Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 23 28 Mar 2025, 16:31

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 11:40.298 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.
23.356
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 7.617
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.432
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.243
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.801

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.897
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.364

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
25.816
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 7.819
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.487
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.478

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.022
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.271

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.550
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.185

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
51.701
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 7.798
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.394
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.963
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.435

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.711
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.436

Pattern coverage: 87.874% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.825
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.225

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.215
And I read the content of the test FS 0.576
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.074

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.390
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.654

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:10.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.734
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.483
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.400
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.441

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.705
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.028

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.108
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.541

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.764
And I read the content of the test FS 0.422
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.881

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.472
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.662

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.874
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 7.733
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.584
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.730
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.924
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.077

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.808

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:58.900
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 7:15.206
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.454
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.021
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.205

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011