S-RVM: a secure design for a high-performance java virtual machine

  • Authors:

  • Yuval Yarom;Katrina Falkner;David S. Munro

  • Affiliations:

  • The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia;The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia;The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the sixth ACM workshop on Virtual machines and intermediate languages
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Reference protection mechanisms, which control the propagation of references, are commonly used to isolate and to provide protection for components that execute within a shared runtime. These mechanisms often incur an overhead for maintaining the isolation or introduce inefficiencies in the communication between the components. This paper proposes a novel approach for component isolation that avoids runtime overheads by controlling references at compile time. We use the proposed approach to build S-RVM, a Java Virtual Machine based on JikesRVM, which enhances JikesRVM's security by isolating the VM from the application. Our experiments show that on the average S-RVM incurs no performance overhead when executing optimised code.