Property-directed inference of universal invariants or proving their absence

A. Karbyshev*, N. Bjørner, S. Itzhaky, N. Rinetzky, S. Shoham

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Abstract

We present Universal Property Directed Reachability (PDR), a property-directed procedure for automatic inference of invariants in a universal fragment of first-order logic. PDR is an extension of Bradley’s PDR/IC3 algorithm for inference of propositional invariants. PDR terminates when it either discovers a concrete counterexample, infers an inductive universal invariant strong enough to establish the desired safety property, or finds a proof that such an invariant does not exist. We implemented an analyzer based on PDR, and applied it to a collection of list-manipulating programs. Our analyzer was able to automatically infer universal invariants strong enough to establish memory safety and certain functional correctness properties, show the absence of such invariants for certain natural programs and specifications, and detect bugs. All this, without the need for user-supplied abstraction predicates.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Aided Verification - 27th International Conference, CAV 2015, Proceedings
EditorsCorina S. Pasareanu, Daniel Kroening, Corina S. Pasareanu, Daniel Kroening
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages583-602
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783319216898, 9783319216898
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2015 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 18 Jul 201524 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9206
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period18/07/1524/07/15

Funding

FundersFunder number
Broadcom Foundation
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
European Commission
Tel Aviv University
European Research Council321174-VSSC
European Research Council321174
Seventh Framework ProgrammeFP7/2007-2013
Seventh Framework Programme308830
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2012259

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