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x_crc32_ref
crc32 and crc32_z equal the bit-by-bit CRC-32 of RFC 1952 for any starting value and any buffer of up to 1 MiB, also when split into two calls; with a Z_NULL buffer they return 0; get_crc_table returns the CRC of every byte value.
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The spec
The spec is the C program harness/x_crc32_ref.c, 47 lines, shown whole as it is in the repository at 37189f4. It includes harness/zlib_common.h (155 lines). Its first comment states the property in full, with every bound.
// Law crc32_ref: crc32 and crc32_z compute the CRC-32 of RFC 1952 / ISO 3309. For ANY initial value crc (any 64-bit
// unsigned long, not only checksums), ANY buffer of ANY n <= 2^20 bytes (an object of exactly n bytes), split at ANY
// point k <= n into two calls, and the Z_NULL buffer:
// - crc32_z(crc, buf, n) and crc32(crc, buf, n) equal the bit-by-bit reference (harness/zlib_common.h ref_crc32:
// reflected polynomial 0xedb88320, register preset to ~crc, inverted at the end) on the 32 low bits of crc, and are
// below 2^32;
// - continuing is concatenating: crc32_z(crc32_z(crc, buf, k), buf + k, n - k) is the same value;
// - crc32(crc, Z_NULL, len) is 0 for ANY len (the documented initial value), and crc32_z the same;
// - get_crc_table() returns the table of the CRC of every byte value: entry i is the reference register update of
// the byte i from 0 (ref_crc_byte(0, i)), for i < 256;
// - the buffer is not changed.
// Bounds: n <= 2^20.
#include "zlib_common.h"
#define GP_N_MAX (1u << 20)
int main(void)
{
unsigned long crc;
pick(crc);
const unsigned n = nondet_u32();
const unsigned k = nondet_u32();
const unsigned len = nondet_u32();
gp_assume(n <= GP_N_MAX);
gp_assume(k <= n);
unsigned char *buf = malloc(n);
unsigned char *snap = malloc(n);
if (buf == NULL || snap == NULL)
return 0;
nondet_bytes(buf, n);
bytes_copy(snap, buf, n);
const unsigned long want = ref_crc32(crc, buf, n);
const unsigned long a = crc32_z(crc, buf, n);
gp_assert(a == want);
gp_assert(a <= 0xffffffff);
gp_assert(crc32(crc, buf, n) == want);
gp_assert(crc32_z(crc32_z(crc, buf, k), buf + k, n - k) == want);
gp_assert(crc32(crc, Z_NULL, len) == 0);
gp_assert(crc32_z(crc, Z_NULL, len) == 0);
gp_assert(bytes_same(buf, snap, n));
const z_crc_t *t = get_crc_table();
for (unsigned i = 0; i < 256; ++i)
gp_assert(t[i] == ref_crc_byte(0, (unsigned char) i));
free(buf);
free(snap);
return 0;
}harness/zlib_common.h, 155 lines
// Shared by the zlib harnesses (zlib 1.3.2 core: adler32.c, crc32.c, deflate.c, trees.c, inflate.c, inffast.c,
// inftrees.c, compress.c, uncompr.c, zutil.c).
//
// A harness draws every input from quickproof.h (nondet_*, pick), restricts it with gp_assume, and states each property
// with gp_assert (undefined behaviour when the property fails). Buffers have exactly the size the claim allows. Every
// call of inflate() or deflate() gets its input and its output space as objects of their own, allocated with exactly
// avail_in and avail_out bytes (exact_copy, exact_space): an access before next_in, after next_in + avail_in, before
// next_out or after next_out + avail_out is then outside an object, i.e. undefined behaviour in the semantics of the
// theorem, so "inflate reads only the input it is offered and writes only the space it is offered" is part of every
// law's "no undefined behaviour".
//
// The reference facts, written from the definitions, not from zlib:
// - Adler-32 (RFC 1950 8.2): s1 = 1 + the sum of the bytes, s2 = the sum of the successive values of s1, both mod
// 65521; the checksum is s2 * 65536 + s1. ref_adler32 updates a checksum byte by byte;
// - CRC-32 (RFC 1952 8, ISO 3309): the reflected polynomial 0xedb88320, register preset to all ones and inverted at
// the end. ref_crc32 updates a checksum bit by bit;
// - the zlib wrapper (RFC 1950): 2 header bytes, an optional 4-byte dictionary id (big-endian Adler-32 of the
// dictionary), the deflate data, then the big-endian Adler-32 of the uncompressed data;
// - the gzip wrapper (RFC 1952): a header of at least 10 bytes (1f 8b 08 FLG MTIME(4) XFL OS, then the optional
// fields), the deflate data, then the little-endian CRC-32 and the little-endian length mod 2^32 of the data;
// - the inflate windowBits of zlib.h: 8..15 (zlib wrapper, 2^windowBits window), 0 (zlib wrapper, the window size of
// the header), -8..-15 (raw deflate), + 16 (gzip wrapper only; 16 itself: the window size of the header), + 32
// (zlib or gzip, detected); everything else is rejected with Z_STREAM_ERROR.
