Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 28 02 Apr 2024, 05:58

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 53 0 0 0 0 53 6 0 6 9:27.170 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.
17.566
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.824
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.360
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.192
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 0.447
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.084

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
21.838
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.957
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.362
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.886

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.918
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.269

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.540
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.902

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
39.067
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.859
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.349
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 6.728
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.694

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.181
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.875

Pattern coverage: 87.889% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.926
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.922

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.206
And I read the content of the test FS 0.442
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.674

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.420
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.785

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
1:1.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.997
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.357
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 29.479
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.959

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.512
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 0.733
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.643

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.346
And I read the content of the test FS 0.305
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.983

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.475
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.527

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
50.498
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.838
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.386
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.543
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.241
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.655

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.797

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
6:16.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 5:33.142
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.394
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.133
When I trigger shutdown 0.010
And I wait 20 seconds 20.017

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.108

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 915 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.011