Experience report: seL4: formally verifying a high-performance microkernel

We report on our experience using Haskell as an executable specification language in the formal verification of the seL4 microkernel. fication connects an abstract operational specification in the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL to a C implementation of the microkernel. We describe how this project differs from other efforts, and examine the effect of using Haskell in a large-scale formal verification. The kernel comprises 8,700 lines of C code; the verification more than 150,000 lines of proof script. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.4 [Software Engineer

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICFP
• Authors: Gerwin Klein, Philip Derrin, Kevin Elphinstone
• Keywords: Abstract Operational Specification, ICFP 2009, Large-scale Formal Verification, Programming Languages, Theorem Prover Isabelle/hol