125 results about "Stack overflow" patented technology

A microprocessor includes a central processing unit, at least one call stack, a stack pointer, an address bus, and a data bus. The microprocessor further includes a hardware monitor configured to supply protection codes, insert the protection codes in the stack or let the central processing unit insert them, and then generate an error signal in response to an attempt to modify a protection code present in the stack.

The present invention has an objective of minimizing deterioration of the processing speed of a Java accelerator device even when stack overflow occurs in a stack memory unit.

A first thread presently allocated to a first stack area of a stack memory unit 113 to which a fourth thread belongs is saved in a virtual stack area of a main storage medium 103. Thereafter, the data of the fourth thread as stack data to be switched is copied to the first stack area of the stack memory unit 113 by the controller unit 112 (accelerator device 101).

The invention discloses a highly-available contract executing method, which includes steps of (1), compiling an intelligent contract code according to contract information, wherein the intelligent contract code comprises more than maximum stack depth number of local variables, parameters or structure bodies; (2), performing grammar semantic parsing on the intelligent contract code, and generatinga corresponding abstract grammar tree; (3), converting the abstract grammar tree data structure to be a binary byte assembly code sequence and an related order; (4), explaining and executing the byteassembly code sequence by a contract virtual machine. Specific to the problems that the stack is easy to overflow and a stack element cannot be visited at random, the original intelligent contract design adopts an avoiding plan of small stack depth and exchangeable different storage spaces ordinarily; through the plan of realizing the order visit at random by the contract encoder and the virtual machine, the stack overflow is prevented and the random visit of the stack element can be realized. More complex available intelligent contract can be operated on the system; the cost for contract writing, compilation, and execution is lower.

The invention provides run-time support for efficient simulation of digital hardware in a software development enviromnent, facilitating combined hardware/software co-simulation. The run-time support includes threads of execution that minimize stack storage requirements and reduce memory-related run-time processing requirements. The invention implements shared processor stack areas, including the sharing of a stack storage area among multiple threads, storing each thread's stack data in a designated area in compressed form while the thread is suspended. The thread's stack data is uncompressed and copied back onto a processor stack area when the thread is reactivated. A mapping of simulation model instances to stack storage is determined so as to minimize a cost function of memory and CPU run-time, to reduce the risk of stack overflow, and to reduce the impact of blocking system calls on simulation model execution. The invention also employs further memory compaction and a method for reducing CPU branch mis-prediction.

Provided is a method and apparatus for preventing a stack overflow in an embedded system. The method of preventing a stack overflow includes: reading a maximum stack usage of at least one function for executing a requested operation from maximum stack usages of functions provided from a kernel, which are stored in advance; and processing the requested operation on the basis of the read maximum stack usage of the at least one function and a size of a usable region in a stack for the requested operation. Accordingly, the stack overflow can be prevented without generating a run-time overhead.

The invention discloses a method of monitoring the overflow of a task stack, comprising the steps as follows: a memory space positioned in the area of the tail end of the task stack is conformed and is set to have a read only attribute; the abnormal interrupt of address access of an operating system is monitored; when the abnormal interrupt of address access of the operating system is monitored, whether the task of the abnormal interrupt of address access stack overflows is judged. The method can monitor the overflow of the task stack real-time and avoid causing damage to other tasks because of the overflow of the task stack.

The invention discloses a method and a device for the real-time detection of task stack overflow, relating to the computer operating system field. The method comprises the following steps that: when task stack is allocated, memories in the part adjacent to the top of task stack are set to be an isolation region, and the attribute of the isolation region is set to be non-writable; in the process of pressing the task stack, if stack pressing operation carries out write operation to the isolation region, the task stack is judged to be overflowing. The invention also discloses a device for the real-time detection of task stack overflow. A technical proposal of the invention positions tasks generating stack overflow, and can position concrete positions causing stack overflow by analyzing the stack of the tasks.

The invention discloses a stack overflow attack defense method, which belongs to the field of security guarantee of a computer system. The method comprises the following steps of: a) positioning a function with potential stack overflow defect in a program; b) before the function is executed, encrypting a return address to obtain first encrypted message by using a key register and storing the encrypted message; and c) before the function is returned, encrypting the return address to obtain second encrypted message by using the key register likewise, and if the first encrypted message and the second encrypted message are different, showing that the stack overflow attack exists. The method can be used for stack overflow attack defense, and is applicable in multiple fields of aerospace, finance, manufacture, communication, energy, medicinal treatment, education and the like.

An operating system (OS) is used in a system with a processor that includes embedded real-time analysis components. The OS includes software objects which provide functionality in response to signals from the embedded real-time analysis components. In an example embodiment, the OS is a real-time OS (RTOS), the embedded real-time analysis components include an embedded event trigger component, and the software objects include a debug object that responds to signals from the embedded event trigger component. For instance, those signals may relate to program flow, data flow, or a hardware operation such as a cache miss, and the debug object may be a breakpoint handler, a trace handler, or an event sequence handler. In the example embodiment, the software objects in the RTOS provide functionality such as stack overflow detection, real-time task priority modification, and/or system scheduling error assertion for a real-time application. Alternative embodiments involve related methods and systems.

