Detecting and tolerating data corruptions due to device driver defects

Author

Fucci, Francesco

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. Elettr. e delle Tecnol. dell´Inf. (DIETI), Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

24-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Critical systems widely depend on operating systems to perform their mission. Device drivers are a critical and defect-prone part of operating systems. Software defects in device drivers often cause corruption of data that may lead to data losses, that are a significant source of costs for large enterprise systems. This paper describes an ongoing research that aims at mitigating the impact of data corruption due to device driver defects on the availability and the integrity of data. We discuss a methodology for run-time detection and the tolerance of protocol violations in device drivers and then we present a preliminary activity that we are currently performing.

Keywords

data integrity; device drivers; program debugging; software fault tolerance; critical systems; data corruption detection; data corruption tolerance; data integrity; device driver defects; enterprise systems; operating systems; protocol violations; run-time detection; runtime detection; software defects; Instruments; Kernel; Linux; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Data Corruption; Device Drivers; Fault Tolerance; Operating Systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable Systems and Networks Workshop (DSN-W), 2013 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

2325-6648

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSNW.2013.6615522

Filename

6615522