Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20828-wifi-firmware-missing 8 20 Mar 2025, 14:34

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 10:37.715 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
23.063
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 7.876
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.427
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.180
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.729 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.901
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.948 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.563
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 7.906
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.435
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.149 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.646
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.561 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.541
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.322 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
45.350
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 7.849
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.396
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.995
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.167 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.217
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.257 
Pattern coverage: 84.577% (107 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.849
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.129 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.212
And I read the content of the test FS 0.802
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.090 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.338
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.043 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:13.639
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 8.007
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.419
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 38.518
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.684 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.563
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.034 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.668
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.504 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.777
And I read the content of the test FS 0.402
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.036 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.420
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.602 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
51.966
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 7.918
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.422
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.782
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.506
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.593 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.727 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:0.132
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 6:17.139
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.519
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.336
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.123 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011