Instead of having the block manager notify the RPC server about
accepted, connected, and disconnected blocks, the RPC server will
directly listen for notifications from the blockchain.
The objective is to remove the reference from blockManager to
server. Since the blockManager is responsible for keeping the mempool
in sync, it should have a direct reference to it.
This commit modifies the existing block selection logic to limit
preferentially by weight instead of serialized block size, and also to
adhere to the new sig-op cost limits which are weighted according to
the witness discount.
This commit modifies the logic within the block manager and service to
preferentially fetch transactions and blocks which include witness data
from fully upgraded peers.
Once the initial version handshake has completed, the server now tracks
which of the connected peers are witness enabled (they advertise
SFNodeWitness). From then on, if a peer is witness enabled, then btcd
will always request full witness data when fetching
transactions/blocks.
Version 0.15.0 of Bitcoin Core will include a new RPC command that will
allow us to obtain the amount of time (in seconds) that the server has
been running.
This modifies the blockNode and BestState structs in the blockchain
package to store hashes directly instead of pointers to them and updates
callers to deal with the API change in the exported BestState struct.
In general, the preferred approach for hashes moving forward is to store
hash values in complex data structures, particularly those that will be
used for cache entries, and accept pointers to hashes in arguments to
functions.
Some of the reasoning behind making this change is:
- It is generally preferred to avoid storing pointers to data in cache
objects since doing so can easily lead to storing interior pointers
into other structs that then can't be GC'd
- Keeping the hash values directly in the block node provides better
cache locality
This modifies the block node structure to include a couple of extra
fields needed to be able to reconstruct the block header from a node,
and exposes a new function from chain to fetch the block headers which
takes advantage of the new functionality to reconstruct the headers from
memory when possible. Finally, it updates both the p2p and RPC servers
to make use of the new function.
This is useful since many of the block header fields need to be kept in
order to form the block index anyways and storing the extra fields means
the database does not have to be consulted when headers are requested if
the associated node is still in memory.
The following timings show representative performance gains as measured
from one system:
new: Time to fetch 100000 headers: 59ms
old: Time to fetch 100000 headers: 4783ms
A DNS lookup was being attempted on onion addresses causing
connections to fail. This has been fixed by introducing type
onionAddr (which implements a net.Addr interface) and passing
it to btcdDial.
Also, the following onion related fixes have been made:
* getaddednodeinfo - updated to handle onion addrs.
* TorLookupIP - fixed err being shadowed.
* newServer - rename tcpAddr to netAddr
* addrStringToNetAddr - skip if host is already an IP addr.
* addrStringToNetAddr - err if tor is disabled
* getaddednodeinfo - check if host is already an IP addr.
addrmgr.GetAddress() had a parameter `class string` originally intended
to support looking up addresses according to some type of filter such as
IPv4, IPv6, and only those which support specific wire.ServiceFlags
(full nodes, nodes that support bloom filters, nodes that support
segwit, etc). But currently the parameter is unused and also has an
inappropriate type `string`.
If it would ever be used, it's easy to add back and should then get an
appropriate type such as something that allows bitflags to be set so
that the caller could request combinations such as peers that support
IPv6, are full nodes, and support bloom filters.
This corrects an issue introduced by commit
e8f63bc295 where a failure to lookup a
hostname could lead to a panic in certain circumstances. An error is
now returned in that case as expected.
This commit modifies the `ConnManager` to use the `net.Add` interface
through the package instead of a plain string to represent and
manipulate addresses. This change makes the package much more general as
users of the package can possibly utilize custom implementations of the
`net.Addr` interface to establish connections.
More precisely, the `ConnReq` struct has been modified to use a net.Addr
instance explicitly, and the `DialFunc` type has also been modified to
take a `net.Addr` directly. This latter change gives functions that
adhere to the `DialFunc` type more flexibility as to exactly how the
connection is established.
Additionally, the `connmgr.Config.GetNewAddress` configuration option
now directly returns a `net.Addr. This change allows the `connmgr` to be
decoupled from all DNS queries which allows callers to preferentially
select more secure methods like performing DNS lookups over a Tor proxy.
This modifies the signatures of all serverPeer callbacks that are
provided as peer.Listeners to use _ for the first parameter name which
ensures the passed peer can't be used within the function and updates
all references to the server peer.
This helps ensure any overridden methods that might be defined on a
serverPeer will be invoked where directly calling methods on the passed
peer would not.
Also, while here, add a comment to the OnFeeFilter function.
This modifies the connection manager to provide support for accepting
inbound connections on a caller-provided set of listeners and notify the
caller via a callback.
This is only the minimum work necessary to get inbound support into the
connection manager. The intention for future commits is to move more
connection-related logic such as limiting the maximum number of overall
connections and banned peer tracking into the connection manager.
This removes the type definitions for the callback functions in favor of
declaring them directly in the Config struct. This is more consistent
with the rest of the code base and is preferred since it means callers
reviewing the documentation don't have to follow another level of
indirection to figure out the signature.
