Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 23 30 Mar 2025, 02:52

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 10:33.032 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.
22.426
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 0.591
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.344
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.076

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.910
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.775

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
22.451
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 7.778
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.461
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.627

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.042
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.114

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.560
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.865

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
43.843
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 7.726
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.431
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.053
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.824

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.336
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.975

Pattern coverage: 89.016% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.916
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.765

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.191
And I read the content of the test FS 0.477
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.202

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.432
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.510

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:8.557
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 7.767
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.009
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 34.912
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.369

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.540
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.620

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.646
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.323

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.734
And I read the content of the test FS 0.403
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.563

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.551
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.115

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
48.192
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 7.700
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.431
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.130
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.811
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.365

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 20.737

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:7.561
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 6:25.595
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.370
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.479
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.103

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011