In order to prevent memory DoS, we must ensure that we don't accept a new
header into memory until we've performed anti-DoS checks, such as verifying
that the header is part of a sufficiently high work chain. This commit adds a
new argument to AcceptBlockHeader() so that we can ensure that all call-sites
which might cause a new header to be accepted into memory have to grapple with
the question of whether the header is safe to accept, or needs further
validation.
This patch also fixes two places where low-difficulty-headers could have been
processed without such validation (processing an unrequested block from the
network, and processing a compact block).
Credit to Niklas Gögge for noticing this issue, and thanks to Sjors Provoost
for test code.
Warning: Replacing fs::system_complete calls with fs::absolute calls
in this commit may cause minor changes in behaviour because fs::absolute
no longer strips trailing slashes; however these changes are believed to
be safe.
Co-authored-by: Russell Yanofsky <russ@yanofsky.org>
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
11daf6ceb1 More Span simplifications (Pieter Wuille)
568dd2f839 Replace MakeSpan helper with Span deduction guide (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
C++17 supports [user-defined deduction guides](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/class_template_argument_deduction), allowing class constructors to be invoked without specifying class template arguments. Instead, the code can contain rules to infer the template arguments from the constructor argument types.
This alleviates the need for the `MakeSpan` helper. Convert the existing MakeSpan rules into deduction rules for `Span` itself, and replace all invocations of `MakeSpan` with just `Span` ones.
ACKs for top commit:
MarcoFalke:
re-ACK 11daf6ceb1 Only change is removing a hunk in the tests 🌕
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