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Integrated Static Analysis for Linux Device Driver Verification

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Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2007)

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We port verification techniques for device drivers from the Windows domain to Linux, combining several tools and techniques into one integrated tool-chain. Building on ideas from Microsoft’s Static Driver Verifier (SDV) project, we extend their specification language and combine its implementation with the public domain bounded model checker CBMC as a new verification back-end. We extract several API conformance rules from Linux documentation and formulate them in the extended language SLICx. Thus SDV-style verification of temporal safety specifications is brought into the public domain. In addition, we show that SLICx, together with CBMC, can be used to simulate preemption in multi-threaded code, and to find race conditions and to prove the absence of deadlocks and memory leaks.

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    Hendrik Post & Wolfgang Küchlin

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Post, H., Küchlin, W. (2007). Integrated Static Analysis for Linux Device Driver Verification. In: Davies, J., Gibbons, J. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4591. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73210-5_27

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