Publication detail

Static Deadlock Detection in Low-Level C Code

HARMIM, D. MARCIN, V. SVOBODOVÁ, L. VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

Static Deadlock Detection in Low-Level C Code

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

We present a novel scalable deadlock analyser L2D2 capable of handling C code with low-level unstructured lock manipulation. L2D2 runs along the call tree of a program, starting from its leaves, and analyses each function just once, without any knowledge of the call context. L2D2 builds function summaries recording information about locks that are assumed or known to be locked or unlocked at the entry, inside, and at the exit of functions, together with lock dependencies, and reports warnings about possible deadlocks when cycles in the lock dependencies are detected. We implemented L2D2 as a plugin of the Facebook/Meta Infer framework and report results of experiments on a large body of C as well as C++ code illustrating the effectiveness and efficiency of L2D2.

Keywords

static analysis, abstract interpretation, function summaries, modular analysis, concurrent code, deadlock, Infer

Authors

HARMIM, D.; MARCIN, V.; SVOBODOVÁ, L.; VOJNAR, T.

Released

10. 2. 2023

Publisher

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Location

Cham

ISBN

978-3-031-25311-9

Book

International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST'22)

Edition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Pages from

267

Pages to

276

Pages count

10

URL

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_31

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT187815,
  author="Dominik {Harmim} and Vladimír {Marcin} and Lucie {Svobodová} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="Static Deadlock Detection in Low-Level C Code",
  booktitle="International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST'22)",
  year="2023",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="13789",
  pages="267--276",
  publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland AG",
  address="Cham",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6\{_}31",
  isbn="978-3-031-25311-9",
  url="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_31"
}