[raw] reject insanely high fees by default in sendrawtransaction

There have been several incidents where mainnet experimentation with
 raw transactions  resulted in insane fees.  This is hard to prevent
 in the raw transaction api because the inputs may not be known.
 Since sending doesn't work if the inputs aren't known, we can catch
 it there.

This rejects fees > than 10000 * nMinRelayTxFee or 1 BTC with the
 defaults and can be overridden with a bool at the rpc.
This commit is contained in:
Gregory Maxwell 2013-08-28 15:41:46 -07:00
parent bb7d0fc12f
commit 9d14e689c8
4 changed files with 15 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -1193,6 +1193,7 @@ Array RPCConvertValues(const std::string &strMethod, const std::vector<std::stri
if (strMethod == "createrawtransaction" && n > 1) ConvertTo<Object>(params[1]);
if (strMethod == "signrawtransaction" && n > 1) ConvertTo<Array>(params[1], true);
if (strMethod == "signrawtransaction" && n > 2) ConvertTo<Array>(params[2], true);
if (strMethod == "sendrawtransaction" && n > 1) ConvertTo<bool>(params[1], true);
if (strMethod == "gettxout" && n > 1) ConvertTo<boost::int64_t>(params[1]);
if (strMethod == "gettxout" && n > 2) ConvertTo<bool>(params[2]);
if (strMethod == "lockunspent" && n > 0) ConvertTo<bool>(params[0]);

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@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ void CTxMemPool::pruneSpent(const uint256 &hashTx, CCoins &coins)
}
bool CTxMemPool::accept(CValidationState &state, const CTransaction &tx, bool fLimitFree,
bool* pfMissingInputs)
bool* pfMissingInputs, bool fRejectInsaneFee)
{
if (pfMissingInputs)
*pfMissingInputs = false;
@ -921,6 +921,11 @@ bool CTxMemPool::accept(CValidationState &state, const CTransaction &tx, bool fL
dFreeCount += nSize;
}
if (fRejectInsaneFee && nFees > CTransaction::nMinRelayTxFee * 10000)
return error("CTxMemPool::accept() : insane fees %s, %"PRI64d" > %"PRI64d,
hash.ToString().c_str(),
nFees, CTransaction::nMinRelayTxFee * 10000);
// Check against previous transactions
// This is done last to help prevent CPU exhaustion denial-of-service attacks.
if (!CheckInputs(tx, state, view, true, SCRIPT_VERIFY_P2SH | SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC))

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@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ public:
std::map<uint256, CTransaction> mapTx;
std::map<COutPoint, CInPoint> mapNextTx;
bool accept(CValidationState &state, const CTransaction &tx, bool fLimitFree, bool* pfMissingInputs);
bool accept(CValidationState &state, const CTransaction &tx, bool fLimitFree, bool* pfMissingInputs, bool fRejectInsaneFee = false);
bool addUnchecked(const uint256& hash, const CTransaction &tx);
bool remove(const CTransaction &tx, bool fRecursive = false);
bool removeConflicts(const CTransaction &tx);

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@ -527,9 +527,9 @@ Value signrawtransaction(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
Value sendrawtransaction(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
{
if (fHelp || params.size() < 1 || params.size() > 1)
if (fHelp || params.size() < 1 || params.size() > 2)
throw runtime_error(
"sendrawtransaction <hex string>\n"
"sendrawtransaction <hex string> [allowhighfees=false]\n"
"Submits raw transaction (serialized, hex-encoded) to local node and network.");
// parse hex string from parameter
@ -537,6 +537,10 @@ Value sendrawtransaction(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
CDataStream ssData(txData, SER_NETWORK, PROTOCOL_VERSION);
CTransaction tx;
bool fOverrideFees = false;
if (params.size() > 1)
fOverrideFees = params[1].get_bool();
// deserialize binary data stream
try {
ssData >> tx;
@ -554,7 +558,7 @@ Value sendrawtransaction(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
if (!fHave) {
// push to local node
CValidationState state;
if (!mempool.accept(state, tx, false, NULL))
if (!mempool.accept(state, tx, false, NULL, !fOverrideFees))
throw JSONRPCError(RPC_DESERIALIZATION_ERROR, "TX rejected"); // TODO: report validation state
}
}