This removes any remaining orphan transactions that were sent by a peer
when it disconnects since it is extremely unlikely that the missing
parents will ever materialize from elsewhere.
This does the minimum work necessary to refactor the CPU miner code into
its own package. The idea is that separating this code into its own
package will improve its testability and ultimately be useful to other
parts of the codebase such as the various tests which currently
effectively have their own stripped-down versions of this code.
The API will certainly need some additional cleanup and changes to make
it more usable outside of the specific circumstances it was originally
designed to support (namely the generate RPC), however it is better to
do that in future commits in order to keep the changeset as small as
possible during this refactor.
Overview of the major changes:
- Create the new package
- Move cpuminer.go -> cpuminer/cpuminer.go
- Update mining logging to use the new cpuminer package logger
- Rename cpuminerConfig to Config (so it's now cpuminer.Config)
- Rename newCPUMiner to New (so it's now cpuminer.New)
- Update all references to the cpuminer to use the package
- Add a skeleton README.md
This corrects a few issues introduced with the connection manager where
the server was not notifying the connection manager when a connection
request is available again.
The cases resolved are:
- Unable to initialize a server peer instance in response to the connection
- Failure to associate the connection with the server peer instance
- Disconnection of a non-persistent outbound peer
It also changes the log message to a debug in the former case because
it's not something that should be shown to the user as an error given
it's not due to anything the user has misconfigured nor is it even
unexpected if an invalid address is provided.
This does the minimum work necessary to refactor the block template
generation code into the mining package. The idea is that separating
this code into the mining package will greatly improve its testability,
allow independent benchmarking and profiling, and open up some
interesting opportunities for future development related to mining.
There are some areas related to policy and other configuration that
could be further refactored, however it is better to do that in future
commits in order to keep the changeset as small as possible during this
refactor.
Overview of the major changes:
- Move mining.go -> mining/mining.go
- Move mining_test.go -> mining/mining_test.go
- Add logger to mining package
- Update the MINR subsystem to use the new mining package logger
- Export CoinbaseFlags from the mining package
- BlkTmplGenerator is now mining.BlkTmplGenerator
- Update all references to the mining code to use the package
This modifies the block template generate for the mining code such that
it takes chain instance and params instead of requiring a fully
initialized blockManager instance.
Also, in preparation for being able to more easily separate the code, it
exposes and makes use of two new functions:
- BestSnapshot which returns the state snapshot from the underlying
chain instance
- TxSource which returns the underlying transaction source
This is a step towards being able to separate the mining code into its
own package. No functional change.
This introduces a cpuminerConfig type which contains the necessary
information to break the direct dependency on the main server instance.
This change is a step towards being able to separate the cpu miner into
its own subpackage. No functional change.
This commit adds a new option to the mempool’s policy configuration
which determines which transaction versions should be accepted as
standard.
The default version set by the policy within the server is 2; this
allows accepting transactions which have version 2 enabled in order to
utilize the new sequence locks feature.
This introduces a new type named BlkTmplGenerator which encapsulates the
various state needed to generate block templates.
This is useful since it means code that needs to generate block
templates can simply accept the generator rather than needing access to
all of the additional state which in turn will ultimately make it easier
to split the mining code into its own package.
This renames the mempool.Config.RelayNonStd option to AcceptNonStd which
more accurately describes its behavior since the mempool was refactored
into a separate package.
The reasoning for this change is that the mempool is not responsible for
relaying transactions (nor should it be). Its job is to maintain a pool
of unmined transactions that are validated according to consensus and
policy configuration options which are then used to provide a source of
transactions that need to be mined.
Instead, it is the server that is responsible for relaying transactions.
While it is true that the current server code currently only relays txns
that were accepted to the mempool, this does not necessarily have to
be the case. It would be entirely possible (and perhaps even a good
idea as something do in the future), to separate the relay policy from
the mempool acceptance policy (and thus indirectly the mining policy).
This commit introduces package connmgr which contains connection
management related functionality.
The following is an overview of the features the package provides:
- Maintain fixed number of outbound connections
- Optional connect-only mode
- Retry persistent connections with increasing back-off
- Source peers from DNS seeds
- Use Tor to resolve DNS
- Dynamic ban scores
- Test coverage
In addition, btcd has been refactored to make use of the new package by
extending the connection manager to work with the server to source and
maintain peer connections. The following is a broad overview of the
changes to integrate the package:
- Simplify peer state by removing pending, retry peers
- Refactor to remove retries which are now handled by connmgr
- Use callback to add addresses sourced from the DNS seed
Finally the following connection-related things have been improved as a
part of this refactor:
- Fixes 100% cpu usage when network is down (#129)
- Fixes issues with max peers (#577)
- Simplify outbound peer connections management
This commit adds an additional closure function to the mempool’s config
which computes the median time past from the point of view of the best
node in the chain. The mempool test harness has also been updated to allow
setting a mock median time past for testing purposes.
In addition to increasing the testability of the mempool, this commit
should also speed up transaction and block validation for BIP 113 as
the MTP no longer needs to be re-calculated each time from scratch.
