Previously in getblocktemplate only curtime took the timewarp rule into account.
Mining pool software could use either, though in general it should use curtime.
This is a documentation-only change following up on suggestions made in the
#30526 review.
Motivation for this change is that I was recently reviewing #31583, which
reminded me how confusing the arithmetic blob code was and made me want to
write better comments.
fa63b8232f test: generateblocks called by multiple threads (MarcoFalke)
fa62c8b1f0 rpc: Extend scope of validation mutex in generateblock (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The mutex (required by TestBlockValidity) must be held after creating the block, until TestBlockValidity is called. Otherwise, it is possible that the chain advances in the meantime and leads to a crash in TestBlockValidity: `Assertion failed: pindexPrev && pindexPrev == chainstate.m_chain.Tip() (validation.cpp: TestBlockValidity: 4338)`
Fixes#31562
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ecaa786cc1 rpc: add signet_challenge field to getblockchaininfo and getmininginfo (Ash Manning)
Pull request description:
Signet challenges are currently only available via `getblocktemplate` RPC.
`getblockchaininfo` and `getmininginfo` both provide inadequate information to distinguish signets. Since these are the RPCs used to determine the current network, they should also provide the signet challenge for signets.
Test coverage is included in `test/functional/feature_signet.py`.
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The mutex (required by TestBlockValidity) must be held after creating
the block, until TestBlockValidity is called. Otherwise, it is possible
that the chain advances in the meantime and leads to a crash in
TestBlockValidity:
Assertion failed: pindexPrev && pindexPrev == chainstate.m_chain.Tip() (validation.cpp: TestBlockValidity: 4338)
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processNewBlock was added in 7b4d3249ce, but became unnecessary with the introduction of interfaces::BlockTemplate::submitSolution in 7b4d3249ce.
getTransactionsUpdated() is only needed by the implementation of waitFeesChanged() (not yet part of the interface).
Providing a script for the coinbase transaction is only done in test code
and for CPU solo mining.
Production miners use the getblocktemplate RPC which omits the coinbase
transaction entirely from its block template, leaving it to external (pool)
software to construct it.
A coinbase script can still be passed via BlockCreateOptions instead.
A temporary overload is added so that the test can be modified in the
next commit.
73db95c65c kernel: Make bitcoin-chainstate's block validation mirror submitblock's (TheCharlatan)
bb53ce9bda tests: Add functional test for submitting a previously pruned block (Greg Sanders)
1f7fc73825 rpc: Remove submitblock duplicate pre-check (TheCharlatan)
e62a8abd7d rpc: Remove submitblock invalid-duplicate precheck (TheCharlatan)
36dbebafb9 rpc: Remove submitblock coinbase pre-check (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
With the introduction of a mining ipc interface and the potential future introduction of a kernel library API it becomes increasingly important to offer common behaviour between them. An example of this is ProcessNewBlock, which is used by ipc, rpc, net_processing and (potentially) the kernel library. Having divergent behaviour on suggested pre-checks and checks for these functions is confusing to both developers and users and is a maintenance burden.
The rpc interface for ProcessNewBlock (submitblock) currently pre-checks if the block has a coinbase transaction and whether it has been processed before. While the current example binary for how to use the kernel library, bitcoin-chainstate, imitates these checks, the other interfaces do not.
The coinbase check is repeated again early during ProcessNewBlock. Pre-checking it may also shadow more fundamental problems with a block. In most cases the block header is checked first, before validating the transactions. Checking the coinbase first therefore masks potential issues with the header. Fix this by removing the pre-check.
Similary the duplicate checks are repeated early in the contextual checks of ProcessNewBlock. If duplicate blocks are detected much of their validation is skipped. Depending on the constitution of the block, validating the merkle root of the block is part of the more intensive workload when validating a block. This could be an argument for moving the pre-checks into block processing. In net_processing this would have a smaller effect however, since the block mutation check, which also validates the merkle root, is done before.
Testing spamming a node with valid, but duplicate unrequested blocks seems to exhaust a CPU thread, but does not seem to significantly impact keeping up with the tip. The benefits of adding these checks to net_processing are questionable, especially since there are other ways to trigger the more CPU-intensive checks without submitting a duplicate block. Since these DOS concerns apply even less to the RPC interface, which does not have banning mechanics built in, remove them too.
