Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3305 01 Mar 2024, 12:10

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 53 0 0 0 0 53 6 0 6 9:44.084 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
18.581
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.883
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.378
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.183
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.998 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.989
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.147 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.396
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.311
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.455
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.474 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 922 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.637
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.466 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.619
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.432 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 922 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
41.625
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.993
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.417
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 6.933
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.940 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 944 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.120
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.490 
Pattern coverage: 93.492% (119 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 3.700
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.899 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 944 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.189
And I read the content of the test FS 0.796
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.663 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.427
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.053 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 944 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:2.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.102
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.404
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 26.257
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.536 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.488
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.848 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.646
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.507 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 7.447
And I read the content of the test FS 0.767
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.665 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.696
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.511 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
47.251
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.944
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.407
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 13.024
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.369
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.681 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
And I wait 20 seconds 20.016 
Slept for 20 seconds
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.795 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 924 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
6:30.348
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 5:47.208
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.408
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.582
When I trigger shutdown 0.010
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020 
Slept for 20 seconds
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.119 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 938 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.022