Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 14 21 Mar 2025, 02:27

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 10:47.734 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.
22.572
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 7.814
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.393
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.386
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.278

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.772
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.926

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.876
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 7.871
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.459
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.762

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 933 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.549
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.919

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.562
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.752

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 933 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
45.702
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 7.747
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.457
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.072
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.643

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.769
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.482

Pattern coverage: 95.032% (121 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.087
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.684

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.344
And I read the content of the test FS 0.655
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.790

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.540
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.427

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:11.813
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 7.771
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.407
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.268
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.348

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.830
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.714

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.735
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.444

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.290
And I read the content of the test FS 0.432
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.932

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.689
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.946

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.395
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 7.704
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.443
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.961
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.092
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.459

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 20.720

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 934 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:14.373
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 6:31.869
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.378
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.002
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.111

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011