76ea17c79 Add mutex requirement for AddToCompactExtraTransactions(…) (practicalswift)
4616c825a Use -Wthread-safety-analysis if available (+ -Werror=thread-safety-analysis if --enable-werror) (practicalswift)
7e319d639 Fix -Wthread-safety-analysis warnings. Change the sync.h primitives to std from boost. (Matt Corallo)
Pull request description:
* Add mutex requirement for `AddToCompactExtraTransactions(…)`.
* Use `-Wthread-safety-analysis` if available.
* Rebased on top of https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/bitcoin/commits/2017-08-test-10923 - now includes: Fix -Wthread-safety-analysis warnings. Change the sync.h primitives to std from boost.
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6262915 Add unit test for stale tip checking (Suhas Daftuar)
83df257 Add CConnmanTest to mutate g_connman in tests (João Barbosa)
ac7b37c Connect to an extra outbound peer if our tip is stale (Suhas Daftuar)
db32a65 Track tip update time and last new block announcement from each peer (Suhas Daftuar)
2d4327d net: Allow connecting to extra outbound peers (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
This is an alternative approach to #11534. Rather than disconnect an outbound peer when our tip looks stale, instead try to connect to an additional outbound peer.
Periodically, check to see if we have more outbound peers than we target (ie if any extra peers are in use), and if so, disconnect the one that least recently announced a new block (breaking ties by choosing the newest peer that we connected to).
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If our tip hasn't updated in a while, that may be because our peers are
not relaying blocks to us that we would consider valid. Allow connection
to an additional outbound peer in that circumstance.
Also, periodically check to see if we are exceeding our target number of
outbound peers, and disconnect the one which has least recently
announced a new block to us (choosing the newest such peer in the case
of tie).
f3d4adf Make p2p-acceptablock not an extended test (Matt Corallo)
00dcda6 [qa] test that invalid blocks on an invalid chain get a disconnect (Matt Corallo)
015a525 Reject headers building on invalid chains by tracking invalidity (Matt Corallo)
932f118 Accept unrequested blocks with work equal to our tip (Matt Corallo)
3d9c70c Stop always storing blocks from whitelisted peers (Matt Corallo)
3b4ac43 Rewrite p2p-acceptblock in preparation for slight behavior changes (Matt Corallo)
Pull request description:
@sdaftuar pointed out that the version in #11487 was somewhat DoS-able as someone could feed you a valid chain that forked off the the last checkpoint block and force you to do lots of work just walking backwards across blocks for each new block they gave you. We came up with a few proposals but settled on the one implemented here as likely the simplest without obvious DoS issues. It uses our existing on-load mapBlockIndex walk to make sure everything that descends from an invalid block is marked as such, and then simply caches blocks which we attempted to connect but which were found to be invalid. To avoid DoS issues during IBD, this will need to depend on #11458.
Includes tests from #11487.
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There is no reason to wish to store blocks on disk always just
because a peer is whitelisted. This appears to be a historical
quirk to avoid breaking things when the accept limits were added.
Nowhere else in the protocol do we send headers which are for
blocks we have not fully validated except in response to getheaders
messages with a null locator. On my public node I have not seen any
such request (whether for an invalid block or not) in at least two
years of debug.log output, indicating that this should have minimal
impact.
Reading the variable mapBlockIndex requires holding the mutex cs_main.
The new "Disconnect outbound peers relaying invalid headers" code
added in commit 37886d5e2f and merged
as part of #11568 two days ago did not lock cs_main prior to accessing
mapBlockIndex.
e065249 Add unit test for outbound peer eviction (Suhas Daftuar)
5a6d00c Permit disconnection of outbound peers on bad/slow chains (Suhas Daftuar)
c60fd71 Disconnecting from bad outbound peers in IBD (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
The first commit will disconnect an outbound peer that serves us a headers chain with insufficient work while we're in IBD.
The second commit introduces a way to disconnect outbound peers whose chains fall out of sync with ours:
For a given outbound peer, we check whether their best known block (which is known from the blocks they announce to us) has at least as much work as our tip. If it doesn't, we set a 20 minute timeout, and if we still haven't heard about a block with as much work as our tip had when we set the timeout, then we send a single getheaders message, and wait 2 more minutes. If after two minutes their best known block has insufficient work, we disconnect that peer.
