rpc/gui: Remove 'Unknown block versions being mined' warning

Due to miners inserting garbage into the version numbers, the current
version signalling has become completely useless. This removes the
"unknown block versions" warning which has the tendency to scare
users unnecessarily (and might get them to "update" to something
bad).

It preserves the warning in the logs. Whether this is desirable can
be a point of discussion.
This commit is contained in:
Wladimir J. van der Laan 2019-02-25 10:14:28 +01:00
parent 1a8a5ede9f
commit ef362f2773
3 changed files with 1 additions and 29 deletions

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@ -2259,12 +2259,6 @@ void static UpdateTip(const CBlockIndex *pindexNew, const CChainParams& chainPar
} }
if (nUpgraded > 0) if (nUpgraded > 0)
AppendWarning(warningMessages, strprintf(_("%d of last 100 blocks have unexpected version"), nUpgraded)); AppendWarning(warningMessages, strprintf(_("%d of last 100 blocks have unexpected version"), nUpgraded));
if (nUpgraded > 100/2)
{
std::string strWarning = _("Warning: Unknown block versions being mined! It's possible unknown rules are in effect");
// notify GetWarnings(), called by Qt and the JSON-RPC code to warn the user:
DoWarning(strWarning);
}
} }
LogPrintf("%s: new best=%s height=%d version=0x%08x log2_work=%.8g tx=%lu date='%s' progress=%f cache=%.1fMiB(%utxo)", __func__, /* Continued */ LogPrintf("%s: new best=%s height=%d version=0x%08x log2_work=%.8g tx=%lu date='%s' progress=%f cache=%.1fMiB(%utxo)", __func__, /* Continued */
pindexNew->GetBlockHash().ToString(), pindexNew->nHeight, pindexNew->nVersion, pindexNew->GetBlockHash().ToString(), pindexNew->nHeight, pindexNew->nVersion,

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@ -66,23 +66,7 @@ class NotificationsTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
txids_rpc = list(map(lambda t: t['txid'], self.nodes[1].listtransactions("*", block_count))) txids_rpc = list(map(lambda t: t['txid'], self.nodes[1].listtransactions("*", block_count)))
assert_equal(sorted(txids_rpc), sorted(os.listdir(self.walletnotify_dir))) assert_equal(sorted(txids_rpc), sorted(os.listdir(self.walletnotify_dir)))
# Mine another 41 up-version blocks. -alertnotify should trigger on the 51st. # TODO: add test for `-alertnotify` large fork notifications
self.log.info("test -alertnotify")
self.nodes[1].generatetoaddress(41, ADDRESS_BCRT1_UNSPENDABLE)
self.sync_all()
# Give bitcoind 10 seconds to write the alert notification
wait_until(lambda: len(os.listdir(self.alertnotify_dir)), timeout=10)
for notify_file in os.listdir(self.alertnotify_dir):
os.remove(os.path.join(self.alertnotify_dir, notify_file))
# Mine more up-version blocks, should not get more alerts:
self.nodes[1].generatetoaddress(2, ADDRESS_BCRT1_UNSPENDABLE)
self.sync_all()
self.log.info("-alertnotify should not continue notifying for more unknown version blocks")
assert_equal(len(os.listdir(self.alertnotify_dir)), 0)
if __name__ == '__main__': if __name__ == '__main__':
NotificationsTest().main() NotificationsTest().main()

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@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ VB_TOP_BITS = 0x20000000
VB_UNKNOWN_BIT = 27 # Choose a bit unassigned to any deployment VB_UNKNOWN_BIT = 27 # Choose a bit unassigned to any deployment
VB_UNKNOWN_VERSION = VB_TOP_BITS | (1 << VB_UNKNOWN_BIT) VB_UNKNOWN_VERSION = VB_TOP_BITS | (1 << VB_UNKNOWN_BIT)
WARN_UNKNOWN_RULES_MINED = "Unknown block versions being mined! It's possible unknown rules are in effect"
WARN_UNKNOWN_RULES_ACTIVE = "unknown new rules activated (versionbit {})".format(VB_UNKNOWN_BIT) WARN_UNKNOWN_RULES_ACTIVE = "unknown new rules activated (versionbit {})".format(VB_UNKNOWN_BIT)
VB_PATTERN = re.compile("Warning: unknown new rules activated.*versionbit") VB_PATTERN = re.compile("Warning: unknown new rules activated.*versionbit")
@ -78,15 +77,10 @@ class VersionBitsWarningTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
assert(not VB_PATTERN.match(node.getmininginfo()["warnings"])) assert(not VB_PATTERN.match(node.getmininginfo()["warnings"]))
assert(not VB_PATTERN.match(node.getnetworkinfo()["warnings"])) assert(not VB_PATTERN.match(node.getnetworkinfo()["warnings"]))
self.log.info("Check that there is a warning if >50 blocks in the last 100 were an unknown version")
# Build one period of blocks with VB_THRESHOLD blocks signaling some unknown bit # Build one period of blocks with VB_THRESHOLD blocks signaling some unknown bit
self.send_blocks_with_version(node.p2p, VB_THRESHOLD, VB_UNKNOWN_VERSION) self.send_blocks_with_version(node.p2p, VB_THRESHOLD, VB_UNKNOWN_VERSION)
node.generatetoaddress(VB_PERIOD - VB_THRESHOLD, node_deterministic_address) node.generatetoaddress(VB_PERIOD - VB_THRESHOLD, node_deterministic_address)
# Check that get*info() shows the 51/100 unknown block version error.
assert(WARN_UNKNOWN_RULES_MINED in node.getmininginfo()["warnings"])
assert(WARN_UNKNOWN_RULES_MINED in node.getnetworkinfo()["warnings"])
self.log.info("Check that there is a warning if previous VB_BLOCKS have >=VB_THRESHOLD blocks with unknown versionbits version.") self.log.info("Check that there is a warning if previous VB_BLOCKS have >=VB_THRESHOLD blocks with unknown versionbits version.")
# Mine a period worth of expected blocks so the generic block-version warning # Mine a period worth of expected blocks so the generic block-version warning
# is cleared. This will move the versionbit state to ACTIVE. # is cleared. This will move the versionbit state to ACTIVE.