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CSC2108 Lazy Abstraction on Software Model Checking

CSC2108 Lazy Abstraction on Software Model Checking. Wai Sum Mong. Survey of BLAST. Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software Verification Tool A software model checker for C programs The goal is to check whether the program obeys the “API rules” Same goal as SLAM (Microsoft)

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CSC2108 Lazy Abstraction on Software Model Checking

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  1. CSC2108Lazy Abstraction on Software Model Checking Wai Sum Mong

  2. Survey of BLAST • Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software Verification Tool • A software model checker for C programs • The goal is to check whether the program obeys the “API rules” • Same goal as SLAM (Microsoft) • Based on the abstract-check-refine approach • Lazy Abstraction • Integrates and possibly optimizes the abstract-check-refine approach

  3. Problem Statement • Check whether the lines labeled by ERROR are reachable • Static analysis • assert(0); - runtime

  4. Abstract-check-refine Loop

  5. Abstraction • State <-> region

  6. Lazy Abstraction • Integrates the three steps • Try to reuse the works • Two Principles • On-the-fly Abstraction • On-demand Refinement

  7. On-the-fly Abstraction • Some regions are never visited • Abstract only when needed

  8. On-demand Refinement • Why check the same region again? • Add new predicates only when needed • Reuse the partial answer

  9. Implementation • Control Flow automaton • Verification • Forward Search (abstract post) • Backward Counterexample Analysis (concrete pred)

  10. Architecture of BLAST

  11. BLAST • Only checked on device driver • Predicates • Support integers only so far • No support on multithreading programs in the current release

  12. Using BLAST • Not a good experience • Experiments • Very simple linklist package • Error • Limitations • Pointer • Multithreaded programs • C source code as input (C library functions?)

  13. Conclusion • Theoretically, optimizes the checking process • Similar to SLAM, except lazy abstraction • No access to SLAM • Cannot evaluate so far

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