zebra/zebra-chain/src/work/equihash.rs

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Rust

//! Equihash Solution and related items.
use std::{fmt, io};
use serde_big_array::BigArray;
use crate::{
block::Header,
serialization::{
zcash_serialize_bytes, SerializationError, ZcashDeserialize, ZcashDeserializeInto,
ZcashSerialize,
},
};
#[cfg(feature = "internal-miner")]
use crate::serialization::AtLeastOne;
/// The error type for Equihash validation.
#[non_exhaustive]
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
#[error("invalid equihash solution for BlockHeader")]
pub struct Error(#[from] equihash::Error);
/// The error type for Equihash solving.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq, thiserror::Error)]
#[error("solver was cancelled")]
pub struct SolverCancelled;
/// The size of an Equihash solution in bytes (always 1344).
pub(crate) const SOLUTION_SIZE: usize = 1344;
/// Equihash Solution in compressed format.
///
/// A wrapper around [u8; 1344] because Rust doesn't implement common
/// traits like `Debug`, `Clone`, etc for collections like array
/// beyond lengths 0 to 32.
///
/// The size of an Equihash solution in bytes is always 1344 so the
/// length of this type is fixed.
#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
pub struct Solution(#[serde(with = "BigArray")] pub [u8; SOLUTION_SIZE]);
impl Solution {
/// The length of the portion of the header used as input when verifying
/// equihash solutions, in bytes.
///
/// Excludes the 32-byte nonce, which is passed as a separate argument
/// to the verification function.
pub const INPUT_LENGTH: usize = 4 + 32 * 3 + 4 * 2;
/// Returns `Ok(())` if `EquihashSolution` is valid for `header`
#[allow(clippy::unwrap_in_result)]
pub fn check(&self, header: &Header) -> Result<(), Error> {
let n = 200;
let k = 9;
let nonce = &header.nonce;
let solution = &self.0;
let mut input = Vec::new();
header
.zcash_serialize(&mut input)
.expect("serialization into a vec can't fail");
// The part of the header before the nonce and solution.
// This data is kept constant during solver runs, so the verifier API takes it separately.
let input = &input[0..Solution::INPUT_LENGTH];
equihash::is_valid_solution(n, k, input, nonce.as_ref(), solution)?;
Ok(())
}
/// Returns a [`Solution`] containing the bytes from `solution`.
/// Returns an error if `solution` is the wrong length.
pub fn from_bytes(solution: &[u8]) -> Result<Self, SerializationError> {
if solution.len() != SOLUTION_SIZE {
return Err(SerializationError::Parse(
"incorrect equihash solution size",
));
}
let mut bytes = [0; SOLUTION_SIZE];
// Won't panic, because we just checked the length.
bytes.copy_from_slice(solution);
Ok(Self(bytes))
}
/// Returns a [`Solution`] of `[0; SOLUTION_SIZE]` to be used in block proposals.
#[cfg(feature = "getblocktemplate-rpcs")]
pub fn for_proposal() -> Self {
Self([0; SOLUTION_SIZE])
}
/// Mines and returns one or more [`Solution`]s based on a template `header`.
/// The returned header contains a valid `nonce` and `solution`.
///
/// If `cancel_fn()` returns an error, returns early with `Err(SolverCancelled)`.
///
/// The `nonce` in the header template is taken as the starting nonce. If you are running multiple
/// solvers at the same time, start them with different nonces.
/// The `solution` in the header template is ignored.
///
/// This method is CPU and memory-intensive. It uses 144 MB of RAM and one CPU core while running.
/// It can run for minutes or hours if the network difficulty is high.
#[cfg(feature = "internal-miner")]
#[allow(clippy::unwrap_in_result)]
pub fn solve<F>(
mut header: Header,
mut cancel_fn: F,
) -> Result<AtLeastOne<Header>, SolverCancelled>
where
F: FnMut() -> Result<(), SolverCancelled>,
{
use crate::shutdown::is_shutting_down;
let mut input = Vec::new();
header
.zcash_serialize(&mut input)
.expect("serialization into a vec can't fail");
// Take the part of the header before the nonce and solution.
// This data is kept constant for this solver run.
let input = &input[0..Solution::INPUT_LENGTH];
while !is_shutting_down() {
// Don't run the solver if we'd just cancel it anyway.
cancel_fn()?;
let solutions = equihash_solver::tromp::solve_200_9_compressed(input, || {
// Cancel the solver if we have a new template.
if cancel_fn().is_err() {
return None;
}
// This skips the first nonce, which doesn't matter in practice.
Self::next_nonce(&mut header.nonce);
Some(*header.nonce)
});
let mut valid_solutions = Vec::new();
// If we got any solutions, try submitting them, because the new template might just
// contain some extra transactions. Mining extra transactions is optional.
for solution in &solutions {
header.solution = Self::from_bytes(solution)
.expect("unexpected invalid solution: incorrect length");
// TODO: work out why we sometimes get invalid solutions here
if let Err(error) = header.solution.check(&header) {
info!(?error, "found invalid solution for header");
continue;
}
if Self::difficulty_is_valid(&header) {
valid_solutions.push(header);
}
}
match valid_solutions.try_into() {
Ok(at_least_one_solution) => return Ok(at_least_one_solution),
Err(_is_empty_error) => debug!(
solutions = ?solutions.len(),
"found valid solutions which did not pass the validity or difficulty checks"
),
}
}
Err(SolverCancelled)
}
/// Modifies `nonce` to be the next integer in big-endian order.
/// Wraps to zero if the next nonce would overflow.
#[cfg(feature = "internal-miner")]
fn next_nonce(nonce: &mut [u8; 32]) {
let _ignore_overflow = crate::primitives::byte_array::increment_big_endian(&mut nonce[..]);
}
/// Returns `true` if the `nonce` and `solution` in `header` meet the difficulty threshold.
///
/// Assumes that the difficulty threshold in the header is valid.
#[cfg(feature = "internal-miner")]
fn difficulty_is_valid(header: &Header) -> bool {
// Simplified from zebra_consensus::block::check::difficulty_is_valid().
let difficulty_threshold = header
.difficulty_threshold
.to_expanded()
.expect("unexpected invalid header template: invalid difficulty threshold");
// TODO: avoid calculating this hash multiple times
let hash = header.hash();
// Note: this comparison is a u256 integer comparison, like zcashd and bitcoin. Greater
// values represent *less* work.
hash <= difficulty_threshold
}
}
impl PartialEq<Solution> for Solution {
fn eq(&self, other: &Solution) -> bool {
self.0.as_ref() == other.0.as_ref()
}
}
impl fmt::Debug for Solution {
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
f.debug_tuple("EquihashSolution")
.field(&hex::encode(&self.0[..]))
.finish()
}
}
// These impls all only exist because of array length restrictions.
impl Copy for Solution {}
impl Clone for Solution {
fn clone(&self) -> Self {
*self
}
}
impl Eq for Solution {}
#[cfg(any(test, feature = "proptest-impl"))]
impl Default for Solution {
fn default() -> Self {
Self([0; SOLUTION_SIZE])
}
}
impl ZcashSerialize for Solution {
fn zcash_serialize<W: io::Write>(&self, writer: W) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
zcash_serialize_bytes(&self.0.to_vec(), writer)
}
}
impl ZcashDeserialize for Solution {
fn zcash_deserialize<R: io::Read>(mut reader: R) -> Result<Self, SerializationError> {
let solution: Vec<u8> = (&mut reader).zcash_deserialize_into()?;
Self::from_bytes(&solution)
}
}