Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20828-wifi-firmware-missing 19 31 Mar 2025, 14:41

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 11:19.607 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
26.119
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 8.420
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.766
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.610
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.872 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.700
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.749 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26.913
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 9.457
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.692
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.749 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.823
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.896 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.526
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.767 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
52.114
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 8.632
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.650
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.151
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.823 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.122
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.403 
Pattern coverage: 89.445% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.088
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.750 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.425
And I read the content of the test FS 0.953
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.922 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.486
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.705 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:16.323
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.364
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.741
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.201
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.202 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.761
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.568 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.856
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.509 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.094
And I read the content of the test FS 0.676
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.651 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.577
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.117 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 904 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.442
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.427
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.046
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.910
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.931 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.877 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:26.487
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 6:42.851
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.453
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.916
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.253 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012