Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 14 26 Jun 2025, 22:31

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 11:49.931 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
25.886
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.436
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.784
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.474
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.188 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.711
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.290 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26.332
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 10.083
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.625
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.647 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.777
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.573 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.416
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.209 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
52.101
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 9.101
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.745
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.784
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.708 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 907 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.444
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.906 
Pattern coverage: 90.005% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.153
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.383 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 907 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.258
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 3.965 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.585
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.267 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 907 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:21.986
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 8.630
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.715
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 41.423
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.187 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.797
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.241 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.698
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.234 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.838
And I read the content of the test FS 0.504
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.121 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.605
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.986 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.321
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 8.883
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.768
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.128
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.725
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.926 
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 20.874 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:52.302
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 7:6.833
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.410
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.725
When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.315 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.082