Program termination is a classic non-safety property that cannot in general be witnessed by a finite trace. This makes testing for non-termination challenging, and also makes it a natural target for symbolic proof. To confirm that non-termination is a practical and not theoretical problem, we provide a manual analysis of CVE’s due to non-termination, corresponding to security issues such as DoS vulnerabilities, finding 916 since 2000. Discovering non-termination is an under-approximate problem. We thus present UNTer, a sound and complete under-approximate logic for proving non-termination. We then extend UNTer with separation logic and develop UNTer$^{SL}$ for heap-manipulating programs. UNTer$^{SL}$ yields a compositional proof method amenable to automation via under-approximation and bi-abduction. We thus extend the Pulse analyser from Facebook and develop Pulse$^{\infty}$, an automated, compositional prover for non-termination based on UNTer$^{SL}$.
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13:40 - 15:20 | Static Analysis and Program Verification 2OOPSLA 2024 at IBR East Chair(s): Anders Møller Aarhus University | ||
13:40 20mTalk | HardTaint: Production-Run Dynamic Taint Analysis via Selective Hardware Tracing OOPSLA 2024 Yiyu Zhang Nanjing University, Tianyi Liu Nanjing University, Yueyang Wang Nanjing University, Yun Qi Nanjing University, Kai Ji Nanjing University, Jian Tang Nanjing University, Xiaoliang Wang Nanjing University, Xuandong Li Nanjing University, Zhiqiang Zuo Nanjing University DOI | ||
14:00 20mTalk | MEA2: a Lightweight Field-Sensitive Escape Analysis with Points-to Calculation for Golang OOPSLA 2024 Boyao Ding University of Science and Technology of China, Qingwei Li University of Science and Technology of China, Yu Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, Fugen Tang University of Science and Technology of China, Jinbao Chen University of Science and Technology of China DOI | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Newtonian Program Analysis of Probabilistic Programs OOPSLA 2024 DOI | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Non-Termination Proving at Scale OOPSLA 2024 Azalea Raad Imperial College London, Julien Vanegue Imperial College London; Bloomberg, Peter W. O'Hearn Lacework; University College London DOI | ||
15:00 20mTalk | Quantum Control Machine: The Limits of Control Flow in Quantum Programming OOPSLA 2024 Charles Yuan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Agnes Villanyi MIT CSAIL, Michael Carbin Massachusetts Institute of Technology DOI |