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fix: bound masternode list caches by size instead of by new block - #7753
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CleanupCache() only ran from the scheduler after a block was connected. Between blocks nothing bounded mnListsCache: every getmnlistd or getqrinfo for a block below the cache window loads a full list from disk and derives mini-snapshots from it, and a peer can request a new period every few tens of milliseconds while the scheduler fires every 10 seconds. A per-lookup cleanup, as tried before, evicts the lists a sequential walk asks for next and runs inside block validation. Trigger the existing CleanupCache() from the lookup itself, only once the cache holds more than MAX_CACHED_LISTS entries. Cleanup retains the tip and live quorum bases, so a peer can grow the cache by at most a couple dozen disk snapshots, while masternode payments, protx listdiff, syncing peers and a background chainstate keep their intermediate lists until the budget overflows and then rebuild once. The tip and quorum lookups are cache hits and insert nothing, so they never pay for the check. A connected block adds one list that shares its structure with its predecessor, so the budget covers block connection too. Drop the scheduled cleanup, the to_cleanup signal and cs_cleanup.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughThe deterministic masternode manager now runs cache cleanup from list retrieval when a tip is set and the cache exceeds 64 entries. The change removes the scheduled Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Initial sync or reindex can accumulate masternode lists without cleanup and exhaust memory. Fix the startup cleanup gap before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/evo/deterministicmns.cpp`:
- Around line 836-837: Update the cache-cleanup condition in
GetListForBlockInternal so it runs whenever mnListsCache exceeds
MAX_CACHED_LISTS, even when tipIndex is null. Pass the tip height when tipIndex
is available and otherwise use the current block index pindex height for
CleanupCache.
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Preliminary review — Phase 1 blocker gate
The cache cleanup trigger is not sufficient for the retention policy and can repeatedly scan the caches without evicting entries. In addition, the new cleanup path is disabled during initial import until tipIndex is initialized, so cache growth remains unbounded during that phase. The existing tests also do not exercise the new threshold-triggered cleanup behavior.
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Source: reviewer 1: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6-astra (agent: astra-gate-verifier, role: verifier)
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normalbygpt-6-astra(effort low) — This is a contained cache-lifecycle behavior change in deterministic masternode list handling, with modest source and test edits, but it is more than a trivial or purely straightforward change because eviction timing and retained snapshots affect peer-facing lookups and performance. - Phase 1 reviewers:
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In `src/evo/deterministicmns.h`:
- [BLOCKING] src/evo/deterministicmns.h:764-769: MAX_CACHED_LISTS is smaller than the number of snapshots CleanupCache must retain
The 64-entry threshold is below the number of quorum-base snapshots that CleanupCache can legitimately retain. Mainnet and testnet parameters include 65 possible LLMQ_60_75 bases, 26 LLMQ_50_60/LLMQ_100_67 hourly bases, and overlapping additional quorum bases, yielding roughly 89–90 retained snapshots including the tip. CleanupCache deliberately preserves those entries, so once the cache exceeds 64 entries it cannot reduce the cache below the threshold. Every subsequent lookup therefore performs a full scan of mnListsCache and mnListDiffsCache while holding cs, defeating the intended one-time cleanup and causing avoidable lookup contention. Set the threshold above the maximum retained quorum-base set, with sufficient headroom for transient historical entries.
In `src/evo/deterministicmns.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/evo/deterministicmns.cpp:836-837: Cache cleanup is skipped while tipIndex is unset
The new threshold check is guarded by tipIndex != nullptr, but tipIndex is initialized only by UpdatedBlockTip(). During startup, ThreadImport() can connect and process blocks before it returns and sends InitializeCurrentBlockTip(), leaving tipIndex null while ProcessBlock() repeatedly calls GetListForBlockInternal() and inserts snapshots. Consequently the new per-lookup bound is disabled throughout initial import or reindex, allowing the cache to grow past MAX_CACHED_LISTS during precisely the high-volume processing phase this change is intended to cover. CleanupCache() can use pindex->nHeight as the cleanup height when tipIndex is unavailable.
In `src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp:271-274: Add a regression test for threshold-triggered cache cleanup
The change removes scheduled maintenance and makes lookup-triggered cleanup the only mechanism for this bound, but the test suite does not verify that behavior. Add a test that grows the list cache beyond MAX_CACHED_LISTS, invokes a lookup, and verifies that non-quorum intermediate snapshots are removed while the tip and live quorum bases remain available. This should fail if the threshold check is removed or if cleanup evicts entries that the retention predicate must preserve.
| //! Lists the cache may hold before a lookup runs CleanupCache(). Cleanup retains only the | ||
| //! tip and the bases of live quorums, a few dozen lists; the rest is scratch that historical | ||
| //! requests (a full list read from disk plus its mini-snapshots) and connected blocks added. | ||
| //! The budget caps what peers can make the node hold through historical requests, while | ||
| //! sequential historical work keeps its intermediate lists until it outgrows the budget. | ||
| static constexpr size_t MAX_CACHED_LISTS{64}; |
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🔴 Blocking: MAX_CACHED_LISTS is smaller than the number of snapshots CleanupCache must retain
The 64-entry threshold is below the number of quorum-base snapshots that CleanupCache can legitimately retain. Mainnet and testnet parameters include 65 possible LLMQ_60_75 bases, 26 LLMQ_50_60/LLMQ_100_67 hourly bases, and overlapping additional quorum bases, yielding roughly 89–90 retained snapshots including the tip. CleanupCache deliberately preserves those entries, so once the cache exceeds 64 entries it cannot reduce the cache below the threshold. Every subsequent lookup therefore performs a full scan of mnListsCache and mnListDiffsCache while holding cs, defeating the intended one-time cleanup and causing avoidable lookup contention. Set the threshold above the maximum retained quorum-base set, with sufficient headroom for transient historical entries.