We protect 4 of our outbound peers (who provide some "good" headers chains, ie a chain with at least as much work as our tip at some point) from being subject to this logic, to prevent excessive network topology changes as a result of this algorithm, while still ensuring that we have a reasonable number of nodes not known to be on bogus chains.
We also don't require our peers to be on the same chain as us, to prevent accidental partitioning of the network in the event of a chain split. Note that if our peers are ever on a more work chain than our tip, then we will download and validate it, and then either reorg to it, or learn of a consensus incompatibility with that peer and disconnect. This PR is designed to protect against peers that are on a less work chain which we may never try to download and validate.
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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.
15f5d3b17 Switch DNSSeed-needed metric to any-automatic-nodes, not services (Matt Corallo)
5ee88b4bd Clarify docs for requirements/handling of addnode/connect nodes (Matt Corallo)
57edc0b0c Rename fAddnode to a more-descriptive "manual_connection" (Matt Corallo)
44407100f Replace relevant services logic with a function suite. (Matt Corallo)
Pull request description:
This was mostly written as a way to clean things up so that the NETWORK_LIMITED PR (#10387) can be simplified a ton, but its also a nice standalone cleanup that will also require a bit of review because it tweaks a lot of stuff across net. The new functions are fine in protocol.h right now since they're straight-forward, but after NETWORK_LIMITED will really want to move elsewhere after @theuni moves the nServices-based selection to addrman from connman.
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.
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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.
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.
A C-style cast is equivalent to try casting in the following order:
1. const_cast(...)
2. static_cast(...)
3. const_cast(static_cast(...))
4. reinterpret_cast(...)
5. const_cast(reinterpret_cast(...))
By using static_cast<T>(...) explicitly we avoid the possibility
of an unintentional and dangerous reinterpret_cast. Furthermore
static_cast<T>(...) allows for easier grepping of casts.
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.
There are a few too many edge-cases here to make this a scripted diff.
The following commits will move a few functions into PeerLogicValidation, where
the local connman instance can be used. This change prepares for that usage.
c00199244 Fix potential null dereferences (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
Picked up by the static analyzer [Facebook Infer](http://fbinfer.com/) which I was playing around with for another research project. Just adding some asserts before dereferencing potentially null pointers.
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90d4d89 scripted-diff: Use the C++11 keyword nullptr to denote the pointer literal instead of the macro NULL (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Since C++11 the macro `NULL` may be:
* an integer literal with value zero, or
* a prvalue of type `std::nullptr_t`
By using the C++11 keyword `nullptr` we are guaranteed a prvalue of type `std::nullptr_t`.
For a more thorough discussion, see "A name for the null pointer: nullptr" (Sutter &
Stroustrup), http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2431.pdf
With this patch applied there are no `NULL` macro usages left in the repo:
```
$ git grep NULL -- "*.cpp" "*.h" | egrep -v '(/univalue/|/secp256k1/|/leveldb/|_NULL|NULLDUMMY|torcontrol.*NULL|NULL cert)' | wc -l
0
```
The road towards `nullptr` (C++11) is split into two PRs:
* `NULL` → `nullptr` is handled in PR #10483 (scripted, this PR)
* `0` → `nullptr` is handled in PR #10645 (manual)
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3f8fa7f Make sure to clean up mapBlockSource if we've already seen the block (Cory Fields)
Pull request description:
Otherwise we may leave them dangling.
Credit TheBlueMatt.
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5a9b508 [trivial] Add end of namespace comments (practicalswift)
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At startup, we choose one peer to serve us the headers chain, until
our best header is close to caught up. Disconnect this peer if more
than 15 minutes + 1ms/expected_header passes and our best header
is still more than 1 day away from current time.
This patch makes several related changes:
* Changes the CCoinsView virtual methods (GetCoins, HaveCoins, ...)
to be COutPoint/Coin-based rather than txid/CCoins-based.
* Changes the chainstate db to a new incompatible format that is also
COutPoint/Coin based.
* Implements reconstruction code for hash_serialized_2.
* Adapts the coins_tests unit tests (thanks to Russell Yanofsky).
A side effect of the new CCoinsView model is that we can no longer
use the (unreliable) test for transaction outputs in the UTXO set
to determine whether we already have a particular transaction.
