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// Copyright (c) 2020 The Bitcoin Core developers// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.#ifndef BITCOIN_TXREQUEST_H#define BITCOIN_TXREQUEST_H#include <primitives/transaction.h>#include <net.h> // For NodeId#include <uint256.h>#include <chrono>#include <vector>#include <stdint.h>/** Data structure to keep track of, and schedule, transaction downloads from peers. * * === Specification === * * We keep track of which peers have announced which transactions, and use that to determine which requests * should go to which peer, when, and in what order. * * The following information is tracked per peer/tx combination ("announcement"): * - Which peer announced it (through their NodeId) * - The txid or wtxid of the transaction (collectively called "txhash" in what follows) * - Whether it was a tx or wtx announcement (see BIP339). * - What the earliest permitted time is that that transaction can be requested from that peer (called "reqtime"). * - Whether it's from a "preferred" peer or not. Which announcements get this flag is determined by the caller, but *   this is designed for outbound peers, or other peers that we have a higher level of trust in. Even when the *   peers' preferredness changes, the preferred flag of existing announcements from that peer won't change. * - Whether or not the transaction was requested already, and if so, when it times out (called "expiry"). * - Whether or not the transaction request failed already (timed out, or invalid transaction or NOTFOUND was *   received). * * Transaction requests are then assigned to peers, following these rules: * * - No transaction is requested as long as another request for the same txhash is outstanding (it needs to fail *   first by passing expiry, or a NOTFOUND or invalid transaction has to be received for it). * *   Rationale: to avoid wasting bandwidth on multiple copies of the same transaction. Note that this only works *              per txhash, so if the same transaction is announced both through txid and wtxid, we have no means *              to prevent fetching both (the caller can however mitigate this by delaying one, see further). * * - The same transaction is never requested twice from the same peer, unless the announcement was forgotten in *   between, and re-announced. Announcements are forgotten only: *   - If a peer goes offline, all its announcements are forgotten. *   - If a transaction has been successfully received, or is otherwise no longer needed, the caller can call *     ForgetTxHash, which removes all announcements across all peers with the specified txhash. *   - If for a given txhash only already-failed announcements remain, they are all forgotten. * *   Rationale: giving a peer multiple chances to announce a transaction would allow them to bias requests in their *              favor, worsening transaction censoring attacks. The flip side is that as long as an attacker manages *              to prevent us from receiving a transaction, failed announcements (including those from honest peers) *              will linger longer, increasing memory usage somewhat. The impact of this is limited by imposing a *              cap on the number of tracked announcements per peer. As failed requests in response to announcements *              from honest peers should be rare, this almost solely hinders attackers. *              Transaction censoring attacks can be done by announcing transactions quickly while not answering *              requests for them. See https://allquantor.at/blockchainbib/pdf/miller2015topology.pdf for more *              information. * * - Transactions are not requested from a peer until its reqtime has passed. * *   Rationale: enable the calling code to define a delay for less-than-ideal peers, so that (presumed) better *              peers have a chance to give their announcement first. * * - If multiple viable candidate peers exist according to the above rules, pick a peer as follows: * *   - If any preferred peers are available, non-preferred peers are not considered for what follows. * *     Rationale: preferred peers are more trusted by us, so are less likely to be under attacker control. * *   - Pick a uniformly random peer among the candidates. * *     Rationale: random assignments are hard to influence for attackers. * * Together these rules strike a balance between being fast in non-adverserial conditions and minimizing * susceptibility to censorship attacks. An attacker that races the network: * - Will be unsuccessful if all preferred connections are honest (and there is at least one preferred connection). * - If there are P preferred connections of which Ph>=1 are honest, the attacker can delay us from learning *   about a transaction by k expiration periods, where k ~ 1 + NHG(N=P-1,K=P-Ph-1,r=1), which has mean *   P/(Ph+1) (where NHG stands for Negative Hypergeometric distribution). The "1 +" is due to the fact that the *   attacker can be the first to announce through a preferred connection in this scenario, which very likely means *   they get the first request. * - If all P preferred connections are to the attacker, and there are NP non-preferred connections of which NPh>=1 *   are honest, where we assume that the attacker can disconnect and reconnect those connections, the distribution *   becomes k ~ P + NB(p=1-NPh/NP,r=1) (where NB stands for Negative Binomial distribution), which has mean *   P-1+NP/NPh. * * Complexity: * - Memory usage is proportional to the total number of tracked announcements (Size()) plus the number of *   peers with a nonzero number of tracked announcements. * - CPU usage is generally logarithmic in the total number of tracked announcements, plus the number of *   announcements affected by an operation (amortized O(1) per announcement). */class TxRequestTracker {    // Avoid littering this header file with implementation details.    