blockchain: make the BIP30 duplicate coinbases independent of the batch partition - #696
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Blocks 91842 and 91880 each re-create a coinbase output an earlier block created and that nobody ever spent. What KTH does with them is decided by where a UTXO batch boundary happens to fall: inside one batch the older entry silently survives, across two the store is handed an insert over a live key and the node stops. Neither is the consensus result and they disagree with each other. These three controls say what has to hold instead, and they are red here. The authorized duplicate must leave the NEW entry, matching BCHN's AddCoin, which assigns over the live coin for any coinbase. An unauthorized duplicate must be refused rather than dropped. And the entry a replacement displaces must be kept, because undo has nowhere else to find it: the original is never spent, so it is in no deletes list, and when both blocks share a batch it was never published to the store. Two declarations come with them, so the properties can be stated at all: merge now reports what it concluded, and the batch can be asked what a replacement displaced. Both still answer as before -- the behaviour is unchanged in this commit. Refs #695
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participant block_tasks
participant process_compact_block_utxos
participant is_bip30_exception
participant utxo_raw_delta
participant UTXO_store
block_tasks->>process_compact_block_utxos: Pass block hash and network
process_compact_block_utxos->>is_bip30_exception: Check checkpoint and network
is_bip30_exception-->>process_compact_block_utxos: Return exception status
process_compact_block_utxos->>utxo_raw_delta: Authorize exception coinbase replacements
block_tasks->>utxo_raw_delta: Merge block delta
utxo_raw_delta-->>block_tasks: Return merge status
block_tasks->>UTXO_store: Withdraw authorized replacements
UTXO_store-->>block_tasks: Return withdrawal results
block_tasks->>UTXO_store: Insert new UTXOs
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…collision
A key a block re-creates over one the batch already holds is either the
thing BIP30 grandfathers for exactly two mainnet blocks, or a consensus
violation. A merge looking at a hash map cannot tell those apart, so it
must not be the one deciding: the authorization is read from
is_bip30_exception -- the function the rule already uses -- over the
block's own {hash, height}, and travels with the operation from there.
The merge decides before it touches anything. One pass to find a
collision this block is not licensed to make, which returns with the
batch exactly as it was; a second to apply, which cannot fail. That also
keeps the result off the iteration order of unordered_flat_map, which
would otherwise pick a winner among several collisions.
The caller acts on the answer. Refusing quietly would drop the block from
the batch and leave a UTXO set missing its outputs, which is worse than
stopping, so it joins the other local disagreements that end the build.
is_bip30_exception moves from internal linkage in chain_state.cpp to the
installed header. It is the same definition over the same checkpoints; a
second list of hashes and heights is a second thing to get wrong.
Refs #695
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The licence existed but nothing in production ever granted one: only the
tests filled authorized_replacements, so the merge would have refused the
two grandfathered blocks exactly as it refuses a violation. The tests
passed and the node would still have stopped.
process_compact_block_utxos now asks is_bip30_exception about the block it
is given, by the identity the rule uses -- the {hash, height} pair, both
halves -- and licenses the outputs of its coinbase. Only the coinbase: the
exception is about a duplicated coinbase transaction, so an ordinary
output of the same block gets nothing, and neither does any other block.
That means the function needs the block's hash and the network, which the
build task already has.
merge carries the licence into the accumulated batch, because whatever
applies that batch has to tell a replacement from a plain insert -- the
store already holds what a replacement displaces. clear() drops it, so a
licence cannot outlive the delta it was granted for and authorize
something in whatever batch reuses the object.
Four controls go through the production constructor rather than a
hand-built delta, which is what would otherwise hide this: one coinbase
and one ordinary output in the same exceptional block, the right hash at
the wrong height, the right height with another block's hash, and a
cleared batch refusing the collision it had just accepted.
Refs #695
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In `@src/node/src/sync/block_tasks.cpp`:
- Around line 2214-2220: Preserve authorized replacement metadata and displaced
UTXO state through commit: update the apply path around apply_utxo_inserts_raw
and delta.merge to pass explicit authorized replacement operations, ensuring
cross-batch BIP30 duplicates are distinguished from ordinary inserts. Update
capture_block_undo to record the live entry displaced by each authorized
replacement before overwrite, so disconnect restores it; add an end-to-end
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…p it Across a batch boundary the store already holds the entry the duplicate block overwrites, and it refuses to write over a live key -- which is how this half of the defect ends, with the node stopping. The replacement now withdraws that entry first, so the insert lands on an absent key exactly like every other one. The withdrawal is a real mutation and sits where one belongs: after the transition record is durable, inside the write window, past mark_mutating(). A failure between the withdrawal and the insert leaves through the window's destructor and latches the gate, which is the one outcome that must not read as accepted. What is withdrawn is kept. capture_block_undo takes the previous value before anything is folded in or applied, asking the batch before the store -- when the original and the duplicate share a batch the entry was created by an earlier block of that batch and has not been published yet, so the store would truthfully say it does not have it. Absence is not corruption: an exception block whose output the set does not already hold is an authorized insert with nothing to overwrite, and the disconnect then simply removes what the block created. Disconnect reads the replacement rather than recording one. A key the block created that the undo also carries a previous value for can only be this: capture_block_undo records what a block SPENDS, and an output created and spent inside one block is netted out before it can be recorded, because process_compact_block_utxos inserts every output of the block before it examines any input. So the undo format is unchanged, and that key is restored instead of deleted. Refs #695
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…ntry The withdrawal looked only at `unresolved`, and three of the four things deletion_progress reports can be true with that list empty. A store that answers recovery_required has latched and will write nothing further, yet the check saw an empty list and carried on to insert over a key that was never withdrawn -- the one state a replacement must never reach. Each part now has a stated meaning. A store error is fatal with its category kept, because recovery_required and a read fault are different instructions to whoever is looking at the node. Unresolved is fatal too: the deletion batch resends those, but this withdrawal is the first half of a replace and the insert cannot run while the old entry is still there. Absent is the expected answer rather than a fault -- an exception block whose output the set does not already hold is an authorized insert with nothing to overwrite. Erased says what was actually mutated, which is what a recovery has to reconcile against the undo record. Refs #695
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In `@src/blockchain/include/kth/blockchain/utxo_builder.hpp`:
- Around line 276-283: The replacement-entry handling in capture_block_undo must
resolve deferred find_utxo_raw results before treating them as absent. When the
result is not_resolved, use the existing utxo_resolve_raw path for the
replacement key and append any resolved entry to undo.spent; only accept absence
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find_utxo_raw answering not_resolved does not mean the key is absent. It means the ACTIVE versions cannot say, and the entry a BIP30 replacement displaces may well be in an older generation -- the capture was treating that as "nothing to keep", which loses the only copy of the value and leaves the disconnect deleting the key instead of restoring it. Those keys now go through utxo_resolve_raw, the same path a spent output takes. What differs is the reading of absence afterwards: for a spent output it means the set and the delta disagree and the capture fails, while for a replacement it is ordinary -- an authorized insert with nothing to overwrite. Every other error still propagates. Also corrects the comment over the withdrawal's result handling, which claimed the insert must not run on any of the three parts that can be non-empty with `unresolved` empty. `absent` is one of them and the insert does continue: it is an authorized insert with nothing to displace. Refs #695
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Fixes #695.
