ABI Layer 3: transition soundness of linear free (state + address preservation)

src/interface/abi/Atsiser/ABI/Invariants.idr

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+-- SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+-- Copyright (c) 2026 Jonathan D.A. Jewell (hyperpolymath) <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>
+--
+||| Transition-soundness invariants for Atsiser (Idris2 ABI Layer 3).
+|||
+||| Layer 2 (`Atsiser.ABI.Semantics`) proves the STATIC property that a `Freed`
+||| pointer has no `Accessible` witness — so use-after-free / double-free are
+||| unrepresentable. This module proves a DEEPER, DISTINCT property: the
+||| DYNAMIC soundness of the linear state machine's single transition `free`.
+||| Concretely, for every live pointer with access right `Acc`:
+|||
+|||   1. `freeYieldsFreed`   — `state (free p Acc) = Freed`
+|||      (the transition always lands in the post-state — progress);
+|||   2. `freePreservesAddr` — `addr (free p Acc) = addr p`
+|||      (the transition is address-preserving — it frees THIS pointer, not
+|||      some other one — frame/locality);
+|||   3. `freedResultUnusable` — the result of `free` is never `Accessible`,
+|||      so it can never be fed back into another `free` (no reuse / no
+|||      double-free), derived here as a CONSEQUENCE of (1) + Layer 2 rather
+|||      than restating the Layer-2 theorem;
+|||   4. terminality — a `Freed` pointer is at a fixed point of the state
+|||      machine; no further transition exists (`noFurtherFree`).
+|||
+||| All are built over the SAME `Ptr` / `PtrState` / `Accessible` / `free` from
+||| Layer 2 (imported, not redefined), plus a sound+complete `Dec` for the
+||| terminal-state predicate, and positive + negative machine-checked controls.
+
+module Atsiser.ABI.Invariants
+
+import Atsiser.ABI.Types
+import Atsiser.ABI.Semantics
+import Decidable.Equality
+
+%default total
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- (1) Progress: free always lands in the Freed post-state
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| The transition function `free` is sound w.r.t. the target state: whatever
+||| live pointer and access witness it consumes, its result is in state `Freed`.
+||| The address is bound explicitly as `a` (a bare lowercase free name would
+||| warn / risk shadowing a global).
+export
+freeYieldsFreed : (a : Nat) -> state (free (MkPtr a Live) Acc) = Freed
+freeYieldsFreed a = Refl
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- (2) Frame: free preserves the address it operates on
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| `free` does not relocate: the freed pointer carries the same address as the
+||| pointer that was consumed. This locality guarantee distinguishes
+||| "free p" from "free some-other-pointer".
+export
+freePreservesAddr : (a : Nat) -> addr (free (MkPtr a Live) Acc) = a
+freePreservesAddr a = Refl
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- (3) No reuse: the result of free is never Accessible (consequence, not
+--     a restatement). We use (1) to rewrite the result's state to Freed,
+--     then Layer 2's `freedNotAcc` to refute accessibility.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| A pointer whose state is `Freed` (for any address) is not accessible.
+||| This is a clean reusable corollary phrased on the post-state.
+export
+freedAtAddrNotAcc : (a : Nat) -> Not (Accessible (MkPtr a Freed))
+freedAtAddrNotAcc a = freedNotAcc
+
+||| The DEEPER theorem: nothing produced by `free` can be accessed again.
+||| Given a live pointer at address `a`, the result of freeing it admits no
+||| `Accessible` witness — so it can never be passed to `free` a second time.
+||| `free (MkPtr a Live) Acc` reduces to `MkPtr a Freed`, so an accessibility
+||| witness for the result is, definitionally, an accessibility witness for the
+||| freed pointer, which Layer 2's `freedNotAcc` refutes. This composes the
+||| transition `free` with the Layer-2 refutation — it is not Layer 2 alone.
