Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20861-allow-close-zenity-exit-code 2 31 Mar 2025, 20:30

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 11:29.631 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.
25.713
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 10.266
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.407
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.419
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.660

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.936
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.022

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.158
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 8.172
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.943

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.922
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.183

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.573
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.959

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
48.940
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.106
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.426
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.175
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.151

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.404
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.010

Pattern coverage: 88.015% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.977
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.565

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.485
And I read the content of the test FS 0.619
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.173

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.404
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.439

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:15.546
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 9.270
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.448
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.790
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.142

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.503
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.569

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.758
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.226

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.607
And I read the content of the test FS 0.481
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.229

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.367
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.150

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
53.703
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 8.726
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.441
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.863
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.555
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.162

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.939

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:42.569
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:54.229
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.436
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 26.238
When I trigger shutdown 0.019
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.646

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050