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backport: bitcoin#25717, #25960, #25978, #26012, #26172, #26184, #26355, #26387, #26954, #30761 (anti-DoS headers sync) - #7645
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A remote peer can send a maximum-sized headers message whose first header has invalid proof of work, but this loop computes the expensive X11 hash for every header before CheckHeadersPoW() can reject the first one and disconnect the peer. In particular, compressed messages can contain 8,000 headers, turning each fresh connection into thousands of unnecessary hashes; previously HasValidProofOfWork() hashed incrementally and returned on the first invalid header. Validate while populating the cache, or otherwise preserve that early exit.
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Fixed in 2fc0b3b: the PoW check now happens while the hash cache is filled, so hashing stops at the first header with invalid proof of work.
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WalkthroughThis change adds two-phase low-work headers synchronization with commitment storage and redownload verification. It adds anti-DoS proof-of-work and difficulty-transition checks, threads Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Peer
participant PeerManager
participant HeadersSyncState
participant ChainstateManager
participant UI
Peer->>PeerManager: Send HEADERS or HEADERS2
PeerManager->>HeadersSyncState: ProcessNextHeaders(headers, hashes, full_headers_message)
HeadersSyncState-->>PeerManager: Return validated headers
PeerManager->>ChainstateManager: ProcessNewBlockHeaders(headers, true, state)
ChainstateManager-->>UI: NotifyHeaderTip(..., presync)
PeerManager-->>Peer: Send follow-up headers request
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds bounded two-phase header synchronization for ordinary peers, reducing memory-DoS exposure, but peers with NoBan permission can bypass that protection; incorrect or overly broad use of that permission could still allow persistent low-work header growth. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness of this trust-boundary exception. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| already_validated_work = IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync(peer, pfrom, headers, hashes, uses_compressed); |
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When an established peer that already has headers or high-bandwidth compact-block announcements enabled later supplies a sufficiently deep reorg to trigger low-work PRESYNC, a one-header announcement can be interleaved with the requested batches and is passed here as a continuation. Since that live-tip header does not extend HeadersSyncState::m_last_header_received, ProcessNextHeaders() finalizes the sync; recurring announcements can therefore repeatedly abort synchronization of a legitimate deep reorg. The new MaybeSendSendHeaders() delay does not help peers whose announcement mode was enabled before this sync began, so unsolicited announcements need to be processed without consuming the active requested-batch state.
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This is inherited unchanged from upstream: bitcoin/bitcoin has the same IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync handling of any headers message while m_headers_sync is set, and MaybeSendSendHeaders is the upstream mitigation. A peer whose announcement ends the sync only restarts it from its next headers message; it cannot make us store low-work headers. I'm keeping this aligned with upstream rather than adding a Dash-only change in a backport.
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Preliminary review — Codex only
The anti-DoS headers-sync backport is generally integrated coherently, but the final hash-caching optimization removes early rejection of invalid proof of work and allows a maximum-sized HEADERS2 batch to force 8,000 X11 hashes before disconnection. The backport also weakens the pre-KGW difficulty-transition heuristic at non-retarget heights, and the standalone fuzzer repair should be folded into the commit that introduced the target.
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In `src/net_processing.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/net_processing.cpp:5582-5584: Preserve early PoW rejection while populating the hash cache
The new cache loop computes every header's X11 hash before `CheckHeadersPoW()` examines the first result. A peer can put invalid proof of work in the first header of an 8,000-header HEADERS2 message and force all 8,000 hashes before being disconnected. Before commit 6995a5f9388, `HasValidProofOfWork()` called `header.GetHash()` sequentially through `std::all_of` and stopped at the first invalid header. Validate proof of work as each hash enters the cache so caching does not amplify the CPU cost of a trivially invalid batch.
