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 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
f68ba3f67bd500a64fb8932c6b41924ddc31d76f
Because FetchTransactionStore in GetBlockTemplate occasionally accesses
the internal blockchain memory structure while it is being read or modified,
a race can occur. To prevent this, FetchTransactionStore is instead
routed through the internal channel for blockchain requests.
The limited user is specified with the --rpclimituser and
--rpclimitpass options (or the equivalent in the config file).
The config struct and loadConfig() are updated to take the
new options into account. The limited user can have neither
the same username nor the same password as the admin user.
The package-level rpcLimit map in rpcserver.go specifies
the RPC commands accessible by limited users. This map
includes both HTTP/S and websocket commands.
The checkAuth function gets a new return parameter to
signify whether the user is authorized to change server
state. The result is passed to the jsonRPCRead function and
to the WebsocketHandler function in rpcwebsocket.go.
The wsClient struct is updated with an "isAdmin" field
signifying that the client is authorized to change server
state, written by WebsocketHandler and handleMessage.
The handleMessage function also checks the field to
allow or disallow an RPC call.
The following documentation files are updated:
- doc.go
- sample-btcd.conf
- docs/README.md
- docs/json_rpc_api.md
- docs/configure_rpc_server_listen_interfaces.md
This commit adds a new function which is similar to the DoubleSha256
function except it returns a ShaHash copy instead of a byte slice. It
also adds a new benchmark for it.
This can be a slight optimization in certain cases where the caller
ultimately wants a ShaHash since it can avoid a heap allocation and
additional copy to convert the result to a ShaHash (the function simply
performs a type cast against the returned array which is not possible
against a []byte).
existing: DoubleSha256 500000 3081 ns/op 32 B/op 1 allocs/op
new: DoubleSha256SH 500000 2939 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
The hashing functions for blocks and transactions have also been updated
to make use of the new function since they directly return the ShaHash.
The transaction change in particular is quite useful since transactions
are frequently hashed and this change allows all of those hashes to avoid
an additional heap allocation.
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.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 6 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 1d21ba2f5ecbf03086d0b65c4c4c80a39a94c2ee
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.
- Delete spent TX in setclearSpentData when unspent by block
disconnect on reorg; return an error when there's more than
one record to delete in the spent TX as that should never
happen.
- Test spent TX deletion when reorg causes block disconnect.
- Test for correct NewestSha results after DropAfterBlockBySha.
- Fix DropAfterBlockBySha to update info for NewestSha.
- Updated copyright statements in modified files
Fix#303 by changing the addrindex key prefix to 3 characters so that
it's easy to check length when dropping the index. To drop the old
index, check to make sure we aren't dropping any entries that end in
"sx" or "tx" as those aren't part of the addrindex. Update test to
deal with the new prefix length.
Fix#346 by changing the pointers in the mempool's addrindex map to
wire.ShaHash 32-byte values. This lets them be deleted even if the
transaction data changes places in memory upon expanding the maps.
Change the way addrindex uint32s are stored to big-endian in order to
sort the transactions on disk in chronological/dependency order.
Change the "searchrawtransactions" RPC call to return transactions
from the database before the memory pool so that they're returned in
order. This commit DOES NOT do topological sorting of the memory pool
transactions to ensure they're returned in dependency order. This may
be a good idea for a future enhancement.
Add addrindex versioning to automatically drop the old/incompatible
version of the index and rebuild with the new sort method and key
prefix.
- Use explicit index values for byte slices
- Fix a bug in FetchTxsForAddr that allocated an extra 10 bytes
for each address index
- Add missing iterator release in error path
- Check for iterator errors.
The ScriptVerifyLowS flag defines that script signatures must
comply with the DER format as well as have an S value less than
or equal to the half order.
The ScriptVerifyCleanStack flag requires that only a single
stack element remains after evaluation and that when interpreted
as a bool, it must be true. This is BIP0062, rule 6.
This mimics Bitcoin Core commit b6e03cc59208305681745ad06f2056ffe6690597
This commit modifies the argument handling for btcctl to treat a
parameter that is a single dash as an indicator to read that paramter from
stdin instead.
This change allows commands, such as the submitblock, to accept data piped
from stdin for any parameter. This, in turn, allows large arguments, such
as blocks, which can often be too big for a single argument due to
Operating System limitations to be submitted by putting them into a file
and redirecting stdin.
