Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-disable-spice-vdagent 25 30 Mar 2025, 16:37

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 11:20.470 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.
23.376
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 7.870
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.423
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.285
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 0.309
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.527

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
24.896
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 7.714
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.434
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.410

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.049
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.873

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.820
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.592

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
47.136
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 7.712
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.435
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.199
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.323

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.703
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.759

Pattern coverage: 88.511% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.515
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.284

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.251
And I read the content of the test FS 0.814
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.638

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.532
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.966

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:15.598
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 7.691
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.388
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.473
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.912

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.101
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.917

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.748
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.615

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.505
And I read the content of the test FS 1.394
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.673

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.468
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.708

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
51.690
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 7.815
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.401
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.468
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.565
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.683

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 20.741

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:37.771
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:51.572
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.603
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.390
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.192

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012