Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 11 23 Jun 2025, 22:02

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 10:47.309 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
24.299
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 8.675
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.472
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.413
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.715 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.814
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.208 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.990
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 8.122
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.461
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.209 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.836
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.503 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.549
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.307 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
45.879
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 7.954
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.381
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.072
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.159 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.210
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.584 
Pattern coverage: 86.114% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.929
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.068 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.251
And I read the content of the test FS 0.777
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.750 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.397
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.342 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:12.676
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 8.037
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.364
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 34.423
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.141 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.729
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.210 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.684
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.376 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.641
And I read the content of the test FS 0.391
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.047 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.496
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.130 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.985
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 7.872
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.381
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.084
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.561
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.508 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.565 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:8.477
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 6:24.806
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.424
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.080
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.154 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011