Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3346 02 Apr 2024, 12:14

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 10:57.193 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
23.360
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.339
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.683
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.289
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.240 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.986
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.821 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 903 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.016
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.915
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.622
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.721 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.776
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.757 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.495
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.728 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
47.907
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.057
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.608
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 8.945
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.878 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.298
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.214 
Pattern coverage: 91.437% (116 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.472
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.525 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.371
And I read the content of the test FS 0.872
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.377 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.546
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.738 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:11.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.389
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.693
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 31.253
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.526 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.713
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.586 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.562
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.381 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.974
And I read the content of the test FS 0.481
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.557 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.937
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.284 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
50.619
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.479
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.716
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.684
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.238
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.503 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
And I wait 20 seconds 20.015 
Slept for 20 seconds
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.964 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 899 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:18.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:245 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:32.177
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.422
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.717
When I trigger shutdown 0.015
And I wait 20 seconds 20.004 
Slept for 20 seconds
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.606 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:291 3.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:75 0.013