Currently we have no rotation of outbound peers. If an outbound peer
stops serving us blocks, or is on a consensus-incompatible chain with
less work than our tip (but otherwise valid headers), then we will never
disconnect that peer, even though that peer is using one of our 8
outbound connection slots. Because we rely on our outbound peers to
find an honest node in order to reach consensus, allowing an
incompatible peer to occupy one of those slots is undesirable,
particularly if it is possible for all such slots to be occupied by such
peers.
Protect against this by always checking to see if a peer's best known
block has less work than our tip, and if so, set a 20 minute timeout --
if the peer is still not known to have caught up to a chain with as much
work as ours after 20 minutes, then send a single getheaders message,
wait 2 more minutes, and if a better header hasn't been received by then,
disconnect that peer.
Note:
- we do not require that our peer sync to the same tip as ours, just an
equal or greater work tip. (Doing otherwise would risk partitioning the
network in the event of a chain split, and is also unnecessary.)
- we pick 4 of our outbound peers and do not subject them to this logic,
to be more conservative. We don't wish to permit temporary network
issues (or an attacker) to excessively disrupt network topology.
Change suggested by Cory Fields <cory-nospam-@coryfields.com> who noticed
listsinceblock would ignore invalid block hashes causing it to return a
completely unfiltered list of transactions.
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.
Make sure wallet databases have unique fileids. If they don't, throw an error.
BDB caches do not work properly when more than one open database has the same
fileid, because values written to one database may show up in reads to other
databases.
Bitcoin will never create different databases with the same fileid, but users
can create them by manually copying database files.
BDB caching bug was reported by Chris Moore <dooglus@gmail.com>
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11429Fixes#11429
Now using a std::unique_ptr, the Db instance is correctly released
when CDB initialization fails.
The internal CDB state and mapFileUseCount are only mutated when
the CDB initialization succeeds.
Adds HasAllRelevantServices and GetRelevantServices, which check
for NETWORK|WITNESS.
This changes the following:
* Removes nRelevantServices from CConnman, disconnecting it a bit
more from protocol-level logic.
* Replaces our sometimes-connect-to-!WITNESS-nodes logic with
simply always requiring WITNESS|NETWORK for outbound non-feeler
connections (feelers still only require NETWORK).
* This has the added benefit of removing nServicesExpected from
CNode - instead letting net_processing's VERSION message
handling simply check HasAllRelevantServices.
* This implies we believe WITNESS nodes to continue to be a
significant majority of nodes on the network, but also because
we cannot sync properly from !WITNESS nodes, it is strange to
continue using our valuable outbound slots on them.
* In order to prevent this change from preventing connection to
-connect= nodes which have !WITNESS, -connect nodes are now
given the "addnode" flag. This also allows outbound connections
to !NODE_NETWORK nodes for -connect nodes (which was already true
of addnodes).
* Has the (somewhat unintended) consequence of changing one of the
eviction metrics from the same
sometimes-connect-to-!WITNESS-nodes metric to requiring
HasRelevantServices.
This should make NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED much simpler to implement.
Fixes#11462. Updated documentation for importprivkey function to use the correct name for the first argument.
Also updates a call to importprivkey to use named args in functional test.
More specifically: remove also obj/build.h and bench/data/block413567.raw.h.
Before this patch:
```
$ diff -rq bitcoin-before-make/ bitcoin-after-make-and-make-clean/ | grep -E "^Only in bitcoin-after-make-and-make-clean/" | grep -v dirstamp
Only in bitcoin-after-make-and-make-clean/src/bench/data: block413567.raw.h
Only in bitcoin-after-make-and-make-clean/src/obj: build.h
$
```
After this patch:
```
$ diff -rq bitcoin-before-make/ bitcoin-after-make-and-make-clean/ | grep -E "^Only in bitcoin-after-make-and-make-clean/" | grep -v dirstamp
$
```
If addrProxy or addrSeparateProxyTor do not have a colon in the string
somewhere in the QSettings storage, then attempting to open the options
dialog will cause the entire program to crash.
This fixes "Wallet file not specified" errors when making batch wallet RPC
calls with more than one wallet loaded. This issue was reported by
NicolasDorier <nicolas.dorier@gmail.com>
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11257
Request URI is not used for anything except multiwallet request dispatching, so
this change has no other effects.
Fixes#11257
Sending a getheaders message with an empty locator and a stop hash
is a request for a single header by hash. The node will respond with
headers for blocks not in the main chain as well as those in the main
chain. To avoid fingerprinting, the node should, however, ignore
requests for headers on side branches that are too old.
Suhas Daftuar