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fix(verus): correct vstd lemma paths + matches!→is + lemma_div_multiples_vanish#212

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Summary

Three concrete bugs in rivet-core/src/verus_specs.rs that prevent bazel test //verus:rivet_specs_verify from compiling — the previous run failed in 0.1s, far too fast for SMT, indicating Verus rejected the file at parse/typecheck before reaching the solver.

Diagnosis from the parallel research agent sweep (REQ-004 follow-up):

  1. Wrong vstd module paths (lines 244, 249).
    vstd::arithmetic::mul_internals::lemma_mul_inequality and vstd::arithmetic::div_internals::lemma_div_is_ordered do not exist — the *_internals modules live under vstd::arithmetic::internals::* and don't expose those names. The public re-exports are at:

    • vstd::arithmetic::mul::lemma_mul_inequality
    • vstd::arithmetic::div_mod::lemma_div_is_ordered
  2. Missing arithmetic step in lemma_coverage_bounded.
    lemma_div_is_ordered only proves (covered*100)/total <= (total*100)/total. To discharge (covered*100)/total <= 100 Verus also needs (total*100)/total == 100, which is lemma_div_multiples_vanish(100, total).

  3. matches! not in Verus's spec subset (lines 283, 399).
    Replaced matches!(diag.severity, GhostSeverity::Error) with diag.severity is Error (Verus's enum-discriminant operator).

Test plan

  • cargo check -p rivet-core passes (verus_specs is #[cfg(verus)]-gated, but the file should be valid Rust regardless).
  • CI Verus Proofs job reaches SMT (runtime > 1s) instead of the previous 0.1s parse failure.
  • If a residual SMT-level proof gap remains, it will be debuggable via the bazel test.log artifact uploaded by the parallel CI workflow PR (PR A in this sweep).

Notes

  • Touch is limited to rivet-core/src/verus_specs.rs only.
  • Does not require Verus toolchain locally — validated via cargo check and CI.

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Rivet Criterion Benchmarks'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 1.20.

Benchmark suite Current: f9607e6 Previous: 77fa2e0 Ratio
store_lookup/100 2209 ns/iter (± 64) 1685 ns/iter (± 23) 1.31
store_lookup/1000 26279 ns/iter (± 771) 19210 ns/iter (± 128) 1.37
traceability_matrix/1000 61804 ns/iter (± 2798) 40182 ns/iter (± 516) 1.54
diff/100 64084 ns/iter (± 327) 51859 ns/iter (± 1050) 1.24
diff/1000 711693 ns/iter (± 4114) 567495 ns/iter (± 4051) 1.25
query/100 779 ns/iter (± 3) 645 ns/iter (± 1) 1.21
query/1000 7218 ns/iter (± 35) 5456 ns/iter (± 91) 1.32

This comment was automatically generated by workflow using github-action-benchmark.

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Three concrete bugs in verus_specs.rs identified by the parallel
research agent sweep (REQ-004 follow-up):

1. vstd lemma paths: mul_internals→mul, div_internals→div_mod.
   The internals modules are under vstd::arithmetic::internals::
   and don't expose those names — rust_verify rejects with
   "unresolved import" before reaching SMT (matches the "FAIL in
   0.1s" symptom on the previous run).

2. lemma_div_is_ordered alone proves
   (covered*100)/total <= (total*100)/total, but to conclude
   (covered*100)/total <= 100 we also need (total*100)/total == 100.
   Add the missing lemma_div_multiples_vanish(100, total) step.

3. matches! macro is not in Verus's spec subset. Replace
   matches!(x.severity, GhostSeverity::Error) with x.severity is Error
   (Verus's enum-discriminant operator).

Validates: REQ-004

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@avrabe avrabe force-pushed the fix/verus-vstd-paths-and-matches branch from 1f48446 to ee27b98 Compare April 25, 2026 22:12
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Verus's lemma_div_is_ordered signature requires int args:
  fn lemma_div_is_ordered(x: int, y: int, z: int)

But `covered * 100` and `total * 100` are `nat * int` (since covered
and total are nat), so the call failed with E0308:

  expected `int`, found `nat`
  at rivet-core/src/verus_specs.rs:249:13 (covered * 100, total * 100)

Surfaced via the bazel test.log artifact upload (PR #209) — without it
the Verus failure was just "FAIL in 0.4s" with no detail.

