Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-options 25 14 Jul 2025, 20:24

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 15:41.259 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
38.647
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 8.533
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.655
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.328
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 12.153 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.556
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 15.419 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.131
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 10.560
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.692
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 13.315 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.812
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 11.409 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.230
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.110 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:35.695
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 8.422
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.517
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 14.804
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 13.408 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.338
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 12.310 
Pattern coverage: 86.408% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.692
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.737 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.193
And I read the content of the test FS 0.555
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 11.845 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.288
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 16.580 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
2:33.275
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 8.565
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.412
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 33.719
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 8.378 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.244
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 16.370 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.585
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 20.759 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.362
And I read the content of the test FS 0.803
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 30.252 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 5.592
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 21.227 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:12.745
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 10.379
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.511
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.055
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.504
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 20.482 
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 23.797 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:49.763
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 8:3.795
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.520
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.132
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.301 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 917 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012