Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 6 27 May 2025, 20:55

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 13:39.311 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
15.467
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 9.136
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.641
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.194
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.495
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 5.623 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:38:40)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/6/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:40_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/6/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:40_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/6/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:40_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/6/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:40_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26.501
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 9.959
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.544
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.390 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.007
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.573 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.362
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.663 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.085
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 9.714
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.551
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.460
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.547 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.769
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.996 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.131
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.449 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.320
And I read the content of the test FS 0.690
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.407 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.425
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.620 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:23.937
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 9.945
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.566
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 42.843
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.375 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.746
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.683 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.717
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.115 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.460
And I read the content of the test FS 0.537
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.327 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.862
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.753 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
58.032
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 9.033
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.649
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.262
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.447
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.325 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.298 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 808 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:44.287
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 9:4.018
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 18.103
When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.689 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 776 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012