Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20828-wifi-firmware-missing 15 27 Mar 2025, 15:37

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 13:16.619 Passed
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
27.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.802
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.555
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.724
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.073 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.684
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.131 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
28.280
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.331
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.706
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.615 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.616
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.526 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.420
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.063 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 871 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
54.403
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 10.013
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.776
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.218
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.395 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.403
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.723 
Pattern coverage: 86.193% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.917
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.755 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.275
And I read the content of the test FS 0.620
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.136 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.378
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.787 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:25.335
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 9.210
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.544
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.679
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.496 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.893
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.924 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.756
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.450 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.633
And I read the content of the test FS 0.556
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.777 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.565
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.845 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
52.432
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 9.042
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.496
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.282
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.292
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.315 
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 20.989 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:8.195
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 8:22.573
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.521
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.729
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.358 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011