Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 5 16 Jun 2025, 23:21

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 12:54.307 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
29.024
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 8.946
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.495
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.725
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 7.355 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.911
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.589 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
30.560
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 12.288
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.507
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.175 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.622
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.785 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.431
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.749 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
58.142
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 8.786
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.654
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 13.048
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.291 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 864 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.841
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.824 
Pattern coverage: 89.197% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.136
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.011 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 864 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.211
And I read the content of the test FS 0.491
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.702 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.474
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.667 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 864 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:35.695
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 8.634
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.545
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 51.147
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.693 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.633
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.828 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.913
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.884 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.053
And I read the content of the test FS 0.494
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.123 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.503
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.238 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:1.509
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 10.101
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.749
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.827
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 5.790
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.204 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.818 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:19.375
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:34.447
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.416
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.151
When I trigger shutdown 0.021
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.338 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014