# Comprehensive formal verification of an OS microkernel

@article{Klein2014ComprehensiveFV,
title={Comprehensive formal verification of an OS microkernel},
author={Gerwin Klein and June Andronick and Kevin Elphinstone and Toby C. Murray and Thomas Sewell and Rafal Kolanski and Gernot Heiser},
journal={ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.},
year={2014},
volume={32},
pages={2:1-2:70}
}
• Published 1 February 2014
• Computer Science
• ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.
We present an in-depth coverage of the comprehensive machine-checked formal verification of seL4, a general-purpose operating system microkernel. We discuss the kernel design we used to make its verification tractable. We then describe the functional correctness proof of the kernel's C implementation and we cover further steps that transform this result into a comprehensive formal verification of the kernel: a formally verified IPC fastpath, a proof that the binary code of the kernel correctly…
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