Proving Partial-Correctness and Invariance Properties of Transition-System Models

Rusu, Vlad; Grimaud, Gilles; Hauspie, Michaël

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.1016/j.scico.2019.102342

Title :

Proving Partial-Correctness and Invariance Properties of Transition-System Models

Author(s) :

Rusu, Vlad [Auteur]

Inria Lille - Nord Europe
Grimaud, Gilles [Auteur]

Université de Lille
Hauspie, Michaël [Auteur]

Université de Lille

Journal title :

Science of Computer Programming

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2020-02-01

ISSN :

0167-6423

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Systèmes embarqués
Informatique [cs]/Logique en informatique [cs.LO]

English abstract : [en]

We propose an approach for proving partial-correctness and invariance properties of transition systems, and illustrate it on a model of a security hypervisor. Regarding partial correctness, we generalise the recently ...
Show more >We propose an approach for proving partial-correctness and invariance properties of transition systems, and illustrate it on a model of a security hypervisor. Regarding partial correctness, we generalise the recently introduced formalism of Reachability Logic, currently used as a language-parametric logic for programs, to transition systems. We propose a coinductive proof system for the resulting logic, which can be seen as performing an “infinite symbolic execution” of the transition-system model under verification. We embed the proof system in the Coq proof assistant and formally prove its soundness and completeness. The soundness result provides us with a Coq-certified Reachability-Logic prover for transition-system models. The completeness result, although more theoretical in nature, also has a practical value, as it suggests a proof strategythat is able to deal with all valid formulas on a given transition system. The complete proof strategy reduces partial correctness to invariance. Forthe latter we propose an incremental verification technique for dealing with the case-explosion problem that is known to affect it. All these combined techniques were instrumental in enabling us to prove, within reasonable time and effort limits, that the nontrivial algorithm implemented in a simple hypervisor that we designed in earlier work meets its expected functional requirements.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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