Translating C to safer Rust

Author:

Emre Mehmet1ORCID,Schroeder Ryan1,Dewey Kyle2ORCID,Hardekopf Ben1

Affiliation:

1. University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

2. California State University at Northridge, USA

Abstract

Rust is a relatively new programming language that targets efficient and safe systems-level applications. It includes a sophisticated type system that allows for provable memory- and thread-safety, and is explicitly designed to take the place of unsafe languages such as C and C++ in the coding ecosystem. There is a large existing C and C++ codebase (many of which have been affected by bugs and security vulnerabilities due to unsafety) that would benefit from being rewritten in Rust to remove an entire class of potential bugs. However, porting these applications to Rust manually is a daunting task. In this paper we investigate the problem of automatically translating C programs into safer Rust programs--that is, Rust programs that improve on the safety guarantees of the original C programs. We conduct an in-depth study into the underlying causes of unsafety in translated programs and the relative impact of fixing each cause. We also describe a novel technique for automatically removing a particular cause of unsafety and evaluate its effectiveness and impact. This paper presents the first empirical study of unsafety in translated Rust programs (as opposed to programs originally written in Rust) and also the first technique for automatically removing causes of unsafety in translated Rust programs.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Software

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