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- [SUGGESTION] src/pow.cpp:264-267: bitcoin#25717's non-retarget difficulty guard was omitted
Upstream commit 1d4cfa4272cf2c8b980cc8762c1ff2220d3e8d51 applies the factor-of-four bounds only when `height % DifficultyAdjustmentInterval() == 0`; at every other height it requires `old_nbits == new_nbits`. Dash correctly needs to bypass the check from `nPowKGWHeight` onward, but below that height `GetNextWorkRequiredBTC()` still preserves nBits between fixed retarget boundaries. The current adaptation instead permits a factor-of-four change at every pre-KGW height, weakening PRESYNC's early anti-DoS rejection. The new test exercises this incorrect behavior at mainnet height 7,600, which is not a retarget boundary because `DifficultyAdjustmentInterval()` is 576. Preserve the post-KGW bypass while restoring exact nBits equality at pre-KGW non-retarget heights.
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- [SUGGESTION] src/test/fuzz/pow.cpp:120-124: Fold the fuzzer API repair into the initial backport
Commit 19770f855361a3a74a81187b6a39dd92b540b5ab only repairs the `pow_transition` target introduced by 1fff2fdd6a6a9fc9c6bb06261df15f334bcb2551. At the introducing commit, the target passes `nullptr` to Dash's `GetNextWorkRequired()`, whose implementation asserts that `pblock` is non-null, so that intermediate revision contains a newly introduced fuzz target that aborts when run. Fold the repair into 1fff2fdd6a6 as part of its Dash-specific conflict resolution so each permanent backport commit leaves its new test target usable.
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| for (const CBlockHeader& h : headers) hashes.push_back(h.GetHash()); |
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🔴 Blocking: Preserve early PoW rejection while populating the hash cache
The new cache loop computes every header's X11 hash before CheckHeadersPoW() examines the first result. A peer can put invalid proof of work in the first header of an 8,000-header HEADERS2 message and force all 8,000 hashes before being disconnected. Before commit 6995a5f, HasValidProofOfWork() called header.GetHash() sequentially through std::all_of and stopped at the first invalid header. Validate proof of work as each hash enters the cache so caching does not amplify the CPU cost of a trivially invalid batch.
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| for (const CBlockHeader& h : headers) hashes.push_back(h.GetHash()); | |
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| for (const CBlockHeader& header : headers) { | |
| hashes.push_back(header.GetHash()); | |
| if (!CheckProofOfWork(hashes.back(), header.nBits, m_chainparams.GetConsensus())) { | |
| Misbehaving(*peer, 100, "header with invalid proof of work"); | |
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Fixed in 2fc0b3b (folded into the perf commit). The HEADERS/HEADERS2 handler now runs CheckProofOfWork on each hash as it is computed and calls Misbehaving(*peer, 100, "header with invalid proof of work") on the first failure, so an invalid first header costs one X11 hash, as HasValidProofOfWork() did before the cache.
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🟡 Suggestion: bitcoin#25717's non-retarget difficulty guard was omitted
Upstream commit 1d4cfa4 applies the factor-of-four bounds only when height % DifficultyAdjustmentInterval() == 0; at every other height it requires old_nbits == new_nbits. Dash correctly needs to bypass the check from nPowKGWHeight onward, but below that height GetNextWorkRequiredBTC() still preserves nBits between fixed retarget boundaries. The current adaptation instead permits a factor-of-four change at every pre-KGW height, weakening PRESYNC's early anti-DoS rejection. The new test exercises this incorrect behavior at mainnet height 7,600, which is not a retarget boundary because DifficultyAdjustmentInterval() is 576. Preserve the post-KGW bypass while restoring exact nBits equality at pre-KGW non-retarget heights.
| // Per-block retargeting (KGW + DGW): no useful per-pair bound. | |
| if (height >= params.nPowKGWHeight) return true; | |
| int64_t smallest_timespan = params.nPowTargetTimespan/4; | |
| // Per-block retargeting (KGW + DGW): no useful per-pair bound. | |
| if (height >= params.nPowKGWHeight) return true; | |
| if (height % params.DifficultyAdjustmentInterval() != 0) { | |
| return old_nbits == new_nbits; | |
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| int64_t smallest_timespan = params.nPowTargetTimespan/4; |
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Agreed, fixed in 4672273 (the bitcoin#25717 commit). Below nPowKGWHeight, PermittedDifficultyTransition now requires old_nbits == new_nbits off retarget boundaries, as upstream does. GetNextWorkRequiredBTC keeps nBits unchanged between boundaries on mainnet. The post-KGW bypass is unchanged. permitted_difficulty_transition (03e082c) now runs the 4x cases at a retarget boundary (10 * DifficultyAdjustmentInterval()) and checks that nBits must stay equal at the next height.
