Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20828-wifi-firmware-missing 18 30 Mar 2025, 14:46

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 12:4.253 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
25.677
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 8.360
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.522
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.218
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.402 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.529
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.643 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
27.168
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 9.184
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.565
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.169 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.658
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.368 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.408
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.813 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.912
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.576
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.493
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.096
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.804 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.503
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.430 
Pattern coverage: 85.817% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.197
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.775 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.462
And I read the content of the test FS 1.286
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.842 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.808
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.633 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:21.459
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 8.691
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.398
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.404
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.379 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.201
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.935 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 2.122
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.910 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.847
And I read the content of the test FS 0.798
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.876 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.535
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.357 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.987
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 8.610
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.437
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.212
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.293
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.587 
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 20.830 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:1.048
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 7:13.603
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.405
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.679
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.348 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 906 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021