Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 17 22 Mar 2025, 16:25

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 11:0.836 Passed
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
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.
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
21.951
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 7.549
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.382
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.274
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.783 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.750
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.210 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.095
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 7.669
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.093 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.881
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.360 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.586
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.102 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
45.097
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 7.576
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.385
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.107
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.887 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.481
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.547 
Pattern coverage: 87.446% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.096
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.118 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.179
And I read the content of the test FS 0.596
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.522 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.398
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.199 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:7.028
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 7.511
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.372
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 32.313
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.608 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.623
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.057 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.722
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.648 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.684
And I read the content of the test FS 0.481
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.064 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.490
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.449 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
48.751
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 7.467
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.393
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.210
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.184
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.740 
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 20.741 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:34.912
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 6:53.351
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.371
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 19.987
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.188 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012