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"
93 #include "quotearg.h" /* For quotearg_colon */
96 #include "stat-size.h"
98 /* Default number of times to overwrite. */
99 enum { DEFAULT_PASSES
= 3 };
101 /* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
102 verbose output line. */
103 enum { VERBOSE_UPDATE
= 5 };
105 /* Sector size and corresponding mask, for recovering after write failures.
106 The size must be a power of 2. */
107 enum { SECTOR_SIZE
= 512 };
108 enum { SECTOR_MASK
= SECTOR_SIZE
- 1 };
109 verify (0 < SECTOR_SIZE
&& (SECTOR_SIZE
& SECTOR_MASK
) == 0);
113 remove_none
= 0, /* the default: only wipe data. */
114 remove_unlink
, /* don't obfuscate name, just unlink. */
115 remove_wipe
, /* obfuscate name before unlink. */
116 remove_wipesync
/* obfuscate name, syncing each byte, before unlink. */
119 static char const *const remove_args
[] =
121 "unlink", "wipe", "wipesync", NULL
124 static enum remove_method
const remove_methods
[] =
126 remove_unlink
, remove_wipe
, remove_wipesync
131 bool force
; /* -f flag: chmod files if necessary */
132 size_t n_iterations
; /* -n flag: Number of iterations */
133 off_t size
; /* -s flag: size of file */
134 enum remove_method remove_file
; /* -u flag: remove file after shredding */
135 bool verbose
; /* -v flag: Print progress */
136 bool exact
; /* -x flag: Do not round up file size */
137 bool zero_fill
; /* -z flag: Add a final zero pass */
140 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
141 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
144 RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
= CHAR_MAX
+ 1
147 static struct option
const long_opts
[] =
149 {"exact", no_argument
, NULL
, 'x'},
150 {"force", no_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
151 {"iterations", required_argument
, NULL
, 'n'},
152 {"size", required_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
153 {"random-source", required_argument
, NULL
, RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
},
154 {"remove", optional_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
155 {"verbose", no_argument
, NULL
, 'v'},
156 {"zero", no_argument
, NULL
, 'z'},
157 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
158 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
165 if (status
!= EXIT_SUCCESS
)
169 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
171 Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\
172 for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\
176 If FILE is -, shred standard output.\n\
179 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
182 -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\
183 -n, --iterations=N overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\
184 --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE\n\
185 -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)\n\
188 -u, --remove[=HOW] truncate and remove file after overwriting; 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
);
411 * Do pass number K of N, writing *SIZEP bytes of the given pattern TYPE
412 * to the file descriptor FD. K and N are passed in only for verbose
413 * progress message purposes. If N == 0, no progress messages are printed.
415 * If *SIZEP == -1, the size is unknown, and it will be filled in as soon
416 * as writing fails with ENOSPC.
418 * Return 1 on write error, -1 on other error, 0 on success.
421 dopass (int fd
, struct stat
const *st
, char const *qname
, off_t
*sizep
,
422 int type
, struct randread_source
*s
,
423 unsigned long int k
, unsigned long int n
)
426 off_t offset
; /* Current file posiiton */
427 time_t thresh
IF_LINT ( = 0); /* Time to maybe print next status update */
428 time_t now
= 0; /* Current time */
429 size_t lim
; /* Amount of data to try writing */
430 size_t soff
; /* Offset into buffer for next write */
431 ssize_t ssize
; /* Return value from write */
433 /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a page so we can do direct I/O. */
434 size_t page_size
= getpagesize ();
435 #define PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (60 * 1024)
436 #define NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (64 * 1024)
437 verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% 3 == 0);
438 size_t output_size
= periodic_pattern (type
)
439 ? PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
: NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
;
440 #define PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP (page_size - 1) /* So directio works */
441 #define FILLPATTERN_SIZE (((output_size + 2) / 3) * 3) /* Multiple of 3 */
442 #define PATTERNBUF_SIZE (PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP + FILLPATTERN_SIZE)
