Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5328 11 Dec 2024, 15:29

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 51 0 0 0 0 51 6 0 6 11:56.959 Passed
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
21.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.351
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.452
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.256
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.816 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.966
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.529 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.069
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.231
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.467
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.946 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.404
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.593 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.531
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.895 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:1.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.634
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.488
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.404
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 11.799 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.061
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.907 
Pattern coverage: 90.666% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.900
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.820 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.966
And I read the content of the test FS 0.554
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.914 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.495
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.584 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:21.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.586
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.854
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.676
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.238 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.136
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.406 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.006
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.178 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.176
And I read the content of the test FS 0.488
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.312 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 2.065
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.517 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
57.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.023
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.449
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 19.479
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 4.740
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.269 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.041
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.856 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:49.481
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:5.713
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.461
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.994
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.299 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013