What KTH does with the two BIP30 duplicate coinbases is decided by where a UTXO batch boundary happens to fall: inside one batch the older entry silently survives, across two the store is handed an insert over a live key and the node stops. Neither is the consensus result, and they disagree with each other.
What the correct result is
From BCHN, vendored here at
src/consensus/src/bch-rules/coins.cpp:130:AddCointhrows when an unauthorized add would replace a live entry, and otherwise assigns. The new output wins, with the new height.The change so far
The authorization rides with the operation.
is_bip30_exception— the function the consensus rule already uses — is now declared inchain_state.hppand read where a block's delta is built, over that block's own{hash, height}. The keys it licenses go intoutxo_raw_delta::authorized_replacements. No second list of hashes or heights exists, and the merge never concludes "this must have been BIP30" from a collision.mergeis transactional and order-independent. Two passes: the first decides and touches nothing, the second applies and cannot fail. An unauthorized duplicate is reported with the batch left exactly as it was, and the answer cannot depend on which colliding keyunordered_flat_mapreaches first.The caller acts on it.
utxo_build_tasktreats an unauthorized duplicate as fatal, alongside the other local non-retryable disagreements. Without that the block would be silently dropped from the batch — a UTXO set quietly missing a block's outputs, which is worse than a stop.Production wiring
The licence existed but nothing in production granted one: only the tests filled
authorized_replacements, so the merge would have refused the two grandfathered blocks exactly as it refuses a violation — tests green, node still stopping. That is fixed:process_compact_block_utxos— the same functionutxo_build_taskcalls — now asksis_bip30_exceptionabout the block it is given, by the pair, and licenses its coinbase outputs only.mergecarries the licence into the accumulated batch, since whatever applies that batch has to tell a replacement from a plain insert.clear()drops it.Four controls go through that constructor rather than a hand-built delta, which is what would otherwise hide the hole.
Mutations
inserts.emplace(...)Nine cases, 46 assertions. Suites: blockchain 370 / 5554, node 339 / 7205.
Undo, without a format change
replaced_entry(key)was removed from the design. It was the wrong shape: keyed on the batch, it would let any block's disconnect consume a value that belongs to one specific block.capture_block_undoalready runs per block and before the merge (block_tasks.cpp:2176vs:2206), so at that moment the batch still holds the entry about to be displaced — that is where it has to be recorded, into that block's own undo.On disconnect,
inverse.deletesholds the key the duplicate block created andinverse.insertsholds the restored previous entry — andapply_inserts_rawruns first while the deletes are applied at the end of the rewind, so deleting it would remove what the restore just put back. That key is therefore not deleted at all.No marker was added to the undo format, because the overlap is unambiguous on its own:
capture_block_undorecords the previous value of what a block spends, and an output created and spent inside one block is netted out of the delta before it can be recorded —process_compact_block_utxosinserts every output of the block before it examines any input, so the pairing does not depend on the transaction order, which CTOR does not fix. A key in both sets can only be a BIP30 replacement.{hash, height}pair, reusing the existing functionmergetransactional, no dependence on hash-table iteration orderemplacered; mutation "everything is a replacement" redclear()leaves no residual licencemark_mutating()deletion_progressacted on:errorandunresolvedstop the insert,absentis a valid authorized insert with nothing to displace,erasedrecords the mutationAPI and ABI
Worth stating plainly, whatever we decide about it:
src/blockchain/include/kth/blockchain/utxo_builder.hppis installed (src/blockchain/CMakeLists.txt:504installs the wholeinclude/tree), so everything below is visible to consumers.utxo_raw_delta::mergechanges signature:void→delta_merge_result. Source-compatible for callers that ignore the result, but a breaking ABI change — the mangled name changes and any consumer linking against the old symbol fails.utxo_raw_deltagrows a member (authorized_replacements), changing its size and layout. Anything that allocated or embedded it must be rebuilt.delta_merge_resultis a new public enum.kth::domain::chain::is_bip30_exceptionis a new exported symbol in the installedchain_state.hpp; the definition moved from internal linkage, it was not duplicated.No change to UTXO-Z, no general upsert, no batch alignment.
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