The policy update logic that resided part in the gossiper and
part in the rpc server is extracted into its own object.
This prepares for additional validation logic to be added for policy
updates that would otherwise make the gossiper heavier.
It is also a small first step towards separation of our own channel data
from the rest of the graph.
As a preparation for making the gossiper less responsible for validating
and supplementing local channel policy updates, this commits moves the
on-the-fly max htlc migration up the call tree. The plan for a follow up
commit is to move it out of the gossiper completely for local channel
updates, so that we don't need to return a list of final applied policies
anymore.
In this commit, we fix a bug where if a user updates a forwarding policy to be
zero, the update will be applied to the policy correctly on-disk, but not
in-memory.
We solve this issue by having the gossiper return the list of on-disk updated
policies and passing these policies to the switch, so the switch can assume
that zero-valued fields are intentional and not just uninitialized.
There's no need to broadcast these as we assume that online nodes have
already received them. For nodes that were offline, they should receive
them as part of their initial graph sync.
We do this to ensure the node announcement propagates to our channel
counterparty. At times, the node announcement does not propagate to them
when opening our first channel due to a race condition between
IsPublicNode and processing announcement signatures. This isn't
necessary for channel updates and announcement signatures as we send
those to our channel counterparty directly through the reliable sender.
Since ActiveSync GossipSyncers no longer synchronize our state with the
remote peers, none of the logic surrounding the round-robin is required
within the SyncManager.
In this commit, we extend the gossiper with support for external callers
to provide optional fields that can serve as useful when processing a
specific network announcement. This will serve useful for light clients,
which are unable to obtain the channel point and capacity for a given
channel, but can provide them manually for their own set of channels.
In this commit, we modify the main loop in `processChanPolicyUpdate` to
send updates for private channels directly to the remote peer via the
reliable message sender. This fixes a prior issue where the remote peer
wouldn't receive new updates as this method doesn't go through the
traditional path for channel updates.
In this commit, we introduce a new type: SyncerType. This type denotes
the type of sync a GossipSyncer is currently under. We only introduce
the two possible entry states, ActiveSync and PassiveSync. An ActiveSync
GossipSyncer will exchange channels with the remote peer and receive new
graph updates from them, while a PassiveSync GossipSyncer will not and
will only response to the remote peer's queries.
This commit does not modify the behavior and is only meant to be a
refactor.
In this commit, we address an assumption of the gossiper's recently
introduce reliable sender. The reliable sender is currently only used
for messages of unannounced channels. This makes sense as peers should
be able to retrieve messages from the network if they've previously
announced. However, within isMsgStale, we assumed that the reliable
sender would be used for every ChannelUpdate being sent, even if the
channel is already announced. Due to this, checking if the policy is
stale was unnecessary. But since this isn't the case, we should actually
be checking whether it is stale to prevent sending it later on.
In this commit, we leverage the recently introduced zombie edge index to
quickly reject announcements for edges we've previously deemed as
zombies. Care has been taken to ensure we don't reject fresh updates for
edges we've considered zombies.
In this commit, we also allow channel updates for our channels to be
sent reliably to our channel counterparty. This is especially crucial
for private channels, since they're not announced, in order to ensure
each party can receive funds from the other side.
In this commit, we alter the ValidateChannelUpdateAnn function in
ann_validation to validate a remote ChannelUpdate's message flags
and max HTLC field. If the message flag is set but the max HTLC
field is not set or vice versa, the ChannelUpdate fails validation.
Co-authored-by: Johan T. Halseth <johanth@gmail.com>
In this commit:
* we partition lnwire.ChanUpdateFlag into two (ChanUpdateChanFlags and
ChanUpdateMsgFlags), from a uint16 to a pair of uint8's
* we rename the ChannelUpdate.Flags to ChannelFlags and add an
additional MessageFlags field, which will be used to indicate the
presence of the optional field HtlcMaximumMsat within the ChannelUpdate.
* we partition ChannelEdgePolicy.Flags into message and channel flags.
This change corresponds to the partitioning of the ChannelUpdate's Flags
field into MessageFlags and ChannelFlags.
Co-authored-by: Johan T. Halseth <johanth@gmail.com>
In this commit, we allow the gossiper to also broadcast the
corresponding node announcements, if we know of them, of a channel when
constructing its full proof. We do this to ensure peers (other than our
remote peer) receive all the relevant announcements for a channel.
The tests changes were made to ensure the new behavior introduced works
as intended. Previously, the node announcements for each test channel
announcement were not processed, so they never existed from the
gossiper's point of view.
This also addresses an existing flake in the integration test
`testNodeAnnouncement`. This problem arose due to the node announcement
being sent before the connection between Dave (node announcement sender)
and Alice (node announcement receiver) was initiated and the full
channel proof was constructed.
This commit passes the peer's quit signal to the
gossipSyncer when attempt to hand off gossip query
messages. This allows a rate-limited peer's read
handler to break out immediately, which would
otherwise remain stuck until the rate-limited
gossip syncer pulled the message.
This commit restructures the delivery of gossip
query related messages, such that they are delivered
directly to the gossip syncers. Gossip query rate
limiting was introduced in #1824 on a per-peer basis.
However, since all gossip query messages were being
delivered in the main event loop, the end result is
that one rate-limited peer could stall all other
peers.
In addition, since no other peers would be able to
submit gossip-related messages through the blocked
event loop, the back pressure would eventually rate
limit the read handlers of all peers as well.
The end result would be lengthy delays in reading
messages related to htlc forwarding.
The fix is to lift the delivery of gossip query
messages outside of the main event loop. With
this change, the rate limiting backpressure is
delivered only to the intended peer.
In this commit, we modify the gossiper to no longer broadcast
NodeAnnouncements of nodes who intend to remain private. We do this to
prevent leaking their information to the greater network.
