Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 2 08 Mar 2025, 03:04

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 11:13.760 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.
23.423
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 7.961
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.428
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.220
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.162

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.791
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.859

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 915 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
28.636
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 8.175
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.726
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.645

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 916 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 5.210
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.083

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.045
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.749

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 916 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
55.696
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 8.204
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.527
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.299
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.591

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.868
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.871

Pattern coverage: 91.756% (117 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 3.957
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.665

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.364
And I read the content of the test FS 0.599
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.979

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.932
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.832

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:18.146
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.930
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.504
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.948
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.104

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.245
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.726

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.042
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.154

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.203
And I read the content of the test FS 0.493
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.631

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.872
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.290

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
52.177
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 8.002
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.632
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.475
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.014
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.175

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 20.861

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:15.679
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 6:33.078
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.478
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.871
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.238

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012