Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 19 24 Mar 2025, 16:46

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 11:25.759 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.
23.569
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 8.581
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.368
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.206
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.491

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.878
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.043

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 914 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.758
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 7.847
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.554
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.117

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.785
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.275

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.714
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.463

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
46.375
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 7.953
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.424
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.158
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.213

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.475
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.498

Pattern coverage: 85.988% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.989
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.267

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.214
And I read the content of the test FS 0.819
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.543

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.410
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.406

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:13.969
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 8.133
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.437
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 38.431
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.592

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.992
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.895

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.767
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.601

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.783
And I read the content of the test FS 0.436
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.977

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.510
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.408

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
51.439
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 7.836
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.606
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.762
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.827
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.614

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.779

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:46.648
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 7:1.812
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.462
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.175
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.179

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015