| //! Lists the cache may hold before a lookup runs CleanupCache(). Cleanup retains only the | |
| //! tip and the bases of live quorums, a few dozen lists; the rest is scratch that historical | |
| //! requests (a full list read from disk plus its mini-snapshots) and connected blocks added. | |
| //! The budget caps what peers can make the node hold through historical requests, while | |
| //! sequential historical work keeps its intermediate lists until it outgrows the budget. | |
| static constexpr size_t MAX_CACHED_LISTS{64}; | |
| //! Lists the cache may hold before a lookup runs CleanupCache(). Cleanup retains only the | |
| //! tip and the bases of live quorums; the rest is scratch that historical requests (a full list | |
| //! read from disk plus its mini-snapshots) and connected blocks added. The budget caps what | |
| //! peers can make the node hold through historical requests, while sequential historical work | |
| //! keeps its intermediate lists until it outgrows the budget. | |
| static constexpr size_t MAX_CACHED_LISTS{192}; |
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The too-old rule in CleanupCache() runs before the quorum rule, so bases older
than LIST_DIFFS_CACHE_SIZE (2880 blocks) are dropped regardless of
keepOldConnections; the 65 LLMQ_60_75 bases collapse to 11. Computed over a
full period from the LLMQ params, the retained set including the tip peaks at
35 lists on mainnet, testnet and devnet and 6 on regtest, so 64 cannot thrash.
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Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 2af35282): CleanupCache applies the age cutoff before evaluating quorum retention, so bases older than LIST_DIFFS_CACHE_SIZE are removed even when quorum parameters would otherwise preserve them. Applying the configured periods and retention predicate yields a peak of 35 retained lists on mainnet, testnet, and devnet, below the threshold of 64.
| if (tipIndex != nullptr && mnListsCache.size() > MAX_CACHED_LISTS) { | ||
| CleanupCache(tipIndex->nHeight); |
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🔴 Blocking: Cache cleanup is skipped while tipIndex is unset
The new threshold check is guarded by tipIndex != nullptr, but tipIndex is initialized only by UpdatedBlockTip(). During startup, ThreadImport() can connect and process blocks before it returns and sends InitializeCurrentBlockTip(), leaving tipIndex null while ProcessBlock() repeatedly calls GetListForBlockInternal() and inserts snapshots. Consequently the new per-lookup bound is disabled throughout initial import or reindex, allowing the cache to grow past MAX_CACHED_LISTS during precisely the high-volume processing phase this change is intended to cover. CleanupCache() can use pindex->nHeight as the cleanup height when tipIndex is unavailable.
| if (tipIndex != nullptr && mnListsCache.size() > MAX_CACHED_LISTS) { | |
| CleanupCache(tipIndex->nHeight); | |
| if (mnListsCache.size() > MAX_CACHED_LISTS) { | |
| CleanupCache(tipIndex != nullptr ? tipIndex->nHeight : pindex->nHeight); | |
| } |
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Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 2af35282): The startup ordering does not leave the cache unbounded as described: the notification interface is registered before ThreadImport, and ActivateBestChain stops after the first connection when there was no prior tip before sending SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip. That callback updates tipIndex before subsequent blocks can grow the cache.
| ++nHeight; | ||
| BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(tip_height(), nHeight); | ||
| sync_dmn_tip(); | ||
| dmnman.DoMaintenance(); | ||
| auto tip_list = dmnman.GetListAtChainTip(); |
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🟡 Suggestion: Add a regression test for threshold-triggered cache cleanup
The change removes scheduled maintenance and makes lookup-triggered cleanup the only mechanism for this bound, but the test suite does not verify that behavior. Add a test that grows the list cache beyond MAX_CACHED_LISTS, invokes a lookup, and verifies that non-quorum intermediate snapshots are removed while the tip and live quorum bases remain available. This should fail if the threshold check is removed or if cleanup evicts entries that the retention predicate must preserve.
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The cache size is private state and a memory bound is not observable over RPC
or P2P, so per the project's test guidance this is not unit-tested; the
existing evo_dip3_activation_tests still exercise GetListForBlock() and were
run, and the bound was reasoned from the retained-set computation above.
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Deferred (re-reviewed at 2af35282): The cache remains private state, and its memory bound is not observable through the manager's public RPC or P2P behavior. Under the project's testing guidance, I am intentionally deferring this test request rather than requiring a test that would inspect implementation details.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
The cache maintenance change is coherent: scheduled cleanup and its synchronization state are removed, and the existing retention logic is invoked when the list cache exceeds the configured threshold. Source inspection confirms that tip notifications establish tipIndex before sustained DIP3 cache growth and that the retention predicate keeps the cache well below the threshold; no actionable in-scope defects were found.