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| next_header.nVersion = version; | ||
| next_header.nTime = new_time; | ||
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| unsigned int new_nbits{GetNextWorkRequired(last_block, &next_header, consensus_params)}; |
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🟡 Suggestion: Fold the fuzzer API repair into the initial backport
Commit 19770f8 only repairs the pow_transition target introduced by 1fff2fd. At the introducing commit, the target passes nullptr to Dash's GetNextWorkRequired(), whose implementation asserts that pblock is non-null, so that intermediate revision contains a newly introduced fuzz target that aborts when run. Fold the repair into 1fff2fd as part of its Dash-specific conflict resolution so each permanent backport commit leaves its new test target usable.
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Done: "fix: dashify pow call for fuzzer" is folded into the bitcoin#25717 commit (4672273), so pow_transition passes a non-null header from the commit that adds it.
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3add234 ui: show header pre-synchronization progress (Pieter Wuille) 738421c Emit NotifyHeaderTip signals for pre-synchronization progress (Pieter Wuille) 376086f Make validation interface capable of signalling header presync (Pieter Wuille) 93eae27 Test large reorgs with headerssync logic (Suhas Daftuar) 3555473 Track headers presync progress and log it (Pieter Wuille) 03712dd Expose HeadersSyncState::m_current_height in getpeerinfo() (Suhas Daftuar) 150a548 Test headers sync using minchainwork threshold (Suhas Daftuar) 0b6aa82 Add unit test for HeadersSyncState (Suhas Daftuar) 83c6a0c Reduce spurious messages during headers sync (Suhas Daftuar) ed6cddd Require callers of AcceptBlockHeader() to perform anti-dos checks (Suhas Daftuar) 551a8d9 Utilize anti-DoS headers download strategy (Suhas Daftuar) ed47094 Add functions to construct locators without CChain (Pieter Wuille) 84852bb Add bitdeque, an std::deque<bool> analogue that does bit packing. (Pieter Wuille) 1d4cfa4 Add function to validate difficulty changes (Suhas Daftuar) Pull request description: New nodes starting up for the first time lack protection against DoS from low-difficulty headers. While checkpoints serve as our protection against headers that fork from the main chain below the known checkpointed values, this protection only applies to nodes that have been able to download the honest chain to the checkpointed heights. We can protect all nodes from DoS from low-difficulty headers by adopting a different strategy: before we commit to storing a header in permanent storage, first verify that the header is part of a chain that has sufficiently high work (either `nMinimumChainWork`, or something comparable to our tip). This means that we will download headers from a given peer twice: once to verify the work on the chain, and a second time when permanently storing the headers. The p2p protocol doesn't provide an easy way for us to ensure that we receive the same headers during the second download of peer's headers chain. To ensure that a peer doesn't (say) give us the main chain in phase 1 to trick us into permanently storing an alternate, low-work chain in phase 2, we store commitments to the headers during our first download, which we validate in the second download. Some parameters must be chosen for commitment size/frequency in phase 1, and validation of commitments in phase 2. In this PR, those parameters are chosen to both (a) minimize the per-peer memory usage that an attacker could utilize, and (b) bound the expected amount of permanent memory that an attacker could get us to use to be well-below the memory growth that we'd get from the honest chain (where we expect 1 new block header every 10 minutes). After this PR, we should be able to remove checkpoints from our code, which is a nice philosophical change for us to make as well, as there has been confusion over the years about the role checkpoints play in Bitcoin's consensus algorithm. Thanks to Pieter Wuille for collaborating on this design. ACKs for top commit: Sjors: re-tACK 3add234 mzumsande: re-ACK 3add234 sipa: re-ACK 3add234 glozow: ACK 3add234 Tree-SHA512: e7789d65f62f72141b8899eb4a2fb3d0621278394d2d7adaa004675250118f89a4e4cb42777fe56649d744ec445ad95141e10f6def65f0a58b7b35b2e654a875 Co-authored-by: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