443 void *fill_pattern_mem
= xmalloc (PATTERNBUF_SIZE
);
444 unsigned char *pbuf
= ptr_align (fill_pattern_mem
, page_size
);
446 char pass_string
[PASS_NAME_SIZE
]; /* Name of current pass */
447 bool write_error
= false;
448 bool other_error
= false;
450 /* Printable previous offset into the file */
451 char previous_offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
452 char const *previous_human_offset
IF_LINT ( = 0);
454 /* As a performance tweak, avoid direct I/O for small sizes,
455 as it's just a performance rather then security consideration,
456 and direct I/O can often be unsupported for small non aligned sizes. */
457 bool try_without_directio
= 0 < size
&& size
< output_size
;
458 if (! try_without_directio
)
459 direct_mode (fd
, true);
461 if (! dorewind (fd
, st
))
463 error (0, errno
, _("%s: cannot rewind"), qname
);
465 goto free_pattern_mem
;
468 /* Constant fill patterns need only be set up once. */
471 lim
= (0 <= size
&& size
< FILLPATTERN_SIZE
? size
: FILLPATTERN_SIZE
);
472 fillpattern (type
, pbuf
, lim
);
473 passname (pbuf
, pass_string
);
477 passname (0, pass_string
);
480 /* Set position if first status update */
483 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)..."), qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
);
484 thresh
= time (NULL
) + VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
485 previous_human_offset
= "";
491 /* How much to write this time? */
493 if (0 <= size
&& size
- offset
< output_size
)
502 randread (s
, pbuf
, lim
);
503 /* Loop to retry partial writes. */
504 for (soff
= 0; soff
< lim
; soff
+= ssize
)
506 ssize
= write (fd
, pbuf
+ soff
, lim
- soff
);
509 if (size
< 0 && (ssize
== 0 || errno
== ENOSPC
))
511 /* Ah, we have found the end of the file */
512 *sizep
= size
= offset
+ soff
;
518 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
520 /* Retry without direct I/O since this may not be supported
521 at all on some (file) systems, or with the current size.
522 I.e., a specified --size that is not aligned, or when
523 dealing with slop at the end of a file with --exact. */
524 if (! try_without_directio
&& errno
== EINVAL
)
526 direct_mode (fd
, false);
528 try_without_directio
= true;
531 error (0, errnum
, _("%s: error writing at offset %s"),
532 qname
, umaxtostr (offset
+ soff
, buf
));
534 /* 'shred' is often used on bad media, before throwing it
535 out. Thus, it shouldn't give up on bad blocks. This
536 code works because lim is always a multiple of
537 SECTOR_SIZE, except at the end. This size constraint
538 also enables direct I/O on some (file) systems. */
539 verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
540 verify (NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE
% SECTOR_SIZE
== 0);
541 if (errnum
== EIO
&& 0 <= size
&& (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) < lim
)
543 size_t soff1
= (soff
| SECTOR_MASK
) + 1;
544 if (lseek (fd
, offset
+ soff1
, SEEK_SET
) != -1)
546 /* Arrange to skip this block. */
547 ssize
= soff1
- soff
;
551 error (0, errno
, _("%s: lseek failed"), qname
);
554 goto free_pattern_mem
;
559 /* Okay, we have written "soff" bytes. */
561 if (offset
> OFF_T_MAX
- (off_t
) soff
)
563 error (0, 0, _("%s: file too large"), qname
);
565 goto free_pattern_mem
;
570 bool done
= offset
== size
;
572 /* Time to print progress? */
573 if (n
&& ((done
&& *previous_human_offset
)
574 || thresh
<= (now
= time (NULL
))))
576 char offset_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
577 char size_buf
[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE
+ 1];
578 int human_progress_opts
= (human_autoscale
| human_SI
579 | human_base_1024
| human_B
);
580 char const *human_offset
581 = human_readable (offset
, offset_buf
,
582 human_floor
| human_progress_opts
, 1, 1);
584 if (done
|| !STREQ (previous_human_offset
, human_offset
))
587 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s"),
588 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
);
591 uintmax_t off
= offset
;
592 int percent
= (size
== 0
594 : (off
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (uintmax_t) / 100
596 : off
/ (size
/ 100)));
597 char const *human_size
598 = human_readable (size
, size_buf
,
599 human_ceiling
| human_progress_opts
,
602 human_offset
= human_size
;
603 error (0, 0, _("%s: pass %lu/%lu (%s)...%s/%s %d%%"),
604 qname
, k
, n
, pass_string
, human_offset
, human_size
,
608 strcpy (previous_offset_buf
, human_offset
);
609 previous_human_offset
= previous_offset_buf
;
610 thresh
= now
+ VERBOSE_UPDATE
;
613 * Force periodic syncs to keep displayed progress accurate
614 * FIXME: Should these be present even if -v is not enabled,
615 * to keep the buffer cache from filling with dirty pages?