This makes the enforcement of the bloom filter service bit much more
strict. In particular, it does the following:
- Moves the enforcement of the bloom filter service bit out of the peer
package and into the server so the server can ban as necessary
- Disconnect peers that send filter commands when the server is
configured to disable them regardless of the protocol version
- Bans peers that are a high enough protocol version that they are
supposed to observe the service bit is disabled, but ignore it and
send filter commands regardless.
As an added bonus, this fixes the old logic which had a bug in that it
was examining the *remote* peer's supported services in order to choose
whether or not to disconnect instead of the *local* server's supported
services.
This commit adds two new cli flags: one for accepting non-std
transactions, and the other for rejecting non-std transactions.
The two flag are rejected when using concurrently. Config parsing is
set up such that, the desired policy expressed via the config always
overrides the policy set by default for a particular chain.
The doc.go files and the sample-btcd.conf file have been updated to document
the new flags exposing further policy control.
This modifies the config for the new mempool package such that it takes
a callback function to obtain the best chain height instead of requiring
a fully initialized blockchain.BlockChain instance.
This will make it much easier to test the mempool since the tests will
be able to provide their own height function to test various
functionality without having create and manipulate full blocks and chain
instances.
This does the minimum work necessary to refactor the mempool code into
its own package. The idea is that separating this code into its own
package will greatly improve its testability, allow independent
benchmarking and profiling, and open up some interesting opportunities
for future development related to the memory pool.
There are likely some areas related to policy that could be further
refactored, however it is better to do that in future commits in order
to keep the changeset as small as possible during this refactor.
Overview of the major changes:
- Create the new package
- Move several files into the new package:
- mempool.go -> mempool/mempool.go
- mempoolerror.go -> mempool/error.go
- policy.go -> mempool/policy.go
- policy_test.go -> mempool/policy_test.go
- Update mempool logging to use the new mempool package logger
- Rename mempoolPolicy to Policy (so it's now mempool.Policy)
- Rename mempoolConfig to Config (so it's now mempool.Config)
- Rename mempoolTxDesc to TxDesc (so it's now mempool.TxDesc)
- Rename txMemPool to TxPool (so it's now mempool.TxPool)
- Move defaultBlockPrioritySize to the new package and export it
- Export DefaultMinRelayTxFee from the mempool package
- Export the CalcPriority function from the mempool package
- Introduce a new RawMempoolVerbose function on the TxPool and update
the RPC server to use it
- Update all references to the mempool to use the package.
- Add a skeleton README.md
This reduces the mempool lock contention by removing an unnecessary
check when responding to a "mempool" request.
In particular, the code first gets a list of all transactions from the
mempool and then iterates them in order to construct the inventory
vectors and apply bloom filtering if it is enabled. Since it is
possible that the transaction was removed from the mempool by another
thread while that list is being iterated, the code was checking if each
transaction was still in the mempool. This is a pointless check because
the transaction might still be removed at any point after the check
anyways. For example, it might be removed after the mempool response
has been sent to the remote peer or even while the loop is still
iterating.
This rewrites the shutdown logic to simplify the shutdown signalling.
All cleanup is now run from deferred functions in the main function and
channels are used to signal shutdown either from OS signals or from
other subsystems such as the RPC server and windows service controller.
The RPC server has been modified to use a new channel for signalling
shutdown that is exposed via the RequestedProcessShutdown function
instead of directly calling Stop on the server as it previously did.
Finally, it adds a few checks for early termination during the main
start sequence so the process can be stopped without starting all the
subsystems if desired.
This is a backport of the equivalent logic from Decred with a few slight
modifications. Credits go to @jrick.
This is mostly a backport of some of the same modifications made in
Decred along with a few additional things cleaned up. In particular,
this updates the code to make use of the new chainhash package.
Also, since this required API changes anyways and the hash algorithm is
no longer tied specifically to SHA, all other functions throughout the
code base which had "Sha" in their name have been changed to Hash so
they are not incorrectly implying the hash algorithm.
The following is an overview of the changes:
- Remove the wire.ShaHash type
- Update all references to wire.ShaHash to the new chainhash.Hash type
- Rename the following functions and update all references:
- wire.BlockHeader.BlockSha -> BlockHash
- wire.MsgBlock.BlockSha -> BlockHash
- wire.MsgBlock.TxShas -> TxHashes
- wire.MsgTx.TxSha -> TxHash
- blockchain.ShaHashToBig -> HashToBig
- peer.ShaFunc -> peer.HashFunc
- Rename all variables that included sha in their name to include hash
instead
- Update for function name changes in other dependent packages such as
btcutil
- Update copyright dates on all modified files
- Update glide.lock file to use the required version of btcutil
This adds support for serving headers instead of inventory messages in
accordance with BIP0130. btcd itself does not yet make use of the
feature when receiving data.
It is not the responsibility of mempool to relay transactions, so
return a slice of transactions accepted to the mempool due to the
passed transaction to the caller.
having 3 int32s above the uint64s in the struct
will cause misalignment for some 32-bit architectures.
see https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/#pkg-note-BUG
This aligns bytesReceived and bytesSent.
