Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 4907 20 Jun 2024, 19:49

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 47 1 5 0 0 53 5 1 6 32:6.968 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.
40.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 21.831
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.547
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.342
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.104

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

When I kill the allocating process 6.439
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.154

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
27.334
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.557
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.584
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.745

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.826
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.639

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.197
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.783

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
49.639
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.653
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.461
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.911
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.663

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.850
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.463

Pattern coverage: 90.167% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.764
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.469

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.454
And I read the content of the test FS 0.706
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.004

Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.864
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.371

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:18.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.824
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.439
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.573
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.961

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.909
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.566

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.893
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.062

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.344
And I read the content of the test FS 0.387
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.727

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.847
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.343

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
57.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.245
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.551
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.969
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 5.065
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.358

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.016
And I wait 20 seconds 20.017

Slept for 20 seconds

Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.075

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
27:53.395
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 27:53.395
execution expired (RemoteShell::Timeout)
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `read'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:56:in `block (3 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:55:in `block (2 levels) in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `loop'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:42:in `block in communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:37:in `communicate'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:174:in `execute'
./features/support/helpers/remote_shell.rb:185:in `initialize'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `new'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:80:in `run'
./features/support/helpers/dogtail.rb:70:in `initialize'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:706:in `new'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:706:in `/^all notifications have disappeared$/'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:153:in `block in reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:173:in `/^I\ have\ started\ Tails\ without\ network\ from\ a\ USB\ drive\ with\ a\ persistent\ partition\ enabled\ and\ logged\ in$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:76:in `Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in'
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.000
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 0.000
When I trigger shutdown 0.000
And I wait 20 seconds 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 10.883

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown' (at time 01:01:20)

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4907/artifact/build-artifacts/01:01:20_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4907/artifact/build-artifacts/01:01:20_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/4907/artifact/build-artifacts/01:01:20_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013