Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 28 15 Jul 2025, 01:48

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 14:22.792 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
30.261
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 9.004
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.358
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.950
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.132 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.294
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 10.520 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
33.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.050
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.722
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.676
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.999 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.300
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 8.512 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.779
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.835 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:14.777
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 15.158
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.587
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 17.069
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.841 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.743
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.733 
Pattern coverage: 89.787% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.025
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.403 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.233
And I read the content of the test FS 0.538
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 9.854 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.756
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.833 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:30.974
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 13.891
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.442
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 34.233
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.901 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 852 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.757
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.013 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.789
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.473 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 852 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 2.178
And I read the content of the test FS 0.511
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.087 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.681
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.011 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 852 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.570
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 9.003
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.514
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.370
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.589
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.098 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 26.980 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:36.380
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 8:44.664
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.569
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.944
When I trigger shutdown 0.956
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 25.245 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028