This introduces a new indexing infrastructure for supporting optional
indexes using the new database and blockchain infrastructure along with
two concrete indexer implementations which provide both a
transaction-by-hash and a transaction-by-address index.
The new infrastructure is mostly separated into a package named indexers
which is housed under the blockchain package. In order to support this,
a new interface named IndexManager has been introduced in the blockchain
package which provides methods to be notified when the chain has been
initialized and when blocks are connected and disconnected from the main
chain. A concrete implementation of an index manager is provided by the
new indexers package.
The new indexers package also provides a new interface named Indexer
which allows the index manager to manage concrete index implementations
which conform to the interface.
The following is high level overview of the main index infrastructure
changes:
- Define a new IndexManager interface in the blockchain package and
modify the package to make use of the interface when specified
- Create a new indexers package
- Provides an Index interface which allows concrete indexes to plugin
to an index manager
- Provides a concrete IndexManager implementation
- Handles the lifecycle of all indexes it manages
- Tracks the index tips
- Handles catching up disabled indexes that have been reenabled
- Handles reorgs while the index was disabled
- Invokes the appropriate methods for all managed indexes to allow
them to index and deindex the blocks and transactions
- Implement a transaction-by-hash index
- Makes use of internal block IDs to save a significant amount of
space and indexing costs over the old transaction index format
- Implement a transaction-by-address index
- Makes use of a leveling scheme in order to provide a good tradeoff
between space required and indexing costs
- Supports enabling and disabling indexes at will
- Support the ability to drop indexes if they are no longer desired
The following is an overview of the btcd changes:
- Add a new index logging subsystem
- Add new options --txindex and --addrindex in order to enable the
optional indexes
- NOTE: The transaction index will automatically be enabled when the
address index is enabled because it depends on it
- Add new options --droptxindex and --dropaddrindex to allow the indexes
to be removed
- NOTE: The address index will also be removed when the transaction
index is dropped because it depends on it
- Update getrawtransactions RPC to make use of the transaction index
- Reimplement the searchrawtransaction RPC that makes use of the address
index
- Update sample-btcd.conf to include sample usage for the new optional
index flags
This commit is the first stage of several that are planned to convert
the blockchain package into a concurrent safe package that will
ultimately allow support for multi-peer download and concurrent chain
processing. The goal is to update btcd proper after each step so it can
take advantage of the enhancements as they are developed.
In addition to the aforementioned benefit, this staged approach has been
chosen since it is absolutely critical to maintain consensus.
Separating the changes into several stages makes it easier for reviewers
to logically follow what is happening and therefore helps prevent
consensus bugs. Naturally there are significant automated tests to help
prevent consensus issues as well.
The main focus of this stage is to convert the blockchain package to use
the new database interface and implement the chain-related functionality
which it no longer handles. It also aims to improve efficiency in
various areas by making use of the new database and chain capabilities.
The following is an overview of the chain changes:
- Update to use the new database interface
- Add chain-related functionality that the old database used to handle
- Main chain structure and state
- Transaction spend tracking
- Implement a new pruned unspent transaction output (utxo) set
- Provides efficient direct access to the unspent transaction outputs
- Uses a domain specific compression algorithm that understands the
standard transaction scripts in order to significantly compress them
- Removes reliance on the transaction index and paves the way toward
eventually enabling block pruning
- Modify the New function to accept a Config struct instead of
inidividual parameters
- Replace the old TxStore type with a new UtxoViewpoint type that makes
use of the new pruned utxo set
- Convert code to treat the new UtxoViewpoint as a rolling view that is
used between connects and disconnects to improve efficiency
- Make best chain state always set when the chain instance is created
- Remove now unnecessary logic for dealing with unset best state
- Make all exported functions concurrent safe
- Currently using a single chain state lock as it provides a straight
forward and easy to review path forward however this can be improved
with more fine grained locking
- Optimize various cases where full blocks were being loaded when only
the header is needed to help reduce the I/O load
- Add the ability for callers to get a snapshot of the current best
chain stats in a concurrent safe fashion
- Does not block callers while new blocks are being processed
- Make error messages that reference transaction outputs consistently
use <transaction hash>:<output index>
- Introduce a new AssertError type an convert internal consistency
checks to use it
- Update tests and examples to reflect the changes
- Add a full suite of tests to ensure correct functionality of the new
code
The following is an overview of the btcd changes:
- Update to use the new database and chain interfaces
- Temporarily remove all code related to the transaction index
- Temporarily remove all code related to the address index
- Convert all code that uses transaction stores to use the new utxo
view
- Rework several calls that required the block manager for safe
concurrency to use the chain package directly now that it is
concurrent safe
- Change all calls to obtain the best hash to use the new best state
snapshot capability from the chain package
- Remove workaround for limits on fetching height ranges since the new
database interface no longer imposes them
- Correct the gettxout RPC handler to return the best chain hash as
opposed the hash the txout was found in
- Optimize various RPC handlers:
- Change several of the RPC handlers to use the new chain snapshot
capability to avoid needlessly loading data
- Update several handlers to use new functionality to avoid accessing
the block manager so they are able to return the data without
blocking when the server is busy processing blocks
- Update non-verbose getblock to avoid deserialization and
serialization overhead
- Update getblockheader to request the block height directly from
chain and only load the header
- Update getdifficulty to use the new cached data from chain
- Update getmininginfo to use the new cached data from chain
- Update non-verbose getrawtransaction to avoid deserialization and
serialization overhead
- Update gettxout to use the new utxo store versus loading
full transactions using the transaction index
The following is an overview of the utility changes:
- Update addblock to use the new database and chain interfaces
- Update findcheckpoint to use the new database and chain interfaces
- Remove the dropafter utility which is no longer supported
NOTE: The transaction index and address index will be reimplemented in
another commit.
