1 /* shred.c - overwrite files and devices to make it harder to recover data
3 Copyright (C) 1999-2015 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>
84 # include <sys/mtio.h>
89 #include "xdectoint.h"
95 #include "stat-size.h"
97 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
98 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES
= 3 };
100 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
101 verbose output line. */
102 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE
= 5 };
104 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
105 The size must be a power of 2. */
106 enum { SECTOR_SIZE
= 512 };
107 enum { SECTOR_MASK
= SECTOR_SIZE
- 1 };
108 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE
&& (SECTOR_SIZE
& SECTOR_MASK
) == 0);
112 remove_none
= 0, /* the default: only wipe data. */
113 remove_unlink
, /* don't obfuscate name, just unlink. */
114 remove_wipe
, /* obfuscate name before unlink. */
115 remove_wipesync
/* obfuscate name, syncing each byte, before unlink. */
118 static char const *const remove_args
[] =
120 "unlink", "wipe", "wipesync", NULL
123 static enum remove_method
const remove_methods
[] =
125 remove_unlink
, remove_wipe
, remove_wipesync
130 bool force
; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
131 size_t n_iterations
; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
132 off_t size
; /* -s flag: size of file */
133 enum remove_method remove_file
; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
134 bool verbose
; /* -v flag: Print progress */
135 bool exact
; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
136 bool zero_fill
; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
139 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
140 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
143 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
146 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
148 {"exact", no_argument
, NULL
, 'x'},
149 {"force", no_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
150 {"iterations", required_argument
, NULL
, 'n'},
151 {"size", required_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
152 {"random-source", required_argument
, NULL
, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
},
153 {"remove", optional_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
154 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
155 {"zero", no_argument
, NULL
, 'z'},
156 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
157 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
164 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
168 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
170 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
171 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
175 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
178 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
181 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
182 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
183 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
184 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
187 -u truncate and remove file after overwriting\n\
188 --remove[=HOW] like -u but give control on HOW to delete; See below\n\
189 -v, --verbose show progress\n\
190 -x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;\n\
191 this is the default for non-regular files\n\
192 -z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding\n\
194 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
195 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION
, stdout
);
198 Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\
199 the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\
200 and those files usually should not be removed.\n\
201 The optional HOW parameter indicates how to remove a directory entry:\n\
202 'unlink' => use a standard unlink call.\n\
203 'wipe' => also first obfuscate bytes in the name.\n\
204 'wipesync' => also sync each obfuscated byte to disk.\n\
205 The default mode is 'wipesync', but note it can be expensive.\n\
209 CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:\n\
210 that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional\n\
211 way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this\n\
212 assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is\n\
213 not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes:\n\
217 * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with\n\
218 AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)\n\
220 * file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes\n\
221 fail, such as RAID-based file systems\n\
223 * file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server\n\
227 * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS\n\
230 * compressed file systems\n\
234 In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies\n\
235 (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,\n\
236 which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the\n\
237 data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.\n\
238 Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option\n\
239 to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,\n\
240 as documented in the mount man page (man mount).\n\
244 In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies\n\
245 of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file\n\
246 to be recovered later.\n\
248 emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME
);
254 * Determine if pattern type is periodic or not.
257 periodic_pattern (int type
)
263 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
266 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
267 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
270 return (r
[0] != r
[1]) || (r
[0] != r
[2]);
274 * Fill a buffer with a fixed pattern.
276 * The buffer must be at least 3 bytes long, even if
277 * size is less. Larger sizes are filled exactly.
280 fillpattern (int type
, unsigned char *r
, size_t size
)
283 unsigned int bits
= type
& 0xfff;
286 r
[0] = (bits
>> 4) & 255;
287 r
[1] = (bits
>> 8) & 255;
289 for (i
= 3; i
< size
/ 2; i
*= 2)
290 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, i
);
292 memcpy (r
+ i
, r
, size
- i
);
294 /* Invert the first bit of every sector. */
296 for (i
= 0; i
< size
; i
+= SECTOR_SIZE
)
301 * Generate a 6-character (+ nul) pass name string
302 * FIXME: allow translation of "random".
304 #define PASS_NAME_SIZE 7
306 passname (unsigned char const *data
, char name
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
])
309 sprintf (name
, "%02x%02x%02x", data
[0], data
[1], data
[2]);
311 memcpy (name
, "random", PASS_NAME_SIZE
);
314 /* Return true when it's ok to ignore an fsync or fdatasync
315 failure that set errno to ERRNO_VAL. */
317 ignorable_sync_errno (int errno_val
)
319 return (errno_val
== EINVAL
320 || errno_val
== EBADF
321 /* HP-UX does this */
322 || errno_val
== EISDIR
);
325 /* Request that all data for FD be transferred to the corresponding
326 storage device. QNAME is the file name (quoted for colons).