94af3e4 Fix typo from PR25717 (Suhas Daftuar) e5982ec Bypass headers anti-DoS checks for NoBan peers (Suhas Daftuar) 132ed7e Move headerssync logging to BCLog::NET (Suhas Daftuar) Pull request description: Remove BCLog::HEADERSSYNC and move all headerssync logging to BCLog::NET. Bypass headers anti-DoS checks for NoBan peers Also fix a typo that was introduced in PR25717. ACKs for top commit: Sjors: tACK 94af3e4 ajtowns: ACK 94af3e4 sipa: ACK 94af3e4 naumenkogs: ACK 94af3e4 w0xlt: ACK bitcoin@94af3e4 Tree-SHA512: 612d594eddace977359bcc8234b2093d273fd50662f4ac70cb90903d28fb831f6e1aecff51a4ef6c0bb0f6fb5d1aa7ff1eb8798fac5ac142783788f3080717dc Co-authored-by: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
…th_minchainwork.py 88e7807 test: fix non-determinism in p2p_headers_sync_with_minchainwork.py (Suhas Daftuar) Pull request description: The test for node3's chaintips (added in PR25960) needs some sort of synchronization in order to be reliable. ACKs for top commit: mzumsande: Code Review ACK 88e7807 satsie: ACK 88e7807 Tree-SHA512: 5607c5b1a95d91e7cf81b695eb356b782cbb303bcc7fd9044e1058c0c0625c5f9e5fe4f4dde9d2bffa27a80d83fc060336720f7becbba505ccfb8a04fcc81705 Co-authored-by: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
fa4ba04 fuzz: Remove no-op call to get() (MacroFake) fa64228 fuzz: Avoid timeout in bitdeque fuzz target (MacroFake) Pull request description: I'd guess that any bug should be discoverable within `10` ops. However, `900` seems also better than no limit at all, which causes timeouts such as https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=50892 ACKs for top commit: sipa: ACK fa4ba04 Tree-SHA512: f6bd25e78d5f04c6f88e9300c2fa3d0993a0911cb0fd1b414077adc0edde1a06ad72af5e2f50f0ab1324f91999ae57d879686c545b2e6c19ae7f637a8804bd48 Co-authored-by: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
…eader bdcafb9 p2p: ProcessHeadersMessage(): fix received_new_header (Larry Ruane) Pull request description: Follow-up to bitcoin#25717. The commit "Utilize anti-DoS headers download strategy" changed how this bool variable is computed, so that its value is now the opposite of what it should be. Prior to bitcoin#25717: ``` bool received_new_header{WITH_LOCK(::cs_main, return m_chainman.m_blockman.LookupBlockIndex(headers.back().GetHash()) == nullptr)}; ``` After bitcoin#25717 (simplified): ``` { LOCK(cs_main); last_received_header = m_chainman.m_blockman.LookupBlockIndex(headers.back().GetHash()); } bool received_new_header{last_received_header != nullptr}; ``` ACKs for top commit: dergoegge: ACK bdcafb9 glozow: ACK bdcafb9, I believe this is correct and don't see anything to suggest the switch was intentional. stickies-v: ACK bdcafb9 Tree-SHA512: 35c12762f1429585a0b1c15053e310e83efb28c3d8cbf4092fad9fe81c893f6d766df1f2b20624882acb9654d0539a0c871f587d7090dc2a198115adf59db3ec Co-authored-by: glozow <gloriajzhao@gmail.com>
…eturn value correctly when new headers sync is started 7ad15d1 [net processing] Handle IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync return value correctly when new headers sync is started (dergoegge) Pull request description: This PR fixes a bug in the headers sync logic that enables submitting headers to a nodes block index that don't lead to a chain that surpasses our DoS limit. The issue is that we ignore the return value on [the first `IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync` call after a new headers sync is started](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/fabc0310480b49e159a15d494525c5aa15072cba/src/net_processing.cpp#L2553-L2568), which leads to us passing headers to [`ProcessNewBlockHeaders`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/fabc0310480b49e159a15d494525c5aa15072cba/src/net_processing.cpp#L2856) when that initial `IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync` call returns `false`. One easy way (maybe the