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Source: reviewer 1: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 3: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 5: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 6: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6-astra (agent: astra-verifier, role: final-verifier)
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…new block 2af3528 fix(evo): bound masternode list caches by size instead of by new block (Konstantin Akimov) Pull request description: ## Issue being fixed or feature implemented CleanupCache() only ran from the scheduler after a block was connected. Between blocks nothing bounded mnListsCache: every getmnlistd or getqrinfo for a block below the cache window loads a full list from disk and derives mini-snapshots from it, and a peer can request a new period every few tens of milliseconds while the scheduler fires every 10 seconds. A per-lookup cleanup, as tried before, evicts the lists a sequential walk asks for next and runs inside block validation. ## What was done? Trigger the existing CleanupCache() from the lookup itself, only once the cache holds more than MAX_CACHED_LISTS entries. Cleanup retains the tip and live quorum bases, so a peer can grow the cache by at most a couple dozen disk snapshots, while masternode payments, protx listdiff, syncing peers and a background chainstate keep their intermediate lists until the budget overflows and then rebuild once. The tip and quorum lookups are cache hits and insert nothing, so they never pay for the check. A connected block adds one list that shares its structure with its predecessor, so the budget covers block connection too. Drop the scheduled cleanup, the to_cleanup signal and cs_cleanup. Alternate for #7746 and #7485 ## How Has This Been Tested? Run unit & functional tests ## Breaking Changes N/A ## Checklist: - [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code - [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation - [ ] I have assigned this pull request to a milestone _(for repository code-owners and collaborators only)_ Top commit has no ACKs. Tree-SHA512: 70c1140531939d63e2e3db13695ddb289bfc384c957a0fef0212cf899408ba72ef2ed5149b31dcb585905a68609eee1879cc51162c31f312fffbd057fda679c6 v23.1.x adaptation: deterministicmns.h drops only <atomic> (develop replaced it with <algorithm>, not needed here). evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp keeps the v23 test shape (chainman.ActiveChain().Height()/UpdatedBlockTip) and only removes the six dmnman.DoMaintenance() calls; develop's sync_dmn_tip()/tip_height() helper refactor is not adopted. The companion #7868 rate-limit and #7833 GetQuorum changes are not included.
71b3f0c Merge #7556: fix: gate BLS vote-signature failure log behind gobject category (pasta) 14dddb1 Merge #7838: fix(wallet): authenticate unlock deadline extensions (pasta) 5f73355 Merge #7858: fix: do not InstantSend-lock provider transactions (pasta) 0d2e579 fix(evo): keep -allowprivatenet out of masternode address validation (Konstantin Akimov) b4cd3fa fix(evo): only write credit pool snapshots inside a block-scoped EvoDB transaction (#7549) (pasta) d215280 Merge #7846: fix: treat pending owner keys and Platform node IDs as one conflict namespace (pasta) db9ec2b Merge #7826: fix: skip repeated authenticated Platform bans (pasta) dcc9596 Merge #7867: fix: refuse masternode list RPCs for blocks outside the active chain (pasta) 197b14a Merge #7866: fix: stop `masternode payments` at the genesis block (pasta) 3055a19 Merge #7850: perf: let CHECKDATASIG use the signature cache (pasta) 4da0099 Merge #7821: fix: relock encrypted wallets after HD upgrade failures (pasta) c7393c0 Merge #7833: fix: gate signing intake before quorum retrieval (pasta) fdf40fe Merge #7828: fix: omit recovery words from invalid mnemonic errors (pasta) 8888af8 Merge #7753: fix: bound masternode list caches by size instead of by new block (pasta) 457af6d Merge #7738: refactor: avoid double lookups and default-inserting map access in governance (pasta) be3b55e Merge #7662: fix: isolate missing quorums in InstantSend batches (pasta) 9bc1e77 Merge #7489: fix: conflict ProRegTx collateral reuse with in-mempool masternode updates (pasta) 5278ce8 Merge #7583: fix: bound pending DKG message retention per proTxHash (pasta) 9ebf78f Merge #7522: fix(net): bound verified inbound connections per proRegTxHash (pasta) 9f2946e Merge #7487: fix: bound DomainPort string deserialization and stop swallowing deser failures (pasta) c077d32 Merge #7527: fix: require a valid masternode signature before caching an orphan governance vote (pasta) dfa7db1 Merge #7518: fix: memoize governance vote signature checks to bound govsync cost (pasta) bb09c49 Merge #7532: fix: bound DYNBITSET allocation against remaining stream size (pasta) 9739f35 Merge #7488: fix: validate ProUpServTx nType at mempool acceptance (pasta) 4687550 Merge #7385: fix: reject invalid extended masternode net info (Pasta) Pull request description: ## Issue being fixed or feature implemented Backports for v23.1.9, on top of current `v23.1.x`. The base already carries the negative-nVersion consensus fix (#2), the invalid-DKG-share fix (#4), the per-sender sig-share scoping (#5), the individual DKG contribution verification (#7) and the provider-decode/orphan-cap hardening (#8), so those are not part of this diff. ## What was done? Cherry-picked (`git cherry-pick -m1 -x`) the develop merges below into `v23.1.x`, in develop merge order. Where a develop merge carried develop-only refactors or APIs absent on `v23.1.x`, only the fix was taken and the adaptation is noted in that commit's message. ### Included (cherry-picks of merged dashpay/dash PRs) - #7385 — `fix: reject invalid extended masternode net info` - #7488 — `fix: validate ProUpServTx nType at mempool acceptance` - #7532 — `fix: bound