Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20268-more-early-patch-functionality 86 26 May 2024, 16:17

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 11:30.005 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.
19.081
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.201
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.412
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.211
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.981

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.162
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.111

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
25.196
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.154
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.630
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.538

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.411
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.180

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.680
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.600

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
46.272
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.077
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.404
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.193
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.463

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.804
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.484

Pattern coverage: 89.190% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.134
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.779

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.281
And I read the content of the test FS 1.200
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.313

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.502
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.631

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 2.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
1:16.182
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.545
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.444
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.101
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.690

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.979
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.862

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.911
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.734

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.960
And I read the content of the test FS 0.513
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.381

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.901
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.155

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
50.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:259 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.138
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.382
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.725
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.401
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.376

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.017
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.940

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.000
7:53.269
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 7:6.080
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.480
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.284
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
And I wait 20 seconds 20.014

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.395

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:305 3.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:89 0.017