616 * It's a common problem with programs that do lots of writes,
619 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
624 goto free_pattern_mem
;
632 /* Force what we just wrote to hit the media. */
633 if (dosync (fd
, qname
) != 0)
638 goto free_pattern_mem
;
644 memset (pbuf
, 0, FILLPATTERN_SIZE
);
645 free (fill_pattern_mem
);
647 return other_error
? -1 : write_error
;
651 * The passes start and end with a random pass, and the passes in between
652 * are done in random order. The idea is to deprive someone trying to
653 * reverse the process of knowledge of the overwrite patterns, so they
654 * have the additional step of figuring out what was done to the disk
655 * before they can try to reverse or cancel it.
657 * First, all possible 1-bit patterns. There are two of them.
658 * Then, all possible 2-bit patterns. There are four, but the two
659 * which are also 1-bit patterns can be omitted.
660 * Then, all possible 3-bit patterns. Likewise, 8-2 = 6.
661 * Then, all possible 4-bit patterns. 16-4 = 12.
663 * The basic passes are:
664 * 1-bit: 0x000, 0xFFF
665 * 2-bit: 0x555, 0xAAA
666 * 3-bit: 0x249, 0x492, 0x924, 0x6DB, 0xB6D, 0xDB6 (+ 1-bit)
667 * 100100100100 110110110110
669 * 4-bit: 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
670 * 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE (+ 1-bit, 2-bit)
671 * Adding three random passes at the beginning, middle and end
672 * produces the default 25-pass structure.
674 * The next extension would be to 5-bit and 6-bit patterns.
675 * There are 30 uncovered 5-bit patterns and 64-8-2 = 46 uncovered
676 * 6-bit patterns, so they would increase the time required
677 * significantly. 4-bit patterns are enough for most purposes.
679 * The main gotcha is that this would require a trickier encoding,
680 * since lcm(2,3,4) = 12 bits is easy to fit into an int, but
681 * lcm(2,3,4,5) = 60 bits is not.
683 * One extension that is included is to complement the first bit in each
684 * 512-byte block, to alter the phase of the encoded data in the more
685 * complex encodings. This doesn't apply to MFM, so the 1-bit patterns
686 * are considered part of the 3-bit ones and the 2-bit patterns are
687 * considered part of the 4-bit patterns.
690 * How does the generalization to variable numbers of passes work?
693 * Have an ordered list of groups of passes. Each group is a set.
694 * Take as many groups as will fit, plus a random subset of the
695 * last partial group, and place them into the passes list.
696 * Then shuffle the passes list into random order and use that.
698 * One extra detail: if we can't include a large enough fraction of the
699 * last group to be interesting, then just substitute random passes.
701 * If you want more passes than the entire list of groups can
702 * provide, just start repeating from the beginning of the list.
707 -2, /* 2 random passes */
708 2, 0x000, 0xFFF, /* 1-bit */
709 2, 0x555, 0xAAA, /* 2-bit */
710 -1, /* 1 random pass */
711 6, 0x249, 0x492, 0x6DB, 0x924, 0xB6D, 0xDB6, /* 3-bit */
712 12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
713 0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
714 -1, /* 1 random pass */
715 /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
716 8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
717 14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
718 0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
719 -1, /* 1 random pass */
724 * Generate a random wiping pass pattern with num passes.
