Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-options 2 17 Jun 2025, 23:09

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 12:41.344 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
29.679
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.972
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.711
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.266
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.746 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 1.123
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.858 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
31.450
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 11.826
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.528
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.598 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 864 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.117
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.566 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.506
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.306 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 864 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.885
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 8.807
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.042
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.459
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.427 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.985
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.040 
Pattern coverage: 89.751% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.385
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.235 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.244
And I read the content of the test FS 1.309
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.763 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.665
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.517 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:44.438
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.475
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.558
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 57.375
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.198 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.049
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.095 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.782
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.787 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.076
And I read the content of the test FS 3.462
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.088 
Pattern coverage: 106.114% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.588
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.900 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
53.756
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 9.061
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.413
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.637
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.508
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.030 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.026
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.079 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:5.133
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 7:19.805
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.397
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.447
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.469 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 907 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028