327 Report any errors found. Return 0 on success, -1
328 (setting errno) on failure. It is not an error if fdatasync and/or
329 fsync is not supported for this file, or if the file is not a
330 writable file descriptor. */
332 dosync (int fd
, char const *qname
)
337 if (fdatasync (fd
) == 0)
340 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
342 error (0, err
, _("%s: fdatasync failed"), qname
);
351 if ( ! ignorable_sync_errno (err
))
353 error (0, err
, _("%s: fsync failed"), qname
);
362 /* Turn on or off direct I/O mode for file descriptor FD, if possible.
363 Try to turn it on if ENABLE is true. Otherwise, try to turn it off. */
365 direct_mode (int fd
, bool enable
)
369 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
372 int new_flags
= (enable
373 ? (fd_flags
| O_DIRECT
)
374 : (fd_flags
& ~O_DIRECT
));
375 if (new_flags
!= fd_flags
)
376 fcntl (fd
, F_SETFL
, new_flags
);
380 #if HAVE_DIRECTIO && defined DIRECTIO_ON && defined DIRECTIO_OFF
381 /* This is Solaris-specific. See the following for details:
382 http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-0213/6m6ne37so?q=directio&a=view */
383 directio (fd
, enable
? DIRECTIO_ON
: DIRECTIO_OFF
);
387 /* Rewind FD; its status is ST. */
389 dorewind (int fd
, struct stat
const *st
)
391 if (S_ISCHR (st
->st_mode
))
394 /* In the Linux kernel, lseek does not work on tape devices; it
395 returns a randomish value instead. Try the low-level tape
396 rewind operation first. */
400 if (ioctl (fd
, MTIOCTOP
, &op
) == 0)
404 off_t offset
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_SET
);
410 /* By convention, negative sizes represent unknown values. */
419 * Do pass number K of N, writing *SIZEP bytes of the given pattern TYPE
420 * to the file descriptor FD. K and N are passed in only for verbose
421 * progress message purposes. If N == 0, no progress messages are printed.
423 * If *SIZEP == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
424 * as writing fails with ENOSPC.
426 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
429 dopass (int fd
, struct stat
const *st
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
,
430 int type
, struct randread_source
*s
,
431 unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
434 off_t offset
; /* Current file posiiton */
435 time_t thresh
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
436 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
437 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
438 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
439 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
441 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a page so we can do direct I/O. */
442 size_t page_size
= getpagesize ();
443 #define PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (60 * 1024)
444 #define NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (64 * 1024)
445 verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% 3 == 0);
446 size_t output_size
= periodic_pattern (type
)
447 ? PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
: NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
;
448 #define PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP (page_size - 1) /* So directio works */
449 #define FILLPATTERN_SIZE (((output_size + 2) / 3) * 3) /* Multiple of 3 */
450 #define PATTERNBUF_SIZE (PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP + FILLPATTERN_SIZE)
451 void *fill_pattern_mem
= xmalloc (PATTERNBUF_SIZE
);
452 unsigned char *pbuf
= ptr_align (fill_pattern_mem
, page_size
);
454 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
455 bool write_error
= false;
456 bool other_error
= false;
458 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
459 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
460 char const *previous_human_offset
IF_LINT ( = 0);
462 /* As a performance tweak, avoid direct I/O for small sizes,
463 as it's just a performance rather then security consideration,
464 and direct I/O can often be unsupported for small non aligned sizes. */
465 bool try_without_directio
= 0 < size
&& size
< output_size
;
466 if (! try_without_directio
)
467 direct_mode (fd
, true);
469 if (! dorewind (fd
, st
))
471 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
473 goto free_pattern_mem
;
476 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
479 lim
= known (size
) && size
< FILLPATTERN_SIZE
? size
: FILLPATTERN_SIZE
;
480 fillpattern (type
, pbuf
, lim
);
481 passname (pbuf
, pass_string
);
485 passname (0, pass_string
);
488 /* Set position if first status update */
491 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
492 thresh
= time (NULL
) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
493 previous_human_offset
= "";
499 /* How much to write this time? */
501 if (known (size
) && size
- offset
< output_size
)
510 randread (s
, pbuf
, lim
);
511 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
512 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
)
514 ssize
= write (fd
, pbuf
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
516 assume (ssize
<= lim
- soff
);
519 if (! known (size
) && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
521 /* We have found the end of the file. */
522 if (soff
<= OFF_T_MAX
- offset
)
523 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
529 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
531 /* Retry without direct I/O since this may not be supported
532 at all on some (file) systems, or with the current size.
