Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 10

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in October 2016 - May 2017.

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Compared to the volume 9b, the volume 10 features:

15 new crash dump analysis patterns
New Linux core dump analysis pattern
18 new software trace and log analysis patterns
Introduction to topological software trace and log analysis
Introduction to software diagnostic spaces as general graphs of software narratives
Software diagnostics as archaeology
Introduction to pattern-oriented diagnostic analysis process
Principles of pattern-oriented software data analysis
Abstract debugging commands (ADC) initiative
Introduction to elementary analysis patterns and reduction of analysis pattern complexity
Introduction to categorical foundations of software diagnostics
Introduction to existential prognostics and periodic table of diagnostic patterns
Introduction to software codiagnostics
Volume index of memory dump analysis patterns
Volume index of trace and log analysis patterns

The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, technical support, escalation, and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts.

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Dmitry Vostokov

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored over 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. Dmitry founded OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services). In his spare time, he explores Software Narratology and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, semiotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include functional programming, cloud native computing, monitoring, observability, visualization, security, automation, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.

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Table of Contents

Preface 7

About the Author 9

PART 1: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns 11

Quotient Stack Trace 11

Module Stack Trace 12

Foreign Module Frame 13

Unified Stack Trace 16

Mirror Dump Set 18

Memory Fibration 20

Aggregated Frames 21

Value Deviation (Structure Field) 22

Stack Trace (I/O Devices) 24

High Contention (.NET Heap) 26

Frame Regularity 30

Deadlock (.NET Finalizer) 34

Invalid Parameter (Runtime Function) 38

Wait Chain (SRW Lock) 40

Stack Trace Motif 42

PART 2: Linux Core Dump Analysis Pattern 43

Module Stack Trace 43

PART 3: Software Trace Analysis Patterns 45

Corrupt Message 45

Projective Space 47

Ornament 50

Poincaré Trace 52

De Broglie Trace Duality 55

Braid Group 57

Delay Dynamics 59

Activity Quantum 60

Trace Presheaf 61

Message Directory 63

Galois Trace 66

Singleton Trace 68

Braid of Activity 69

Tensor Trace 70

Unsynchronized Traces 72

Intrinsic ID 74

Combed Trace 75

Activity Packet 76

PART 4: Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Debugging 77

Topological Software Trace and Log Analysis 77

Is Your Security Healthy? 79

Software Diagnostic Space as a General Graph of Software Narratives 80

Software Diagnostics Metaphors 85

Software Diagnostics as Archaeology 85

Pattern-Oriented Diagnostic Analysis Process 86

Principles of Pattern-Oriented Software Data Analysis 88

Abstract Debugging Commands (ADC) Initiative 91

Reducing Analysis Pattern Complexity via Elementary Analysis Patterns 92

Categorical Foundations of Software Diagnostics 96

Existential Prognostics: Periodic Table of Diagnostic Patterns 98

Software Codiagnostics 100

The Unity of Pattern-Oriented Software Diagnostics 103

PART 5: A Bit of Science, Philosophy, and Religion 105

Quotes from Memoriarch 105

Notes on Memoidealism 105

PART 6: Fun with Debugging, Crash Dumps, and Traces 107

Debugging Slang 107

SCANDAL 107

WTF 107

UOP 107

HOT 107

HOME 107

anOS 108

theOS 108

TCH 108

Top NoTCH 108

Problem Solving Techniques 109

Dissolution 109

Software Temperature 109

Watson 109

Cosmic Rays in Memory 110

Area 51 113

Measuring Software Diagnostics 114

Cash and Crash 114

Debugging Law 114

Suggested Pool Tags 114

TOR 114

Attitude to Debugging 115

British vs. American Spelling 116

How I Became a Grandmaster 117

Memory Dumps and VAT 117

Updatician 117

Traces of Cyrillic Alphabet 117

Prolific Letter 118

Code and Edoc 118

The Three-Software Vendor Body Problem 118

Modem Troubleshooting and Putin 118

Bugs for Fireworks 119

Critical SnowLOB 120

Apotypomamnimisophobia 121

Schadenfreude of AI 121

Diagnostics and Debugging in Science Fiction 121

The Mozart of Diagnostics 122

Keyboard Problems 124

PART 7: Art and Photography 125

(t)ra(c)in(g) 125

Development Muses 126

Pattern Inside and Outside 127

Between Diagnostic Activities 128

Patched Bug Construction Kit 129

Russian Binary 130

Secret Russian Binary 131

Postanalysm 132

PART 8: Miscellaneous 135

Quotes 135

Is There Any Life Inside Windows? 137

The Condition of My Productivity 138

CyberSpace and the Solution to CyberProblems 139

VAX/VMS Debugging Artefact 141

Observing Patterns of Cloud Structure and Behavior 143

Appendix 145

Crash Dump Analysis Checklist 145

Volume Index 149

Memory Analysis Patterns 149

Trace and Log Analysis Patterns 161

Index of WinDbg Commands 167

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