Priya Govindasamy

About Me

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Irvine. My area of study is Operating System Security. I received my Bachelor's degree from Vellore Institute of Technology in 2023.

In my graduate research, I have been involved in performing analysis to identify locking violations in the BPF subsystem. I am currently designing and implementing a tool called Spinner that identifies context confusion and nested BPF locking bugs in BPF helper functions and kfuncs. It uses static analysis to check whether spinlocks and sleeping functions are used in the appropriate execution context in the eBPF subsystem. Spinner can also find cases of self-deadlocks that occur due to nested BPF programs.