only?) to trigger this is by sending 2000 headers where the last header has a different `nBits` value than the prior headers (which fails the pre-sync logic [here](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/fabc0310480b49e159a15d494525c5aa15072cba/src/headerssync.cpp#L189)). Those 2000 headers will be passed to `ProcessNewBlockHeaders`. I haven't included a test here so far because we can't test this without changing the default value for `CRegTestParams::consensus.fPowAllowMinDifficultyBlocks` or doing some more involved refactoring. ACKs for top commit: sipa: ACK 7ad15d1 glozow: ACK 7ad15d1 Tree-SHA512: 9aabb8bf3700401e79863d0accda0befd2a83c4d469a53f97d827e51139e2f826aee08cdfbc8866b311b153f61fdac9b7aa515fcfa2a21c5e2812c2bf3c03664 Co-authored-by: glozow <gloriajzhao@gmail.com>
784b023 [net processing] Simplify use of IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync in TryLowWorkHeaderSync (dergoegge) e891aab [net processing] Fixup TryLowWorkHeadersSync comment (dergoegge) Pull request description: See bitcoin#26355 (comment) and bitcoin#26355 (comment) ACKs for top commit: hernanmarino: ACK 784b023 brunoerg: crACK 784b023 mzumsande: ACK 784b023 Tree-SHA512: b47ac0d78a09ca3a1806e38c5d2e2fcf1e5f0668f202450b5079c5cb168e168ac6828c0948d23f3610696375134986d75ef3c6098858173023bcb743aec8004c Co-authored-by: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
…_minchainwork fa952fa test: Avoid rpc timeout in p2p_headers_sync_with_minchainwork (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: When running a lot of tests in parallel, I get `JSONRPCException: 'generatetoaddress' RPC took longer than 30.000000 seconds.` The general recommendation, if running into timeouts, is to increase the `--timeout-factor`. However, I think that the default timeout values should be suitable to run the tests out of the box on reasonable hardware. ACKs for top commit: fanquake: ACK fa952fa Tree-SHA512: b7eeda54f8db900f077417c0431f659c67e686e2fc078f8c713e37ed75b8bc862814ce20e8400741638e35e224d7284ad16172bf5f82168f803376d0c9ec4524 Co-authored-by: MarcoFalke <*~=`'#}+{/-|&$^_@721217.xyz>
…id proof-of-work disconnects peer 7726712 test: p2p: check that headers message with invalid proof-of-work disconnects peer (Sebastian Falbesoner) Pull request description: One of the earliest anti-DoS checks done after receiving and deserializing a `headers` message from a peer is verifying whether the proof-of-work is valid (called in method `PeerManagerImpl::ProcessHeadersMessage`): https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/f227e153e80c8c50c30d76e1ac638d7206c7ff61/src/net_processing.cpp#L2752-L2762 The called method `PeerManagerImpl::CheckHeadersPoW` calls `Misbehaving` with a score of 100, i.e. leading to an immediate disconnect of the peer: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/f227e153e80c8c50c30d76e1ac638d7206c7ff61/src/net_processing.cpp#L2368-L2372 This PR adds a simple test for both the misbehaving log and the resulting disconnect. For creating a block header with invalid proof-of-work, we first create one that is accepted by the node (the difficulty field `nBits` is copied from the genesis block) and based on that the nonce is modified until we have block header hash prefix that is too high to fulfill even the minimum difficulty. ACKs for top commit: Sjors: ACK 7726712 achow101: ACK 7726712 brunoerg: crACK 7726712 furszy: Code review ACK 7726712 with a non-blocking speedup. Tree-SHA512: 680aa7939158d1dc672b90aa6554ba2b3a92584b6d3bcb0227776035858429feb8bc66eed18b47de0fe56df7d9b3ddaee231aaeaa360136603b9ad4b19e6ac11 Co-authored-by: Andrew Chow <github@achow101.com>
…sync_with_minchainwork.py fa247e6 test: Avoid intermittent timeout in p2p_headers_sync_with_minchainwork.py (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: Similar to bitcoin#30705: The goal of this test case is to check that the sync works at all, not to check any timeout. On extremely slow hardware (for example qemu virtual hardware), downloading the 4110 BLOCKS_TO_MINE may take longer than the block download timeout. Fix it by pinning the time using mocktime temporarily, and advance it immediately after the sync. ACKs for top commit: stratospher: ACK fa247e6. Checked the timeout downloading block logs before/after using `setmocktime`. tdb3: ACK fa247e6 Tree-SHA512: f61632a8d9e484f1b888aafbf87f7adf71b8692387bd77f603cdbc0de49f30d42e654741d46ae1ff8b9706a5559ee0faabdb192ed0db7449010b68bfcdbaa42d Co-authored-by: merge-script <fanquake@gmail.com>
