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Write a source sink analyzer

Yulei Sui edited this page Jul 20, 2015 · 16 revisions

Writing a source-sink analyzer becomes fairly easy on top of our interprocedure sparse value-flow graph (you may wish to refer to detailed code implementation in LeakCheck.cpp and ProgSlice.cpp as an example).

To compute boolean value-flow guards, we uses uses CUDD-2.5.0 package (Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs)) to encode path conditions.

  1. First, we need to build SVFG using Andersen's pointer analysis
PointerAnalysis* ander = AndersenWaveDiff::createAndersenWaveDiff(module);
svfg = new SVFGOPT(ptaCallGraph);
svfgbuilder.build(svfg,ander);
  1. Choose a set of candidate source and sink SVFGNodes
Simple code to iterate from a SVFGNode on SVFG
for(SVFGNode::const_iterator it = node->OutEdgeBegin(), eit = node->OutEdgeEnd(); it!=eit; ++it) {
}
  1. Perform all path reachable analysis using AllPathReachableSolve method (ProgSlice class) which computes value-flow guards via the following three methods iteratively util a fixed point is reached.
  • ComputeInterCallVFGGuard
  • ComputeInterRetVFGGuard
  • ComputeIntraVFGGuard