Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 38 25 Apr 2025, 18:33

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 12:2.426 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.
25.870
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.836
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.443
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.355
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.021

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.341
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.872

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:334 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
27.097
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.896
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.457
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.605

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.064
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.879

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.587
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.607

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:334 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
54.537
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.344
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.457
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.865

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.682
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.353

Pattern coverage: 91.370% (116 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 4.329
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.719

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.248
And I read the content of the test FS 0.722
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.950

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.750
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.095

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:334 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
1:17.768
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.652
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.531
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.588
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.079

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.802
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.359

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.725
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.991

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.828
And I read the content of the test FS 0.503
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.950

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.632
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.121

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:334 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
52.245
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.191
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.363
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.530
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.205
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.072

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.866

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:334 3.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
8:4.907
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:17.530
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.456
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.450
When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.454

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:334 3.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011