ConnectBlock() relies on validation that happens in ContextualCheckBlock() and
ContextualCheckBlockHeader(). This has implications for implementing consensus
changes and handling software upgrade to ensure that nodes upgrading their
software end up enforcing all the consensus rules.
This tracks the set of all known invalid-themselves blocks (ie
blocks which we attempted to connect but which were found to be
invalid). This is used to cheaply check if new headers build on an
invalid chain.
While we're at it we also resolve an edge-case in invalidateblock
on pruned nodes which results in them needing a reindex if they
fail to reorg.
This is a simple change that makes our accept requirements the
same as our request requirements, (ever so slightly) further
decoupling our consensus logic from our FindNextBlocksToDownload
logic in net_processing.
A peer could try to waste our resources by sending us unrequested blocks with
low work, eg to fill up our disk. Since
e2652002b6 we no longer request blocks until we
know we're on a chain with more than nMinimumChainWork (our anti-DoS
threshold), but we would still process unrequested blocks that had more work
than our tip. This commit fixes that behavior.
This runs Block{Connected,Disconnected}, SetBestChain, Inventory,
and TransactionAddedToMempool on the background scheduler thread.
Of those, only BlockConnected is used outside of Wallet/ZMQ, and
is used only for orphan transaction removal in net_processing,
something which does not need to be synchronous with anything
else.
This partially reverts #9583, re-enabling some of the gains from
#7946. This does not, however, re-enable the gains achieved by
repeatedly releasing cs_main between each transaction processed.
This should make it easier to debug issues where the CheckBlock at
the top of ProcessNewBlock fails (which does not print, in contrast
to AcceptBlock, which always prints).
by individual transactions to 2 places (but call only once in each):
- ConnectBlock ( before calculated fees per txs twice )
- AcceptToMemoryPoolWorker ( before called CheckTxInputs 4 times and calculated
fees per tx one extra time )
Also call tx.GetValueOut() only once per call of CheckTxInputs (instead of 2)
- Move comment about transaction/block weight calculation so it applies not only to the GetBlockWeight function but also to GetTransactionWeight
- Fix comment in validation.cpp referencing future deployment of BIP113. It has already been deployed.
- The doc comment for BLOCK_DOWNLOAD_WINDOW wasn't updated since pruning was introduced, so it still refers to pruning as something that might happen in the future. A larger BLOCK_DOWNLOAD_WINDOW window would now, indeed, make pruning harder.
Combine fLimitFree and fOverrideMempoolLimit into a single boolean:
bypass_limits. This is used to indicate that mempool limiting based on feerate
should be bypassed. It is used when readding transactions from a reorg and then
the mempool is trimmed to size after all transactions are added and they can be
evaluated in the context of their descendants. No changes to behavior.
On startup, the wallets will start pumping wallet transactions into the mempool in a different thread while LoadMempool() is running.
This will sometimes result in transactions "failing" to be accepted into mempool, but only for the reason that they were already
put there by a wallet. The log message for mempool load would note this as a 'failure' to import, which was misleading; it should
instead mark it as the transaction already being in the mempool.
Instead of passing a StartShutdown reference all the way up from
txdb, give ShowProgress a "resumeable" boolean, which is used to
inform the user if the action will be resumed, but cancel is always
allowed by just calling StartShutdown().
Currently difficulty adjustment violations are not reported for
chains that branch off before the last checkpoint. Change this
by moving the checkpoint check after the difficulty check.
RewindBlockIndex works over both chainActive - disconnecting blocks
from the tip that need witness verification - and mapBlockIndex -
requiring redownload of blocks missing witness data.
It should never have been the case that the second half is skipped
if we're about to run -reindex-chainstate.
This gives LoadChainTip a return value - allowing it to indicate that
the UTXO DB ran ahead of the block DB. This just provides a nicer
error message instead of the previous mysterious
assert(!setBlockIndexCandidates.empty()) error.
This also calls ActivateBestChain in case we just loaded the genesis
block in LoadChainTip, avoiding relying on the ActivateBestChain
in ThreadImport before continuing init process.
* Move the writing of fTxIndex to LoadBlockIndex - this fixes a
bug introduced in d6af06d68a where
InitBlockIndex was writing to fTxIndex which had not yet been
checked (because LoadChainTip hadn't yet initialized the
chainActive, which would otherwise have resulted in
InitBlockIndex being a NOP), allowing you to modify -txindex
without reindex, potentially corrupting your chainstate!
* Rename InitBlockIndex to LoadGenesisBlock, which is now a more
natural name for it. Also check mapBlockIndex instead of
chainActive, fixing a bug where we'd write the genesis block out
on every start.
Some people keep thinking that MAX_BLOCK_BASE_SIZE is a separate
size limit from the weight limit when it fact it is superfluous,
and used in early tests before the witness data has been
validated or just to compute worst case sizes. The size checks
that use it would not behave any differently consensus wise
if they were eliminated completely.
Its correct value is not independently settable but is a function
of the weight limit and weight formula.
This patch just eliminates it and uses the scale factor as
required to compute the worse case constants.
It also moves the weight factor out of primitives into consensus,
which is a more logical place for it.
Check that cached script execution results are only valid for the same
script flags; that script execution checks are returned for non-cached
transactions; and that cached results are only valid for transactions
with the same witness hash.
Checking for the existence in the CCoinsViewCache of the outputs of a new tx
will result in a disk hit for every output since they will not be found. On the
other hand if those outputs exist already, then the inputs must also have been
missing, so we can move this check inside the input existence check so in the
common case of a new tx it doesn't need to run.
The purpose of the check is to avoid spamming the orphanMap with slightly old
txs which we have already seen in a block, but it is already only optimistic
(depending on the outputs not being spent), so make it even more efficient by
only checking the cache and not the entire pcoinsTip.
Suhas Daftuar