After initially being merged in #20487, it's no-longer clear that an
internal syscall sandboxing mechanism is something that Bitcoin Core
should have/maintain, especially when compared to better
maintained/supported alterantives, i.e firejail.
Note that given where it's used, the sandbox also gets dragged into the
kernel.
There is some related discussion in #24771.
This should not require any sort of deprecation, as this was only ever
an opt-in, experimental feature.
Closes#24771.
Cleaned up the init flow to make it more obvious when
the 'exit_status' value will and won't be returned.
This is because it was confusing that `AppInit` was
returning true under two different circumstances:
1) When bitcoind was launched only to retrieve the "-help"
or "-version" information. In this case, the app was
not initialized.
2) When the user triggers a shutdown. In this case,
the app was fully initialized.
It seems odd to return `EXIT_SUCCESS` when the node aborted
execution due a fatal internal error or any post-init problem
that triggers an unrequested shutdown.
e.g. blocks or coins db I/O errors, disconnect block failure,
failure during thread import (external blocks loading process
error), among others.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
Since the kernel library no longer depends on the system file, move it
to the common library instead in accordance to the diagram in
doc/design/libraries.md.
This is an extraction of ArgsManager related functions from util/system
into their own common file.
Config file related functions are moved to common/config.cpp.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager. The ArgsManager belongs
into the common library, since the kernel library should not depend on
it. See doc/design/libraries.md for more information on this rationale.
This is a minimal extraction of a single function, but also the only use
of std::exception in util/system.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager defined in system.h.
Moving the function out of system.h allows including it from a separate
source file without including the ArgsManager definitions from system.h.
Add common InitConfig function to deduplicate bitcoind and bitcoin-qt code
reading config files and creating the datadir.
There are a few minor changes in behavior:
- In bitcoin-qt, when there is a problem reading the configuration file, the
GUI error text has changed from "Error: Cannot parse configuration file:" to
"Error reading configuration file:" to be consistent with bitcoind.
- In bitcoind, when there is a problem reading the settings.json file, the
error text has changed from "Failed loading settings file" to "Settings
file could not be read" to be consistent with bitcoin-qt.
- In bitcoind, when there is a problem writing the settings.json file, the
error text has changed from "Failed saving settings file" to "Settings file
could not be written" to be consistent with bitcoin-qt.
- In bitcoin-qt, if there datadir is not accessible (e.g. no permission to read),
there is an normal error dialog showing "Error: filesystem error: status:
Permission denied [.../settings.json]", instead of an uncaught exception
Some InitError calls had trailing \n characters, causing double newlines in
error output. After this change InitError calls consistently output one newline
instead of two. Appearance of messages in the GUI does not seem to be affected.
Can be tested with:
src/bitcoind -regtest -datadir=noexist
src/qt/bitcoin-qt -regtest -datadir=noexist
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
git grep -l InitError src/ | xargs sed -i 's/\(InitError(.*\)\\n"/\1"/'
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
Most of the code in util/system.cpp that was hardcoded to use the global
ArgsManager instance `gArgs` has been changed to work with explicit ArgsManager
instances (for example in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20092). But a
few hardcoded references to `gArgs` remain. This commit removes the last ones
so these functions aren't reading or writing global state.
and also fix spelling in test/lint/lint-locale-dependence.py not caught by the
spelling linter and fix up a paragraph we are touching here in test/README.md.
Achieve this by adding a MAIN_FUNCTION macro, consolidating the docs, and
introducing the macro across our distributed binaries.
Also update the docs to explain that anyone using binutils < 2.36 is
effected by this issue. Release builds are not, because they use binutils
2.37. Currently LTS Linux distros, like Ubuntu Focal, ship with 2.34.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/binutils
...instead of explicitly calling init::{Set,Unset}Globals.
Cool thing about this is that in both the testing and bitcoin-chainstate
codepaths, we no longer need to explicitly unset globals. The
kernel::Context goes out of scope and the globals are unset
"automatically".
Also construct kernel::Context outside of AppInitSanityChecks()
Some uses of non-threadsafe `strerror` have snuck into the code since
they were removed in #4152. Add a wrapper `SysErrorString` for
thread-safe strerror alternatives and replace all uses of `strerror`
with this.
Consolidate to outputting the licensing info when we pass -version to a binary,
i.e bitcoind -version:
```bash
itcoin Core version v22.99.0-fc1f355913f6-dirty
Copyright (C) 2009-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit
<https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software.
The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.
This is experimental software.
Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING
or <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>
```
This adds a `-daemonwait` flag that does the same as `-daemon` except
it, from a user perspective, backgrounds the process only after
initialization is complete.
