Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 23 08 Jun 2025, 07:15

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 13:21.094 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
13.722
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 8.572
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.622
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.316
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.210
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 5.381 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:37:25)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/23/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:25_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/23/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:25_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/23/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:25_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/23/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:25_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26.093
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 8.300
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.697
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.788 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.415
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.893 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.289
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.707 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
48.312
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 8.154
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.773
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.092
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.111 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.480
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.134 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.895
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.476 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.205
And I read the content of the test FS 0.973
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.857 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.394
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.764 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:23.703
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 8.497
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.783
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 44.641
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.897 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 792 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.928
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.118 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.718
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.215 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 792 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.825
And I read the content of the test FS 0.703
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.283 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.560
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.531 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 792 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.551
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 8.377
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.740
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.298
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.134
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.085 
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 20.902 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 791 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:32.711
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:52.805
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.414
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 17.948
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.531 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 788 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014