Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 28 14 Jun 2025, 07:18

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 48 1 2 0 0 51 5 1 6 19:56.475 Failed
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
23.774
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.627
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.827
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.146
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.173
99.610% 
99.610% of the expected size (128 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 100.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:186:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+) MiB in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:17:in `Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory'
Output 1 
Pattern coverage: 99.610% (127 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.579 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:53:00)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/28/artifact/build-artifacts/00:53:00_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/28/artifact/build-artifacts/00:53:00_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/28/artifact/build-artifacts/00:53:00_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/28/artifact/build-artifacts/00:53:00_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
50.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 15.635
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.449
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 10.893 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.527
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.564 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 1.283
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.064 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:33.582
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 10.530
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.443
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 14.328
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 10.941 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 5.749
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 13.679 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 2.432
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.047 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.268
And I read the content of the test FS 2.242
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 12.106 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.382
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.428 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
2:19.038
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 9.506
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.955
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 1:10.598
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.166 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 803 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.405
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.773 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.113
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.906 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 803 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 7.607
And I read the content of the test FS 1.696
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.118 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.740
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 14.447 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 803 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:19.890
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 8.713
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 5.708
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 27.623
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 5.208
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 10.710 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.064
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.860 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
13:29.770
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 12:44.428
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.485
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.063
When I trigger shutdown 0.209
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 23.584 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 757 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013