This can be useful when the process launching bitcoind wants to
guarantee that either the RPC server is running, or that initialization
failed, before continuing. The exit code indicates the initialization
result.
This replaces the use of the libc function `daemon()` by a custom
implementation which is inspired by the glibc implementation, but also
creates a pipe from the child to the parent process for communication.
An additional advantage of having our own `daemon()` implementation is
that no MACOS-specific pragmas are needed anymore to silence a
deprecation warning.
Replace the 200ms polling loop with a faster and more efficient waiting
operation.
This was tried a few times before, but given up every time because
solutions use a condition variable which is not safe for use in signals
as they need to be reentrant.
On UNIX-ish OSes, use a safe way: a pipe. When shutdown is requested
write a dummy byte to the pipe. Waiting for shutdown is a matter of a
blocking read from the pipe.
On Windows, there are no signals so using a condition variable is safe.
Adjusted version flag behavior in bitcoin-tx, bitcoin-wallet, and
bitcoind to match. Added functionality in gen-manpages.sh to warning when
attempting to generate man pages for binaries built from a dirty
branch.
Add AppInitInterfaces function so wallet chain and chain client interfaces are
created earlier during initialization. This is needed in the next commit to
allow the gui splash screen to be able to register for wallet events through a
dedicated WalletClient interface instead managing wallets indirectly through
the Node interface. This only works if the wallet client interface is created
before the splash screen needs to use it.
Persistent settings are used in followup PRs #15936 to unify gui settings
between bitcoin-qt and bitcoind, and #15937 to add a load_on_startup flag to
the loadwallet RPC and maintain a dynamic list of wallets that should be loaded
on startup that also can be shared between bitcoind and bitcoin-qt.
Don't require urlDecode function in wallet code since urlDecode implementation
currently uses libevent. Just call urlDecode indirectly though URL_DECODE
function pointer constant if available.
In bitcoind and bitcoin-qt, URL_DECODE is implemented and used to interpret RPC
wallet requests. In bitcoin-wallet, URL_DECODE is null to avoid depending on
libevent.
This is safe because MilliSleep is never executed in a boost::thread,
the only type of thread that is interruptible.
* The RPC server uses std::thread
* The wallet is either executed in an RPC thread or the main thread
* bitcoin-cli, benchmarks and tests are only one thread (the main thread)
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
sed -i --regexp-extended -e 's/MilliSleep\((\S+)\);/UninterruptibleSleep(std::chrono::milliseconds{\1});/g' $(git grep -l MilliSleep)
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
362ded410b Avoid using g_rpc_node global in wallet code (Russell Yanofsky)
8922d7f6b7 scripted-diff: Remove g_connman, g_banman globals (Russell Yanofsky)
e6f4f895d5 Pass NodeContext, ConnMan, BanMan references more places (Russell Yanofsky)
4d5448c76b MOVEONLY: Move NodeContext struct to node/context.h (Russell Yanofsky)
301bd41a2e scripted-diff: Rename InitInterfaces to NodeContext (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
This change is mainly a naming / organization change intended to simplify #10102. It:
- Renames struct InitInterfaces to struct NodeContext and moves it from
src/init.h to src/node/context.h. This is a cosmetic change intended to make
the point of the struct more obvious.
- Gets rid of BanMan and ConnMan globals making them NodeContext members
instead. Getting rid of these globals has been talked about in past as a way
to implement testing and simulations. Making them NodeContext members is a
way of keeping them accessible without the globals.
- Splits g_rpc_interfaces global into g_rpc_node and g_rpc_chain globals. This
better separates node and wallet rpc methods. Node RPC methods should have
access NodeContext, while wallet RPC methods should only have indirect access
to node functionality via interfaces::Chain.
- Adds NodeContext& references to interfaces::Chain class and the
interfaces::MakeChain() function. This is needed to access ConnMan and BanMan
instances without the globals.
- Gets rid of redundant Node and Chain instances in Qt tests. This is
needed due to the previous MakeChain change, and also makes test setup a
little more straightforward. More cleanup could be done in the future, but it
will require deduplication of bitcoind, bitcoin-qt, and TestingSetup init
code.
ACKs for top commit:
laanwj:
ACK 362ded410b
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3bf9d8cac0 Testchains: Qt: Simplify network/chain styles (Jorge Timón)
052c54ecb0 Testchains: Generic selection with -chain=<str> in addition of -testnet and -regtest (Jorge Timón)
Pull request description:
Separated from #8994 as suggested by MarcoFalke and Sjors in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8994#issuecomment-522555390
You can't really test the qt changes on their own, so to test them, use #8994 .
ACKs for top commit:
MarcoFalke:
ACK 3bf9d8cac0
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