Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 15 05 Jun 2025, 17:49

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 15:40.665 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
19.812
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.095
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.954
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.607
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.155
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 5.939 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:40:56)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/15/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:56_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/15/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:56_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/15/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:56_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/15/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:56_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
30.590
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 9.916
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.600
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.218 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 799 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.463
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.694 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 1.433
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.263 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 799 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.678
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 10.543
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.664
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.863
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.995 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.589
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.705 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.454
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.894 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.235
And I read the content of the test FS 0.994
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.304 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.521
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.911 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:31.877
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 10.419
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.693
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 43.458
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.435 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.959
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.926 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.409
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.637 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.860
And I read the content of the test FS 2.299
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.631 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.660
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.485 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:2.090
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 10.168
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.711
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 23.751
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.563
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.600 
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 21.277 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 810 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
11:19.615
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 10:35.756
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.635
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.296
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.913 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 791 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012