Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 16 23 Mar 2025, 03:23

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 10:22.900 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.
22.923
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 0.525
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.274
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.081

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.668
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.626

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
22.747
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 7.652
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.561
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.564

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.813
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.027

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.559
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.567

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.163
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 7.963
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.381
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 15.251
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.774

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.451
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.151

Pattern coverage: 93.011% (118 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.330
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.690

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.221
And I read the content of the test FS 0.667
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.075

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.567
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.637

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:9.465
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 7.697
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.560
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 34.612
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.433

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.439
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.806

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.608
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.337

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.168
And I read the content of the test FS 0.429
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.659

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.079
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.631

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
47.616
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 7.728
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.554
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 13.979
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.263
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.405

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 20.673

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
6:50.983
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 6:7.966
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.439
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.490
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.075

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011