EBA is a prototype bug finder for C based on side-effect analysis and model-checking.
For now, you can use it to find double-lock bugs in the Linux kernel, e.g.:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
cd linux
make allyesconfig
scripts/eba-linux.sh drivers/net
The script will find all C source files under drivers/
, call CPP on them, and call EBA to find potential double-locks. Be patient, this may take several hours.
If EBA finds some potential bug in path/to/file.c
, it will write the bug traces in _eba/path/to/file.warn
:
find _eba/ -iname '*.warn'
It combines side-effect analysis and model-checking, check the website for more info: http://www.iagoabal.eu/eba/
Yes, it really does, check the website for more info: http://www.iagoabal.eu/eba/
See the Installation instructions.
If you want to run the tests you will need to install cram, for instance using pip:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install cram
You should place eba somewhere in your $PATH:
cram test/*.t