Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 19 26 Mar 2025, 02:43

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 11:17.688 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.
23.010
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 8.060
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.367
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.340
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.410

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.875
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.954

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.966
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 8.084
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.436
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.154

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.632
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.193

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.725
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.739

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.127
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 8.069
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.389
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.169
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.884

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.399
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.127

Pattern coverage: 86.800% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.009
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.553

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.383
And I read the content of the test FS 3.399
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.175

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.061
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.506

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:13.992
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 8.078
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.398
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.570
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.967

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.682
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.443

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.793
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.041

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.848
And I read the content of the test FS 0.424
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.343

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.471
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.929

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.431
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 8.024
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.442
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.148
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.915
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.023

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.863

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:37.158
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 6:53.708
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.507
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.767
When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.159

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011