Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 11 16 Mar 2025, 16:21

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 11:9.192 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.
22.887
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 7.669
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.403
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.235
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.656

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.504
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.417

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.605
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 7.539
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.378
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.071

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.756
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.657

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.010
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.192

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
45.065
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 7.490
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.361
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.050
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.194

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.487
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.458

Pattern coverage: 84.323% (107 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.187
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.051

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.252
And I read the content of the test FS 0.512
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.448

Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 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 5.983

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:7.899
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 7.466
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.395
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 32.623
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.580

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.777
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.873

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.835
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.616

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.244
And I read the content of the test FS 0.503
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.878

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.504
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.599

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.076
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 7.525
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.407
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.419
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.565
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.426

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.715

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:40.658
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 6:53.975
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.895
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.591
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.183

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011