Publication detail

Byte-Precise Verification of Low-Level List Manipulation

DUDKA, K. PERINGER, P. VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

Byte-Precise Verification of Low-Level List Manipulation

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

We propose a new approach to shape analysis of programs with linked lists that use low-level memory operations. Such operations include pointer arithmetic, safe usage of invalid pointers, block operations with memory, reinterpretation of the memory contents, address alignment, etc. Our approach is based on a new representation of sets of heaps, which is to some degree inspired by works on separation logic with higher-order list predicates, but it is graph-based and uses a more fine-grained (byte-precise) memory model in order to support the various low-level memory operations. The approach was implemented in the Predator tool and successfully validated on multiple non-trivial case studies that are beyond the capabilities of other current fully automated shape analysis tools.

Keywords

dynamic linked data structures, separation logic, symbolic memory graphs, list manipulation, low-level memory manipulation, memory safety, shape analysis

Authors

DUDKA, K.; PERINGER, P.; VOJNAR, T.

RIV year

2013

Released

12. 5. 2013

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Location

Berlin

ISBN

978-3-642-38855-2

Book

20th Static Analysis Symposium

Edition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7935

ISBN

0302-9743

Periodical

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Year of study

20

Number

7935

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

215

Pages to

237

Pages count

23

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT103494,
  author="Kamil {Dudka} and Petr {Peringer} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="Byte-Precise Verification of Low-Level List Manipulation",
  booktitle="20th Static Analysis Symposium",
  year="2013",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7935",
  journal="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="20",
  number="7935",
  pages="215--237",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Berlin",
  isbn="978-3-642-38855-2",
  issn="0302-9743"
}