Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 4903 18 Jun 2024, 22:12

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 45 1 7 0 0 53 5 1 6 12:7.562 Failed
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.
21.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.843
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.612
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.581
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.658

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I kill the allocating process 1.230
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.364

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 2.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
26.039
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.489
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.642
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.843

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 3.001
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.051

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I umount "/mnt" 0.511
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.499

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
29.337
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches on unmount: vfat
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.365
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.402
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.276
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.626

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.648
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.018
85.538% of the test FS size (127.599609375 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 86.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:170:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+)% of the test FS size in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:37:in `Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory'
Output 1

Pattern coverage: 85.538% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.000
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.000
And I read the content of the test FS 0.000
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 0.000
When I umount the USB drive 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 5.266

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches on unmount: vfat' (at time 00:30:42)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4903/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4903/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4903/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4903/artifact/build-artifacts/00:30:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_vfat.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:16.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.957
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.467
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 36.681
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.498

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.140
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.533

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.755
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.004

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.367
And I read the content of the test FS 0.911
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.323

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.705
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.967

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
53.119
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.482
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.538
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.602
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.624
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.980

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I trigger shutdown 0.024
And I wait 20 seconds 20.016

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.850

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
8:41.462
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:53.030
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.465
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.659
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
And I wait 20 seconds 20.004

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.291

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013