Verifying Rust Implementation of Page Tables in a Software Enclave Hypervisor
Zhenyang Dai, Shuang Liu, Vilhelm Sjöberg, Xupeng Li, Yu Chen, Wenhao Wang, Yuekai Jia, Sean Noble Anderson, Laila Elbeheiry, Shubham Sondhi, Yu Zhang, Zhaozhong Ni
Abstract
As trusted execution environments (TEE) have become the corner stone for secure cloud computing, it is critical that they are reliable and enforce proper isolation, of which a key ingredient is spatial isolation. Many TEEs are implemented in software such as hypervisors for flexibility, and in a memory-safe language, namely Rust to alleviate potential memory bugs. Still, even if memory bugs are absent from the TEE, it may contain semantic errors such as mis-configurations in its memory subsystem which breaks spatial isolation.
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