Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 5 27 May 2025, 18:51

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 14:24.821 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
16.703
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.430
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.545
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.455
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.271
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 5.706 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:38:57)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/5/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:57_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/5/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:57_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/5/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:57_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/5/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:57_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
31.499
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 9.739
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.558
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.899 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 778 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.115
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.283 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.610
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.292 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 778 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:1.375
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 9.718
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.597
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.511
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.602 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.840
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 8.932 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.098
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.427 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.293
And I read the content of the test FS 0.703
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.251 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.691
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.706 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:25.730
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 9.757
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.477
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 43.387
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.178 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 790 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.756
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.156 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.702
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.809 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 790 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.357
And I read the content of the test FS 0.577
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.783 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.681
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.106 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 790 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
58.483
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 9.109
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.487
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.060
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.318
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.228 
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 21.265 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 775 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
10:11.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9:29.357
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.477
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 19.241
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.940 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012