UTXO requests during transaction input verification can time out because:
1. The block that creates the UTXO is queued for download or verify, but
it hasn't been committed yet. The creating block might spend UTXOs
that come from other recent blocks, so UTXO verification can depend on
a (non-contiguous) sequence of block verifications.
In this case, Zebra should wait for additional block download and
verify tasks to complete.
2. The block that creates the UTXO isn't queued for download. This can
happen because the block is gossiped block that's much higher than the
current tip, or because a peer sent the syncer a bad list of block
hashes.
In this case, Zebra should discard the timed out block, and restart
the sync.
We need to choose a timeout that balances these two cases, so we time
out after 180 seconds.
Assuming Zebra can download at least 1 MB per second, 180 seconds is
enough time to download a few hundred blocks. So Zebra should be able to
download and verify the next block before the UTXOs that it creates time
out. (Since Zebra has already verified all the blocks before the next
block, its UTXO requests should return immediately.)
Even if some peers time out downloads, a block can only be pending
download for 80 seconds (4 retries * 20 second timeout) before the
download fails. So the UTXO timeout doesn't need to be much larger than
this overall download timeout - because the download timeout will happen
first on slow networks.
Alternately, if the download for the creating block was never queued,
Zebra should timeout as soon as possible - so it can restart the sync
and download the creating block.
As a side-effect, a lower UTXO timeout also makes it slightly easier to
debug UTXO issues, because unsatisfiable queries fail faster.
The state service API says explicitly that AwaitUTXO requests should be coupled
with a timeout layer. I didn't add this when I was testing and fixing the UTXO
lookup code (#1348, #1358) because causing zebrad to hang on a failed
dependency was useful for identifying cases where the code wasn't useful (and
then inspecting execution traces).
As a side effect, this ticket resolves most of the hangs in #1389, because
far-future gossiped blocks will have their UTXO lookups time out, though we
may wish to do other work as part of debugging the combined sync+gossip logic.
This commit changes the state system and database format to track the
provenance of UTXOs, in addition to the outputs themselves.
Specifically, it tracks the following additional metadata:
- the height at which the UTXO was created;
- whether or not the UTXO was created from a coinbase transaction or
not.
This metadata will allow us to:
- check the coinbase maturity consensus rule;
- check the coinbase inputs => no transparent outputs rule;
- implement lookup of transactions by utxo (using the height to find the
block and then scanning the block) for a future RPC mechanism.
Closes#1342
The UTXO query system assumes that a transaction will only request
information about UTXOs created in prior blocks. But transactions are
allowed to spend UTXOs created by prior transactions in the same block.
This doesn't fit with the existing query model, so instead of trying to
change it, allow the script verifier to take an additional set of known
UTXOs, and propagate this set from the block.
This reduces the API surface to the minimum required for functionality,
and cleans up module documentation. The stub mempool module is deleted
entirely, since it will need to be redone later anyways.
This commit begins the process of integrating `zcash_script` with the rest of the system for verifying scripts while syncing the block chain. It does so by adding the necessary support for looking up UTXOs from the state service and implements the first parts of the `script::Verifier` for looking up the necessary UTXOs in the state and then generating the necessary call to `zcash_script` to verify the script itself.
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
* Flatten consensus::verify::* to consensus::*
* Move consensus::*::tests into their own files
* Move CheckpointList into its own file
* Move Progress and Target into a types module
QueuedBlock and QueuedBlockList can stay in checkpoint.rs, because
they are tightly coupled to CheckpointVerifier.
teor
Henry de Valence
Henry de Valence
Jane Lusby
Jane Lusby