Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 7 28 May 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 13:58.671 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
22.115
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.974
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.124
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.342
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 8.674
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 5.592 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:40:11)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/7/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:11_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/7/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:11_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/7/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:11_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/7/artifact/build-artifacts/00:40:11_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
27.461
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 9.534
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.139
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.226 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.564
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.844 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.315
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.837 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
59.465
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 10.382
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.996
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.607
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.966 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.680
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.922 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.206
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.829 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.323
And I read the content of the test FS 2.849
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.260 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.812
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.628 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:25.135
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 10.732
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.236
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 40.646
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.720 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 797 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.150
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.347 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.874
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.287 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 797 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.122
And I read the content of the test FS 1.031
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.481 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.546
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.957 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 797 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
59.319
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 9.448
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.074
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.445
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.844
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.344 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.147 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:45.175
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 9:4.842
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.465
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 18.411
When I trigger shutdown 0.020
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.436 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 782 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010