Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20828-wifi-firmware-missing 14 26 Mar 2025, 15:13

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 12:37.290 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.
25.693
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 8.230
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.408
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.316
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.320

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

When I kill the allocating process 3.154
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.262

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
25.477
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 8.493
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.606
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.097

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 914 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.792
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.346

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.527
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.613

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 914 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:7.091
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 8.884
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.526
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.554
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.135

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 915 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.162
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.062

Pattern coverage: 93.988% (119 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.084
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.687

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 915 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.251
And I read the content of the test FS 0.758
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.782

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.442
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.758

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 915 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
1:26.950
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 10.609
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.422
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 42.645
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.958

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.121
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.745

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.994
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.384

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.685
And I read the content of the test FS 0.610
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.907

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.592
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.273

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
52.841
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 8.303
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.447
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.048
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.219
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.799

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 21.010

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 912 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
8:19.235
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 7:34.089
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.563
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.116
When I trigger shutdown 0.019
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.445

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011