Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20872-more-gtk-launch 3 28 Mar 2025, 07:56

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 10:59.814 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.
21.945
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 8.033
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.439
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.522
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.249

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.877
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.822

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
23.491
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 8.275
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.380
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.831

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.057
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.038

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.496
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.412

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
48.302
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 8.103
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.464
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.020
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.618

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.598
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.105

Pattern coverage: 90.103% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.922
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.500

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.313
And I read the content of the test FS 0.544
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.002

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.537
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.570

Pattern coverage: 0.001% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:13.940
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 8.114
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.376
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.597
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.747

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.552
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.832

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.602
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.446

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.818
And I read the content of the test FS 0.432
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.834

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.809
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.777

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
50.198
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 8.077
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 16.372
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.152
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.412

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.042
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.718

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
7:21.936
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 6:37.111
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.482
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.305
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.022

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011