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| From | Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: Formal description of system call interface |
| Date | 2016-11-21 16:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sFYRk-2Wx-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote: > > > Re more complex side effects. I always feared that a description suitable > for automatic verification (i.e. zero false positives, otherwise it is useless) > may be too difficult to achieve. > > Cyril, Tavis, can you come up with some set of predicates that can be > checked automatically yet still useful? > We can start small, e.g. "must not alter virtual address space". Yes, I've been working on creating something like this, I have a simple working prototype. I cant promise it has zero false positives right now, but I think that is achievable. Let me dig it up (I had put it on the back burner). Tavis.
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Re: Formal description of system call interface Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-11-21 16:20 +0100 Re: Formal description of system call interface Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> - 2016-11-21 16:40 +0100 Re: Formal description of system call interface Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> - 2016-11-21 17:20 +0100
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