533 I.e., a specified --size that is not aligned, or when
534 dealing with slop at the end of a file with --exact. */
535 if (! try_without_directio
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
537 direct_mode (fd
, false);
539 try_without_directio
= true;
542 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
543 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
545 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
546 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
547 code works because lim is always a multiple of
548 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. This size constraint
549 also enables direct I/O on some (file) systems. */
550 verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
551 verify (NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
552 if (errnum
== EIO
&& known (size
)
553 && (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
555 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
556 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
558 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
559 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
563 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
566 goto free_pattern_mem
;
571 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
573 if (OFF_T_MAX
- offset
< soff
)
575 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
577 goto free_pattern_mem
;
582 bool done
= offset
== size
;
584 /* Time to print progress? */
585 if (n
&& ((done
&& *previous_human_offset
)
586 || thresh
<= (now
= time (NULL
))))
588 char offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
589 char size_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
590 int human_progress_opts
= (human_autoscale
| human_SI
591 | human_base_1024
| human_B
);
592 char const *human_offset
593 = human_readable (offset
, offset_buf
,
594 human_floor
| human_progress_opts
, 1, 1);
596 if (done
|| !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
599 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
600 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
603 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
604 int percent
= (size
== 0
606 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
608 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
609 char const *human_size
610 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
611 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
614 human_offset
= human_size
;
615 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
616 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
620 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
621 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
622 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
625 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
626 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
627 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
628 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
631 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
636 goto free_pattern_mem
;
644 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
645 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
650 goto free_pattern_mem
;
656 memset (pbuf
, 0, FILLPATTERN_SIZE
);
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
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?
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.
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 */
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
742 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
748 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
754 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
757 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
758 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
762 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
764 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
768 { /* -k random passes */
778 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
779 { /* Full block of patterns */
780 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
785 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
786 { /* Finish with random */
791 { /* Pad out with n of the k available */
794 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
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
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
)
836 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
841 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
843 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
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.
856 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
857 struct Options
const *flags
)
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 */
866 struct randread_source
*rs
;
868 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n == 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
870 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
874 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
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
);
888 else if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
) && st
.st_size
< 0)
890 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
894 /* Allocate pass array */
895 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
900 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
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
))
912 off_t size_incr
= ST_BLKSIZE (st
) - remainder
;
913 size
+= MIN (size_incr
, OFF_T_MAX
- size
);
919 /* The behavior of lseek is unspecified, but in practice if
920 it returns a positive number that's the size of this
922 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
925 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
926 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
931 else if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
)
932 && st
.st_size
< MIN (ST_BLKSIZE (st
), size
))
935 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
936 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
938 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
943 unsigned long int pn
= n
;
956 /* TODO: consider handling tail packing by
957 writing the tail padding as a separate pass,
958 (that would not rewind). */
962 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
; i
++)
965 int type
= i
< flags
->n_iterations
? passarray
[i
] : 0;
967 err
= dopass (fd
, &st
, qname
, &pass_size
, type
, rs
, i
+ 1, pn
);
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
);
990 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
995 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
997 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
998 struct Options
const *flags
)
1000 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
1004 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
1007 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
1009 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
1012 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1015 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
1017 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
1018 static char const nameset
[] =
1019 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
1021 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
1022 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
1023 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
1027 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
1031 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
1033 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
1034 P will never be NULL here. */
1037 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
1044 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
1045 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
1052 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
1053 * to obliterate all traces of the file name (and length) on any system
1054 * that adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
1055 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
1056 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
1057 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
1058 * it fails for some reason.)
1060 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
1061 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
1062 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
1063 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
1064 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
1065 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
1067 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
1068 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
1071 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
1072 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
1073 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
1074 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
1075 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
1078 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1080 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
1081 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
1082 size_t len
= base_len (base
);
1083 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
1084 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotef (dir
));
1089 if (flags
->remove_file
== remove_wipesync
)
1090 dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
1093 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
1095 while ((flags
->remove_file
!= remove_unlink
) && len
)
1097 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
1102 if (lstat (newname
, &st
) < 0)
1104 if (rename (oldname
, newname
) == 0)
1106 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1111 * People seem to understand this better than talking
1112 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
1113 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
1114 * be quoted only the first time.
1116 char const *old
= (first
? qoldname
: oldname
);
1117 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"),
1121 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1126 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1132 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1135 while (incname (base
, len
));
1138 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1140 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1143 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1144 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1147 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1149 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1151 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1162 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1163 * it into hamburger.
1166 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1167 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1168 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1169 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1170 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1171 * Does anyone disagree?
1174 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1175 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1180 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1182 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1183 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1184 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1187 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1191 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1192 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1194 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1197 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1198 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1203 /* Buffers for random data. */
1204 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1206 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1207 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1210 clear_random_data (void)
1212 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1217 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1220 struct Options flags
= { 0, };
1225 char const *random_source
= NULL
;
1227 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1228 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
1229 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1230 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1231 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1233 atexit (close_stdout
);
1235 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1238 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
1247 flags
.n_iterations
= xdectoumax (optarg
, 0,
1249 SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)), "",
1250 _("invalid number of passes"), 0);
1253 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1254 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1255 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1256 random_source
= optarg
;
1261 flags
.remove_file
= remove_wipesync
;
1263 flags
.remove_file
= XARGMATCH ("--remove", optarg
,
1264 remove_args
, remove_methods
);
1268 flags
.size
= xnumtoumax (optarg
, 0, 0, OFF_T_MAX
, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0",
1269 _("invalid file size"), 0);
1273 flags
.verbose
= true;
1281 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1284 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1286 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1289 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1293 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1294 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1298 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1299 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1302 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1303 if (! randint_source
)
1304 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotef (random_source
));
1305 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1307 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1309 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotef (file
[i
]));
1310 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1312 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1316 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1317 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1322 return ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
;