Currently, CTxMemPool::check locks CTxMemPool's own cs member, then
calls GetSpendHeight which locks cs_main. This can potentially cause an
undesirable lock invesion since CTxMemPool's cs is supposed to be locked
after cs_main.
This does not cause us any problems right now because all callers of
CTxMemPool already lock cs_main before calling CTxMemPool::check, which
means that the LOCK(cs_main) in GetSpendHeight becomes benign.
However, it is currently possible for new code to be added which calls
CTxMemPool::check without locking cs_main (which would be dangerous).
Therefore we should make it explicit that cs_main needs to be held
before calling CTxMemPool::check.
NOTE: After all review-only assertions are removed in "core#20158 |
tree-wide: De-globalize ChainstateManager", and assuming that we
keep the changes in "validation: Pass in spendheight to
CTxMemPool::check", we can re-evaluate to see if this annotation
is still necessary.
This is a backport of core#20972
Depends on D10842