725 * This is a two-stage process. First, the passes to include
726 * are chosen, and then they are shuffled into the desired
730 genpattern (int *dest
, size_t num
, struct randint_source
*s
)
736 size_t accum
, top
, swap
;
742 /* Stage 1: choose the passes to use */
745 d
= dest
; /* Destination for generated pass list */
746 n
= num
; /* Passes remaining to fill */
750 k
= *p
++; /* Block descriptor word */
752 { /* Loop back to the beginning */
756 { /* -k random passes */
766 else if ((size_t) k
<= n
)
767 { /* Full block of patterns */
768 memcpy (d
, p
, k
* sizeof (int));
773 else if (n
< 2 || 3 * n
< (size_t) k
)
774 { /* Finish with random */
779 { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
782 if (n
== (size_t) k
|| randint_choose (s
, k
) < n
)
793 top
= num
- randpasses
; /* Top of initialized data */
794 /* assert (d == dest+top); */
797 * We now have fixed patterns in the dest buffer up to
798 * "top", and we need to scramble them, with "randpasses"
799 * random passes evenly spaced among them.
801 * We want one at the beginning, one at the end, and
802 * evenly spaced in between. To do this, we basically
803 * use Bresenham's line draw (a.k.a DDA) algorithm
804 * to draw a line with slope (randpasses-1)/(num-1).
805 * (We use a positive accumulator and count down to
808 * So for each desired output value, we do the following:
809 * - If it should be a random pass, copy the pass type
810 * to top++, out of the way of the other passes, and
811 * set the current pass to -1 (random).
812 * - If it should be a normal pattern pass, choose an
813 * entry at random between here and top-1 (inclusive)
814 * and swap the current entry with that one.
816 randpasses
--; /* To speed up later math */
817 accum
= randpasses
; /* Bresenham DDA accumulator */
818 for (n
= 0; n
< num
; n
++)
820 if (accum
<= randpasses
)
823 dest
[top
++] = dest
[n
];
828 swap
= n
+ randint_choose (s
, top
- n
);
830 dest
[n
] = dest
[swap
];
835 /* assert (top == num); */
839 * The core routine to actually do the work. This overwrites the first
840 * size bytes of the given fd. Return true if successful.
843 do_wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
844 struct Options
const *flags
)
848 off_t size
; /* Size to write, size to read */
849 off_t i_size
= 0; /* For small files, initial size to overwrite inode */
850 unsigned long int n
; /* Number of passes for printing purposes */
853 struct randread_source
*rs
;
855 n
= 0; /* dopass takes n == 0 to mean "don't print progress" */
857 n
= flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
;
861 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fstat failed"), qname
);
865 /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
866 Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
867 find that we can't rewind the device. */
868 if ((S_ISCHR (st
.st_mode
) && isatty (fd
))
869 || S_ISFIFO (st
.st_mode
)
870 || S_ISSOCK (st
.st_mode
))
872 error (0, 0, _("%s: invalid file type"), qname
);
875 else if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
) && st
.st_size
< 0)
877 error (0, 0, _("%s: file has negative size"), qname
);
881 /* Allocate pass array */
882 passarray
= xnmalloc (flags
->n_iterations
, sizeof *passarray
);
887 if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
893 /* Round up to the nearest block size to clear slack space. */
894 off_t remainder
= size
% ST_BLKSIZE (st
);
895 if (size
&& size
< ST_BLKSIZE (st
))
899 off_t size_incr
= ST_BLKSIZE (st
) - remainder
;
900 size
+= MIN (size_incr
, OFF_T_MAX
- size
);
906 /* The behavior of lseek is unspecified, but in practice if
907 it returns a positive number that's the size of this
909 size
= lseek (fd
, 0, SEEK_END
);
912 /* We are unable to determine the length, up front.