The invention discloses a software fault tolerance method facing cloud platform. The method comprises the following steps: testing stress of software to be protected to obtain rescue point of the software; periodically constructing software check points in a virtual machine to determine whether a fault exists in the software; acquiring software fault related information if the fault exists; judging whether the fault is stack overflow fault according to the software fault related information; judging whether function call stack information matching the fault exists in a loophole rescue table if the fault is stack overflow fault; extracting the function stack information if the function call stack information matching the fault exists in a loophole rescue table; rolling the software back to a check point closest to the fault; acquiring candidate rescue points according to the function call stack information; and testing the candidate rescue points according to weight of the candidate rescue points to obtain the optimum rescue point with fault tolerance. The soft fault tolerance method provided by the invention can effectively improve the fault tolerant capability of software, and can lower data redundancy caused by the fault tolerance mechanism.

The invention provides a stack overflow protection method, by inserting a buffer into the stack, and filling the buffer with filling characters in the format of "fixed character string + random character string" or "random character string+fixed character string" String, and check the filling value in the buffer when the stack is released, which solves the problem of poor defense against stack overflow vulnerabilities, thereby reducing the risk of attackers using stack overflow vulnerabilities to damage the system. The invention also includes a stack overflow protection device.

A method of detecting stack overflows includes the following steps: storing in at least one dedicated register at least one data item chosen from: a data item (SPHaut) indicating a maximum permitted value for a stack pointer, and a data item (SPBas) indicating a minimum permitted value for said stack pointer; effecting a comparison between a current value (SP) or past value (SPMin, SPMax) of said stack pointer and said data item or each of said data items; and generating a stack overflow exception if said comparison indicates that said current or past value of said stack pointer is greater than said maximum permitted value or less than said minimum permitted value. A processor for implementing such a method is also provided.

The interrupt management method for embedded operation system based on PowerPC system structure includes the following steps: dividing interrupts into two classes of system interrupt and user interrupt and dividing user interrupt service programs into class-I interrupt service program and class-II interrupt service program; first hardware responding the user interrupt; then, maintaining the context, stack switching and interrupt nesting for resuming the interrupted task after interrupt treatment; finding out and calling corresponding interrupt service program from the user interrupt vector list via the interrupt source; and maintaining the interrupt nesting and stack switching, restoring the context for the treater to resume the interrupted task. The present invention has the advantages of raised interrupt executing efficiency, raised interrupt utilizing efficiency, convenient interrupt control and use, raised user stack size controllability and predicting property.

The invention discloses a stack overflow detection method, a device and a computer system for tasks stack overflow , belonging to a stack processing technology, which is characterized in that: the detection method for the stack overflow of the tasks comprises steps as follows: detection space is arranged at the top of the task stack; data in the detection space is provided with read-only attribute; by detecting whether task exists and tries to modify the data with read-only attribute, the task stack overflows are judged. Adopting the technical proposal, the invention has the advantages of no need for extra timing detection or timing interruption for detection stack overflow of the tasks, and saving limited system resources.

The invention provides a method for detecting stack space allowance on real time, and aims at solving the technical problems that most of the existing engine control software in domestic completely have one stack space which is shared by all tasks or interrupting processing operations, and the stack space and other data areas share the internal memory, thus stack overflowing caused by any function process can even damage the resource of the whole system and leads to the breakdown of the whole system. The method can detect the use condition of the stack space and whether the stack overflows, and the sue condition of the stack can be reported to the application software on real time; if the application software finds that the use of the stack exceeds the specified limit, corresponding measures can be carried out, and thus, the strength of the software can be improved.

The invention belongs to the field of information retrieval, and discloses an API information retrieval method for natural language form and based on lecture notes and Stack Overflow. The method comprises: constructing an API-KI library of API and knowledge items and performing extraction, the API-KI library comprising API and lecture segment API-segment pairs, API and question and answer sheet API-Q&A pairs; analyzing the questions in the natural language form, and obtaining potential APIs corresponding to the questions; identifying related API-KI using a relative identification mode TDML; performing potential APIs with related API-KI pair to generate a candidate list, carrying out descending sorting on the candidate list according to a sorting strategy, and finally returning the sorted API-KI list as a question answer. According to the retrieval method provided by the invention, information of API lecture and SO is integrated, the retrieval precision is effectively improved, and moreuseful API related knowledge can be provided for developers.

