Bugs as deviant behavior: a general approach to inferring errors in systems code
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
An empirical study of operating systems errors
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extended static checking for Java
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Object-Oriented Software Construction
Object-Oriented Software Construction
Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning about Systems
Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning about Systems
Houdini, an Annotation Assistant for ESC/Java
FME '01 Proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity
Characterization of the Impact of Faulty Drivers on the Robustness of the Linux Kernel
DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Thorough static analysis of device drivers
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
Path-Sensitive Inference of Function Precedence Protocols
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Windows XP kernel crash analysis
LISA '06 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Large Installation System Administration
The Daikon system for dynamic detection of likely invariants
Science of Computer Programming
Documenting and automating collateral evolutions in linux device drivers
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008
Verifying the Safety of User Pointer Dereferences
SP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems
Assessment and Improvement of Hang Detection in the Linux Operating System
SRDS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 28th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Integrated static analysis for Linux device driver verification
IFM'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Integrated formal methods
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Testing closed-source binary device drivers with DDT
USENIXATC'10 Proceedings of the 2010 USENIX conference on USENIX annual technical conference
Improving software diagnosability via log enhancement
Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Faults in linux: ten years later
Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Efficient Testing of Recovery Code Using Fault Injection
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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The Linux kernel does not export a stable, well-defined kernel interface, complicating the development of kernel-level services, such as device drivers and file systems. While there does exist a set of functions that are exported to external modules, this set of functions frequently changes, and the functions have implicit, ill-documented preconditions. No specific debugging support is provided. We present Diagnosys, an approach to automatically constructing a debugging interface for the Linux kernel. First, a designated kernel maintainer uses Diagnosys to identify constraints on the use of the exported functions. Based on this information, developers of kernel services can then use Diagnosys to generate a debugging interface specialized to their code. When a service including this interface is tested, it records information about potential problems. This information is preserved following a kernel crash or hang. Our experiments show that the generated debugging interface provides useful log information and incurs a low performance penalty.