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peer: Improve address sampling in PushAddrMsg.

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This changes fixes shuffling algorithm in PushAddrMsg to select a
uniformly random subset of the given addresses using Fisher-Yates.
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Jim Posen 2017-08-08 15:55:51 -07:00 committed by Dave Collins
parent fd081f5ae4
commit f4d376d7af
1 changed files with 6 additions and 5 deletions
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peer/peer.go
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@ -849,21 +849,22 @@ func (p *Peer) localVersionMsg() (*wire.MsgVersion, error) {
//
// This function is safe for concurrent access.
func (p *Peer) PushAddrMsg(addresses []*wire.NetAddress) ([]*wire.NetAddress, error) {
addressCount := len(addresses)
// Nothing to send.
if len(addresses) == 0 {
if addressCount == 0 {
return nil, nil
}
msg := wire.NewMsgAddr()
msg.AddrList = make([]*wire.NetAddress, len(addresses))
msg.AddrList = make([]*wire.NetAddress, addressCount)
copy(msg.AddrList, addresses)
// Randomize the addresses sent if there are more than the maximum allowed.
if len(msg.AddrList) > wire.MaxAddrPerMsg {
if addressCount > wire.MaxAddrPerMsg {
// Shuffle the address list.
for i := range msg.AddrList {
j := rand.Intn(i + 1)
for i := 0; i < wire.MaxAddrPerMsg; i++ {
j := i + rand.Intn(addressCount-i)
msg.AddrList[i], msg.AddrList[j] = msg.AddrList[j], msg.AddrList[i]
}