DYNBITSET allocation against remaining stream size` - #7518 — `fix: memoize governance vote signature checks to bound govsync cost` - #7527 — `fix: require a valid masternode signature before caching an orphan governance vote` - #7487 — `fix: bound DomainPort string deserialization and stop swallowing deser failures` - #7522 — `fix(net): bound verified inbound connections per proRegTxHash` - #7583 — `fix: bound pending DKG message retention per proTxHash` - #7489 — `fix: conflict ProRegTx collateral reuse with in-mempool masternode updates` - #7662 — `fix: isolate missing quorums in InstantSend batches` - #7738 — `fix: do not record a masternode vote before it is validated` - #7753 — `fix: bound masternode list caches by size instead of by new block` - #7828 — `fix: omit recovery words from invalid mnemonic errors` - #7833 — `fix: gate signing intake before quorum retrieval` - #7821 — `fix: relock encrypted wallets after HD upgrade failures` - #7850 — `perf: let CHECKDATASIG use the signature cache` - #7866 — `fix: stop 'masternode payments' at the genesis block` - #7867 — `fix: refuse masternode list RPCs for blocks outside the active chain` - #7826 — `fix: skip repeated authenticated Platform bans` - #7846 — `fix: treat pending owner keys and Platform node IDs as one conflict namespace` - #7858 — `fix: do not InstantSend-lock provider transactions` (with its functional test, ported to v23.1.x) - #7838 — `fix(wallet): authenticate unlock deadline extensions` - #7556 — `fix: gate BLS vote-signature failure log behind gobject category` ### Upstream-derived changes with no clean develop merge (own commits) - `fix(evo): only write credit pool snapshots inside a block-scoped EvoDB transaction (#7549)` — the develop fix landed inside #7639, which is not on this branch, so it is hand-ported (EvoDB transaction-depth counter + `HasActiveTransaction()` gate); develop commits `8503c5d211`/`0325195ecb` cited in the commit. - `fix(evo): keep -allowprivatenet out of masternode address validation` — the consensus portion of #7888 only (develop commit `e3e780801b`); the V24-gated ExtNetInfo parts are excluded. ### Adaptation notes - #7556 pairs with #7527 (already here): once orphan governance votes must pass `IsValid` before caching, a peer with a valid masternode outpoint and an invalid BLS signature can reach the BLS vote-signature failure log, so that log (and two sibling `ProcessVote` logs) is gated behind `BCLog::GOBJECT`. - #7662: the unit test calls `SetMinSporkKeys(1)`; v23.1.x defaults the spork signer threshold to `INT_MAX`, so without it `SPORK_2_INSTANTSEND_ENABLED` never activates and the regression check would be vacuous. - #7858 is taken with its functional test ported to v23.1.x: `wait_for_instantlock` is `(txid, node)` here and does not sync/bump mocktime itself, and develop's `DashTestFramework.bury_tx` does not exist, so the waits sync+bump per node and the bury step is inlined. `IsProviderTx` lists only the four v23.1.x provider special-tx types (the v24-only `DISSOLVE`/`UPDATE_SHARE`/`UPDATE_SHARED_REGISTRAR` are omitted). - #7385/#7488/#7489/#7846: kept v23.1.x `ProTxVersion::ExtAddr` equality and the atomic-pointer `dmnman`; dropped develop-only test setups and the shared-masternode owner-key branch. - #7527/#7738: v23.1.x governance lookup/`ProcessVote` shapes; develop-only refactors excluded. - #7583: re-threaded through `active/dkgsession.*`; #7867: `insert_or_assign`; #7821: `interfaces::MakeHandler`; #7753: dropped the `<atomic>` include/`DoMaintenance` test calls. ### Not included - #7822 (`fix: reject malformed detached quorum share batches`) — its one-line change (record the node in `badSources` rather than `BanNode`) is already present in the base via #5, so the pick is redundant and was dropped. - #7895 (`test: cover retroactive provider tx refusal`) — its functional test needs the single-member-quorum harness absent on `v23.1.x`. - Compact-block extra-tx fix (bitcoin bitcoin#35670) — dropped from this release as a latent, very-hard-to-trigger crash; opened as its own PR against `develop`. - #7861 (pruned-node historical-block reject) — deferred; also missing from `v24.0.0-rc.4` (should land in v24.0.0 final). - Develop-only regressions and V24-gated changes that do not affect `v23.1.x`. ## How Has This Been Tested? Rebased onto current `v23.1.x`; the only merge conflicts were the additive test appends in `src/test/evo_netinfo_tests.cpp` and `src/test/governance_inv_tests.cpp` (kept both the base's and the picks' cases). Assembled branch builds with `--enable-werror` (`dashd` + `test_dash`). The full `test_dash` unit suite passes, and `p2p_instantsend.py` (including the restored `test_provider_tx_not_locked`) passes. Each pick's changed lines were compared with its develop merge; differences are the adaptations above. ## Breaking Changes - #7858: provider transactions no longer receive InstantSend locks. Software that waited for an islock on a ProTx should wait for a ChainLock or confirmations instead. - #7828: invalid-mnemonic RPC errors no longer echo the mnemonic. #7821: encrypted wallets relock after a failed HD upgrade. #7867: `protx info/listdiff` and `masternode payments` error for blocks off the active chain. #7489/#7488: provider transactions with reused collateral or an invalid type are rejected at mempool acceptance. #7888: the RFC1918 masternode-address check applies even with `-allowprivatenet`. #7838: a wallet unlock deadline can no longer be extended without re-authenticating. ## Checklist: - [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code - [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation - [ ] I have assigned this pull request to a milestone 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> <!-- coderabbit-ai-generated:v1 --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Behavior Changes** * Provider transactions no longer receive InstantSend locks. They are mined after 10 minutes in the mempool and then protected by a ChainLock; transactions spending their outputs can be locked once mined. Use ChainLocks or confirmations instead of waiting for an InstantSend lock on a provider transaction. * **Bug Fixes** * Masternode RPCs now reject blocks outside the active chain. * Wallet unlock attempts with an incorrect passphrase no longer alter an existing unlock period. * Improved validation and handling of governance votes, network addresses, and masternode connections. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Top commit has no ACKs. Tree-SHA512: d48eaae945bcbad443cf3280c08d2ed00f06816bb09ef70f85fca497a864b89e502d09fb3c9c977f8d0a74d761dc3c29f3b11e217cc7e29c43d1ee691d4df572
