Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 1 07 Mar 2025, 15:46

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 11:23.092 Passed
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.
23.386
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 7.604
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.390
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.278
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.650

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I kill the allocating process 1.471
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.990

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
25.561
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 7.592
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.406
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.183

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.500
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.673

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I umount "/mnt" 1.535
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.669

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
48.920
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 7.954
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.444
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.341
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.210

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.870
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.943

Pattern coverage: 86.542% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.990
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.052

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.445
And I read the content of the test FS 0.593
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.882

Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.123
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.067

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:16.492
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 7.738
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.278
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.580

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.085
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.975

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.882
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.629

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.437
And I read the content of the test FS 1.447
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.483

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.968
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.582

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.192
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 7.609
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.418
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.440
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.857
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.788

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I trigger shutdown 0.018
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.058

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:38.540
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 6:53.200
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.337
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.788
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.196

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012