Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 6 19 Mar 2024, 06:28

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 9:29.772 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.
18.515
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.143
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.416
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.290
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.735

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.880
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.048

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 937 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
21.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.043
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.409
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.926

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.591
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.446

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.433
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.977

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
40.200
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.950
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.584
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 6.657
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.846

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.369
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.835

Pattern coverage: 98.772% (126 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.147
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.040

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.263
And I read the content of the test FS 0.617
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.316

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.505
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.066

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
1:2.304
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.858
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.625
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 29.462
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.534

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 938 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.845
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.948

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.884
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.581

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 938 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.155
And I read the content of the test FS 0.516
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.796

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.512
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.583

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 938 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
46.748
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.952
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.379
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 12.775
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.127
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.685

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

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 1.796

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
6:20.175
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 5:37.088
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.417
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.468
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 2.167

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 937 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.012