Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 3 28 Mar 2025, 18:17

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 51 0 0 0 0 51 6 0 6 10:43.869 Passed
Feature System memory erasure on shutdown
As a Tails user when I shutdown Tails I want the system memory to be free from sensitive data.
22.711
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.015
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.403
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.304
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.064

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I kill the allocating process 1.003
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.919

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
22.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.964
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.462
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.843

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.786
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.013

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I umount "/mnt" 0.738
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.916

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
43.430
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.103
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.428
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.177
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.878

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.555
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.100

Pattern coverage: 88.731% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.002
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.407

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.194
And I read the content of the test FS 0.626
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.355

Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.462
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.137

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:10.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.011
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.557
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.500
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.344

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.459
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.643

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.611
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.569

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.230
And I read the content of the test FS 0.423
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.059

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.710
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.733

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
48.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.125
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.397
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.357
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.140
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.499

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.714

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:15.898
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:33.236
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.428
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.073
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.146

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012