913 Let dopass do that as part of its first iteration. */
918 else if (S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
)
919 && st
.st_size
< MIN (ST_BLKSIZE (st
), size
))
922 /* Schedule the passes in random order. */
923 genpattern (passarray
, flags
->n_iterations
, s
);
925 rs
= randint_get_source (s
);
930 unsigned long int pn
= n
;
943 /* TODO: consider handling tail packing by
944 writing the tail padding as a separate pass,
945 (that would not rewind). */
949 for (i
= 0; i
< flags
->n_iterations
+ flags
->zero_fill
; i
++)
952 int type
= i
< flags
->n_iterations
? passarray
[i
] : 0;
954 err
= dopass (fd
, &st
, qname
, &pass_size
, type
, rs
, i
+ 1, pn
);
965 /* Now deallocate the data. The effect of ftruncate on
966 non-regular files is unspecified, so don't worry about any
967 errors reported for them. */
968 if (flags
->remove_file
&& ftruncate (fd
, 0) != 0
969 && S_ISREG (st
.st_mode
))
971 error (0, errno
, _("%s: error truncating"), qname
);
977 memset (passarray
, 0, flags
->n_iterations
* sizeof (int));
982 /* A wrapper with a little more checking for fds on the command line */
984 wipefd (int fd
, char const *qname
, struct randint_source
*s
,
985 struct Options
const *flags
)
987 int fd_flags
= fcntl (fd
, F_GETFL
);
991 error (0, errno
, _("%s: fcntl failed"), qname
);
994 if (fd_flags
& O_APPEND
)
996 error (0, 0, _("%s: cannot shred append-only file descriptor"), qname
);
999 return do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1002 /* --- Name-wiping code --- */
1004 /* Characters allowed in a file name - a safe universal set. */
1005 static char const nameset
[] =
1006 "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.";
1008 /* Increment NAME (with LEN bytes). NAME must be a big-endian base N
1009 number with the digits taken from nameset. Return true if successful.
1010 Otherwise, (because NAME already has the greatest possible value)
1014 incname (char *name
, size_t len
)
1018 char const *p
= strchr (nameset
, name
[len
]);
1020 /* Given that NAME is composed of bytes from NAMESET,
1021 P will never be NULL here. */
1024 /* If this character has a successor, use it. */
1031 /* Otherwise, set this digit to 0 and increment the prefix. */
1032 name
[len
] = nameset
[0];
1039 * Repeatedly rename a file with shorter and shorter names,
1040 * to obliterate all traces of the file name (and length) on any system
1041 * that adds a trailing delimiter to on-disk file names and reuses
1042 * the same directory slot. Finally, unlink it.
1043 * The passed-in filename is modified in place to the new filename.
1044 * (Which is unlinked if this function succeeds, but is still present if
1045 * it fails for some reason.)
1047 * The main loop is written carefully to not get stuck if all possible
1048 * names of a given length are occupied. It counts down the length from
1049 * the original to 0. While the length is non-zero, it tries to find an
1050 * unused file name of the given length. It continues until either the
1051 * name is available and the rename succeeds, or it runs out of names
1052 * to try (incname wraps and returns 1). Finally, it unlinks the file.
1054 * The unlink is Unix-specific, as ANSI-standard remove has more
1055 * portability problems with C libraries making it "safe". rename
1058 * To force the directory data out, we try to open the directory and
1059 * invoke fdatasync and/or fsync on it. This is non-standard, so don't
1060 * insist that it works: just fall back to a global sync in that case.
1061 * This is fairly significantly Unix-specific. Of course, on any
1062 * file system with synchronous metadata updates, this is unnecessary.
1065 wipename (char *oldname
, char const *qoldname
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1067 char *newname
= xstrdup (oldname
);
1068 char *base
= last_component (newname
);
1069 size_t len
= base_len (base
);
1070 char *dir
= dir_name (newname
);
1071 char *qdir
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (dir
));
1076 if (flags
->remove_file
== remove_wipesync
)
1077 dir_fd
= open (dir
, O_RDONLY
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
1080 error (0, 0, _("%s: removing"), qoldname
);
1082 while ((flags
->remove_file
!= remove_unlink
) && len
)
1084 memset (base
, nameset
[0], len
);
1089 if (lstat (newname
, &st
) < 0)
1091 if (rename (oldname
, newname
) == 0)
1093 if (0 <= dir_fd
&& dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1098 * People seem to understand this better than talking
1099 * about renaming oldname. newname doesn't need
1100 * quoting because we picked it. oldname needs to
1101 * be quoted only the first time.
