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Deductive Verification of a Hypervisor Model

Gilles Grimaud
Michaël Hauspie

Résumé

We propose a deductive-verification approach for proving partial-correctness and invariance properties on arbitrary transition systems, and demonstrate it on a security hypervisor model for machine code. Regarding partial correctness, we generalise the recently-introduced formalism of Reachability Logic, currently used as a language-parametric program logic, to arbitrary transition systems. We propose a sound and relatively-complete proof system for the resulting logic. The soundness of the proof system is formally established in the Coq proof assistant, and the mechanised proof provides us with a generic Reachability-Logic prover within Coq for transition-system specifications. The relative completeness of the proof system, although theoretical in nature, also has a practical value, as it induces a proof strategy that is guaranteed to prove all valid formulas on a given transition system. The strategy reduces partial-correctness verification to invariant verification; for the latter we propose an incremental technique in order to deal with the case-explosion problem. All these various techniques were instrumental in enabling us to deal with a nontrivial case study: proving that a Coq model of a security hypervisor meets its expected requirements, expressed as invariants and partial-correctness properties, within reasonable time and effort limits. We also report on some experiments with a C+ARM assembly implementation of our hypervisor in order to confirm the fact that it introduces a limited amount of execution-time overhead to operating-system calls.
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hal-01614509 , version 1 (11-10-2017)
hal-01614509 , version 2 (17-10-2017)

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Vlad Rusu, Gilles Grimaud, Michaël Hauspie, François Serman. Deductive Verification of a Hypervisor Model. 2017. ⟨hal-01614509v2⟩
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