Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-test-suite-reject-allow-internal-dns-resolution 9 11 Apr 2025, 15:42

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 46 1 4 0 0 51 5 1 6 31:2.389 Failed
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
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.
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
27.867
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 8.574
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.599
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.757
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.755 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.287
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.892 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
29.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.833
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.694
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.144 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.331
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.266 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.860
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.400 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.110
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 8.622
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.602
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.203
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.809 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.857
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.332 
Pattern coverage: 90.528% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.123
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.113 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.379
And I read the content of the test FS 0.713
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.207 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.484
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.659 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:25.916
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 9.053
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.617
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 41.967
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.860 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.258
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.023 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.598
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.363 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.610
And I read the content of the test FS 0.514
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.708 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.892
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.447 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
54.421
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 9.431
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.734
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.493
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.775
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.035 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.937 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 863 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26:53.541
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 26:53.541
execution 
execution expired (RemoteShell::Timeout)
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `read'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `block (3 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:55:in `block (2 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `block in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:37:in `communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:174:in `execute'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:185:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:719:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:719:in `/^all notifications have disappeared$/'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:153:in `block in reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:173:in `/^I\ have\ started\ Tails\ without\ network\ from\ a\ USB\ drive\ with\ a\ persistent\ partition\ enabled\ and\ logged\ in$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:75:in `Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in'
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.000
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 0.000
When I trigger shutdown 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 10.884 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown' (at time 01:02:11)
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-test-suite-reject-allow-internal-dns-resolution/9/artifact/build-artifacts/01:02:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-test-suite-reject-allow-internal-dns-resolution/9/artifact/build-artifacts/01:02:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-test-suite-reject-allow-internal-dns-resolution/9/artifact/build-artifacts/01:02:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009