Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 14 19 Mar 2025, 16:55

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 12:3.697 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.
24.831
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 8.359
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.592
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.324
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.733

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.705
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 10.116

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
26.844
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 8.191
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.446
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.190

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.003
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.316

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

When I umount "/mnt" 2.982
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.712

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.903
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 8.284
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.471
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.203
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.257

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.984
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.264

Pattern coverage: 87.730% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.785
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.520

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.283
And I read the content of the test FS 0.586
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.922

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.417
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.921

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:12.877
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 8.812
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.408
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.400
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.164

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.874
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.860

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.865
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.403

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.597
And I read the content of the test FS 0.449
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.776

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.606
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.657

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
53.194
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 7.996
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.403
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.724
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.213
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.005

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.836

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
8:16.045
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 7:29.944
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.408
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.496
When I trigger shutdown 0.019
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.176

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011