Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 13 04 Jun 2025, 16:25

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 48 1 2 0 0 51 5 1 6 13:41.660 Failed
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
15.425
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.435
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.578
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.372
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.038
99.610% 
99.610% of the expected size (128 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 100.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:186:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+) MiB in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:17:in `Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory'
Output 1 
Pattern coverage: 99.610% (127 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.664 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:38:03)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:03_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:03_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:03_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/13/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:03_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.757
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 8.914
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.610
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.482 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.998
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.837 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.355
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.557 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
47.722
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 8.957
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.577
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.183
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.079 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.355
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.648 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.659
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.167 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.235
And I read the content of the test FS 0.615
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.642 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.361
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.236 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:26.874
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 8.905
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.605
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 49.271
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.681 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.655
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.302 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.981
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.759 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.673
And I read the content of the test FS 0.644
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.189 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.566
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.636 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
57.608
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 8.978
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.626
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.376
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.318
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.221 
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 21.072 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 776 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:48.272
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 9:8.015
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.437
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 18.429
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.378 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 790 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010