+export
+freedResultUnusable : (a : Nat) -> Not (Accessible (free (MkPtr a Live) Acc))
+freedResultUnusable a acc = freedNotAcc acc
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- (4) Terminality: Freed is a fixed point — no further transition exists.
+--     `free` demands an `Accessible` witness, which a Freed pointer cannot
+--     supply; so there is no well-typed `free` from the Freed state. We
+--     express the fixed point as: any accessibility claim on a freed pointer
+--     is absurd, hence `free` is unreachable there.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| If you somehow had an access right to a freed pointer, anything follows —
+||| witnessing that the Freed state is terminal (no real successor transition).
+export
+noFurtherFree : (a : Nat) -> Accessible (MkPtr a Freed) -> Void
+noFurtherFree a = freedNotAcc
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Sound + complete decision for the terminal-state predicate
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| Predicate: this pointer is at the terminal Freed state.
+public export
+data AtTerminal : Ptr -> Type where
+  IsFreed : {0 a : Nat} -> AtTerminal (MkPtr a Freed)
+
+||| A Live pointer is not at the terminal state.
+export
+liveNotTerminal : {0 a : Nat} -> Not (AtTerminal (MkPtr a Live))
+liveNotTerminal IsFreed impossible
+
+||| Sound + complete decision procedure.
+public export
+decAtTerminal : (p : Ptr) -> Dec (AtTerminal p)
+decAtTerminal (MkPtr a Live)  = No liveNotTerminal
+decAtTerminal (MkPtr a Freed) = Yes IsFreed
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Certifier into the ABI Result, proven sound, and reflecting termination
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| Certify that a pointer is at the terminal Freed state.
+public export
+certifyTerminal : Ptr -> Result
+certifyTerminal p = case decAtTerminal p of
+  Yes _ => Ok
+  No  _ => Error
+
+||| Soundness: an `Ok` certificate genuinely entails the terminal predicate.
+export
+certifyTerminalSound : (p : Ptr) -> certifyTerminal p = Ok -> AtTerminal p
+certifyTerminalSound p prf with (decAtTerminal p)
+  certifyTerminalSound p prf  | Yes t = t
+  certifyTerminalSound p Refl | No _ impossible
+
+||| The result of `free` always certifies as terminal — ties the certifier to
+||| the progress lemma.
+export
+freeResultTerminal : (a : Nat) -> certifyTerminal (free (MkPtr a Live) Acc) = Ok
+freeResultTerminal a = Refl
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Positive controls (inhabited witnesses / concrete instances)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| Concrete free transition lands in Freed, preserving the address 4096.
+export
+freeConcreteState : state (free (MkPtr 4096 Live) Acc) = Freed
+freeConcreteState = Refl
+
+export
+freeConcreteAddr : addr (free (MkPtr 4096 Live) Acc) = 4096
+freeConcreteAddr = Refl
+
+||| The freed result of a concrete live pointer is at terminal.
+export
+freeConcreteTerminal : AtTerminal (free (MkPtr 4096 Live) Acc)
+freeConcreteTerminal = IsFreed
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Negative / non-vacuity controls
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+||| A concrete freed pointer is NOT accessible — the no-reuse core, machine
+||| checked at a literal address.
+export
+freeConcreteUnusable : Not (Accessible (free (MkPtr 4096 Live) Acc))
+freeConcreteUnusable = freedResultUnusable 4096
+
+||| A live pointer is NOT at the terminal state (rejects a false certificate).
+export
+liveConcreteNotTerminal : Not (AtTerminal (MkPtr 4096 Live))
+liveConcreteNotTerminal = liveNotTerminal
+
+||| The certifier rejects a live pointer.
+export
+certifyLiveNotTerminal : certifyTerminal (MkPtr 4096 Live) = Error
+certifyLiveNotTerminal = Refl

src/interface/abi/atsiser-abi.ipkg

@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ modules = Atsiser.ABI.Types
         , Atsiser.ABI.Foreign
         , Atsiser.ABI.Proofs
         , Atsiser.ABI.Semantics
+        , Atsiser.ABI.Invariants