Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 9 16 Mar 2025, 02:56

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 10:47.720 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.
22.630
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 7.716
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.446
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.238
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.612

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.410
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.205

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 917 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
24.282
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 7.823
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.397
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.095

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.925
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.534

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.926
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.579

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
45.245
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 7.781
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.260
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.116

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.760
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.620

Pattern coverage: 89.993% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.595
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.998

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.270
And I read the content of the test FS 0.465
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.399

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.616
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.960

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:15.602
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 7.645
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.386
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.639
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.595

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.888
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.968

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.885
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.785

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.149
And I read the content of the test FS 0.463
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.500

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.673
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.022

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
52.906
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 8.382
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.424
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.734
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.920
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.720

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.711

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 924 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:7.053
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 6:23.301
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.029
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.521
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.188

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011