4722ad9 chore: prepare v23.1.9 release (pasta) 71b3f0c Merge #7556: fix: gate BLS vote-signature failure log behind gobject category (pasta) 14dddb1 Merge #7838: fix(wallet): authenticate unlock deadline extensions (pasta) 5f73355 Merge #7858: fix: do not InstantSend-lock provider transactions (pasta) 0d2e579 fix(evo): keep -allowprivatenet out of masternode address validation (Konstantin Akimov) b4cd3fa fix(evo): only write credit pool snapshots inside a block-scoped EvoDB transaction (#7549) (pasta) d215280 Merge #7846: fix: treat pending owner keys and Platform node IDs as one conflict namespace (pasta) db9ec2b Merge #7826: fix: skip repeated authenticated Platform bans (pasta) dcc9596 Merge #7867: fix: refuse masternode list RPCs for blocks outside the active chain (pasta) 197b14a Merge #7866: fix: stop `masternode payments` at the genesis block (pasta) 3055a19 Merge #7850: perf: let CHECKDATASIG use the signature cache (pasta) 4da0099 Merge #7821: fix: relock encrypted wallets after HD upgrade failures (pasta) c7393c0 Merge #7833: fix: gate signing intake before quorum retrieval (pasta) fdf40fe Merge #7828: fix: omit recovery words from invalid mnemonic errors (pasta) 8888af8 Merge #7753: fix: bound masternode list caches by size instead of by new block (pasta) 457af6d Merge #7738: refactor: avoid double lookups and default-inserting map access in governance (pasta) be3b55e Merge #7662: fix: isolate missing quorums in InstantSend batches (pasta) 9bc1e77 Merge #7489: fix: conflict ProRegTx collateral reuse with in-mempool masternode updates (pasta) 5278ce8 Merge #7583: fix: bound pending DKG message retention per proTxHash (pasta) 9ebf78f Merge #7522: fix(net): bound verified inbound connections per proRegTxHash (pasta) 9f2946e Merge #7487: fix: bound DomainPort string deserialization and stop swallowing deser failures (pasta) c077d32 Merge #7527: fix: require a valid masternode signature before caching an orphan governance vote (pasta) dfa7db1 Merge #7518: fix: memoize governance vote signature checks to bound govsync cost (pasta) bb09c49 Merge #7532: fix: bound DYNBITSET allocation against remaining stream size (pasta) 9739f35 Merge #7488: fix: validate ProUpServTx nType at mempool acceptance (pasta) 4687550 Merge #7385: fix: reject invalid extended masternode net info (Pasta) 58b9bce fix: keep flat-file positions 64-bit clean at the remaining raw seek/tell sites (Konstantin Akimov) 7a21752 Merge bitcoin#36667: net: enforce timeout interval for paused send peers (Konstantin Akimov) 58abb28 Merge bitcoin#36665: sock: align exception monitoring between poll() and select() backends (Konstantin Akimov) 8030deb Merge bitcoin#36669: refactor: store positions as a 64 bits integer in flatfiles (Konstantin Akimov) b1178f9 fix(llmq): judge every sig-share sender by its own verified shares (pasta) 33ec74e fix(governance): cap the orphan parent objects re-requested per tick (pasta) 7fc0edb doc(rpc): mark provider payload network fields optional in the help (pasta) 2aa3a87 fix(rpc): don't dereference a missing netInfo when decoding provider payloads (pasta) 120b5db fix(llmq): verify DKG contributions individually when a batch vvec check fails (pasta) 808b105 Merge #7486: fix: guard VerifyContributionShares against an empty verification-vector set (pasta) 8351db9 fix(llmq): reject invalid decrypted DKG shares before aggregation (pasta) 07494dd fix(consensus): reject negative transaction nVersion after DIP3 (pasta) Pull request description: ## Issue being fixed or feature implemented Merges the v23.1.9 release back into develop. v23.1.9 ships five security fixes and three Bitcoin Core network/storage backports that develop doesn't have yet. Without this merge, develop-based nodes (v24) stay exposed to all of them. Note on the base: `master` is still at 728f505 (v23.1.8 + crash fixes) and has not been fast-forwarded to the release yet. It is an ancestor of the signed `v23.1.9` tag, so this PR merges the tag commit (67c106f). That gives exactly the result of merging `master` once it is fast-forwarded. ## What was done? One merge commit. Most of v23.1.9 is backports of develop PRs that develop already has (#7385, #7486, #7487, #7488, #7489, #7518, #7522, #7527, #7532, #7556, #7583, #7662, #7738, #7753, #7821, #7826, #7828, #7833, #7838, #7846, #7850, #7858, #7866, #7867, and the `-allowprivatenet` fix from #7888). Those conflicts resolve to develop's code. The new payload, adapted to develop's layout: - **Sig-share sender aliasing** (`fix(llmq): judge every sig-share sender by its own verified shares`). The batch verifier is now keyed by `(NodeId, SigShareKey)`, so two peers pushing the same key can't be judged by each other's signature. Ported into develop's `NetSigning::ProcessPendingSigShares` (`net_signing.cpp`). The second half of the v23 fix (malformed share → `badSources`) was already on develop. - **Negative tx `nVersion`** (`fix(consensus): reject negative transaction nVersion after DIP3`). Applied as-is, plus `PackVersionAndType()` at all three pack sites. - **Invalid decrypted DKG shares** (`fix(llmq): reject invalid decrypted