1094 for (size_t len = base_len (base); len != 0; len--)
1096 memset (base, nameset[0], len);
1097 base[len] = 0;
1098 bool rename_ok;
1099 while (! (rename_ok = (renameat2 (AT_FDCWD, oldname, AT_FDCWD, newname,
1100 RENAME_NOREPLACE)
1101 == 0))
1102 && errno == EEXIST && incname (base, len))
1103 continue;
1104 if (rename_ok)
1106 if (0 <= dir_fd && dosync (dir_fd, qdir) != 0)
1107 ok = false;
1108 if (flags->verbose)
1110 /* People seem to understand this better than talking
1111 about renaming OLDNAME. NEWNAME doesn't need
1112 quoting because we picked it. OLDNAME needs to be
1113 quoted only the first time. */
1114 char const *old = first ? qoldname : oldname;
1115 error (0, 0,
1116 _("%s: renamed to %s"), old, newname);
1117 first = false;
1119 memcpy (oldname + (base - newname), base, len + 1);
1123 if (unlink (oldname) != 0)
1125 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname);
1126 ok = false;
1128 else if (flags->verbose)
1129 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname);
1130 if (0 <= dir_fd)
1132 if (dosync (dir_fd, qdir) != 0)
1133 ok = false;
1134 if (close (dir_fd) != 0)
1136 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir);
1137 ok = false;
1140 free (newname);
1141 free (dir);
1142 free (qdir);
1143 return ok;
1147 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1148 * it into hamburger.
1150 * FIXME
1151 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1152 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1153 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1154 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1155 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1156 * Does anyone disagree?
1158 static bool
1159 wipefile (char *name, char const *qname,
1160 struct randint_source *s, struct Options const *flags)
1162 bool ok;
1163 int fd;
1165 fd = open (name, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_BINARY);
1166 if (fd < 0
1167 && (errno == EACCES && flags->force)
1168 && chmod (name, S_IWUSR) == 0)
1169 fd = open (name, O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_BINARY);
1170 if (fd < 0)
1172 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname);
1173 return false;
1176 ok = do_wipefd (fd, qname, s, flags);
1177 if (close (fd) != 0)
1179 error (0, errno, _("%s: failed to close"), qname);
1180 ok = false;
1182 if (ok && flags->remove_file)
1183 ok = wipename (name, qname, flags);
1184 return ok;
1188 /* Buffers for random data. */
1189 static struct randint_source *randint_source;
1191 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1192 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1193 shredding. */
1194 static void
1195 clear_random_data (void)
1197 randint_all_free (randint_source);
1202 main (int argc, char **argv)
1204 bool ok = true;
1205 struct Options flags = { 0, };
1206 char **file;
1207 int n_files;
1208 int c;
1209 int i;
1210 char const *random_source = NULL;
1212 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
1213 set_program_name (argv[0]);
1214 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
1215 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
1216 textdomain (PACKAGE);
1218 atexit (close_stdout);
1220 flags.n_iterations = DEFAULT_PASSES;
1221 flags.size = -1;
1223 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts, NULL)) != -1)
1225 switch (c)
1227 case 'f':
1228 flags.force = true;
1229 break;
1231 case 'n':
1232 flags.n_iterations = xdectoumax (optarg, 0,
1233 MIN (ULONG_MAX,
1234 SIZE_MAX / sizeof (int)), "",
1235 _("invalid number of passes"), 0);
1236 break;
1238 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION:
1239 if (random_source && !STREQ (random_source, optarg))
1240 die (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1241 random_source = optarg;
1242 break;
1244 case 'u':
1245 if (optarg == NULL)
1246 flags.remove_file = remove_wipesync;
1247 else
1248 flags.remove_file = XARGMATCH ("--remove", optarg,
1249 remove_args, remove_methods);
1250 break;
1252 case 's':
1253 flags.size = xnumtoumax (optarg, 0, 0, OFF_T_MAX, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0",
1254 _("invalid file size"), 0);
1255 break;
1257 case 'v':
1258 flags.verbose = true;
1259 break;
1261 case 'x':
1262 flags.exact = true;
1263 break;
1265 case 'z':
1266 flags.zero_fill = true;
1267 break;
1269 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
1271 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
1273 default:
1274 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
1278 file = argv + optind;
1279 n_files = argc - optind;
1281 if (n_files == 0)
1283 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1284 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
1287 randint_source = randint_all_new (random_source, SIZE_MAX);
1288 if (! randint_source)
1289 die (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", quotef (random_source));
1290 atexit (clear_random_data);
1292 for (i = 0; i < n_files; i++)
1294 char *qname = xstrdup (quotef (file[i]));
1295 if (STREQ (file[i], "-"))
1297 ok &= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO, qname, randint_source, &flags);
1299 else
1301 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1302 ok &= wipefile (file[i], qname, randint_source, &flags);
1304 free (qname);
1307 return ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
1310 * vim:sw=2:sts=2: