Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 25 16 Apr 2025, 19:01

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 11:29.069 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.
24.029
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 7.976
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.379
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.260
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.311

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.283
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.817

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 902 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
26.922
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 8.175
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.769

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.161
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.232

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.553
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.604

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:2.680
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 21.887
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.611
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.141
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.646

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.427
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.080

Pattern coverage: 85.952% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.933
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.563

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.313
And I read the content of the test FS 0.524
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.989

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.983
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.577

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:11.948
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 8.089
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.395
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.409
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.449

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.689
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.190

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.798
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.944

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.598
And I read the content of the test FS 0.447
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.426

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.533
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.973

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
59.438
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 8.078
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.163
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 9.846
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.092

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.842

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:24.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:38.981
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.491
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.241
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.320

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015