Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 7 19 Mar 2024, 17:26

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 9:44.825 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.
19.364
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.000
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.415
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.539
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.469

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.906
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.032

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
22.622
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.101
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.383
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.962

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.592
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.427

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.457
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.697

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
43.534
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 0.405
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 6.740
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.417

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 922 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.238
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.659

Pattern coverage: 91.526% (116 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.928
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.020

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 922 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.254
And I read the content of the test FS 0.928
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.626

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.409
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.761

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 922 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
1:2.354
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.014
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.538
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 30.473
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.691

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 927 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.682
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.724

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.714
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.518

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 927 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.802
And I read the content of the test FS 0.510
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.807

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.433
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.442

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 927 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
49.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.007
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.390
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.167
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.173
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.116

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.019
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.766

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 928 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
6:27.286
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 5:41.104
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.428
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.631
When I trigger shutdown 0.010
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.091

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 939 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.009