Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 97 19 Jun 2025, 20:31

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 14:44.103 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.
29.306
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.054
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.145
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.619
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.546
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 7.491

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.440
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.063

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
31.280
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.987
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.767
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.599

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.700
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.391

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.434
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.399

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
52.357
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.964
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.803
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 13.163
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.867

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.568
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.657

Pattern coverage: 86.273% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.461
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.656

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.312
And I read the content of the test FS 0.797
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.889

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.392
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.820

Pattern coverage: 0.001% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:52.618
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.179
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.525
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 1:5.798
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.864

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.958
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.510

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.210
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.950

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.051
And I read the content of the test FS 0.597
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.847

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.574
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.551

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
55.716
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.170
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.589
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.958
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.063
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.941

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.022
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.970

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 866 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
10:2.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9:12.231
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.210
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 26.865
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.502

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 938 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.024