#ifndef ZLIB_HARNESS_COMMON_H
#define ZLIB_HARNESS_COMMON_H
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "quickproof.h"
#include "zlib.h"
#define GP_BASE 65521ul // the Adler-32 modulus (RFC 1950)
#define GP_POLY 0xedb88320ul // the CRC-32 polynomial, reflected (RFC 1952)
// Adler-32 of buf[0..n-1] continued from the checksum a (both halves < 65521 for a checksum).
static unsigned long ref_adler32(unsigned long a, const unsigned char *buf, unsigned long n)
{
unsigned long s1 = a & 0xffff;
unsigned long s2 = (a >> 16) & 0xffff;
for (unsigned long i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
s1 = (s1 + buf[i]) % GP_BASE;
s2 = (s2 + s1) % GP_BASE;
}
return (s2 << 16) | s1;
}
// The CRC-32 register update by one byte, without pre- or post-conditioning (the register is the 32 low bits).
static unsigned long ref_crc_byte(unsigned long c, unsigned char b)
{
c ^= b;
for (int k = 0; k < 8; ++k) {
if (c & 1)
c = (c >> 1) ^ GP_POLY;
else
c = c >> 1;
}
return c;
}
// CRC-32 of buf[0..n-1] continued from the checksum c (its 32 low bits).
static unsigned long ref_crc32(unsigned long c, const unsigned char *buf, unsigned long n)
{
c = (~c) & 0xffffffff;
for (unsigned long i = 0; i < n; ++i)
c = ref_crc_byte(c, buf[i]);
return (~c) & 0xffffffff;
}
static unsigned long be32(const unsigned char *p)
{
return ((unsigned long) p[0] << 24) | ((unsigned long) p[1] << 16) | ((unsigned long) p[2] << 8) | p[3];
}
static unsigned long le32(const unsigned char *p)
{
return ((unsigned long) p[3] << 24) | ((unsigned long) p[2] << 16) | ((unsigned long) p[1] << 8) | p[0];
}
static int bytes_same(const unsigned char *a, const unsigned char *b, unsigned long n)
{
for (unsigned long i = 0; i < n; ++i)
if (a[i] != b[i])
return 0;
return 1;
}
static void bytes_copy(unsigned char *d, const unsigned char *s, unsigned long n)
{
for (unsigned long i = 0; i < n; ++i)
d[i] = s[i];
}
// A new object of exactly n bytes holding src[0..n-1] (NULL when the allocation fails).
static unsigned char *exact_copy(const unsigned char *src, unsigned n)
{
unsigned char *p = malloc(n);
if (p != NULL)
bytes_copy(p, src, n);
return p;
}
// A new object of exactly n bytes with any contents, and a snapshot of them in *snap (NULL when an allocation fails).
static unsigned char *exact_space(unsigned n, unsigned char **snap)
{
unsigned char *p = malloc(n);
unsigned char *q = malloc(n);
if (p == NULL || q == NULL) {
free(p);
free(q);
*snap = NULL;
return NULL;
}
nondet_bytes(p, n);
bytes_copy(q, p, n);
*snap = q;
return p;
}
// inflateInit2's windowBits check (zlib.h): accepted values.
static int inflate_wbits_ok(int w)
{
if (w < 0)
return w >= -15 && w <= -8;
if (w >= 48)
return 0;
w &= 15;
return w == 0 || (w >= 8 && w <= 15);
}
// Is a value one of inflate()'s documented return codes (zlib.h)?
static int inflate_code_ok(int r)
{
return r == Z_OK || r == Z_STREAM_END || r == Z_NEED_DICT || r == Z_DATA_ERROR || r == Z_STREAM_ERROR ||
r == Z_MEM_ERROR || r == Z_BUF_ERROR;
}
// A z_stream with the default allocator (zalloc, zfree, opaque all Z_NULL: zlib uses zcalloc/zcfree, i.e. malloc and
// free) and any values in the fields the caller does not have to set.
static void stream_defaults(z_stream *s)
{
s->zalloc = Z_NULL;
s->zfree = Z_NULL;
s->opaque = Z_NULL;
s->next_in = Z_NULL;
s->avail_in = 0;
s->next_out = Z_NULL;
s->avail_out = 0;
pick(s->total_in);
pick(s->total_out);
pick(s->adler);
pick(s->data_type);
pick(s->reserved);
}
#endifThe theorem
QuickProof generated this statement from the spec, in src/contracts/x_crc32_ref.v:
Theorem x_crc32_ref : harness_safe whole_prog.src/contracts/laws_checksums.v states it on the spec's own program, whole_prog (the spec linked with the code under test), with its proof:
Theorem x_crc32_ref : harness_safe Zlib.contracts.x_crc32_ref.whole_prog.
Proof. exact Zlib.proof.crc32_ref.Law.crc32_ref_ok. Qed.Read as a statement about runs, it says that no run of the program has undefined behaviour or a failing check, for every value the spec can draw. That reading rests on VST's adequacy theorem, which is not yet instantiated in Rocq (formerly Coq) for QuickProof's environment.
The C files (units) its program links
crc32.c
What it leaves out
- What the first comment of the spec excludes, and its bounds.
- Like every spec of this proof: termination (a run that never returns is not a counterexample), and binaries built by a compiler (the theorem is about the code as CompCert defines C for x86_64, LP64), one thread.
- Where zlib reports
Z_MEM_ERROR, most specs end the run and claim nothing about it; the first comment of the spec says so. - The edits to zlib's code, listed in the repository, are tested, not proved.
The summary page says what the proof as a whole covers.
How it was proved
AI agents wrote the proof, and Rocq checks it. qp verify passes on this repository: this statement is the one generated from the spec at the contract commit, and its proof uses only Rocq's standard axioms and VST's abstract malloc library.