The PermittedDifficultyTransition checks added to the get_next_work test ran at block height 123457, above mainnet nPowKGWHeight (15200), so they hit the function's early `return true` and asserted nothing. Drop them and restore get_next_work to its original state. Add a dedicated permitted_difficulty_transition test that exercises the +/-4x bound at a retarget boundary below nPowKGWHeight: the accept boundary (no change and exactly +/-4x), both reject paths (>4x easier and harder), the unchanged-nBits rule between retarget boundaries, and the two early-return branches (height >= nPowKGWHeight, and min-difficulty networks). Also correct the stale pow.h doc comment, which described upstream Bitcoin's retarget-interval semantics rather than the Dash behaviour. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sync feature Compute the X11 hash of every received header once in the HEADERS / HEADERS2 handler and pass the hashes alongside the headers, so that CheckHeadersPoW, CheckHeadersAreContinuous and the PRESYNC / REDOWNLOAD steps of HeadersSyncState reuse them instead of hashing each header several times. The proof of work is checked as each hash is computed, so a header with invalid proof of work stops the hashing at that header and the peer is punished right away, as HasValidProofOfWork() did before. Without this a peer could force a full batch of hashes (8000 for HEADERS2) before being disconnected. When IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync() swaps in the REDOWNLOAD buffer, the hashes are recomputed from the swapped-in headers so both vectors stay index-aligned for the later LookupBlockIndex(hashes.back()). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This resurrects knst's closed PR #7318 (anti-DoS headers sync, bitcoin#25717 + follow-ups) on top of post-#7514 develop, and stacks the perf commit from closed PR #7320 on top. All backport and adaptation work is knst's (with the PermittedDifficultyTransition test coverage by UdjinM6); this PR only re-resolves the commits against current develop.
Motivation:
CBlockIndexentries), a memory-DoS vector that checkpoints only partially mitigate (they protect nothing below the first checkpoint and nothing for chains forking after the last one).-spvlight-client mode, where the header chain is the node's entire security anchor and headers sync starts from nothing: checkpoints only protect nodes that can reach checkpointed heights, while the anti-DoS commitment scheme protects the sync process itself regardless of chain state.What was done?
Backports bitcoin#25717 (anti-DoS headers sync: PRESYNC/REDOWNLOAD two-phase sync with a total-work commitment scheme) plus follow-ups bitcoin#25960, bitcoin#25978, bitcoin#26012, bitcoin#26172, bitcoin#26184, bitcoin#26355, bitcoin#26387, bitcoin#26954, bitcoin#30761:
src/headerssync.{h,cpp}(HeadersSyncState: PRESYNC computes the chain's total work against an anti-DoS threshold while storing only ~1-bit-per-header commitments; REDOWNLOAD re-requests the headers and validates them against the stored commitments before they are permanently stored),src/util/bitdeque.hplus unit and fuzz tests,TryLowWorkHeadersSync/IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSync, per-peerHeadersSyncState,ReportHeadersPresyncrate-limited progress reporting, getpeerinfopresynced_headers, GUI presync progress (SyncType::HEADER_PRESYNC),min_pow_checkedplumbing throughProcessNewBlock{,Headers}/AcceptBlock{,Header},PermittedDifficultyTransitioninsrc/pow.{h,cpp}with Dash adaptation and dedicated unit-test coverage,src/test/headers_sync_chainwork_tests.cppandtest/functional/p2p_headers_sync_with_minchainwork.py.Dash-specific notes:
