Most variable length integers are smaller numbers, so this commit reverses
the order of the if checks in the writeVarInt to assume smaller numbers
are more common.
This is part of the ongoing effort to optimize serialization as noted in
conformal/btcd#27
Several of the bitcoin data structures contain variable length entries,
many of which have well-defined maximum limits. However, there are still
a few cases, such as variable length strings and number of transactions
which don't have clearly defined maximum limits. Instead they are only
limited by the maximum size of a message.
In order to efficiently decode messages, space is pre-allocated for the
slices which hold these variable length pieces as to avoid needing to
dynamically grow the backing arrays. Due to this however, it was
previously possible to claim extremely high slice lengths which exceed
available memory (or maximum allowed slice lengths).
This commit imposes limits to all of these cases based on calculating
the maximum possible number of elements that could fit into a message
and using those as sane upper limits.
The variable length string case was found (and tests added to hit it) by
drahn@ which prompted an audit to find all cases.
This commit changes the InvVect_* constants, which are not standard Go
style, to the InvType*. In order to preserve backwards compatibility, it
also adds a legacy.go file which maps the old public constant names to the
new ones.
Closes#1.
It is technically possible for the Read method on a reader to return zero
bytes read with a nil error even though that behavior is "discouraged" by
the interface documenation. This commit switches the read of the first
byte to use io.ReadFull which will always error in this case.
Several of the messages store the parts that have a variable number of
elements as slices. This commit modifies the code to choose sane defaults
for the backing arrays for the slices so when the entries are actually
appended, a lot of the overhead of growing the backing arrays and copying
the data multiple times is avoided.
Along the same lines, when decoding messages, the actual size is known and
now is pre-allocated instead of dynamically growing the backing array
thereby avoiding some overhead.
This function is a convenience method to create a new NetAddress
from a net.IP and uint16 port as opposed to a net.Addr which must be of
type *net.TCPAddr. This allows callers to support connection types that
don't provide access to a concrete *net.TCPAddr implementation.
Both of these depend on the serialized bytes which are dependent on the
version field in the block/transaction. They must be independent of the
protocol version so there is no need to require it.
This commit introduces two new functions for MsgBlock and MsgTx named
Serialize and Deserialize. The functions provide a stable mechanism for
serializing and deserializing blocks and transactions to and from disk
without having to worry about the protocol version. Instead these
functions use the Version fields in the blocks and transactions.
These new functions differ from BtcEncode and BtcDecode in that the latter
functions are intended to encode/decode blocks and transaction from the
wire which technically can differ depending on the protocol version and
don't even really need to use the same format as the stored data.
Currently, there is no difference between the two, and due to how
intertwined they are in the reference implementaiton, they may not ever
diverge, but there is a difference and the goal for btcwire is to provide
a stable API that is flexible enough to deal with encoding changes.
The go vet command complains about untagged struct initializers when
defining a ShaHash directly. This seems to be a limitation where go vet
does not exclude the warning for types which are a constant size byte array
like it does for normal constant size byte array definition.
This commit simply modifies the tests to use a constant definition cast to a
ShaHash to overcome the limitation of go vet.
There was not much documentation about the difference between testnet and
testnet3, so make it clear that testnet is used for regression tests and
testnet3 is the public test network (version 3).
Since the same coinbase transaction is used for the genesis blocks of
all three currently supposed networks, separate it into its own var and
use a reference to it in each of the genesis block defintions.
Although you can technically get at this value via the MaxPayloadLength
function on a block, it is less overhead for any consumers that need to
know the value to simply export it directly.
This commit changes MsgBlock to enforce a 1MB max payload per the spec.
Previously it was only limited to the max overall message size. While
here, also enforce max payloads per message type (instead of only the max
overall message payload) when writing messages.
The functions for generating transaction and block hashes contained a few
error checks for conditions which could never fail without run-time
panics. This commit removes those superfluous checks and adds explanatory
comments.