0f3471f net: make CNode's id private (Cory Fields)
9ff0a51 scripted-diff: net: Use accessor rather than node's id directly (Cory Fields)
e50c33e devtools: add script to verify scriptable changes (Cory Fields)
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vToFetch is never used after declaration. When checked if not empty,
evaluation is always false. Best case scenario this is optimized by the
compiler, worst case it wastes cpu cycles. It should be removed either
way.
b49ad44 Add comment about cs_most_recent_block coverage (Matt Corallo)
c47f5b7 Cache witness-enabled state with recent-compact-block-cache (Matt Corallo)
efc135f Use cached [compact] blocks to respond to getdata messages (Matt Corallo)
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b1a6d4c Take a CTransactionRef in AddToWalletIfInvolvingMe to avoid a copy (Matt Corallo)
1c95e2f Use std::shared_ptr instead of boost::shared_ptr in ScriptForMining (Matt Corallo)
91f1e6c Remove dead-code tracking of requests for blocks we generated (Matt Corallo)
acad82f Add override to functions using CValidationInterface methods (Matt Corallo)
e6d5e6c Hold cs_wallet for whole block [dis]connection processing (Matt Corallo)
461e49f SyncTransaction->TxAddedToMempool/BlockConnected/Disconnected (Matt Corallo)
f404334 Handle SyncTransaction in ActivateBestChain instead of ConnectTrace (Matt Corallo)
a147687 Keep conflictedTxs in ConnectTrace per-block (Matt Corallo)
d3167ba Handle conflicted transactions directly in ConnectTrace (Matt Corallo)
29e6e23 Make ConnectTrace::blocksConnected private, hide behind accessors (Matt Corallo)
822000c Add pblock to connectTrace at the end of ConnectTip, not start (Matt Corallo)
f5e9a01 Include missing #include in zmqnotificationinterface.h (Matt Corallo)
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This simplifies fixing the wallet-returns-stale-info issue as we
can now hold cs_wallet across an entire block instead of only
per-tx (though we only actually do so in the next commit).
This change also removes the NOT_IN_BLOCK constant in favor of only
passing the CBlockIndex* parameter to SyncTransactions when a new
block is being connected, instead of also when a block is being
disconnected.
This change adds a parameter to BlockConnectedDisconnected which
lists the transactions which were removed from mempool due to
confliction as a result of this operation. While its somewhat of a
shame to make block-validation-logic generate a list of mempool
changes to be included in its generated callbacks, fixing this isnt
too hard.
Further in this change-set, CValidationInterface starts listening
to mempool directly, placing it in the middle and giving it a bit
of logic to know how to route notifications from block-validation,
mempool, etc (though not listening for conflicted-removals yet).
This changes the logging categories to boolean flags instead of strings.
This simplifies the acceptance testing by avoiding accessing a scoped
static thread local pointer to a thread local set of strings. It
eliminates the only use of boost::thread_specific_ptr outside of
lockorder debugging.
This change allows log entries to be directed to multiple categories
and makes it easy to change the logging flags at runtime (e.g. via
an RPC, though that isn't done by this commit.)
It also eliminates the fDebug global.
Configuration of unknown logging categories now produces a warning.
Remove -limitfreerelay and always enforce minRelayTxFee in the mempool (except from disconnected blocks)
Remove -relaypriority, the option was only used for the ability to allow free transactions to be relayed regardless of their priority. Both notions no longer apply.
In the case that the branch ...
if (itInFlight != mapBlocksInFlight.end() && itInFlight->second.first == nodeid) {
... is taken, there was prior to this commit an implicit assumption that
MarkBlockAsInFlight(...) was being called with its fifth and optional
argument (pit) being present (and non-NULL).
d943491 qa: add a test to detect leaky p2p messages (Cory Fields)
8650bbb qa: Expose on-connection to mininode listeners (Matt Corallo)
5b5e4f8 qa: mininode learns when a socket connects, not its first action (Matt Corallo)
cbfc5a6 net: require a verack before responding to anything else (Cory Fields)
8502e7a net: parse reject earlier (Cory Fields)
c45b9fb net: correctly ban before the handshake is complete (Cory Fields)
7a8c251901 made this logic hard to follow. After that change, messages would
not be sent to a peer via SendMessages() before the handshake was complete, but
messages could still be sent as a response to an incoming message.
For example, if a peer had not yet sent a verack, we wouldn't notify it about
new blocks, but we would respond to a PING with a PONG.
This change makes the behavior straightforward: until we've received a verack,
never send any message other than version/verack/reject.
The behavior until a VERACK is received has always been undefined, this change
just tightens our policy.
This also makes testing much easier, because we can now connect but not send
version/verack, and anything sent to us is an error.
Prior to this change, all messages were ignored until a VERSION message was
received, as well as possibly incurring a ban score.
Since REJECT messages can be sent at any time (including as a response to a bad
VERSION message), make sure to always parse them.
Moving this parsing up keeps it from being caught in the
if (pfrom->nVersion == 0) check below.
7a8c251901 made a change to avoid getting into SendMessages() until the
version handshake (VERSION + VERACK) is complete. That was done to avoid
leaking out messages to nodes who could connect, but never bothered sending
us their version/verack.
Unfortunately, the ban tally and possible disconnect are done as part of
SendMessages(). So after 7a8c251901, if a peer managed to do something
bannable before completing the handshake (say send 100 non-version messages
before their version), they wouldn't actually end up getting
disconnected/banned. That's fixed here by checking the banscore as part of
ProcessMessages() in addition to SendMessages().
These are (afaik) all long-standing races or concurrent accesses. Going
forward, we can clean these up so that they're not all individual atomic
accesses.
- Reintroduce cs_vRecv to guard receive-specific vars
- Lock vRecv/vSend for CNodeStats
- Make some vars atomic.
- Only set the connection time in CNode's constructor so that it doesn't change
0729102 Net: pass interruptMsgProc as const where possible (Jorge Timón)
fc7f2ff Net: Make CNetMsgMaker more const (Jorge Timón)
d45955f Net: CConnman: Make some methods const (Jorge Timón)
This avoids having some vars set if the version negotiation fails.
Also copy it all into CNode at the same site. nVersion and
fSuccessfullyConnected are set last, as they are the gates for the other vars.
Make them atomic for that reason.
This adds a comment to the new logic for setting HB peers based
on block validation (and aligns the code below to reflect the comment).
It's not obvious why we're checking mapBlocksInFlight. Add a comment to
explain.
The old Bitcoin alert system has long since been retired.
( See also: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2016-11-01-alert-retirement )
This change causes each node to send any old peers that
it connects with a copy of the final alert.
The alert it hardcode cancels all other alerts including
other final alerts.
This forces the message handling thread to make another full
iteration of SendMessages prior to going back to sleep, ensuring
we announce the new block to all peers before sleeping.
02ee4eb Make most_recent_compact_block a pointer to a const (Matt Corallo)
73666ad Add comment to describe callers to ActivateBestChain (Matt Corallo)
962f7f0 Call ActivateBestChain without cs_main/with most_recent_block (Matt Corallo)
0df777d Use a temp pindex to avoid a const_cast in ProcessNewBlockHeaders (Matt Corallo)
c1ae4fc Avoid holding cs_most_recent_block while calling ReadBlockFromDisk (Matt Corallo)
9eb67f5 Ensure we meet the BIP 152 old-relay-types response requirements (Matt Corallo)
5749a85 Cache most-recently-connected compact block (Matt Corallo)
9eaec08 Cache most-recently-announced block's shared_ptr (Matt Corallo)
c802092 Relay compact block messages prior to full block connection (Matt Corallo)
6987219 Add a CValidationInterface::NewPoWValidBlock callback (Matt Corallo)
180586f Call AcceptBlock with the block's shared_ptr instead of CBlock& (Matt Corallo)
8baaba6 [qa] Avoid race in preciousblock test. (Matt Corallo)
9a0b2f4 [qa] Make compact blocks test construction using fetch methods (Matt Corallo)
8017547 Make CBlockIndex*es in net_processing const (Matt Corallo)
e60360e net: remove cs_vRecvMsg (Cory Fields)
991955e net: add a flag to indicate when a node's send buffer is full (Cory Fields)
c6e8a9b net: add a flag to indicate when a node's process queue is full (Cory Fields)
4d712e3 net: add a new message queue for the message processor (Cory Fields)
c5a8b1b net: rework the way that the messagehandler sleeps (Cory Fields)
c72cc88 net: remove useless comments (Cory Fields)
ef7b5ec net: Add a simple function for waking the message handler (Cory Fields)
f5c36d1 net: record bytes written before notifying the message processor (Cory Fields)
60befa3 net: handle message accounting in ReceiveMsgBytes (Cory Fields)
56212e2 net: set message deserialization version when it's actually time to deserialize (Cory Fields)
0e973d9 net: remove redundant max sendbuffer size check (Cory Fields)
6042587 net: wait until the node is destroyed to delete its recv buffer (Cory Fields)
f6315e0 net: only disconnect if fDisconnect has been set (Cory Fields)
5b4a8ac net: make GetReceiveFloodSize public (Cory Fields)
e5bcd9c net: make vRecvMsg a list so that we can use splice() (Cory Fields)
53ad9a1 net: fix typo causing the wrong receive buffer size (Cory Fields)
vRecvMsg is now only touched by the socket handler thread.
