Publications related to Memory safety

SoK: Shining Light on Shadow Stacks

Control-Flow Hijacking attacks are the dominant attack vector against C/C++ programs. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) solutions mitigate these attacks on the forward edge, i.e., indirect calls through function pointers and virtual calls. Protecting the backwa ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Initialization patterns in Dotty

Martin Odersky, Fengyun Liu

Safe object initialization is important to avoid a category of runtime errors in programming languages. In this paper, we provide a case study of the initialization patterns on the Dotty compiler. In particular, we find that calling dynamic-dispatching met ...

2018

Detailed Heap Profiling

James Richard Larus, Stuart Anthony Byma

Modern software systems heavily use the memory heap. As systems grow more complex and compute with increasing amounts of data, it can be difficult for developers to understand how their programs actually use the bytes that they allocate on the heap and whe ...

ACM2018

Detailed heap profiling

James Richard Larus, Stuart Anthony Byma

Modern software systems heavily use the memory heap. As systems grow more complex and compute with increasing amounts of data, it can be difficult for developers to understand how their programs actually use the bytes that they allocate on the heap and whe ...

ACM2018

LMS-Verify: Abstraction without Regret for Verified Systems Programming’

Tiark Rompf, Nada Amin

Performance critical software is almost always developed in C, as programmers do not trust high-level languages to deliver the same reliable performance. This is bad because low-level code in unsafe languages attracts security vulnerabilities and because d ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

SMT-Based Checking of Predicate-Qualified Types for Scala

Viktor Kuncak, Georg Stefan Schmid

We present qualified types for Scala, a form of refinement types adapted to the Scala language. Qualified types allow users to refine base types and classes using predicate expressions. We implemented a type checker for qualified types that is embedded in ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

SABRes: Atomic Object Reads for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing

Babak Falsafi, Edouard Bugnion, Boris Robert Grot, Alexandros Daglis, Stanko Novakovic, Dmitrii Ustiugov

Modern in-memory services rely on large distributed object stores to achieve the high scalability essential to service thousands of requests concurrently. The independent and unpredictable nature of incoming requests results in random accesses to the objec ...

Ieee2016

Asynchronous memory access chaining

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Yusuf Onur Koçberber

In-memory databases rely on pointer-intensive data structures to quickly locate data in memory. A single lookup operation in such data structures often exhibits long-latency memory stalls due to dependent pointer dereferences. Hiding the memory latency by ...

2015

Techniques for Detection, Root Cause Diagnosis, and Classification of In-Production Concurrency Bugs

Baris Can Cengiz Kasikci

Concurrency bugs are at the heart of some of the worst bugs that plague software. Concurrency bugs slow down software development because it can take weeks or even months before developers can identify and fix them. In-production detection, root cause ...

EPFL2015

Back to the Future: Fault-tolerant Live Update with Time-traveling State Transfer

Calin Iorgulescu

Live update is a promising solution to bridge the need to frequently update a software system with the pressing demand for high availability in mission-critical environments. While many research solutions have been proposed over the years, systems that all ...

The USENIX Association2013

Memory safety

SoK: Shining Light on Shadow Stacks

Initialization patterns in Dotty

Detailed Heap Profiling

Detailed heap profiling

LMS-Verify: Abstraction without Regret for Verified Systems Programming’

SMT-Based Checking of Predicate-Qualified Types for Scala

SABRes: Atomic Object Reads for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing

Asynchronous memory access chaining

Techniques for Detection, Root Cause Diagnosis, and Classification of In-Production Concurrency Bugs

Back to the Future: Fault-tolerant Live Update with Time-traveling State Transfer

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SMT-Based Checking of Predicate-Qualified Types for Scala

LMS-Verify: Abstraction without Regret for Verified Systems Programming’

Asynchronous memory access chaining

Initialization patterns in Dotty

SoK: Shining Light on Shadow Stacks

Detailed heap profiling

Detailed Heap Profiling

Techniques for Detection, Root Cause Diagnosis, and Classification of In-Production Concurrency Bugs

Back to the Future: Fault-tolerant Live Update with Time-traveling State Transfer

SABRes: Atomic Object Reads for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing