Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 37 11 Apr 2024, 06:33

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 10:49.914 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.
22.546
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.387
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.492
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.291
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.063

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.937
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.372

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
32.683
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.686
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.621
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 8.410

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.567
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.317

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.738
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.342

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
43.030
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.356
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.483
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 8.003
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.578

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.205
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.363

Pattern coverage: 86.711% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.868
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.474

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.201
And I read the content of the test FS 0.424
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.213

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.481
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.375

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
1:13.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.238
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.350
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.205
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.124

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.234
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.658

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

When I umount the USB drive 2.433
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.910

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.316
And I read the content of the test FS 0.382
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.618

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.523
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.097

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
53.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.133
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.490
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.444
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.192
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.136

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
And I wait 20 seconds 20.019

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.878

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
7:5.251
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:22.192
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.439
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.405
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.181

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 914 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.013