The accounting vars (nRecvBytes/nLastRecv/mapRecvBytesPerMsgCmd) are also
only used by the socket handler thread, with the exception of queries from
rpc/gui. These accesses are not threadsafe, but they never were. This needs to
be addressed separately.
Also, update comment describing data flow
Similar to the recv flag, but this one indicates whether or not the net's send
buffer is full.
The socket handler checks the send queue when a new message is added and pauses
if necessary, and possibly unpauses after each message is drained from its buffer.
Messages are dumped very quickly from the socket handler to the processor, so
it's the depth of the processing queue that's interesting.
The socket handler checks the process queue's size during the brief message
hand-off and pauses if necessary, and the processor possibly unpauses each time
a message is popped off of its queue.
In order to sleep accurately, the message handler needs to know if _any_ node
has more processing that it should do before the entire thread sleeps.
Rather than returning a value that represents whether ProcessMessages
encountered a message that should trigger a disconnnect, interpret the return
value as whether or not that node has more work to do.
Also, use a global fProcessWake value that can be set by other threads,
which takes precedence (for one cycle) over the messagehandler's decision.
Note that the previous behavior was to only process one message per loop
(except in the case of a bad checksum or invalid header). That was changed in
PR #3180.
The only change here in that regard is that the current node now falls to the
back of the processing queue for the bad checksum/invalid header cases.
There is still a call to ActivateBestChain with cs_main if a peer
requests the block prior to it being validated, but this one is
more specifically-gated, so should be less of an issue.
Previously addnodes were in competition with outbound connections
for access to the eight outbound slots.
One result of this is that frequently a node with several addnode
configured peers would end up connected to none of them, because
while the addnode loop was in its two minute sleep the automatic
connection logic would fill any free slots with random peers.
This is particularly unwelcome to users trying to maintain links
to specific nodes for fast block relay or purposes.
Another result is that a group of nine or more nodes which are
have addnode configured towards each other can become partitioned
from the public network.
This commit introduces a new limit of eight connections just for
addnode peers which is not subject to any of the other connection
limitations (including maxconnections).
The choice of eight is sufficient so that under no condition would
a user find themselves connected to fewer addnoded peers than
previously. It is also low enough that users who are confused
about the significance of more connections and have gotten too
copy-and-paste happy will not consume more than twice the slot
usage of a typical user.
Any additional load on the network resulting from this will likely
be offset by a reduction in users applying even more wasteful
workaround for the prior behavior.
The retry delays are reduced to avoid nodes sitting around without
their added peers up, but are still sufficient to prevent overly
aggressive repeated connections. The reduced delays also make
the system much more responsive to the addnode RPC.
Ban-disconnects are also exempted for peers added via addnode since
the outbound addnode logic ignores bans. Previously it would ban
an addnode then immediately reconnect to it.
A minor change was also made to CSemaphoreGrant so that it is
possible to re-acquire via an object whos grant was moved.
In order to do this, we must call ActivateBestChain prior to
responding getdata requests for blocks which we announced using
compact blocks.
For getheaders responses we dont need code changes, but do note
that we must reset the bestHeaderSent so that the SendMessages call
re-announces the header in question.
While we could do something smarter for getblocks, calling
ActivateBestChain is simple and more obviously correct, instead of
doing something more similar to getheaders.
See-also the BIP clarifications at
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/486
813ede9 [qa] Update compactblocks test for multi-peer reconstruction (Suhas Daftuar)
7017298 Allow compactblock reconstruction when block is in flight (Suhas Daftuar)
dd0df81 Document ConnectBlock connectTrace postconditions (Matt Corallo)
2d6e561 Switch pblock in ProcessNewBlock to a shared_ptr (Matt Corallo)
2736c44 Make the optional pblock in ActivateBestChain a shared_ptr (Matt Corallo)
ae4db44 Create a shared_ptr for the block we're connecting in ActivateBCS (Matt Corallo)
fd9d890 Keep blocks as shared_ptrs, instead of copying txn in ConnectTip (Matt Corallo)
6fdd43b Add struct to track block-connect-time-generated info for callbacks (Matt Corallo)
