Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 15 20 Mar 2025, 16:27

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 11:54.227 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.
25.050
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 7.994
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.450
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.226
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.969

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.930
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.479

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 907 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
25.341
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 7.735
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.398
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.785

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.153
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.804

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.460
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.002

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
55.765
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 8.165
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.414
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.043
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.525

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.336
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.162

Pattern coverage: 89.175% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.966
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.072

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.309
And I read the content of the test FS 1.637
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.969

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.507
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.653

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.004
1:18.043
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.060
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.267
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.447
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.320
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.047

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.825
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.540

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

When I umount the USB drive 2.416
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.152

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.077
And I read the content of the test FS 0.552
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.084

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.507
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.803

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
51.038
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 7.897
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.410
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.511
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.817
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.455

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 20.932

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 917 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:58.987
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 7:14.317
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.392
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.870
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.392

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010