Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 71 13 May 2024, 17:33

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 12:16.047 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.
26.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.324
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.470
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 5.423
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.467

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.412
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.913

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
27.528
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.479
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.508
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.773

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 2.261
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.641

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.121
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.741

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
49.598
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.657
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.372
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.349
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.542

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.142
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.500

Pattern coverage: 92.638% (118 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.729
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.120

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.248
And I read the content of the test FS 0.751
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.060

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.864
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.259

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
1:20.786
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.009
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.435
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 40.123
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.007

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.042
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.803

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.986
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.149

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.484
And I read the content of the test FS 0.470
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.495

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.045
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.733

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
52.542
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.227
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.597
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.869
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.934
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.728

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.020
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.144

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
8:19.579
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 7:32.077
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.534
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.537
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
And I wait 20 seconds 20.005

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.412

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.030