[Remote] Detecting Atomicity Violations in Interrupt-Driven Programs via Interruption Points Selecting and Delayed ISR-Triggering
Interrupt-driven programs have been widely used in safety-critical areas such as aerospace and embedded systems. However, uncertain interleaving execution of interrupt service routines (ISRs) usually causes concurrency bugs. Specifically, when one or more ISRs attempt to preempt a sequence of instructions which are expected to be atomic, a kind of concurrency bugs namely atomicity violation may occur, and it is challenging to find this kind of bugs precisely and efficiently. In this paper, we propose a static approach for detecting atomicity violations in interrupt-driven programs. First, the program model is constructed with interruption points being selected to determine the possibly influenced ISRs. After that, reachability computation is conducted to build up a whole abstract reachability tree, and a delayed ISR-triggering strategy is employed to reduce the state space. Meanwhile, unserializable interleaving patterns are recognized to achieve the goal of atomicity violation detection. The approach has been implemented as a configurable tool namely CPA4AV. Extensive experiments show that CPA4AV is much more precise than the relative tools available with little extra time overhead. In addition, more complex situations can be dealt with CPA4AV.
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17:30 15mTalk | [Remote] Detecting Atomicity Violations in Interrupt-Driven Programs via Interruption Points Selecting and Delayed ISR-Triggering Research Papers Bin Yu School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Cong Tian Xidian University, Hengrui Xing School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Zuchao Yang School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Jie Su School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xu Lu School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Jiyu Yang School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Liang Zhao School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xiaofeng Li Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Zhenhua Duan Xidian University Media Attached | ||
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