Automatically Finding and Patching Bad Error Handling

Bad error handling is the cause of many service outages. We address this problem by a novel approach to detect and patch bad error handling automatically. Our approach uses error injection to detect bad error handling and static analysis of binary code to determine which type of patch can be instantiated. We describe several measurements regarding the effectiveness of our approach to detect and patch bad error handling in several open source programs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EDCC
• Authors: Martin Süßkraut, Christof Fetzer
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Approach Uses Error, EDCC 2006, Open Source Programs, Service Outages