Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 18 30 Jun 2025, 23:17

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 20:22.609 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
34.899
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 12.385
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.721
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.476
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.214 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.765
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 15.335 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
35.945
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 9.163
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.696
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 8.825 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.927
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.102 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.527
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 10.703 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:7.616
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 10.224
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.489
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 14.674
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.009 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.741
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.612 
Pattern coverage: 91.122% (116 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.088
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.465 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.217
And I read the content of the test FS 0.613
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.346 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.453
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.680 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:42.505
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 12.237
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.722
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 49.656
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 8.283 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.642
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.099 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.646
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.527 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.416
And I read the content of the test FS 0.549
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.243 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.598
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.880 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
59.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.035
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 12.860
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.445
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.966
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 4.601
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.770 
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 21.328 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 875 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
15:21.656
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14:30.044
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.690
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 27.307
When I trigger shutdown 0.209
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 23.405 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015