Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20912-test-suite-wget-specific-mirror 5 07 May 2025, 13:24

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 12:6.152 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
24.260
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 8.656
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.626
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.298
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.674 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.317
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.687 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26.513
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 8.515
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.490
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.701 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.882
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.498 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.437
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.987 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.745
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 8.999
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.487
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.562
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.328 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.625
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.685 
Pattern coverage: 86.148% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 4.363
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.041 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.243
And I read the content of the test FS 0.565
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.237 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.819
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.786 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:17.329
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 8.578
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.508
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 34.647
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.211 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 866 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.005
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.103 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.673
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.160 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 866 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.964
And I read the content of the test FS 0.589
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.655 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.639
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.592 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 866 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
53.127
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 9.203
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.570
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.201
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.061
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.177 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.900 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:8.177
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 7:21.397
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.440
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.979
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.346 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012