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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:34:49 -0800
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Michael Kerrisk-manpages <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
scientist@...com, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, carlos@...hat.com,
syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@...gle.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Formal description of system call interface
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.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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