Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 22 04 Jul 2025, 23:06

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 20:54.405 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
32.561
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 8.533
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.746
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 5.425
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.510 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 1.006
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 11.338 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
36.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.115
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.909
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 8.443 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.565
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.727 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.693
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.860 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:4.685
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 11.001
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.638
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 16.120
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.862 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.684
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 7.338 
Pattern coverage: 89.295% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.963
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.792 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.314
And I read the content of the test FS 0.530
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.415 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.462
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.560 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:58.702
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 8.679
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.409
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 1:7.494
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.949 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.622
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.876 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.272
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.119 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.954
And I read the content of the test FS 0.571
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.659 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.941
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.151 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:1.791
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 8.283
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.689
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 24.248
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 4.349
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.461 
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 20.743 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
15:40.347
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14:48.387
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.988
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 29.369
When I trigger shutdown 0.021
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.579 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.242