mempoolPolicy contains the values that configure the mempool policy.
This decouples the values from the internals of btcd to move closer
to a mempool package.
The --blocksonly configuration option disables accepting transactions
from remote peers. It will still accept, relay, and rebroadcast
valid transactions sent via RPC or websockets.
This modifies the peer package to add support for the sendheaders
protocol message introduced by BIP0030.
NOTE: This does not add support to btcd itself. That requires the server
and sync code to make use of the new functionality exposed by these
changes. As a result, btcd will still be using protocol version 70011.
This ensures the channel passed to QueueMessage is writable and that
QueueMessage will not read from the channel (write-only).
This change is merely a safety change. If a user of the API passes
a read-only channel to QueueMessage, it will now be caught at compile
time instead of panicking during runtime.
Also update internal functions.
When the RPC server is not running a buffered transaction notification
channel fills and eventually blocks. This commit ensures that the
channel continues to be drained irrespective of the RPC server status.
Dynamic ban scores consist of a persistent and a decaying component. The
persistent score can be used to create simple additive banning policies
simlar to those found in other bitcoin node implementations. The
decaying score enables the creation of evasive logic which handles
misbehaving peers (especially application layer DoS attacks) gracefully
by disconnecting and banning peers attempting various kinds of flooding.
Dynamic ban scores allow these two approaches to be used in tandem.
This pull request includes the following:
- Dynamic ban score type & functions, with tests for core functionality
- Ban score of connected peers can be queried via rpc (getpeerinfo)
- Example policy with decaying score increments on mempool and getdata
- Logging of misbehavior once half of the ban threshold is reached
- Banning logic can be disabled via configuration (enabled by default)
- User defined ban threshold can be set via configuration
This updates a couple of logging statements to use the serverPeer
instance instead of the embedded peer.Peer so they are consistent with
all of the other log statements.
This commit does not change functionality. It makes the creation of inbound and outbound peers more homogeneous. As a result the Start method of peer was removed as it was found not to be necessary. This is the first of several pull requests/commits designed to make the peer public API and internals less complex.
When a persistent peer is disconnected (for example due to a
network timeout), a connection retry is issued. The logic for
doing so failed to remove the peer from the peerState, causing
dead peer connections to fill the peerState. Since connections
in the peerState are counted towards the maxPeers limit, this
would cause btcd to eventually stop retrying connection.
This commit fixes the issue by properly removing the peer from
the peerState.
The CPU miner relies on the mempool, so the mempool has to be created
before calling the function to create the CPU miner. When PR #568
introduced the mempool config struct, it moved the mempool creation
after the miner creation, which leads to the CPU miner crashing due to
trying to access a nil mempool.
This move the CPU miner creation after the mempool creation
appropriately.
This creates a skeleton mining package that simply contains a few of the
definitions used by the mining and mempool code.
This is a step towards decoupling the mining code from the internals of
btcd and ultimately will house all of the code related to creating block
templates and CPU mining.
The main reason a skeleton package is being created before the full
blown package is ready is to avoid blocking mempool separation which
relies on these type definitions.
This fixes an issue introduced during the peer refactor where persistent
peers that failed the initial connection are not retried as intended.
It also improves the retry logic as follows:
- Make the retry handler goroutine simply use a for loop instead of
launching a new goroutine for each backoff attempt. Even though
goroutines are fairly cheap to create, it is much more efficient to
simply loop
- Change the retry handler to accept a flag if it is the initial attempt
- Rather than dividing the const interval by 2 everywhere and passing
the retry duration in, just half the constant and set the initial
duration to it in the retry handler
Finally, include the address of the peer in the error message when a new
outbound peer can't be created.
This introduces the concept of a mining policy struct which is used to
control block template generation instead of directly accessing the
config struct. This is a step toward decoupling the mining code from
the internals of btcd. Ultimately the intent is to create a separate
mining package.
When the peer code was refactored, the lists of peers were converted to
maps however the code which runs when a peer disconnects still iterates
them like a slice. This is no longer necessary since they are maps
which means the peer can simply be looked up by its ID.
Also, the old code was comparing the map entry and the peer being
removed by their pointers which could lead to potentially not properly
finding the peer. This issue is also resolved by this change since it
looks up the peer by its ID.
This modifies the IP parsing code to work with IPv6 zone ids. This is
needed since the net.ParseIP function does not allow zone ids even
though net.Listen does.
