The rules have many issues:
* Most are redundant, because Python already has a built-in
IndentationError, a subclass of SyntaxError, to enforce whitespace.
* They are not enforced consistently anyway, see for examples [1][2]
below.
* They are stylistic rules where the author intentionally formatted the
code to be easier to read. Starting to enforce them now would make the
code harder to read and create frustration in the future.
Fix all issues by removing them.
[1]:
test/functional/feature_cltv.py:63:35: E272 [*] Multiple spaces before keyword
|
61 | # | Script to prepend to scriptSig | nSequence | nLockTime |
62 | # +-------------------------------------------------+------------+--------------+
63 | [[OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY], None, None],
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ E272
[2]:
contrib/asmap/asmap.py:395:13: E306 [*] Expected 1 blank line before a nested definition, found 0
|
393 | prefix.pop()
394 | hole = not fill and (lhole or rhole)
395 | def candidate(ctx: Optional[int], res0: Optional[list[ASNEntry]],
| ^^^ E306
Any kind of syntax error is already reported, so there is no need to
enumerate all possible types of syntax errors of ancient versions of
Python 2 or 3.
41051290ab cmake: Ignore build subdirectories within source directory (Hennadii Stepanov)
6ce50fd9d0 doc: Update for CMake-based build system (Hennadii Stepanov)
9730288a0c ci: Migrate CI scripts to CMake (Hennadii Stepanov)
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6522af62af depends: Amend handling flags environment variables (Hennadii Stepanov)
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Pull request description:
This PR introduces a new CMake-based build system, which is a drop-in replacement for the current Autotools-based build system.
ML announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/hgKkfQWzrTo
As discussed during the recent CoreDev meetup in April, the switch from Autotools to CMake is intended to happen as soon as possible after branching 28.x off, which means that 29.0 will be built using CMake.
This PR branch is essentially the [staging branch](https://github.com/hebasto/bitcoin/tree/cmake-staging), with every change reviewed and tested by a group of contributors, including (in alphabetical order):
- [**achow101**](https://github.com/achow101)
- [**fanquake**](https://github.com/fanquake)
- [**maflcko**](https://github.com/maflcko)
- [**m3dwards**](https://github.com/m3dwards)
- [**pablomartin4btc**](https://github.com/pablomartin4btc)
- [**real-or-random**](https://github.com/real-or-random)
- [**ryanofsky**](https://github.com/ryanofsky)
- [**sipsorcery**](https://github.com/sipsorcery)
- [**TheCharlatan**](https://github.com/TheCharlatan)
- [**theStack**](https://github.com/theStack)
- [**theuni**](https://github.com/theuni)
- [**vasild**](https://github.com/vasild)
Reviewing in a separate staging repo was suggested in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27060#issuecomment-1431798320.
The accompanying changes to the OSS-Fuzz project are available in https://github.com/hebasto/oss-fuzz/pull/8.
Please refer to the [build options parity table](https://gist.github.com/hebasto/2ef97d3a726bfce08ded9df07f7dab5e). The "auto" value is no longer available; non-default values must be specified explicitly. Additionally, the new default values have been chosen to suit the everyday build experience for the majority of developers.
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- MSBuild
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A note for Windows users: The default installation of the latest version of MSVC 17.10.4 includes both CMake 3.28.3 and the vcpkg package manager).
---
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Thank you all for your understanding.
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18d65d2772 test: use uint256::FromUserHex for RANDOM_CTX_SEED (stickies-v)
6819e5a329 node: use uint256::FromUserHex for -assumevalid parsing (stickies-v)
2e58fdb544 util: remove unused IsHexNumber (stickies-v)
8a44d7d3c1 node: use uint256::FromUserHex for -minimumchainwork parsing (stickies-v)
70e2c87737 refactor: add uint256::FromUserHex helper (stickies-v)
85b7cbfcbe test: unittest chainstatemanager_args (stickies-v)
Pull request description:
Since fad2991ba0, `uint256S` has been [deprecated](fad2991ba0 (diff-800776e2dda39116e889839f69409571a5d397de048a141da7e4003bc099e3e2R138)) because it is less robust than the `base_blob::FromHex()` introduced in [the same PR](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30482). Specifically, it tries to recover from length-mismatches, recover from untrimmed whitespace, 0x-prefix and garbage at the end, instead of simply requiring exactly 64 hex-only characters. _(see also #30532)_
This PR carves out the few `uint256S` callsites that may potentially prove a bit more controversial to change because they deal with user input and backwards incompatible behaviour change.
The main behaviour change introduced in this PR is:
- `-minimumchainwork` will raise an error when input is longer than 64 hex digits
- `-assumevalid` will raise an error when input contains invalid hex characters, or when it is longer than 64 hex digits
- test: the optional RANDOM_CTX_SEED env var will now cause tests to abort when it contains invalid hex characters, or when it is longer than 64 hex digits
After this PR, the remaining work to remove `uint256S` completely is almost entirely mechanical and/or test related. I will open that PR once #30560 is merged because it builds on that.
