Concurrent incorrectness separation logic

Incorrectness separation logic (ISL) was recently introduced as a theory of under-approximate reasoning, with the goal of proving that compositional bug catchers find actual bugs. However, ISL only considers sequential programs. Here, we develop concurrent incorrectness separation logic (CISL), whic...

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Published in:	Proceedings of ACM on programming languages Vol. 6; no. POPL; pp. 1 - 29
Main Authors:	Raad, Azalea, Berdine, Josh, Dreyer, Derek, O'Hearn, Peter W.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	01.01.2022
ISSN:	2475-1421, 2475-1421
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Summary:	Incorrectness separation logic (ISL) was recently introduced as a theory of under-approximate reasoning, with the goal of proving that compositional bug catchers find actual bugs. However, ISL only considers sequential programs. Here, we develop concurrent incorrectness separation logic (CISL), which extends ISL to account for bug catching in concurrent programs. Inspired by the work on Views, we design CISL as a parametric framework, which can be instantiated for a number of bug catching scenarios, including race detection, deadlock detection, and memory safety error detection. For each instance, the CISL meta-theory ensures the soundness of incorrectness reasoning for free, thereby guaranteeing that the bugs detected are true positives.
ISSN:	2475-1421 2475-1421
DOI:	10.1145/3498695