This commit introduces package peer which contains peer related features
refactored from peer.go.
The following is an overview of the features the package provides:
- Provides a basic concurrent safe bitcoin peer for handling bitcoin
communications via the peer-to-peer protocol
- Full duplex reading and writing of bitcoin protocol messages
- Automatic handling of the initial handshake process including protocol
version negotiation
- Automatic periodic keep-alive pinging and pong responses
- Asynchronous message queueing of outbound messages with optional
channel for notification when the message is actually sent
- Inventory message batching and send trickling with known inventory
detection and avoidance
- Ability to wait for shutdown/disconnect
- Flexible peer configuration
- Caller is responsible for creating outgoing connections and listening
for incoming connections so they have flexibility to establish
connections as they see fit (proxies, etc.)
- User agent name and version
- Bitcoin network
- Service support signalling (full nodes, bloom filters, etc.)
- Maximum supported protocol version
- Ability to register callbacks for handling bitcoin protocol messages
- Proper handling of bloom filter related commands when the caller does
not specify the related flag to signal support
- Disconnects the peer when the protocol version is high enough
- Does not invoke the related callbacks for older protocol versions
- Snapshottable peer statistics such as the total number of bytes read
and written, the remote address, user agent, and negotiated protocol
version
- Helper functions for pushing addresses, getblocks, getheaders, and
reject messages
- These could all be sent manually via the standard message output
function, but the helpers provide additional nice functionality such
as duplicate filtering and address randomization
- Full documentation with example usage
- Test coverage
In addition to the addition of the new package, btcd has been refactored
to make use of the new package by extending the basic peer it provides to
work with the blockmanager and server to act as a full node. The
following is a broad overview of the changes to integrate the package:
- The server is responsible for all connection management including
persistent peers and banning
- Callbacks for all messages that are required to implement a full node
are registered
- Logic necessary to serve data and behave as a full node is now in the
callback registered with the peer
Finally, the following peer-related things have been improved as a part
of this refactor:
- Don't log or send reject message due to peer disconnects
- Remove trace logs that aren't particularly helpful
- Finish an old TODO to switch the queue WaitGroup over to a channel
- Improve various comments and fix some code consistency cases
- Improve a few logging bits
- Implement a most-recently-used nonce tracking for detecting self
connections and generate a unique nonce for each peer
Also, update TravisCI goclean script to remove the special casing which
ignored 'Id' from the lint output since that exception is no longer
needed. It was previously required due to the old version of btcjson,
but that is no longer in the repo.
Introduce an ECDSA signature verification into btcd in order to
mitigate a certain DoS attack and as a performance optimization.
The benefits of SigCache are two fold. Firstly, usage of SigCache
mitigates a DoS attack wherein an attacker causes a victim's client to
hang due to worst-case behavior triggered while processing attacker
crafted invalid transactions. A detailed description of the mitigated
DoS attack can be found here: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/fixed-bitcoin-vulnerability-explanation-why-the-signature-cache-is-a-dos-protection/
Secondly, usage of the SigCache introduces a signature verification
optimization which speeds up the validation of transactions within a
block, if they've already been seen and verified within the mempool.
The server itself manages the sigCache instance. The blockManager and
txMempool respectively now receive pointers to the created sigCache
instance. All read (sig triplet existence) operations on the sigCache
will not block unless a separate goroutine is adding an entry (writing)
to the sigCache. GetBlockTemplate generation now also utilizes the
sigCache in order to avoid unnecessarily double checking signatures
when generating a template after previously accepting a txn to the
mempool. Consequently, the CPU miner now also employs the same
optimization.
The maximum number of entries for the sigCache has been introduced as a
config parameter in order to allow users to configure the amount of
memory consumed by this new additional caching.
SFNodeBloom is a new service flag that a node is required to use to
indicate that it supports bloom filtering. This includes a protocol
version bump to 70011 and a wire version bump to 0.3.0.
btcd:
The SFNodeBloom flag is set by default. A new configuration option
--nopeerbloomfilters has been added to to disable bloom filtering.
Any node advertising a version greater than or equal to 70011 that
attempts to use bloom filtering will be disconnected if bloom
filtering is disabled.
This mimics Bitcoin Core commit afb0ccaf9c9e4e8fac7db3564c4e19c9218c6b03
The comment says "only allow recent nodes (10mins) after we failed 30 times",
but the server actually did the opposite and allowed only recent nodes before
30 failed connection attempts. This corrects the server's behavior.
This commit correctly replaces persistent peers that are being retried in
the list of persistent peers so it will continue to be retried as
intended.
Also, limit the maximum retry interval for persistent peers to 5 minutes.
Fixes#463.
* The cases for the 'addnode' command were previously
stacked on top the new cases for the 'node' command.
The intended behavior was to create a fall through and
handle both commands. However, trying to use this
syntax with a type switch caused the first case to be
ignored.
* addnode' specific functions and structs in the server
have been removed. Instead, the 'add' and 'del' subcommands
are now proxied to the matching 'node' cmd functions.
