Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 16 21 Mar 2025, 16:23

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 11:6.323 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.
23.076
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 7.410
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.413
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.282
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.461

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.872
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.636

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
22.452
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 7.531
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.376
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.037

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.666
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.483

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.356
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.000

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
45.180
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 7.448
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.382
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.119
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.052

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 923 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.638
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.318

Pattern coverage: 87.081% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.797
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.334

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 923 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.265
And I read the content of the test FS 0.796
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.536

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.359
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.130

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 923 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:6.989
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 7.421
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.383
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 32.446
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.602

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.566
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.764

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (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 5.749

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.008
And I read the content of the test FS 0.497
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.935

Pattern coverage: 106.117% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.452
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.555

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 0.000
48.619
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 7.381
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.352
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.881
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.668
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.648

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 20.674

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:40.004
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 6:54.716
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.394
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.752
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.128

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011