Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 46 04 Jul 2025, 07:04

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 13:13.440 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
15.772
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 8.733
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.689
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.125
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.224
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 5.653 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:38:12)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:12_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/46/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:12_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:12_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/46/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:12_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.284
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 9.032
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.725
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.502 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 782 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.865
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.035 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.358
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.764 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 782 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
44.634
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 8.590
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.537
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.219
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.859 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 787 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.789
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.025 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.919
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.790 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 787 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.244
And I read the content of the test FS 0.608
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.092 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.453
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.503 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 787 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:20.904
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 8.295
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.502
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 46.030
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.431 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 777 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.824
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.625 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.751
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.317 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 777 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.989
And I read the content of the test FS 0.478
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.722 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.784
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.153 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 777 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
55.590
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 8.297
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.619
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.724
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.330
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.687 
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 20.917 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 778 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:33.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:52.846
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.460
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 18.675
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.257 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 752 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011