* Gives node operators full control of peer connectivity
* RPC adds ability to disconnect all matching non-persistent peers,
remove persistent peers, and connect to peers making them either
temporary or persistent.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 2 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin's Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan
Heilman, Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive
Report 2015/263. March 2015.
This mimics Bitcoin Core commit c6a63ceeb4956933588995bcf01dc3095aaeb1fc
This commit contains three classes of optimizations:
- Reducing the number of unnecessary hash copies
- Improve the performance of the DoubleSha256 function
- A couple of minor optimizations of the ShaHash functions
The first class is a result of the Bytes function on a ShaHash making a
copy of the bytes before returning them. It really should have been named
CloneBytes, but that would break the API now.
To address this, a comment has been added to the function which explicitly
calls out the copy behavior. In addition, all call sites of .Bytes on a
ShaHash in the code base have been updated to simply slice the array when
a copy is not needed. This saves a significant amount of data copying.
The second optimization modifies the DoubleSha256 function to directly use
fastsha256.Sum256 instead of the hasher interface. This reduces the
number of allocations needed. A benchmark for the function has been added
as well.
old: BenchmarkDoubleSha256 500000 3691 ns/op 192 B/op 3 allocs/op
new: BenchmarkDoubleSha256 500000 3081 ns/op 32 B/op 1 allocs/op
The final optimizations are for the ShaHash IsEqual and SetBytes functions
which have been modified to make use of the fact the type is an array and
remove an unneeded subslice.
In order to avoid prior situations of stalled syncs due to
outdated peer height data, we now update block heights up peers in
real-time as we learn of their announced
blocks.
Updates happen when:
* A peer sends us an orphan block. We update based on
the height embedded in the scriptSig for the coinbase tx
* When a peer sends us an inv for a block we already know
of
* When peers announce new blocks. Subsequent
announcements that lost the announcement race are
recognized and peer heights are updated accordingly
Additionally, the `getpeerinfo` command has been modified
to include both the starting height, and current height of
connected peers.
Docs have been updated with `getpeerinfo` extension.
This commit converts the RPC server over to use the new features available
in the latest version of btcjson and improve a few things along the way.
This following summarizes the changes:
- All btcjson imports have been updated to the latest package version
- The help has been significantly improved
- Invoking help with no command specified now provides an alphabetized
list of all supported commands along with one-line usage
- The help for each command is automatically generated and provides much
more explicit information such as the type of each parameter, whether
or not it's optional or required, etc
- The websocket-specific commands are now provided when accessing the
help when connected via websockets
- Help has been added for all websocket-specific commands and is only
accessible when connected via websockets
- The error returns and handling of both the standard and websocket
handlers has been made consistent
- All RPC errors have been converted to the new RPCError type
- Various variables have been renamed for consistency
- Several RPC errors have been improved
- The commands that are marked as unimplemented have been moved into the
separate map where they belong
- Several comments have been improved
- An unnecessary check has been removed from the createrawtransaction
handler
- The command parsing has been restructured a bit to pave the way for
JSON-RPC 2.0 batching support
* Address index is built up concurrently with the `--addrindex` flag.
* Entire index can be deleted with `--dropaddrindex`.
* New RPC call: `searchrawtransaction`
* Returns all transacitons related to a particular address
* Includes mempool transactions
* Requires `--addrindex` to be activated and fully caught up.
* New `blockLogger` struct has been added to factor our common logging
code
* Wiki and docs updated with new features.
* When an inv is to be sent to the server for relaying, the sender
already has access to the underlying data. So
instead of requiring the relay to look up the data by
hash, the data is now coupled in the request message.
This commit uses the new MedianTimeSource API in btcchain to create a
median time source which is stored in the server and is fed time samples
from all remote nodes that are connected. It also modifies all call sites
which now require the the time source to pass it in.
This ensures we backoff when reconnecting to peers for which we don't
understand the replies, just like we do for peers we fail to connect to.
Closes#103
This commit implements full support for filtering based on the filterload,
filteradd, filterclear, and merkleblock messages introduced by BIP0037.
This allows btcd to work seamlessly with SPV wallets such as BitcoinJ.
Original code by @dajohi. Cleanup, bug fixes, and polish by @davecgh.
These changes are a joint effort between myself and @dajohi.
- Separate IP address range/network code into its own file
- Group all of the RFC range declarations together
- Introduces a new unexported function to simplify the range declarations
- Add comments for all exported functions
- Use consistent variable casing in refactored code
- Add initial doc.go package overview
- Bump serialize interval to 10 minutes
- Correct GroupKey to perform as intended
- Make AddLocalAddress return error instead of just a debug message
- Add tests for AddLocalAddress
- Add tests for GroupKey
- Add tests for GetBestLocalAddress
- Use time.Time to improve readability
- Make address manager code golint clean
- Misc cleanup
- Add test coverage reporting
This commit does just enough to move the address manager into its own
package. Since it was not originally written as a package, it will
require a bit of refactoring and cleanup to turn it into a robust
package with a friendly API.