For example:
btcctl submitblock - <block.hex
cat block.hex | btcctl submitblock -
btcctl sendrawtransaction - <tx.hex
cat tx.hex | btcctl sendrawtransaction -
This commit adds a new function to the blockchain package named
IsCoinBaseTx which performs the same function as IsCoinBase except it
takes raw wire transactions as opposed to the higher level util
transactions.
While here, it also adds a file for benchmarks along with a couple of
benchmarks for the IsCoinBase and IsCoinBaseTx functions.
Finally, the function was very slightly optimized:
BenchmarkIsCoinBaseOld 100000000 10.7 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkIsCoinBaseNew 200000000 6.05 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
For every transaction in a newly accepted block, process the orphan
pool moving now no longer orphan transactions to the mempool.
Previously, no longer orphan transactions would remain in the orphan
pool.
This change increases the maximum allowed bytes allowed in pushed
data to be considered a nulldata transaction. This matches the current
value the reference implementation uses by default.
This commit provides a new function named PkScriptLocs on the MsgTx type
which can be used to efficiently retrieve a list of offsets for the public
key scripts for the serialized form of the transaction.
This is useful for certain applications which store fully serialized
transactions and want to be able to quickly index into the serialized
transaction to extract a give public key script directly thereby avoiding
the need to deserialize the entire transaction.
This commit modifies finalized transaction check used by the memory pool
and block templates to use the network adjusted time instead of the
unadjusted local time. This helps keep the transactions accepted to the
memory pool, and hence allowed to relay, more consistent across nodes.
When the fields in the command for the getnetworkhashps RPC don't have the
fields set, use the intended default values.
Since the btcjson package sets these fields to the default values when a
command is unmarshaled from the wire, this typically isn't necessary.
However, when the RPC server calls the handler internally with optional
command fields set to nil, as is the case in getmininginfo, the defaults
need to be set as well.
By exporting StandardVerifyFlags, clients can ensure they create
transactions that btcd will accept into its mempool.
This flag doesn't belong in txscript. It belongs in a
policy package. However, this is currently the least worse place.
This modifies the recently added code which rejects free/low-fee
transactions with insufficient priority to ignore resurrected transactions
from disconnected blocks. It also exempts resurrected transactions from
the free/low-fee rate limiting.
This commit moves the definition of the flags which are needed to check
transaction scripts higher up the call stack to pave the way for adding
support for v3 blocks. While here, also spruce up a couple of sections.
There are no functional changes in this commit.
This commit contains what is essentially a complete rewrite of the btcctl
utility to make use of the new features provided by the latest version
btcjson and improve several things along the way. The following
summarizes the changes:
- The supported commands and handling now come directly from btcjson, so
it is no longer necessary to manually add new commands. Once a command
has been registered with btcjson, it will automatically become usable by
btcctl complete with full error handling (once it is re-compiled of
course)
- Rather than dumping the entire list of commands on every error, the user
now must specifically request the list of command via the -l option
- The list of commands is now categorized by chain and wallet and
alphabetized
- The help flag now only shows the help options instead of also dumping
all of the commands
- The error display on valid commands with invalid parameters has been
greatly improved to show the specific parameter number, reason, and
error code
- When a valid command is specified with invalid parameter, only the usage
for that specific command is shown now
- It is now possible to use a SOCKS5 proxy for connection
- The output of commands has been improved in the following ways:
- Strings on commands such as getbestblockhash no longer have quotes
wrapped around them
- Fields that are integers no longer show in scientific notation when
they are large (timestamps for example)
This closes#305 as a side effect.
This commit updates the SearchRawTransactionsCmd verbose parameter in the
latest version of btcjson to an integer to match recent changes to the
previous version of btcjson.
By default, have the mempool reject free and low-fee transactions that
have insufficient priority to be mined in the next block.
Addtionally, add a new configuration option, -norelaypriority, to
disable the check.
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
- When invalid HTTP Basic Access Authentication details are provided to
the websocket endpoint, return a WWW-Authenticate header just like the
non-websocket endpoint
- When a connection to the websocket endpoint fails to properly upgrade,
return a 400 Bad Request HTTP error status code