DKG shares before aggregation`). The QDATA check lived in `src/active/quorums.cpp`, which develop deleted; it is ported into `NetQuorum::ProcessContribQDATA` (`llmq/net_quorum.cpp`). The new `feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py` case passes numeric `dkgsimerror` rates, which develop's RPC requires. - **Batch vvec fallback** (`fix(llmq): verify DKG contributions individually when a batch vvec check fails`). The new `bls_tests` case calls develop's `CBLSWorker::Start(4)`, which takes an explicit worker count. - **Orphan governance re-request cap** (`fix(governance): cap the orphan parent objects re-requested per tick`). At most 100 orphan parents are re-requested per tick. The test helper uses develop's `governance::OrphanVote`. - **bitcoin#36665, bitcoin#36667**. Applied cleanly. - **bitcoin#36669**. Develop moved `TruncateFile`/`AllocateFileRange` into `util/fs_helpers.{h,cpp}`, so those hunks, `FileSeek64` and `FileTell64` land there. - **64-bit flat-file positions** (`fix: keep flat-file positions 64-bit clean at the remaining raw seek/tell sites`). Covers `txindex.cpp` and `blockstorage.cpp`, which now include `util/fs_helpers.h`. It also covers develop-only `BlockFilterIndex::LookupFilterRange` (from #7574's file-handle reuse), which seeks on a `FlatFilePos` the same way. - **Release bookkeeping**: v23.1.9 release notes, archived 23.1.8 notes, flatpak release entry and regenerated man pages. `configure.ac` keeps develop's 24.1.0 / `IS_RELEASE=false`. Deliberately resolved to develop's side: - `fix(rpc): don't dereference a missing netInfo when decoding provider payloads` and its help-text follow-up. On develop an unknown-version ProTx payload reaches `netInfo` only through `CHECK_NONFATAL`, so `decoderawtransaction` returns an RPC error instead of dereferencing null; the v23 commit message says this is the develop equivalent. Reporting the payload without network fields (as v23.1.9 now does) would be a nicer develop follow-up, but it doesn't belong in this merge. - `fix(evo): only write credit pool snapshots inside a block-scoped EvoDB transaction (#7549)`. This is a v23 hand-port of develop's own 8503c5d / 0325195. - `src/active/quorums.cpp` stays deleted. ## How Has This Been Tested? Linux x86_64, `--enable-debug --enable-werror`, built `dashd` and `test_dash`. - Unit suites, all passing: `llmq_utils_tests`, `transaction_tests`, `txvalidation_tests`, `sighash_tests`, `bls_tests`, `governance_inv_tests`, `llmq_dkg_tests`, `flatfile_tests`, `fs_tests`, `net_tests`, `sock_tests`, `evo_netinfo_tests`, `evo_assetlocks_tests`, `blockfilter_index_tests`, `txindex_tests`, `blockmanager_tests`. - Functional tests, all passing: `feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py` (including the new contribution-invalid case), `feature_llmq_signing.py` (both variants), `p2p_timeouts.py` (v1/v2), `mempool_accept.py`. - `git diff --remerge-diff` is empty on all eight v23.1.9 merge commits, so the release has no hidden merge-only changes. - An independent review compared each port with its v23.1.9 commit and checked develop for second copies of each bug: other `SigShareKey` batch verifiers, other decrypt-then-aggregate sites, other `fPauseSend` setters and other raw seeks on `FlatFilePos`. It also spot-checked that the PRs treated as "already on develop" have equivalent code there. I did not run the full functional suite locally; CI covers it. ## Breaking Changes Consensus: once DIP3 is active, transactions with a negative `nVersion` are rejected (`bad-txns-version`). Every v23.1.9 node already enforces this. Such transactions were already split-inducing, since a re-serialized copy changes `nType`. ## Checklist: - [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code - [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas - [x] I have added or updated relevant unit/integration/functional/e2e tests - [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation - [ ] I have assigned this pull request to a milestone _(for repository code-owners and collaborators only)_ 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) ACKs for top commit: UdjinM6: utACK 257af26 Tree-SHA512: d6d19ecbfaa0a891b09887169ec2709a7dfde06af022203ca28e80fdf009ca360f2704ebadca1f830a97663dac09da78d05c979d9c30ee91780065550070b954
…xes, #7947) 4722ad9 chore: prepare v23.1.9 release (pasta) 71b3f0c Merge #7556: fix: gate BLS vote-signature failure log behind gobject category (pasta) 14dddb1 Merge #7838: fix(wallet): authenticate unlock deadline extensions (pasta) 5f73355 Merge #7858: fix: do not InstantSend-lock provider transactions (pasta) 0d2e579 fix(evo): keep -allowprivatenet out of masternode address validation (Konstantin Akimov) b4cd3fa fix(evo): only write credit pool snapshots inside a block-scoped EvoDB transaction (#7549) (pasta) d215280 Merge #7846: fix: treat pending owner keys and Platform node IDs as one conflict namespace (pasta) db9ec2b Merge #7826: fix: skip repeated authenticated Platform bans (pasta) dcc9596 Merge #7867: fix: refuse masternode list RPCs for blocks outside the active chain (pasta) 197b14a Merge #7866: fix: stop `masternode payments` at the genesis block (pasta) 3055a19 Merge #7850: perf: let CHECKDATASIG use the signature cache (pasta) 4da0099 Merge #7821: fix: relock encrypted wallets after HD upgrade failures (pasta) c7393c0 Merge #7833: fix: gate signing intake before quorum retrieval (pasta) fdf40fe Merge #7828: fix: omit recovery words from invalid mnemonic errors (pasta) 8888af8 Merge #7753: fix: bound masternode list caches by size instead of by new block (pasta) 457af6d Merge #7738: refactor: avoid double lookups and default-inserting map access in governance (pasta) be3b55e Merge #7662: fix: isolate missing quorums in InstantSend batches (pasta) 9bc1e77 Merge #7489: fix: conflict ProRegTx collateral reuse with in-mempool masternode updates (pasta) 5278ce8 Merge #7583: fix: bound pending DKG message retention per proTxHash (pasta) 9ebf78f Merge #7522: fix(net): bound verified inbound connections per proRegTxHash (pasta) 9f2946e Merge #7487: fix: bound DomainPort string deserialization and stop swallowing deser failures (pasta) c077d32 Merge #7527: fix: require a valid masternode signature before caching an orphan governance vote (pasta) dfa7db1 Merge #7518: fix: memoize governance vote signature checks to bound govsync cost (pasta) bb09c49 Merge #7532: fix: bound DYNBITSET allocation against remaining stream size (pasta) 9739f35 Merge #7488: fix: validate ProUpServTx nType at mempool acceptance (pasta) 4687550 Merge #7385: fix: reject invalid extended masternode net info (Pasta) 58b9bce fix: keep flat-file positions 64-bit clean at the remaining raw seek/tell sites (Konstantin Akimov) 7a21752 Merge bitcoin#36667: net: enforce timeout interval for paused send peers (Konstantin Akimov) 58abb28 Merge bitcoin#36665: sock: align exception monitoring between poll() and select() backends (Konstantin Akimov) 8030deb Merge bitcoin#36669: refactor: store positions as a 64 bits integer in flatfiles (Konstantin Akimov) b1178f9 fix(llmq): judge every sig-share sender by its own verified shares (pasta) 33ec74e fix(governance): cap the orphan parent objects re-requested per tick (pasta) 7fc0edb doc(rpc): mark provider payload network fields optional in the help (pasta) 2aa3a87 fix(rpc): don't dereference a missing netInfo when decoding provider payloads (pasta) 120b5db fix(llmq): verify DKG contributions individually when a batch vvec check fails (pasta) 808b105 Merge #7486: fix: guard VerifyContributionShares against an empty verification-vector set (pasta) 8351db9 fix(llmq): reject invalid decrypted DKG shares before aggregation (pasta) 07494dd fix(consensus): reject negative transaction nVersion after DIP3 (pasta) 11ea306 Merge #7947: fix: stop quorum key warming from stalling DKG on 2-core masternodes (pasta) 25d7c85 Merge #7826: fix: skip repeated authenticated Platform bans (pasta) 18073dd Merge #7850: perf: let CHECKDATASIG use the signature cache (pasta) 3759397 Merge #7833: fix: gate signing intake before quorum retrieval (pasta) db98ee2 fix: keep flat-file positions 64-bit clean at the remaining raw seek/tell sites (Konstantin Akimov) 54c9738 Merge bitcoin#36667: net: enforce timeout interval for paused send peers (Konstantin Akimov) f1adb2c Merge bitcoin#36665: sock: align exception monitoring between poll() and select() backends (Konstantin Akimov) 8becf6a Merge bitcoin#36669: refactor: store positions as a 64 bits integer in flatfiles (Konstantin Akimov) 4c0cbd6 fix(llmq): judge every sig-share sender by its own verified shares (pasta) 649259f fix(governance): cap the orphan parent objects re-requested per tick (pasta) 418f5ee fix(llmq): verify DKG contributions individually when a batch vvec check fails (pasta) abf2eb0 fix(llmq): reject invalid decrypted DKG shares before aggregation (pasta) 39bda8f fix(consensus): reject negative transaction nVersion after DIP3 (pasta) Pull request description: ## Issue being fixed or feature implemented Backports for v24.0.0-rc.5, on top of `v24.0.x` at the v24.0.0-rc.4 tag (0e7382d, #7917). This PR holds the must-haves for rc.5: the v23.1.9 fixes that v24.0.x does not have yet, and #7947 (DKG stalls that get 2-core masternodes PoSe-banned). Without the v23.1.9 part, rc.5 would be missing fixes that the already published v23.1.9 ships, and it would accept transactions that v23.1.9 nodes reject (see Breaking Changes). The remaining `backport-candidate-24.0.x` work (#7916 and its test prerequisite) will follow in a separate PR so this one stays reviewable. ## What was done? ### v23.1.9 fixes not yet on v24.0.x v23.1.9 (tag 67c106f) contains 46 commits since v23.1.8. Each one was checked by content against `v24.0.x`. Most are backports of develop PRs that `v24.0.x` already has, either from before its branch point or picked for rc.3/rc.4. The rest are picked here with `git cherry-pick -x` from `v23.1.x`, in v23.1.9 merge order: - `fix(consensus): reject negative transaction nVersion after DIP3` (07494dd), **consensus**. Context-only conflict in `primitives/transaction.h`. - `fix(llmq): reject invalid decrypted DKG shares before aggregation` (8351db9). The QDATA path that v23 has in `src/active/quorums.cpp` is `src/llmq/net_quorum.cpp` on this branch. The new `feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py` case passes numeric `dkgsimerror` rates. - `fix(llmq): verify DKG contributions individually when a batch vvec check fails` (120b5db). The new `bls_tests` case calls `CBLSWorker::Start(4)`, since `Start()` takes an explicit worker count here. - `fix(governance): cap the orphan parent objects re-requested per tick` (33ec74e). The test helper uses this branch's `governance::OrphanVote`. - `fix(llmq): judge every sig-share sender by its own verified shares` (b1178f9). Ported into `NetSigning::ProcessPendingSigShares` (`llmq/net_signing.cpp`). The second half of the v23 fix (malformed share → `badSources`) is already on this branch. - bitcoin#36669 (8030deb). The `util/system` hunks land in `util/fs_helpers.