class Impl;    const std::unique_ptr<Impl> m_impl;public:    //! Construct a TxRequestTracker.    explicit TxRequestTracker(bool deterministic = false);    ~TxRequestTracker();    // Conceptually, the data structure consists of a collection of "announcements", one for each peer/txhash    // combination:    //    // - CANDIDATE announcements represent transactions that were announced by a peer, and that become available for    //   download after their reqtime has passed.    //    // - REQUESTED announcements represent transactions that have been requested, and which we're awaiting a    //   response for from that peer. Their expiry value determines when the request times out.    //    // - COMPLETED announcements represent transactions that have been requested from a peer, and a NOTFOUND or a    //   transaction was received in response (valid or not), or they timed out. They're only kept around to    //   prevent requesting them again. If only COMPLETED announcements for a given txhash remain (so no CANDIDATE    //   or REQUESTED ones), all of them are deleted (this is an invariant, and maintained by all operations below).    //    // The operations below manipulate the data structure.    /** Adds a new CANDIDATE announcement.     *     * Does nothing if one already exists for that (txhash, peer) combination (whether it's CANDIDATE, REQUESTED, or     * COMPLETED). Note that the txid/wtxid property is ignored for determining uniqueness, so if an announcement     * is added for a wtxid H, while one for txid H from the same peer already exists, it will be ignored. This is     * harmless as the txhashes being equal implies it is a non-segwit transaction, so it doesn't matter how it is     * fetched. The new announcement is given the specified preferred and reqtime values, and takes its is_wtxid     * from the specified gtxid.     */    void ReceivedInv(NodeId peer, const GenTxid& gtxid, bool preferred,        std::chrono::microseconds reqtime);    /** Deletes all announcements for a given peer.     *     * It should be called when a peer goes offline.     */    void DisconnectedPeer(NodeId peer);    /** Deletes all announcements for a given txhash (both txid and wtxid ones).     *     * This should be called when a transaction is no longer needed. The caller should ensure that new announcements     * for the same txhash will not trigger new ReceivedInv calls, at least in the short term after this call.     */    void ForgetTxHash(const uint256& txhash);    /** Find the txids to request now from peer.     *     * It does the following:     *  - Convert all REQUESTED announcements (for all txhashes/peers) with (expiry <= now) to COMPLETED ones.     *    These are returned in expired, if non-nullptr.     *  - Requestable announcements are selected: CANDIDATE announcements from the specified peer with     *    (reqtime <= now) for which no existing REQUESTED announcement with the same txhash from a different peer     *    exists, and for which the specified peer is the best choice among all (reqtime <= now) CANDIDATE     *    announcements with the same txhash (subject to preferredness rules, and tiebreaking using a deterministic     *    salted hash of peer and txhash).     *  - The selected announcements are converted to GenTxids using their is_wtxid flag, and returned in     *    announcement order (even if multiple were added at the same time, or when the clock went backwards while     *    they were being added). This is done to minimize disruption from dependent transactions being requested     *    out of order: if multiple dependent transactions are announced simultaneously by one peer, and end up     *    being requested from them, the requests will happen in announcement order.     */    std::vector<GenTxid> GetRequestable(NodeId peer, std::chrono::microseconds now,        std::vector<std::pair<NodeId, GenTxid>>* expired = nullptr);    /** Marks a transaction as requested, with a specified expiry.     *     * If no CANDIDATE announcement for the provided peer and txhash exists, this call has no effect. Otherwise:     *  - That announcement is converted to REQUESTED.     *  - If any other REQUESTED announcement for the same txhash already existed, it means an unexpected request     *    was made (GetRequestable will never advise doing so). In this case it is converted to COMPLETED, as we're     *    no longer waiting for a response to it.     */    void RequestedTx(NodeId peer, const uint256& txhash, std::chrono::microseconds expiry);    /** Converts a CANDIDATE or REQUESTED announcement to a COMPLETED one. If no such announcement exists for the     *  provided peer and txhash, nothing happens.     *     * It should be called whenever a transaction or NOTFOUND was received from a peer. When the transaction is     * not needed entirely anymore, ForgetTxhash should be called instead of, or in addition to, this call.     */    void ReceivedResponse(NodeId peer, const uint256& txhash);    // The operations below inspect the data structure.    /** Count how many REQUESTED announcements a peer has. */    size_t CountInFlight(NodeId peer) const;    /** Count how many CANDIDATE announcements a peer has. */    size_t CountCandidates(NodeId peer) const;    /** Count how many announcements a peer has (REQUESTED, CANDIDATE, and COMPLETED combined). */    size_t Count(NodeId peer) const;    /** Count how many announcements are being tracked in total across all peers and transaction hashes. */    size_t Size() const;    /** Access to the internal priority computation (testing only) */    uint64_t ComputePriority(const uint256& txhash, NodeId peer, bool preferred) const;    /** Run internal consistency check (testing only). */    void SanityCheck() const;    /** Run a time-dependent internal consistency check (testing only).     *     * This can only be called immediately after GetRequestable, with the same 'now' parameter.     */    void PostGetRequestableSanityCheck(std::chrono::microseconds now) const;};#endif // BITCOIN_TXREQUEST_H