| Publication Title: |
Enhancing Availability and Security Through Failure-Oblivious Computing |
| Publication Author: |
Rinard, Martin |
| Additional Authors: |
Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dumitran, Daniel M. Roy, William S. Beebee Jr. |
| LCS Document Number: |
MIT-LCS-TR-935 |
| Publication Date: |
2-6-2004 |
| LCS Group: |
Computer Architecture |
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| Abstract: |
| We present a new technique, failure-oblivious computing,
that enables programs to continue to execute through memory
errors without memory corruption. Our safe compiler
for C inserts checks that dynamically detect invalid memory
accesses. Instead of terminating the execution or throwing
an exception, the generated code simply discards invalid
writes and manufactures values to return for invalid reads,
enabling the program to continue its normal execution.
We have applied failure-oblivious computing to a set of
widely-used programs that are part of the Linux-based opensource
interactive computing environment. Our results show
that our techniques 1) make these programs invulnerable
to known security attacks that exploit memory errors, and
2) enable the programs to continue to operate successfully
to service legitimate requests and satisfy the needs of their
users even after attacks trigger their memory errors. |
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