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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 1 May 2025 12:15 - 12:22 at 205 - Analysis 2

Memory leak bugs are a major problem in C/C++ programs. They occur when memory objects are not deallocated. Developers need to manually deallocate these objects to prevent memory leaks. As such, several techniques have been proposed to automatically fix memory leaks. Although proposed approaches have merit in automatically fixing memory leaks, they present limitations. Static-based approaches attempt to trace the complete semantics of memory object across all paths. However, they have scalability-related challenges when the target program has a large number of paths (path explosion). On the other hand, dynamic approaches can spell out precise semantics of memory object only on a single execution path (it does not consider multiple execution paths). In this paper, we complement prior approaches by designing and implementing a novel framework named AddressWatcher . AddressWatcher allows the semantics of a memory object to be tracked on multiple execution paths. Addresswatcher accomplishes this by using a leak database that allows one to store and compare different execution paths of a leak over several test cases. Also, AddressWatcher performs lightweight instrumentation during compile time that is utilized during the program execution to watch and track memory leak read/writes. We conduct an evaluation of AddressWatcher over five popular packages, namely binutils, openssh, tmux, openssl and git. In 23 out of 50 real-world memory leak bugs, AddressWatcher correctly points to a free location to fix memory leaks. Finally, we submit 25 Pull Requests across 12 popular OSS repositories using AddressWatcher suggestions. Among these, 21 were merged leading to 5 open issues being addressed. In fact, our critical fix prompted a new version release for the calc repository, a program used to find large primes. Furthermore, our contributions through these PRs sparked intense discussions and appreciation in various repositories such as coturn, h2o, and radare2.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 1 May

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
SIT: An accurate, compliant SBOM generator with incremental construction
Demonstrations
Changguo Jia Peking University, NIANYU LI ZGC Lab, China, Kai Yang School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Minghui Zhou Peking University
11:15
15m
Talk
Towards Better Static Analysis Bug Reports in the Clang Static Analyzer
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Kristóf Umann Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics, Dept. of Programming Languages and Compilers, Zoltán Porkoláb Ericsson
11:30
15m
Talk
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis
Journal-first Papers
Emanuela Guglielmi University of Molise, Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana, Rocco Oliveto University of Molise, Simone Scalabrino University of Molise
11:45
15m
Talk
LLM Driven Smart Assistant for Data Mapping
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Arihant Bedagkar Tata Consultancy Services, Sayandeep Mitra Tata Consultancy Services, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, Ravindra Naik TCS Research, TRDDC, India, Samiran Pal Tata Consultancy Services
12:00
15m
Talk
On the Diagnosis of Flaky Job Failures: Understanding and Prioritizing Failure Categories
SE In Practice (SEIP)
Henri Aïdasso École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Francis Bordeleau École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Ali Tizghadam TELUS
Pre-print
12:15
7m
Talk
AddressWatcher: Sanitizer-Based Localization of Memory Leak Fixes
Journal-first Papers
Aniruddhan Murali University of Waterloo, Mahmoud Alfadel University of Calgary, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo, Meng Xu University of Waterloo, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo
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