Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 12 24 Jun 2025, 22:22

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 11:32.517 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
23.596
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 8.625
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.510
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.255
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.932 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.300
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.969 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
24.662
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 8.302
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.648
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.126 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.721
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.602 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.356
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.903 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
50.913
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 9.177
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.493
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.154
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.308 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.340
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.375 
Pattern coverage: 85.361% (108 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.042
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.674 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.252
And I read the content of the test FS 0.449
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.852 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.475
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.315 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:21.706
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 8.915
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.482
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.325
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.412 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.001
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.329 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.182
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.884 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.549
And I read the content of the test FS 0.676
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.732 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.718
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.495 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
54.405
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 8.457
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.576
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.467
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.796
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.697 
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 21.393 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:37.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:50.510
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.595
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.729
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.385 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015