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Towards a Formal Semantics for System Calls in terms of Information Flow

Laurent Georget 1 Guillaume Piolle 1 Frédéric Tronel 1 Valérie Viet Triem Tong 1 Mathieu Jaume 2
1 CIDRE - Confidentialité, Intégrité, Disponibilité et Répartition
CentraleSupélec, Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique , IRISA-D1 - SYSTÈMES LARGE ÉCHELLE
2 MoVe - Modélisation et Vérification
LIP6 - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
Abstract : We propose a new semantics for system calls, which focuses on the information flows they generate in a UNIX OS. We built a prototypal model of an OS and system calls using the concurrent transaction logic along with its interpreter. We have yet a few results and applications that show the usefulness of our semantics to model an OS from a kernel point of view. Once completed, we expect our semantics to enable us to extensively test security software implemented inside the kernel, among other use cases.
Keywords : operating systems security system calls information flow
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Laurent Georget, Guillaume Piolle, Frédéric Tronel, Valérie Viet Triem Tong, Mathieu Jaume. Towards a Formal Semantics for System Calls in terms of Information Flow. Tenth International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2015), Apr 2015, Barcelone, Spain. pp.1-4. ⟨hal-01149471⟩

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