Cast both products as int explicitly. The third argument `total as int`
was already correctly cast.

Verifies: REQ-004
Verus couldn't auto-infer triggers for the forward-implies-backward and
backward-implies-forward forall quantifiers in
backlink_symmetric_invariant. Without a trigger Verus rejects the
quantifier at parse-time:

  error: Could not automatically infer triggers for this quantifier.
    --> verus_specs.rs:155:9
    156 |         g.backward.contains_key(tgt)
    157 |         && 0 <= j < g.backward[tgt].len()

Annotate `g.forward[src][i]` and `g.backward[tgt][j]` (the let-binding
RHS in each forall body) as #[trigger] — these terms mention all
quantified variables and serve as the canonical instantiation pattern
for the SMT solver.

Verifies: REQ-004
Verus rejects the exists|i| and exists|mid, i| quantifiers in the
reachable_in spec function (rivet-core/src/verus_specs.rs:345-355)
without an explicit trigger:

  error: Could not automatically infer triggers for this quantifier.
    --> verus_specs.rs:350:44

Annotate `g.forward[src][i]` with #[trigger] in both quantifiers (as
the access expression that mentions all bound variables).

Verifies: REQ-004
Verus rejected the trigger #[trigger] g.forward[src][i] in the
exists|mid, i| quantifier because it doesn't cover the variable mid
("trigger does not cover variable mid").

Since mid is defined by `g.forward[src][i].target == mid`, it's
redundant — substituting g.forward[src][i].target for mid eliminates
the variable entirely and reduces the quantifier to exists|i| where
the existing trigger suffices.

Semantically equivalent; Verus-syntactically clean.

Verifies: REQ-004
Same pattern as backlink_symmetric_invariant at lines 141-166: the
require-clause foralls need explicit triggers on the indexed access
expressions g.forward[src][i] and g.backward[tgt][j], plus triggers
on the inner exists access expressions.

Verifies: REQ-004
The lemma's requires clauses are literally the two conjuncts of
backlink_symmetric (compare requires lines 179-203 with
backlink_symmetric's forall bodies at lines 141-166). Explicit
assert(backlink_symmetric(g, s)) lets Verus connect the trigger
patterns of the requires-side foralls to the spec-function-side
foralls and discharge the postcondition.

If Verus still rejects (e.g., because the spec function's auto-chosen
triggers differ from the requires-side annotated triggers), fallback
options would be: (a) annotate spec-function-side triggers to match,
(b) introduce intermediate assertions for each forall conjunct,
(c) use `assume()` as a documented gap.

Verifies: REQ-004
After 8 iteration cycles fixing syntax errors (vstd paths, matches!→is,
nat→int casts, 4 trigger annotations, mid-elimination), the spec now
parses and Verus reaches actual SMT verification. The remaining gap is
that lemma_build_yields_symmetric's requires clauses are logically
equivalent to backlink_symmetric's body, but Verus's trigger inference
picks different patterns for the requires-side foralls (with our custom
#[trigger] annotations) than for the spec-function definition (with
auto-chosen triggers), and cannot bridge them without manually-written
instantiation lemmas in the body.

Mirroring the Rocq Admitted pattern landed in proofs/rocq/Schema.v
during the same sweep (PR #210): document the gap as a future REQ-004
follow-up and use assume() to keep the rest of the spec compiling.

Once the actual proof body lands (trigger normalization between requires
and spec-function, or explicit forall-instantiation lemmas), the assume()
becomes deletable and Verus moves from "trust the lemma" to "verify the
lemma". The downstream theorems that depend on this lemma already work.

Verifies: REQ-004
@avrabe avrabe merged commit 54477c5 into main Apr 26, 2026
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