Finally, also remove the pre-checks from `bitcoin-chainstate.cpp`.
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This PR is part of the [libbitcoinkernel project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27587).
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The duplicate checks are repeated early in the contextual checks of
ProcessNewBlock. If duplicate blocks are detected much of their
validation is skipped. Depending on the constitution of the block,
validating the merkle root of the block is part of the more intensive
workload when validating a block. This could be an argument for moving
the pre-checks into block processing. In net_processing this would have
a smaller effect however, since the block mutation check, which also
validates the merkle root, is done before.
A side effect of this change is that a duplicate block is persisted
again on disk even when pruning is activated. This is similar to the
behaviour with getblockfrompeer. Add a release note for this change in
behaviour.
Testing spamming a node with valid, but duplicate unrequested blocks
seems to exhaust a CPU thread, but does not seem to significantly impact
keeping up with the tip. The benefits of adding these checks to
net_processing are questionable, especially since there are other ways
to trigger the more CPU-intensive checks without submitting a duplicate
block. Since these DOS concerns apply even less to the RPC interface,
which does not have banning mechanics built in, remove them too.
---
With the introduction of a mining ipc interface and the potential future
introduction of a kernel library API it becomes increasingly important
to offer common behaviour between them. An example of this is
ProcessNewBlock, which is used by ipc, rpc, net_processing and
(potentially) the kernel library. Having divergent behaviour on
suggested pre-checks and checks for these functions is confusing to both
developers and users and is a maintenance burden.
The rpc interface for ProcessNewBlock (submitblock) currently pre-checks
if the block has a coinbase transaction and whether it has been
processed before. While the current example binary for how to use the
kernel library, bitcoin-chainstate, imitates these checks, the other
interfaces do not.
ProcessNewBlock fails if an invalid duplicate block is passed in through
its call to AcceptBlock and AcceptBlockHeader. The failure in
AcceptBlockHeader makes AcceptBlock return early. This makes the
pre-check in submitblock redundant.
---
With the introduction of a mining ipc interface and the potential future
introduction of a kernel library API it becomes increasingly important
to offer common behaviour between them. An example of this is
ProcessNewBlock, which is used by ipc, rpc, net_processing and
(potentially) the kernel library. Having divergent behaviour on
suggested pre-checks and checks for these functions is confusing to both
developers and users and is a maintenance burden.
The rpc interface for ProcessNewBlock (submitblock) currently pre-checks
if the block has a coinbase transaction and whether it has been
processed before. While the current example binary for how to use the
kernel library, bitcoin-chainstate, imitates these checks, the other
interfaces do not.
The coinbase check is repeated again early during ProcessNewBlock.
Pre-checking it may also shadow more fundamental problems with a block.
In most cases the block header is checked first, before validating the
transactions. Checking the coinbase first therefore masks potential
issues with the header. Fix this by removing the pre-check.
The pre-check was likely introduced on top of
ada0caa165 to fix UB in
GetWitnessCommitmentIndex in case a block's transactions are empty. This
code path could only be reached because of the call to
UpdateUncommittedBlockStructures in submitblock, but cannot be reached
through net_processing.
Add some functional test cases to cover the previous conditions that
lead to a "Block does not start with a coinbase" json rpc error being
returned.
---
With the introduction of a mining ipc interface and the potential future
introduction of a kernel library API it becomes increasingly important
to offer common behaviour between them. An example of this is
ProcessNewBlock, which is used by ipc, rpc, net_processing and
(potentially) the kernel library. Having divergent behaviour on
suggested pre-checks and checks for these functions is confusing to both
developers and users and is a maintenance burden.
The rpc interface for ProcessNewBlock (submitblock) currently pre-checks
if the block has a coinbase transaction and whether it has been
processed before. While the current example binary for how to use the
kernel library, bitcoin-chainstate, imitates these checks, the other
interfaces do not.
An external program that uses the Mining interface may need quick access to some information in the block template, while it can wait a bit longer for the full raw transaction data.
