Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 1 12 Jun 2025, 22:58

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 12:38.820 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
25.658
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 9.221
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.470
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.178
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.704 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.853
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 9.230 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
28.972
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 8.142
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.422
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.898 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.936
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.091 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.612
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.868 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.246
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.477
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.865
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.970 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 859 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.572
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.494 
Pattern coverage: 87.840% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 3.118
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.610 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 859 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.200
And I read the content of the test FS 0.950
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.583 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.494
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.694 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 859 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.003
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:27.598
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.034
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.295
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.434
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.776
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.251 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.914
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.868 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.220
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.066 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.717
And I read the content of the test FS 0.516
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.901 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.929
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.705 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
54.609
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 8.634
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.147
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.626
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.125
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.946 
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 21.114 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 863 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:25.702
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 7:43.047
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.424
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.930
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.286 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012