Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 8 19 Jun 2025, 21:49

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 10:49.707 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
23.965
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 8.061
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.469
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.449
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.869 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.745
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.370 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.369
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 8.379
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.576
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.822 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.958
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.803 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.594
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.234 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 896 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
47.243
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 8.311
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.467
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.389
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.182 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.496
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.555 
Pattern coverage: 90.740% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.021
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.849 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.348
And I read the content of the test FS 0.518
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.461 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.463
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.178 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:12.146
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 7.942
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.644
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.117
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.920 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.662
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.020 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.752
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.626 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.429
And I read the content of the test FS 0.411
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.677 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.478
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.462 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
50.263
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 7.998
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.449
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.175
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.121
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.660 
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 20.846 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:10.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:27.158
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.446
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.862
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.240 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011