Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20263-test-suite-without-spice 34 11 Apr 2025, 02:51

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 11:22.787 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.
24.540
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 8.041
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.472
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.402
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.657

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.191
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.774

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
27.193
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 8.546
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.559
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.717

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 2.943
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.057

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.798
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.569

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.294
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 8.506
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.469
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.081
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.519

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.147
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.151

Pattern coverage: 93.568% (119 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.071
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.475

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.237
And I read the content of the test FS 0.580
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.862

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.598
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.593

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:15.507
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 8.110
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.464
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.152
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.298

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.825
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.823

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.662
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.172

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.311
And I read the content of the test FS 0.541
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.445

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.584
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.114

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.052
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 8.037
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.494
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.646
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.941
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.040

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.018
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.871

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:36.200
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 6:49.276
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.770
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.967
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.167

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013