Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 7 14 Mar 2025, 04:06

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 11:35.949 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.
23.950
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 7.852
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.423
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.295
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.098

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.176
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.103

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
24.951
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 8.100
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.429
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.118

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.804
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.776

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.790
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.931

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.671
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 0.519
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.146
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.625

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.757
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.365

Pattern coverage: 90.899% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.904
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.336

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.319
And I read the content of the test FS 0.601
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.701

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.791
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.523

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:24.350
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 7.986
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.442
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 41.766
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.974

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.201
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.937

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.898
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.715

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.540
And I read the content of the test FS 0.475
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 4.103
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.965

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.354
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 8.022
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.486
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.288
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.478
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.260

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 20.803

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:42.671
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 6:56.404
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.422
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.579
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.252

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019