By putting each DNS seed in its own go routine, btcd can start connecting
to nodes as they are found instead of waiting for all seeds to respond. This
significantly speeds up startup time.
Additionally, logging was added to show how many addresses were fetched from
each seed.
This commits removes a number of golint warnings. There is a class of
warnings which I can't fix due to unsufficient knowledge of the domain
at this point. These are listed here:
addrmanager.go:907:1: comment on exported method AddrManager.Attempt
should be of the form "Attempt ..."
addrmanager.go:1048:1: exported function RFC1918 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1058:1: exported function RFC3849 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1065:1: exported function RFC3927 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1073:1: exported function RFC3964 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1081:1: exported function RFC4193 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1089:1: exported function RFC4380 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1097:1: exported function RFC4843 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1105:1: exported function RFC4862 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1113:1: exported function RFC6052 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1121:1: exported function RFC6145 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1128:1: exported function Tor should have comment or be
unexported
addrmanager.go:1143:1: exported function Local should have comment or be
unexported
addrmanager.go:1228:2: exported const InterfacePrio should have comment
(or a comment on this block) or be unexported
discovery.go:26:2: exported var ErrTorInvalidAddressResponse should have
comment or be unexported
limits/limits_unix.go:19:1: exported function SetLimits should have
comment or be unexported
limits/limits_windows.go:7:1: exported function SetLimits should have
comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:22:6: exported type ShaHash should have
comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:38:2: exported const ArgSha should have
comment (or a comment on this block) or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:128:5: exported var ErrBadShaPrefix should
have comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:129:5: exported var ErrBadShaLen should have
comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:130:5: exported var ErrBadShaChar should
have comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:24:6: exported type ShaHash should have
comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:46:2: exported const ArgSha should have
comment (or a comment on this block) or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:163:1: exported function DumpBlock should
have comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:211:5: exported var ErrBadShaPrefix should
have comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:212:5: exported var ErrBadShaLen should have
comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:213:5: exported var ErrBadShaChar should
have comment or be unexported
This commit implements a built-in concurrent CPU miner that can be enabled
with the combination of the --generate and --miningaddr options. The
--blockminsize, --blockmaxsize, and --blockprioritysize configuration
options wich already existed prior to this commit control the block
template generation and hence affect blocks mined via the new CPU miner.
The following is a quick overview of the changes and design:
- Starting btcd with --generate and no addresses specified via
--miningaddr will give an error and exit immediately
- Makes use of multiple worker goroutines which independently create block
templates, solve them, and submit the solved blocks
- The default number of worker threads are based on the number of
processor cores in the system and can be dynamically changed at
run-time
- There is a separate speed monitor goroutine used to collate periodic
updates from the workers to calculate overall hashing speed
- The current mining state, number of workers, and hashes per second can
be queried
- Updated sample-btcd.conf file has been updated to include the coin
generation (mining) settings
- Updated doc.go for the new command line options
In addition the old --getworkkey option is now deprecated in favor of the
new --miningaddr option. This was changed for a few reasons:
- There is no reason to have a separate list of keys for getwork and CPU
mining
- getwork is deprecated and will be going away in the future so that means
the --getworkkey flag will also be going away
- Having the work 'key' in the option can be confused with wanting a
private key while --miningaddr make it a little more clear it is an
address that is required
Closes#137.
Reviewed by @jrick.
This commit resolves an issue where it was possible the block manager
could hang on shutdown due to inventory rebroadcasting. In particular, it
adds checks to prevent modification of the of rebroadcast inventory during
shutdown and adds a drain on the channel to ensure any outstanding
messages are discarded.
Found by @dajohi who also provided some of the code.
This commit, along with recent commits to btcnet and btcwire, expose a new
network that is intended to provide a private network useful for
simulation testing. To that end, it has the special property that it has
no DNS seeds and will actively ignore all addr and getaddr messages. It
will also not try to connect to any nodes other than those specified via
--connect. This allows the network to remain private to the specific
nodes involved in the testing and not simply become another public
testnet.
The network difficulty is also set extremely low like the regression test
network so blocks can be created extremely quickly without requiring a lot
of hashing power.
This change modifies the params struct to embed a *btcnet.Params,
removing the old parameter fields that are handled by the btcnet
package.
Hardcoded network checks have also been removed in favor of modifying
behavior based on the current active net's parameters.
Not all library packages, notable btcutil and btcchain, have been
updated to use btcnet yet, but with this change, each package can be
updated one at a time since the active net's btcnet.Params are
available at each callsite.
ok @davecgh
In practise the races caused by not protecting these quite simply didn't
matter, they couldn't actually cause any damage whatsoever. However, I
am sick of hearing about these essentially false positivies whenever
someone runs the race detector (yes, i know that race detector has no
false positives but this was effectively harmess).
verified to shut the detector up by dhill.
This commit cleans up and moves a couple of comments in the recent pull
request which implements a rebroadcast handler (#114) in order to avoid
discussing internal state in the exported function comment.
How a function actually accomplishes the stated functionality is not
something that a caller is concerned with. The details about the internal
state are better handled with comments inside the function body.
