Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 4 11 Mar 2025, 04:03

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 11:9.000 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.
25.613
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 7.888
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.404
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.464
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.075

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.363
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.417

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
25.112
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 8.025
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.198

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 918 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.094
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.879

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.866
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.645

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 918 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.502
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 8.148
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.472
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.115
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.555

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.131
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.549

Pattern coverage: 93.874% (119 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.683
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.865

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.411
And I read the content of the test FS 0.856
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.736

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

When I umount the USB drive 2.745
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.229

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:14.425
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 8.197
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.421
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 32.865
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.799

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.912
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.072

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.120
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.927

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.401
And I read the content of the test FS 1.754
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.144

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.908
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.901

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.002
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 8.353
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.430
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.628
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.163
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.679

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 20.732

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 920 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:24.343
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 6:37.815
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.937
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.334
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.242

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010