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Do not send (potentially) invalid headers in response to getheaders
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Nowhere else in the protocol do we send headers which are for
blocks we have not fully validated except in response to getheaders
messages with a null locator. On my public node I have not seen any
such request (whether for an invalid block or not) in at least two
years of debug.log output, indicating that this should have minimal
impact.
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TheBlueMatt committed Oct 30, 2017
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22 changes: 9 additions & 13 deletions src/net_processing.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -755,11 +755,13 @@ void Misbehaving(NodeId pnode, int howmuch)

// To prevent fingerprinting attacks, only send blocks/headers outside of the
// active chain if they are no more than a month older (both in time, and in
// best equivalent proof of work) than the best header chain we know about.
static bool StaleBlockRequestAllowed(const CBlockIndex* pindex, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams)
// best equivalent proof of work) than the best header chain we know about and
// we fully-validated them at some point.
static bool BlockRequestAllowed(const CBlockIndex* pindex, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams)
{
AssertLockHeld(cs_main);
return (pindexBestHeader != nullptr) &&
if (chainActive.Contains(pindex)) return true;
return pindex->IsValid(BLOCK_VALID_SCRIPTS) && (pindexBestHeader != nullptr) &&
(pindexBestHeader->GetBlockTime() - pindex->GetBlockTime() < STALE_RELAY_AGE_LIMIT) &&
(GetBlockProofEquivalentTime(*pindexBestHeader, *pindex, *pindexBestHeader, consensusParams) < STALE_RELAY_AGE_LIMIT);
}
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CValidationState dummy;
ActivateBestChain(dummy, Params(), a_recent_block);
}
if (chainActive.Contains(mi->second)) {
send = true;
} else {
send = mi->second->IsValid(BLOCK_VALID_SCRIPTS) &&
StaleBlockRequestAllowed(mi->second, consensusParams);
if (!send) {
LogPrintf("%s: ignoring request from peer=%i for old block that isn't in the main chain\n", __func__, pfrom->GetId());
}
send = BlockRequestAllowed(mi->second, consensusParams);
if (!send) {
LogPrintf("%s: ignoring request from peer=%i for old block that isn't in the main chain\n", __func__, pfrom->GetId());
}
}
// disconnect node in case we have reached the outbound limit for serving historical blocks
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return true;
pindex = (*mi).second;

if (!chainActive.Contains(pindex) &&
!StaleBlockRequestAllowed(pindex, chainparams.GetConsensus())) {
if (!BlockRequestAllowed(pindex, chainparams.GetConsensus())) {
LogPrintf("%s: ignoring request from peer=%i for old block header that isn't in the main chain\n", __func__, pfrom->GetId());
return true;
}
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