Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21529-test-suite-vs-secure-boot-key-expiry 7 04 May 2026, 16:02

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 7:49.274 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
19.476
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.660
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.371
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.520
# Since Debian Trixie we only get 99.610% coverage (tails#21012)
Then patterns cover at least 127 MiB in the guest's memory 2.384 
Pattern coverage: 100.395% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.679
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 6.860 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1478 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
19.325
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 6.643
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.334
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.548 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1473 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.818
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.534 
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 5.014 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1473 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
35.247
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 6.795
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.485
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 6.024
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.069 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1479 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.847
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.089 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.721
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.993 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1479 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.333
And I read the content of the test FS 0.479
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.875 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.447
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.084 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1479 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
58.469
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 6.800
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.374
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 28.263
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.978 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1475 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.517
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 1.952 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.571
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.633 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1475 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.042
And I read the content of the test FS 0.321
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.474 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.543
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.995 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1475 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.710
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.996
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.428
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 23.911
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.838
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 1.675 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.008
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.852 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1472 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
4:40.043
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 3:58.364
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.399
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.143
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.122 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1482 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010