Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 10 22 Jun 2025, 22:53

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 15:4.372 Passed
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
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.
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
39.213
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 8.770
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.404
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.076
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 10.787 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.509
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 16.663 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
38.242
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.851
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.199
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.741 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.783
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.537 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.368
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.760 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:3.287
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 8.218
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.734
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 13.717
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.937 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.621
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.605 
Pattern coverage: 86.809% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.132
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.995 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.554
And I read the content of the test FS 0.637
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 9.873 
Pattern coverage: 100.681% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.602
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.655 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:43.082
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.366
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.766
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 49.845
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 7.267 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.101
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.091 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.020
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.165 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 8.683
And I read the content of the test FS 0.773
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.556 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.529
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.915 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.002
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:5.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.284
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.579
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 20.497
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.321
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 9.472 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.019
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.946 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:55.425
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 9:4.385
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.615
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 26.852
When I trigger shutdown 0.558
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 23.014 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010