Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-options 17 03 Jul 2025, 21:03

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 11:59.692 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
24.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.656
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.550
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.197
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.930 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.374
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.447 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.112
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 9.201
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.558
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.988 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.711
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.313 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.296
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.042 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
54.156
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 12.079
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.569
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.341
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.029 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.981
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.545 
Pattern coverage: 88.315% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.822
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.755 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.957
And I read the content of the test FS 0.969
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.916 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.562
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.626 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:17.950
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 10.112
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 38.462
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.824 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.764
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.239 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.783
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.459 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.166
And I read the content of the test FS 0.452
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 0.508
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.466 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.852
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 8.422
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.749
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.618
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.032
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.071 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.940 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:1.464
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:15.496
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.644
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.212
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.098 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014