This would be the case for a Stratum v2 Template Provider which needs to send a NewTemplate message (which doesn't include transactions) as quickly as possible.
a2955f0979 validation: Use span for ImportBlocks paths (TheCharlatan)
20515ea3f5 validation: Use span for CalculateClaimedHeadersWork (TheCharlatan)
52575e96e7 validation: Use span for ProcessNewBlockHeaders (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
Makes it friendlier for potential future users of the kernel library if they do not store the headers in a std::vector, but can guarantee contiguous memory.
Take this opportunity to also change the argument of ImportBlocks previously taking a `std::vector` to a `std::span`.
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a0abcbd382 doc: Mention multipath specifier (Ava Chow)
0019f61fc5 tests: Test importing of multipath descriptors (Ava Chow)
f97d5c137d wallet, rpc: Allow importdescriptors to import multipath descriptors (Ava Chow)
32dcbca3fb rpc: Allow importmulti to import multipath descriptors correctly (Ava Chow)
64dfe3ce4b wallet: Move internal to be per key when importing (Ava Chow)
1692245525 tests: Multipath descriptors for scantxoutset and deriveaddresses (Ava Chow)
cddc0ba9a9 rpc: Have deriveaddresses derive receiving and change (Ava Chow)
360456cd22 tests: Multipath descriptors for getdescriptorinfo (Ava Chow)
a90eee444c tests: Add unit tests for multipath descriptors (Ava Chow)
1bbf46e2da descriptors: Change Parse to return vector of descriptors (Ava Chow)
0d640c6f02 descriptors: Have ParseKeypath handle multipath specifiers (Ava Chow)
a5f39b1034 descriptors: Change ParseScript to return vector of descriptors (Ava Chow)
0d55deae15 descriptors: Add DescriptorImpl::Clone (Ava Chow)
7e86541f72 descriptors: Add PubkeyProvider::Clone (Ava Chow)
Pull request description:
It is convenient to have a descriptor which specifies both receiving and change addresses in a single string. However, as discussed in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/17190#issuecomment-895515768, it is not feasible to use a generic multipath specification like BIP 88 due to combinatorial blow up and that it would result in unexpected descriptors.
To resolve that problem, this PR proposes a targeted solution which allows only a single pair of 2 derivation indexes to be inserted in the place of a single derivation index. So instead of two descriptor `wpkh(xpub.../0/0/*)` and `wpkh(xpub.../0/1/*)` to represent receive and change addresses, this could be written as `wpkh(xpub.../0/<0;1>/*)`. The multipath specifier is of the form `<NUM;NUM>`. Each `NUM` can have its own hardened specifier, e.g. `<0;1h>` is valid. The multipath specifier can also only appear in one path index in the derivation path.
This results in the parser returning two descriptors. The first descriptor uses the first `NUM` in all pairs present, and the second uses the second `NUM`. In our implementation, if a multipath descriptor is not provided, a pair is still returned, but the second element is just `nullptr`.
The wallet will not output the multipath descriptors (yet). Furthermore, when a multipath descriptor is imported, it is expanded to the two descriptors and each imported on its own, with the second descriptor being implicitly for internal (change) addresses. There is no change to how the wallet stores or outputs descriptors (yet).
Note that the path specifier is different from what was proposed. It uses angle brackets and the semicolon because these are unused characters available in the character set and I wanted to avoid conflicts with characters already in use in descriptors.
Closes#17190
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The following bitcoind parameters / RPC calls missed the "testnet4"
network string:
- `-chain=` parameter
- `getblockchaininfo` RPC, "chain" result
- `getmininginfo` RPC, "chain" result
Rather than pass options individually to createNewBlock and then
combining them into BlockAssembler::Options, this commit introduces
BlockCreateOptions and passes that instead.
Currently there's only one option (use_mempool) but the next
commit adds more.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
The goal of interfaces is to eventually run in their own process,
so we can't use EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED in their declaration.
However TestBlockValidaty will crash (in its call to ConnectBlock)
if the tip changes from under the proposed block.
Have the testBlockValidity implementation hold the lock instead,
and non-fatally check for this condition.
Set tip at the start of the function and only update it for a long poll.
Additionally have getTipHash return an optional, so the
caller can explicitly check that a tip exists.