{h,cpp}`. Two upstream hunks that the v23 port dropped are restored here, because this branch has their equivalents: `BlockInfo::data_pos` becomes `uint64_t` (in `interfaces/chain.h`), and `AutoFile`'s XOR read/write paths use `FileTell64`. - bitcoin#36665 (58abb28), bitcoin#36667 (7a21752). Clean. - `fix: keep flat-file positions 64-bit clean at the remaining raw seek/tell sites` (58b9bce). Also covers `BlockFilterIndex::LookupFilterRange`, which only this branch has. - #7833 fix: gate signing intake before quorum retrieval - #7850 perf: let CHECKDATASIG use the signature cache - #7826 fix: skip repeated authenticated Platform bans The last three are develop merges, picked with `-m1 -x` from develop; they change exactly the same lines as their develop merges. Every adaptation above is described in its commit message, and each matches how the open v23.1.9 → develop merge (#7961) resolves the same commit. Already on `v24.0.x` in another form, so not picked: - The credit-pool snapshot fix for #7549 (b4cd3fa) is a v23 hand-port of develop's 8503c5d / 0325195 (#7639), which this branch already has. - `fix(evo): keep -allowprivatenet out of masternode address validation` (0d2e579) is already covered by #7888. - `fix(rpc): don't dereference a missing netInfo when decoding provider payloads` (2aa3a87) and its help-text follow-up (7fc0edb). Here those accesses go through `CHECK_NONFATAL`, so an unknown-version ProTx payload gets an RPC error instead of a crash. The v23 commit message names this as the develop equivalent. ### Merge of v23.1.9 The last commit merges the v23.1.9 tag (67c106f, now `master`) with the tree unchanged (`-s ours`). `master` moved to v23.1.9 today, and `check_merge` requires `master` to fast-forward to `v24.0.x` plus the PR. The final v24.0.0 also has to contain every v23.1.9 commit. All of v23.1.9's content is already on the branch through the picks above, so every commit resolves to the `v24.0.x` side, as #7961 did on develop. Release bookkeeping (version, v23.1.9 release notes, man pages, flatpak entry) stays with v24's own release process. A trial real merge confirmed this: its only clean additions were those docs and three duplicate re-insertions of code the branch already has. ### #7947 fix: stop quorum key warming from stalling DKG on 2-core masternodes Picked with `-m1 -x`, before the merge. It changes exactly the same lines as its develop merge, and `v24.0.x` has 756fc4f (#7659), the commit it reverts. No version change is needed. `configure.ac` is already 24.0.0 with `CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE` false, so the build takes its version string from the `v24.0.0-rc.5` tag. ## How Has This Been Tested? Linux x86_64 against depends, `--enable-debug --enable-werror --disable-hardening --without-gui`: `dashd` and `test_dash` build cleanly. - Unit suites, all passing (149 cases): `transaction_tests`, `txvalidation_tests`, `sighash_tests`, `bls_tests`, `governance_inv_tests`, `llmq_utils_tests`, `llmq_dkg_tests`, `quorum_proofs_tests`, `flatfile_tests`, `fs_tests`, `net_tests`, `sock_tests`, `evo_netinfo_tests`, `evo_assetlocks_tests`, `blockfilter_index_tests`, `txindex_tests`, `blockmanager_tests`, `checkdatasig_tests`. - Functional tests, all passing: `feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py` (including the new contribution-invalid case), `feature_llmq_signing.py` (plain and `--spork21`), `feature_llmq_simplepose.py` (plain and `--disable-spork23`), `feature_llmq_rotation.py`, `feature_llmq_data_recovery.py`, `p2p_timeouts.py` (v1/v2), `mempool_accept.py`, `p2p_platform_ban.py`. In the first parallel run, `feature_llmq_data_recovery.py` (known flaky, see #7947), one `feature_llmq_signing.py --spork21` run and `p2p_platform_ban.py` failed while another build was loading the machine. All three pass when re-run on their own. - Each port was compared with its v23.1.9 commit and with #7961's develop resolution. The per-file changes are identical apart from the branch's own API differences listed above. A separate review checked v24-only call sites for second copies of each bug: - other `SigShareKey` batch verifiers; - other decrypt-then-aggregate paths; - other orphan re-request loops; - other tx version packing sites; - other raw `FlatFilePos` seeks. It also checked that the batch-vvec fallback cannot deadlock on a single-thread BLS pool; it runs on the DKG phase threads, not on a BLS worker. ## Breaking Changes - Consensus: once DIP3 is active, transactions with a negative `nVersion` are rejected (`bad-txns-version`). Every v23.1.9 node already enforces this, so mixed v23.1.9/rc.4 networks could disagree until rc.5 is deployed. Valid transactions and their txids are unchanged. - From #7947: quorum key share warming runs on its own `q-cache` thread again, which is one more thread per node. ## Checklist: - [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code - [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation - [ ] I have assigned this pull request to a milestone 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Top commit has no ACKs. Tree-SHA512: eaf46d1446c5f6752f2ac5d7aeaa37234cb6da4430db0a1a432320cfe61242dc3bb90c42e0a364238c2817ce0b1b1654dcc0cdd1ed9570f3b35cd2af5330e98e
Issue being fixed or feature implemented
CleanupCache() only ran from the scheduler after a block was connected. Between blocks nothing bounded mnListsCache: every getmnlistd or getqrinfo for a block below the cache window loads a full list from disk and derives mini-snapshots from it, and a peer can request a new period every few tens of milliseconds while the scheduler fires every 10 seconds. A per-lookup cleanup, as tried before, evicts the lists a sequential walk asks for next and runs inside block validation.
What was done?
Trigger the existing CleanupCache() from the lookup itself, only once the cache holds more than MAX_CACHED_LISTS entries. Cleanup retains the tip and live quorum bases, so a peer can grow the cache by at most a couple dozen disk snapshots, while masternode payments, protx listdiff, syncing peers and a background chainstate keep their intermediate lists until the budget overflows and then rebuild once. The tip and quorum lookups are cache hits and insert nothing, so they never pay for the check.
A connected block adds one list that shares its structure with its predecessor, so the budget covers block connection too. Drop the scheduled cleanup, the to_cleanup signal and cs_cleanup.
Alternate for #7746 and #7485
How Has This Been Tested?
Run unit & functional tests
Breaking Changes
N/A
Checklist: