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.
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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.
Previously, `wait_for_getheaders` would check whether a node had received **any**
getheaders message. This implied that, if a test needed to check for a specific block
hash within a headers message, it had to make sure that it was checking the desired message.
This normally involved having to manually clear `last_message`. This method, apart from being
too verbose, was error prone, given an undesired `getheaders` would make tests pass.
This adds the ability to check for a specific block_hash within the last `getheaders` message.
Included a test that checks if we call submitblock with
block.vtx.empty() then it throws an rpc deserialization error, currently
we only test if !block.vtx->IsCoinBase() throws an rpc deserialization
error
The previous diff touched most files in ./test/, so bump the headers to
avoid having to touch them again for a bump later.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
./contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update ./test/
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
Use object returned from add_p2p_connection to refer to
p2ps. Add a test class attribute if it needs to be used across
many methods. Don't use the p2p property.
Migrates the CScriptNum decode tests into a unit test, and moved some
changes made in #14816. Made possible by the integration of
test_framework unit testing in #18576. Further extends the original
test with larger ints, similar to the scriptnum_tests.cpp file. Adds
test to blocktools.py testing fn create_coinbase() with CScriptNum
decode.
1abcecc40c Tests: Use self.chain instead of 'regtest' in almost all current tests (Jorge Timón)
Pull request description:
Simply avoiding the hardcoded string in more places for consistency.
It can also allow for more easily reusing tests for other chains other than regtest.
Separated from #8994 .
Continues #16509 .
It is still not complete (ie to be complete, we need the -chain parameter in #16680 and make whether acceptnonstdtxs is allowed for that chain or not customizable for regtest [or for custom chains like in #8994 ] ). But while being incomplete like #16509 , it's quite simple to review and another step forward IMO.
ACKs for top commit:
Sjors:
re-ACK 1abcecc. I think it's an improvement even if incomplete and if some PR's might accidentally bring "regtest" back. Subsequent improvements hopefully don't have to touch 16 files.
elichai:
Code review ACK 1abcecc40c
ryanofsky:
Code review ACK 1abcecc40c.
ryanofsky:
Code review ACK 1abcecc40c
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fa178a6385 [rpc] mining: Omit uninitialized currentblockweight, currentblocktx (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Previously we'd report "0", which could be mistaken for a valid number. E.g. the number of transactions is 0 or the block weight is 0, whatever that means.
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Calling getblocktemplate without the segwit rule specified is most
likely a client error, since it results in lower fees for the miner.
Prevent this client error by failing getblocktemplate if called without
the segwit rule specified.
fa6ab8ada1 rpc: Return more specific reject reason for submitblock (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The second commit in #13439 made the `TODO` in the first commit impossible to solve.
The meaning of `fNewBlock` changed from "This is the first time we process this block" to "We are about to write the new *valid* block".
So whenever `fNewBlock` is true, the block was valid. And whenever the `fNewBlock` is false, the block is either valid or invalid. If it was valid and not new, we know it is a `"duplicate"`. In all other cases, the `BIP22ValidationResult()` will return the reason why it is invalid.
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