The invention discloses a method for protecting against ROP attacking and stack overflow based on simulated stacks and thread injecting, and relates to the technical field of protection of ROP attacking. According to the technical scheme, the technical problems are solved in the prior art that ROP vicious codes without commands can bypass stack-overflow protection since a program loading position is fixed and the stack overflow occurs when remote threads utilized in using the simulated stacks to monitor a target progress are injected. The method comprises the steps of using the threads to inject the threads into the target progress (the progress which needs to be protected), opening up a simulated stack space, monitoring a command procedure which simulates the target progress, conducting execution on the simulated stacks by obtaining effective code strings among call commands and ret commands attached by ROP, and then achieving the purpose of detecting ROP attacking by using a traditional overflow protection mechanism.

The invention relates to a method and device for detecting the stack overflow position. The method and device are used for rapidly and conveniently detecting the stack overflow position. The method comprises the steps that before a function to be detected is executed, the initial value of a randomly initialized figure in a program is determined, wherein the randomly initialized figure is located at the bite alignment address which is closest to and in front of the last element of an array buffering area of the program; the function to be detected is executed, and after the function to be detected is executed, the current value of the randomly initialized figure is obtained; whether the current value and the initial value are equal or not is judged; if the current value is equal to the initial value, it is determined that stack overflow does not happen to the function to be detected; if the current value is not equal to the initial value, it is determined that stack overflow happens to the function to be detected. By the adoption of the method, the stack overflow position can be rapidly and conveniently detected out.

The invention discloses a task stack overflow detection algorithm for an SPARC (scalable processor architecture) platform. The detection algorithm is characterized by comprising the following steps of maintaining an independent variable current_stack_max for each task, and recording the maximum usage of a current stack, wherein an initial value of the maximum usage is 0; initializing a task stack to be 0 during task creation; reserving allowance of which the size is the same as that of an empty function stack frame at the top of the task stack, and determining overflow if the usage of the stack exceeds the allowance. The algorithm is accurate and high in efficiency, an application developer can be effectively helped to reasonably allocate the task stack size, and the reliability and the security of a system are improved.

Mark stack overflow list. A method may be practiced in a computing environment including application code that implements garbage collection functionality. The garbage collection functionality includes pushing object references onto a mark stack, such that objects referenced on the mark stack can be marked so as to prevent memory for the objects from being recycled for use with other objects instances. The method includes acts for handling overflows of a mark stack. The method includes accessing a reference to an object. The object is processed by attempting to enumerate references to other objects from the object onto a mark stack. An overflow condition of the mark stack is detected for a referenced other object. A reference to the referenced other object is placed on an overflow list. References from the overflow list are processed.

The invention discloses a stack overflow detection system and method and relates to the technical field of computers. The detection system comprises a first initialization module, a stack overflow detection module and an exception handling module, wherein the first initialization module is arranged at an output port of each task creation function of an executable file and used for acquiring basicinformation of a stack during task creation; the stack overflow detection module is arranged at an input port of each task execution function of the executable file and used for judging whether stackoverflow occurs according to an SP value corresponding to a current execution instruction of the task execution function and the basic information of the stack of the function; the exception handlingmodule is used for recording a judgment result of the stack overflow detection module and recalling illegally covered memory space addresses when stack overflow occurs. Stack overflow can be detectedaccurately in the first time, missing can be avoided, the probably illegally modified memory area beyond stack space can be reminded during stack overflow, and the stack space cost is saved.

A system and method for monitoring a memory stack size is provided, and more particularly, a method for monitoring a memory stack size, whereby the size of a memory stack applied to an operating system of a controller for a vehicle is monitored so that an overflow phenomenon of the memory stack can be prevented. That is, an accurate usage amount of a memory stack of the entire control system for a hybrid vehicle is efficiently and effectively monitored so that, when the control system reaches a risk level of stack overflow, fail-safe logic is executed and an overflow phenomenon of the memory stack as a result can be prevented.

The invention discloses a device and a method conducting floating-point stack overflow check on a non-complex instruction set computer processor. The device comprises a floating-point register stack, which comprises a plurality of stack registers, which can conduct floating-point calculation; an overflow check register used for stack overflow exceptional check when conducting floating-point access, which comprises a plurality of bits corresponding to the stack registers, and all the bits separately indicate the states of corresponding stack registers; a stack overflow judge module, which is used for checking the stack registers in the specified floating-point register stack, conducting operation to the overflow check register in accordance with the values of the stack registers, and carry out the floating-point stack overflow check. The invention can greatly reduce the workload and improve efficiency of a virtual machine.

Said method includes 1, compiler analysing scanning original program, generating program function call list for optimizing unreel function; 2, compiler detecting code and stack use state in function inserting operation, and feeding back information for processing code in inserting operation; 3, compiler processing code in functional inserting stack operation; 4, adopting functional unreel technology optimizing inserted code in function. The present invention does not insert code in nested function, greatly reduces code quantity, capable of dynamically detecting warehouse space in application program operation and doing relevant processing, excluding overflow possibility to ensure system safe operation.