Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 13 18 Mar 2025, 17:05

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 12:1.436 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.
26.807
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 8.052
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.647
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.470
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.111

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.356
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 11.168

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
27.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.390
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.608
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.695

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 1.788
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.123

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.569
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.675

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
54.562
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 8.301
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.449
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.254
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.196

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.868
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.390

Pattern coverage: 85.848% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 2.949
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.863

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.318
And I read the content of the test FS 0.818
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.993

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.950
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.207

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:19.235
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 8.117
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.555
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.303
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.226

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.275
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.550

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.324
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.093

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.041
And I read the content of the test FS 0.545
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.661

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 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 6.155

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
55.053
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 7.956
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.401
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 20.726
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.030
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.121

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.803

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:57.926
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 7:13.782
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.432
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.545
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.153

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012