Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 4952 17 Jul 2024, 13:02

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 45 1 7 0 0 53 5 1 6 10:45.841 Failed
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.
21.406
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.139
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.485
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.941
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.431

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I kill the allocating process 1.779
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.630

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 858 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
24.462
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.181
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.658
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.148

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.755
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.054

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I umount "/mnt" 0.712
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.950

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
37.207
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches on unmount: vfat
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.008
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.581
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.167
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.077

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 854 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 8.903
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.468
85.915% of the test FS size (127.599609375 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 86.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:170:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+)% of the test FS size in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:37:in `Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory'
Output 1

Pattern coverage: 85.915% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.000
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.000
And I read the content of the test FS 0.000
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 0.000
When I umount the USB drive 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 5.398

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches on unmount: vfat' (at time 00:30:47)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4952/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:47_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4952/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:47_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4952/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:47_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4952/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:47_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:12.170
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.330
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.574
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.049
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.543

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 839 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.943
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.743

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.970
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.698

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 839 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.722
And I read the content of the test FS 0.495
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.285

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.807
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.006

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 839 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
52.777
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.666
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.578
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.487
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.097
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.902

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
And I wait 20 seconds 20.006

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.023

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 839 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:17.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:34.774
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.382
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.435
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
And I wait 20 seconds 20.018

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.194

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010