Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 22 27 Mar 2025, 19:50

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 12:7.409 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
25.866
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 8.031
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.479
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.099
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.961 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.199
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.094 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
24.969
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 7.944
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.454
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.610 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.771
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.089 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.426
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.673 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
49.426
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 7.968
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.488
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.264
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.674 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.805
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.209 
Pattern coverage: 90.657% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.101
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.777 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.218
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 4.076 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.544
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.499 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:18.475
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.902
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.427
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 38.171
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.602 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.703
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.059 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.752
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.046 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.918
And I read the content of the test FS 0.466
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.339 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.488
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.595 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.423
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 8.017
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.473
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.932
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.615
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.653 
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 20.717 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:17.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:32.687
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.869
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.071
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.605 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 917 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017