Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-options 8 24 Jun 2025, 20:19

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 10:49.571 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
24.790
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 8.010
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.513
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.406
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.303 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.767
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.789 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.863
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 8.133
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.494
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.335 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.584
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.629 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.316
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.367 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
47.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.533
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.592
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.106
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.746 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.275
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.445 
Pattern coverage: 86.034% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.918
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.025 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.235
And I read the content of the test FS 0.546
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.128 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.338
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.160 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:12.515
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 8.140
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.502
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.924
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.782 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.531
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.101 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.687
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.728 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.801
And I read the content of the test FS 0.422
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.506 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.465
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.918 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
50.042
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 8.214
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.552
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.972
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.784
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.766 
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 20.737 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:11.304
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 6:24.618
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.064
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.299
When I trigger shutdown 0.023
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.297 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 916 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011