Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 13 25 Jun 2025, 23:47

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 14:31.458 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
37.526
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 14.810
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.745
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.518
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 11.779 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.679
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.993 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
30.941
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 12.610
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.503
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.854 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.083
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.593 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.604
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.690 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 873 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:3.085
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 8.191
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.409
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 15.823
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.363 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 4.090
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 7.198 
Pattern coverage: 90.421% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.115
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.074 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.206
And I read the content of the test FS 0.573
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 9.318 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.033
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.685 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:54.006
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 13.447
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.445
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 55.775
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.390 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.826
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.340 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.472
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 10.186 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.814
And I read the content of the test FS 0.389
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.767 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.558
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.591 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
59.776
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 8.975
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 3.939
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.261
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.264
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.504 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.816 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:26.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:37.352
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.444
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 26.054
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.252 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026