Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 28 05 Apr 2025, 02:32

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 10:37.067 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.
22.768
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 8.187
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.432
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.248
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.120

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.069
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.710

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.182
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 7.829
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.613
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.342

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.913
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.026

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.657
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.799

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
46.437
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 7.874
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.563
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.951
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.815

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.895
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.374

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.324
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.157

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.280
And I read the content of the test FS 0.577
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.810

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.671
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.139

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:14.016
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 8.043
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.556
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.350
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.025

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.710
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.687

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.705
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.254

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.676
And I read the content of the test FS 0.492
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.691

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.502
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.319

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
48.590
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 7.822
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.576
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.570
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.768
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.153

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.687

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:2.071
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 6:18.380
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.883
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.740
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.055

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012