Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 70 10 May 2024, 06:51

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 11:41.768 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.
22.231
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 11.531
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.429
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.258
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.037

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.141
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.831

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
24.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.459
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.520
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.195

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.676
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.955

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.714
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.561

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
50.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.868
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.510
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.304
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.994

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.204
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.560

Pattern coverage: 88.661% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 3.026
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.766

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.311
And I read the content of the test FS 0.691
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.228

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.590
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.431

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
1:15.289
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.393
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.709
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.694
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.413

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.016
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.663

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.064
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.285

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.743
And I read the content of the test FS 0.509
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.223

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.825
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.746

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
55.320
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.633
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.532
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.644
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.661
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.862

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 1.952

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
7:54.354
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:8.960
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.474
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.650
When I trigger shutdown 0.010
And I wait 20 seconds 20.003

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.254

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.019