Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 12 17 Mar 2025, 17:43

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 11:59.887 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.
23.422
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 7.661
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.391
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.372
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.438

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.689
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.867

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
22.629
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 7.731
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.959

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 926 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.738
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.982

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.827
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.964

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 926 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
51.687
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 8.007
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.549
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.624
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.165

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.964
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.229

Pattern coverage: 88.113% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.595
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.126

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.263
And I read the content of the test FS 0.525
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.134

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.503
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.997

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:19.158
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 8.101
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.398
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.216
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.270

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 926 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.895
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.770

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.131
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.911

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 926 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.703
And I read the content of the test FS 0.849
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.314

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.894
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.699

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 926 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.995
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 8.236
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.557
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.912
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.938
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.552

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 20.782

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
8:11.994
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 7:25.954
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.418
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.337
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.270

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010