PermittedDifficultyTransition: for heights >=nPowKGWHeightthe function returns true unconditionally, because per-block DGW/KGW retargeting admits no useful per-pair nBits bound. BelownPowKGWHeightthe upstream rule applies unchanged: timespan/4..timespan*4 bounds at retarget boundaries (height % DifficultyAdjustmentInterval() == 0) and unchanged nBits in between. Protection for the post-KGW range rests on the total-work commitment scheme itself (a liar about work is caught by the REDOWNLOAD-phase work re-check), which is the primary defense upstream as well. Covered by newpow_testscases.NODE_HEADERS_COMPRESSEDpeers), preserved from knst's branch.m_max_commitmentsderivation assumes 600s spacing upstream; with 2.5-minute blocks the bound is still ~1000x loose, so no adaptation is needed.Differences vs the original PRs, from re-resolving onto current develop (verified with
git range-diff):GetLocator/LocatorEntriesrefactor, theSyncTypeenum +setNumBlocks/TipChangedGUI plumbing, and the int64-basedNotifyHeaderTipinterface hunks of p2p: Implement anti-DoS headers sync bitcoin/bitcoin#25717 were dropped from the first commit as already merged via backport: partial bitcoin#25717, #25963 - anti-dos header sync #7514; this PR adds only what was missing (thepresyncbool,HEADER_PRESYNC, and the anti-DoS machinery itself).AcceptBlockstays onChainstateManager(develop's shape after the kernel backports) instead of moving hunks back toChainstate; twonMinimumChainWorkreferences were adapted to develop'sm_chainman.MinimumChainWork().Misbehaving(Peer&)signature. The HEADERS/HEADERS2 handler checks the proof of work of each header as its hash is computed, so a header with invalid PoW stops the hashing at that header instead of after the whole batch (up to 8000 headers for HEADERS2), asHasValidProofOfWork()did before the cache. Per perf: pre-calculate hash of header once #7320's benchmarks it recovers most of the presync cost: full header resync 16m30s -> 9m24s (vs 7m42s on then-develop without anti-DoS sync).IsContinuationOfLowWorkHeadersSyncswapsheadersfor the REDOWNLOAD-phase buffer on success, but the caller's precomputedhashesvector was left holding the hashes of the original message's headers. The subsequentLookupBlockIndex(hashes.back())inProcessHeadersMessagethen used a hash unrelated toheaders.back(), corruptingreceived_new_header. The swap branch now rebuildshashesfrom the swapped-in headers so the two stay index-aligned (this desync existed in perf: pre-calculate hash of header once #7320 as originally submitted).pow_transitionfuzz target passes a header to Dash'sGetNextWorkRequired()(which asserts it is non-null) from the commit that adds it.test_large_reorgs_can_succeed,mocktime_all(int(time.time()))is now called beforereconnect_all(). Previously the reorg sync could begin at the old mocktime and the subsequent forward jump made in-flight block requests hit the download timeout, disconnecting peers and failingsync_blocks(reproduced reliably on a fast machine).How Has This Been Tested?
Rebased onto develop 3789ec0 (conflicts in Makefile.am / Makefile.test.include next to
util/bitset.h, lock annotations in net_processing.cpp after them_object_request_mutexsplit,MakeSignalHandlerin node/interfaces.cpp, andVerifyDBResultin validation.h; all resolved by keeping both sides). Built on macOS (arm64, clang,--enable-debug --enable-werror). Ran:./src/test/test_dash --run_test=headers_sync_chainwork_tests./src/test/test_dash --run_test=pow_tests(alsovalidation_block_tests,validation_chainstatemanager_tests,blockfilter_index_tests,coinstatsindex_tests,miner_tests,evo_deterministicmns_tests)pow_transitionandbitdequefuzz targets over a small random corpustest/functional/test_runner.py p2p_headers_sync_with_minchainwork.py p2p_initial_headers_sync.py p2p_sendheaders.py p2p_sendheaders_compressed.py p2p_invalid_messages.py p2p_compactblocks.py p2p_unrequested_blocks.py p2p_dos_header_tree.py rpc_blockchain.py rpc_net.pytest/lint/lint-whitespace.py,lint-circular-dependencies.py,lint-includes.py,lint-files.pyBreaking Changes
None. P2P behavior changes for low-work headers chains only: instead of storing them unbounded, they go through the presync/redownload commitment scheme. getpeerinfo gains an optional
presynced_headersfield.Checklist:
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