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fa5b58ea01 test: Avoid intermittent block download timeout in p2p_ibd_stalling (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Fixes#30704
The goal of the test is to check the stalling timeout, not the block download timeout.
On extremely slow hardware (for example qemu virtual hardware), downloading the 1023 blocks may take longer than the block download timeout.
Fix it by pinning the time using mocktime, and only advance it when testing the stalling timeout.
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e1d5dd732d test: check xor.dat recreated when missing (tdb3)
d1610962bf test: add null block xor key (tdb3)
1ad999b9da refactor: lift NUM_XOR_BYTES (tdb3)
d8399584dd refactor: move read_xor_key() to TestNode (tdb3)
d43948c3ef refactor: use unlink rather than os.remove (tdb3)
c8176f758b test: add blocks_key_path (tdb3)
Pull request description:
Builds on PR #30657.
Refactors `read_xor_key()` from `util.py` to `test_node.py` (comment https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30657#discussion_r1723358327)
Adds a check that `xor.dat` is created when missing (comment https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30657#discussion_r1717724161)
Help states:
```
-blocksxor
Whether an XOR-key applies to blocksdir *.dat files. The created XOR-key
will be zeros for an existing blocksdir or when `-blocksxor=0` is
set, and random for a freshly initialized blocksdir. (default: 1)
```
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fa5aeab3cb test: Avoid duplicate curl call in get_previous_releases.py (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Seems odd having to translate `404` to "Binary tag was not found". Also, it seems odd to write a for-loop over a list with one item.
Fix both issues by just using a single call to `curl --fail ...`.
Can be tested with: `test/get_previous_releases.py -b v99.99.99`
Before:
```
Releases directory: releases
Fetching: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-99.99.99/bitcoin-99.99.99-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 286k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
Binary tag was not found
```
After:
```
Releases directory: releases
Fetching: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-99.99.99/bitcoin-99.99.99-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 286k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
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Removes dependency on unsafe and deprecated uint256S.
This makes parsing more strict, by returning an error
when the input contains non-hex characters, or when it
contains more than 64 hex digits.
Also make feature_assumevalid.py more robust by using CBlock.hash
which is guaranteed to be 64 characters long, as opposed to the
variable-length hex(CBlock.sha256)
Removes dependency on unsafe and deprecated uint256S.
This makes parsing more strict, by returning an error
when the input contains more than 64 hex digits.
cccc5bfd35 test: Enable detect_leaks=1 in ASAN_OPTIONS explicitly (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
It should be enabled by default, but being explicit can't hurt.
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59ff17e5af miner: adjust clock to timewarp rule (Sjors Provoost)
e929054e12 Add timewarp attack mitigation test (Sjors Provoost)
e85f386c4b consensus: enable BIP94 on regtest (Sjors Provoost)
dd154b0568 consensus: lower regtest nPowTargetTimespan to 144 (Sjors Provoost)
Pull request description:
Because #30647 reduced the timewarp attack threshold from 7200s to 600s, our miner code will fail to propose a block template (on testnet4) if the last block of the previous period has a timestamp two hours in the future. This PR fixes that and also adds a test.
The non-test changes in the last commit should be in v28, otherwise miners have to patch it themselves. If necessary I can split that out into a separate PR, but I prefer to get the tests in as well.
In order to add the test, we activate BIP94 on regtest.
In order for the test to run faster, we reduce its difficulty retarget period to 144, the same number that's already used for softfork activation logic. Regtest does not actually adjust its difficulty, so this change has no effect (except for `getnetworkhashps`, see commit).
An alternative approach would be to run this test on testnet4, by hardcoding its first 2015 in the test suite. But since the timewarp mitigation is a serious candidate for a future mainnet softfork, it seems better to just deploy it on regtest.
The next commits add a test and fix the miner code.
The `MAX_TIMEWARP` constant is moved to `consensus.h` so both validation and miner code have access to it.
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917e70a620 test: assumeutxo: check that UTXO-querying RPCs operate on snapshot chainstate (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
Inspired by some manual testing I did for #28553, this PR checks that RPCs which explicitly query the UTXO set database (i.e. `gettxoutsetinfo`, `scantxoutset` and `gettxout`) operate on the snapshot chainstate as expected.
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This currently has no effect due to fPowNoRetargeting,
except for the getnetworkhashps when called with -1.
It will when the next commit enforces the timewarp attack mitigation on regtest.
77ff0ec1f1 contrib: support reading XORed blocks in linearize-data.py script (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
This PR is a small follow-up for #28052, adding support for the block linearization script to handle XORed blocksdir *.dat files. Note that if no xor.dat file exists, the XOR pattern is set to all-zeros, in order to still support blockdirs that have been created with versions earlier than 28.x.
Partly fixes issue #30599.
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6b2dcba076 wallet: List sqlite wallets with empty string name (Ava Chow)
3ddbdd1815 wallet: Ignore .bak files when listing wallet files (Ava Chow)
Pull request description:
When the default wallet is migrated, we do not rename the wallet so we end up having a descriptor wallet with the empty string as its name and the wallet.dat file in the root of the walletdir. This is supposed to be an unsupported configuration and there is no other way to achieve this (other than file copying), but the wallet loading code does not disallow loading such wallets. However `listwalletdir` does not currently list the default wallet if it is sqlite. This is confusing to users, so change `listwalletdir` to include these wallets.
