Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 23 14 Apr 2025, 18:49

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 51 0 0 0 0 51 6 0 6 12:54.166 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.
25.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.721
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.476
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.656
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.365

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.139
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.486

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
27.105
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.695
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.493
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.882

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 1.987
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.373

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.590
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.081

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
53.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.566
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.414
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.273
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.316

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.481
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.638

Pattern coverage: 88.211% (112 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 after 3 seconds 6.684

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.298
And I read the content of the test FS 3.759
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.022

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.768
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.559

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:18.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.207
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.463
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.174
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.315

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.895
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.772

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.817
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.283

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.811
And I read the content of the test FS 1.992
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.830

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.643
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.956

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
52.280
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.586
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.454
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.718
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.541
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.109

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.857

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
8:56.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:11.182
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.405
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.935
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.318

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017