Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 20 02 Jul 2025, 22:54

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 14:38.285 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
32.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.425
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.529
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.522
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 9.372 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.874
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.699 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
34.995
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 15.335
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.831 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.914
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 7.405 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.669
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.414 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:4.894
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 12.498
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.028
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.379
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 7.741 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.879
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.428 
Pattern coverage: 92.488% (118 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.047
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.028 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.456
And I read the content of the test FS 1.046
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.030 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.821
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.507 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:58.381
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 13.174
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.492
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 57.234
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.368 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.577
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.630 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.785
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.463 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 17.285
And I read the content of the test FS 1.503
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.959 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.857
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.048 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.002
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.929
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 13.316
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.555
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.538
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.096
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.447 
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 21.955 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:30.660
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 8:43.218
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.558
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.743
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.127 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016