Additionally, the migration of the default wallet, and of any plain wallet files in the walletdir, produces a backup file in the walletdir itself. Since these backups are a BDB file, `listwalletdir` will detect them as being another wallet that we could open, but this is erroneous and could lead to confusion and potentially funds loss if both the backup and the migrated wallet are in use simultaneously. To reduce the likelihood of this issue, don't list these wallets in `listwalletdir`.
***
Possibly we could have more stringent checks on loading to resolve these issues, but I'm concerned that that will just confuse users and gratuitously break things that already worked.
Since the original intent was to disallow default wallets for sqlite/descriptors, a possible alternative would be to prevent people from loading such wallets and change migration to rename those wallets. However, given that this behavior with migrating default wallets has existed since default wallet migration was fixed, I think that making such a change would be confusing and break things for no good reason. Although perhaps we should still do the renaming.
For the backups, we could also change loading to refuse to load any wallet named with `.bak` (or `.legacy.bak`) as such wallets can still be loaded by giving the path to them directly, which some users may do to "restore" the backup. However restricting what can be loaded based on filename seems a little heavyhanded. It wouldn't be funds loss though since the correct way to restore the backup is with `restorewallet`.
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00618e8745 assumeutxo: Drop block height from metadata (Fabian Jahr)
Pull request description:
Fixes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/30514 which has more context and shows how the issue can be reproduced. Since the value in question is removed, there is no test to add to reproduce anything.
This is an alternative approach to #30516 with much of the [code being suggested there](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30516#discussion_r1689146902).
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Although it is not explicitly possible to create a default wallet with
descriptors, it is possible to migrate a default wallet and have it end
up being a default wallet with descriptors. These wallets should be
listed by ListDatabases so that it appears in wallet directory listings
to avoid user confusion.
Migration creates backup files in the wallet directory with .bak as the
extension. This pollutes the output of listwalletdir with backup files
that most users should not need to care about.
6bfa26048d testnet: Add timewarp attack prevention for Testnet4 (Fabian Jahr)
0100907ca1 testnet: Add Testnet4 difficulty adjustment rules fix (Fabian Jahr)
74a04f9e7a testnet: Introduce Testnet4 (Fabian Jahr)
Pull request description:
To supplement the [ongoing conceptual discussion about a testnet reset](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/9bL00vRj7OU/m/9yCPo3uUBwAJ) I have drafted a move to v4 including a fix to the difficulty adjustment mechanism, which was part of the motivation that started the discussion.
Conceptual considerations:
- The conceptual discussion about doing a testnet4 or softforking the fix into testnet3 is outside of the scope of this PR and I would ask reviewers to contribute their opinions on this on the ML instead. However, I am happy to adapt this PR to a softfork change on testnet3 if there is consensus for that instead.
- The difficulty adjustment fix suggested here touches the `CalculateNextWorkRequired` function and uses the same logic used in `GetNextWorkRequired` to find the last previous block that was not mined with difficulty 1 under the exceptionf. An alternative fix briefly mentioned on the mailing list by Jameson Lopp would be to "restrict the special testnet minimum difficulty rule so that it can't be triggered on the block right before a difficulty retarget". That would also fix the issue but I find my suggestion here a bit more elegant.
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murchandamus:
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e9de0a76b9 doc: release note for 30212 (willcl-ark)
87b1880525 rpc: clarify ALREADY_IN_CHAIN rpc errors (willcl-ark)
Pull request description:
Closes: #19363
Renaming this error improves clarity around the returned error both internally and externally when a transactions' outputs are already found in the utxo set (`TransactionError::ALREADY_IN_CHAIN -> TransactionError::ALREADY_IN_UTXO_SET`)
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tdb3:
ACK e9de0a76b9
ismaelsadeeq:
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ryanofsky:
Code review ACK e9de0a76b9.
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fa895c7283 mingw: Document mode wbx workaround (MarcoFalke)
fa359255fe Add -blocksxor boolean option (MarcoFalke)
fa7f7ac040 Return XOR AutoFile from BlockManager::Open*File() (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Currently the *.dat files in the blocksdir store the data received from remote peers as-is. This may be problematic when a program other than Bitcoin Core tries to interpret them by accident. For example, an anti-virus program or other program may scan them and move them into quarantine, or delete them, or corrupt them. This may cause Bitcoin Core to fail a reorg, or fail to reply to block requests (via P2P, RPC, REST, ...).
Fix this, similar to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6650, by rolling a random XOR pattern over the dat files when writing or reading them.
Obviously this can only protect against programs that accidentally and unintentionally are trying to mess with the dat files. Any program that intentionally wants to mess with the dat files can still trivially do so.
The XOR pattern is only applied when the blocksdir is freshly created, and there is an option to disable it (on creation), so that people can disable it, if needed.
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achow101:
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TheCharlatan:
Re-ACK fa895c7283
hodlinator:
ACK fa895c7283
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