1103 char const *old
= (first
? qoldname
: oldname
);
1104 error (0, 0, _("%s: renamed to %s"), old
, newname
);
1107 memcpy (oldname
+ (base
- newname
), base
, len
+ 1);
1112 /* The rename failed: give up on this length. */
1118 /* newname exists, so increment BASE so we use another */
1121 while (incname (base
, len
));
1124 if (unlink (oldname
) != 0)
1126 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to remove"), qoldname
);
1129 else if (flags
->verbose
)
1130 error (0, 0, _("%s: removed"), qoldname
);
1133 if (dosync (dir_fd
, qdir
) != 0)
1135 if (close (dir_fd
) != 0)
1137 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qdir
);
1148 * Finally, the function that actually takes a filename and grinds
1149 * it into hamburger.
1152 * Detail to note: since we do not restore errno to EACCES after
1153 * a failed chmod, we end up printing the error code from the chmod.
1154 * This is actually the error that stopped us from proceeding, so
1155 * it's arguably the right one, and in practice it'll be either EACCES
1156 * again or EPERM, which both give similar error messages.
1157 * Does anyone disagree?
1160 wipefile (char *name
, char const *qname
,
1161 struct randint_source
*s
, struct Options
const *flags
)
1166 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1168 && (errno
== EACCES
&& flags
->force
)
1169 && chmod (name
, S_IWUSR
) == 0)
1170 fd
= open (name
, O_WRONLY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_BINARY
);
1173 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to open for writing"), qname
);
1177 ok
= do_wipefd (fd
, qname
, s
, flags
);
1178 if (close (fd
) != 0)
1180 error (0, errno
, _("%s: failed to close"), qname
);
1183 if (ok
&& flags
->remove_file
)
1184 ok
= wipename (name
, qname
, flags
);
1189 /* Buffers for random data. */
1190 static struct randint_source
*randint_source
;
1192 /* Just on general principles, wipe buffers containing information
1193 that may be related to the possibly-pseudorandom values used during
1196 clear_random_data (void)
1198 randint_all_free (randint_source
);
1203 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
1206 struct Options flags
= { 0, };
1211 char const *random_source
= NULL
;
1213 initialize_main (&argc
, &argv
);
1214 set_program_name (argv
[0]);
1215 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
1216 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
1217 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
1219 atexit (close_stdout
);
1221 flags
.n_iterations
= DEFAULT_PASSES
;
1224 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "fn:s:uvxz", long_opts
, NULL
)) != -1)
1233 flags
.n_iterations
= xdectoumax (optarg
, 0,
1235 SIZE_MAX
/ sizeof (int)), "",
1236 _("invalid number of passes"), 0);
1239 case RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION
:
1240 if (random_source
&& !STREQ (random_source
, optarg
))
1241 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, 0, _("multiple random sources specified"));
1242 random_source
= optarg
;
1247 flags
.remove_file
= remove_wipesync
;
1249 flags
.remove_file
= XARGMATCH ("--remove", optarg
,
1250 remove_args
, remove_methods
);
1254 flags
.size
= xnumtoumax (optarg
, 0, 0, OFF_T_MAX
, "cbBkKMGTPEZY0",
1255 _("invalid file size"), 0);
1259 flags
.verbose
= true;
1267 flags
.zero_fill
= true;
1270 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
1272 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
1275 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1279 file
= argv
+ optind
;
1280 n_files
= argc
- optind
;
1284 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
1285 usage (EXIT_FAILURE
);
1288 randint_source
= randint_all_new (random_source
, SIZE_MAX
);
1289 if (! randint_source
)
1290 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", quotearg_colon (random_source
));
1291 atexit (clear_random_data
);
1293 for (i
= 0; i
< n_files
; i
++)
1295 char *qname
= xstrdup (quotearg_colon (file
[i
]));
1296 if (STREQ (file
[i
], "-"))
1298 ok
&= wipefd (STDOUT_FILENO
, qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1302 /* Plain filename - Note that this overwrites *argv! */
1303 ok
&= wipefile (file
[i
], qname
, randint_source
, &flags
);
1308 return ok
? EXIT_SUCCESS
: EXIT_FAILURE
;