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since the pre-6.0 period and nobody else has been doing the work. There's a lot of things whose current state I don't know; please fill in. Also the stuff I've added is necessarily biased towards projects I think about, so please add more.
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$NetBSD: verification,v 1.1 2017/01/13 10:14:58 dholland Exp $
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NetBSD Verification Roadmap
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===========================
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This roadmap covers things that we intend or would like to do pursuant
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to verification and quality control.
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The following elements, projects, and goals are relatively near-term:
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1. Cut down the Coverity backlog
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2. Deploy asan/ubsan
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3. Deploy clang-static-analyzer
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The following elements, projects, and goals are longer-term:
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4. mint
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5. Database-driven program analyzer
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The following elements, projects, and goals are rather blue-sky so far:
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6. Use Frama-C to verify fsck_ffs
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Explanations
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1. Cut down the Coverity backlog
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Coverity provides us with free analysis reports, which we sometimes
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handle and sometimes don't. Apparently though Linux has a lower number
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of Coverity hits per line than we do; that seems fundamentally wrong
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and something that should get attention. Most of the problems Coverity
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finds are pretty easily fixed, or are false positives.
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- As of January 2017 coypu has been working on this. Christos often
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also fixes these.
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- There is currently no clear timeframe or release target.
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- Contact christos for further information.
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2. Deploy asan/ubsan
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It ought to be possible to build any program in NetBSD, or the whole
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world, using asan and/or ubsan. Currently there isn't an easy way to
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do this. We should also do regular test runs with asan and ubsan
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engaged.
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- As of January 2017 nobody is known to be working on this.
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- There is currently no clear timeframe or release target.
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- Contact joerg (?) for further information.
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3. Deploy clang-static-analyzer
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There is some makefile support for running clang-static-analyzer, but
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it doesn't get done regularly. This should probably get added to the
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autobuilds.
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- As of January 2017 nobody is known to be working on this.
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- There is currently no clear timeframe or release target.
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- Contact joerg for further information.
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4. mint
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A while back dholland started on a replacement for the existing lint,
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since lint is not really smart enough to be useful and its code is
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only marginally maintainable. The code is in othersrc, but it needs
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some tidying before anyone else tries hacking on it.
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- As of January 2017 nobody is known to be working on this.
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- There is currently no clear timeframe or release target.
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- Responsible: dholland
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5. Database-driven program analyzer
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In the long run we would like to have a program analyzer that can
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scale to the whole kernel and can do differential analyses across
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different versions. This is a nontrivial project though.
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- As of January 2017 nobody is known to be working on this.
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- There is currently no clear timeframe or release target.
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- Contact: dholland
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6. Use Frama-C to verify fsck_ffs
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Frama-C is a framework for doing formal verification of C code using
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(mostly) precondition/postcondition specs. It is not everything one
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necessarily wants in a verification framework; but on the other hand
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it exists and people do use it.
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fsck_ffs seems like a good candidate for this because it's
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mission-critical and what it needs to do is comparatively well
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understood even in detail. However, the code may be too messy.
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- As of January 2017 nobody is known to be working on this.
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- There is currently no clear timeframe or release target.
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- Contact: dholland
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