Department of Computer Science and Technology

TESLA

Demos

demos/smoketest

The 'demos/smoketest' directory contains an example of how TESLA assertions can be written in C code. If you run it as-is:

$ cd demos/smoketest $ ./run.demo # without TESLA TESLA demo application; version 7329b3b Calling the 'example_syscall' function... 'example_syscall' returned 0 $ ./run.demo -D TESLA # with TESLA TESLA demo application; version 7329b3b Calling the 'example_syscall' function... [CALE] example_syscall 0x7fff4fcaf5b8 0 0 [CALE] hold 0x10ff58300 [FSET] struct.object.refcount 0x10ff58300 1 0x10ff58300 [RETE] hold 0x10ff58300 [RETE] get_object 0 0x7fff4fcaf548 0 [RETR] DES_set_key 0x7fff4fcaf568 0x7fff4fcaf4c0 0 [CALE] security_check 0x7fff4fcaf5b8 0x10ff58300 0 [RETE] security_check 0x7fff4fcaf5b8 0x10ff58300 0 0 [RETE] some_helper 0 0 [CALE] void_helper 0x10ff58300 [NOW] automaton 4 267748096 0 [NOW] automaton 5 [NOW] automaton 6 267748096 [NOW] automaton 7 267748096 [NOW] automaton 8 267748096 [NOW] automaton 9 267748096 [NOW] automaton 10 267748096 0 [NOW] automaton 11 267748096 0 [NOW] automaton 3 1338701160 1338700992 [RETE] log_audit_record 0x10ff58300 0 0 [CALE] release 0x10ff58300 [FSET] struct.object.refcount 0x10ff58300 0 0x10ff58300 [RETE] release 0x10ff58300 [RETE] example_syscall 0x7fff4fcaf5b8 0 0 0

This just shows that the 'demo' application runs normally. If, however, you comment out line 96 of example.c (which calls the security_check() function):

--- a/demos/smoketest/example.c +++ b/demos/smoketest/example.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ example_syscall(struct credential *cred, int index, int op) crypto_setup(&des_key, &key_schedule); - if ((error = security_check(cred, o, op))) return error; +// if ((error = security_check(cred, o, op))) return error; some_helper(op); void_helper(o); perform_operation(op, o);

... you should see an error when you run the 'demo' application:

$ ./run.demo -D TESLA TESLA demo application; version 7329b3b (dirty) Calling the 'example_syscall' function... [...] [NOW] automaton 4 117814016 0 TESLA failure: In automaton 'example.c:45#0': automaton 4 { state 0 (X,X): --(example_syscall(X,X,X): Entry <<init>>)-->(1) state 1 (X,X): --(security_check(X,o,op) == 0: o op)-->(2) --(example_syscall(X,X,X) == X)-->(3) state 2 (o,op): --(security_check(X,o,op) == 0: op)-->(2) --(example_syscall(X,X,X) == X)-->(3) --(NOW)-->(4) state 3 (o,op): state 4 (o,op): --(example_syscall(X,X,X) == X <<cleanup>>)-->(3) } smoketest: No instance matched key '0x3 [ 10705b300 0 X X ]' for transition(s) [ (2:0x3 -> 4:0x3) ]

This shows that, when we reach the assertion site for automaton 4, we detect that a transition (the security_check event) was missed.