Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 4960 22 Jul 2024, 12:26

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 12:40.599 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
24.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.557
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.519
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.415
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.443 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 2.761
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.407 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.126
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.535
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.775 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.416
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.155 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.937
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.701 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
50.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.720
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.403
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.157
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.598 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.185
Then patterns cover at least 86% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.878 
Pattern coverage: 90.574% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.860
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.862 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.832
And I read the content of the test FS 1.130
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.065 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.111
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.487 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:17.875
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.258
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.444
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.667
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.429 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.317
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.173 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.650
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.831 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 9.244
And I read the content of the test FS 0.442
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.670 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.749
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.994 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 1.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
52.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.708
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.400
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.131
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.577
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.197 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.022
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020 
Slept for 20 seconds
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.756 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
8:49.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:269 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:2.335
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.446
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.514
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
And I wait 20 seconds 20.020 
Slept for 20 seconds
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.532 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:326 3.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012