Data races occur when multiple threads are about to access the same piece of memory, and at least one of those accesses is a write. Such races can lead to hard-to-reproduce bugs t...
This paper shows how system-speci c static analysis can nd security errors that violate rules such as \integers from untrusted sources must be sanitized before use" and \do n...
This paper describes an efficient and robust approach to provide a safe execution environment for an entire operating system, such as Linux, and all its applications. The approach...
John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, ...
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
Software continually changes due to performance improvements, new requirements, bug fixes, and adaptation to a changing operational environment. Common changes include modificatio...
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jennifer Beva...