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Use callbacks to cache whether wallet transactions are in mempool

Description

Use callbacks to cache whether wallet transactions are in mempool

Summary:
This avoid calling out to mempool state during coin selection,
balance calculation, etc. In the next commit we ensure all wallet
callbacks from CValidationInterface happen in the same queue,
serialized with each other. This helps to avoid re-introducing one
of the issues described in #9584 [1] by further disconnecting
wallet from current chain/mempool state.

Thanks to @morcos for the suggestion to do this.

Note that there are several race conditions introduced here:

  • If a user calls sendrawtransaction from RPC, adding a transaction which is "trusted" (ie from them) and pays them change, it may not be immediately used by coin selection until the notification callbacks finish running. No such race is introduced in normal transaction-sending RPCs as this case is explicitly handled.
  • Until Block{Connected,Disconnected} and TransactionAddedToMempool calls also run in the CSceduler background thread, there is a race where TransactionAddedToMempool might be called after a Block{Connected,Disconnected} call happens.
  • Wallet will write a new best chain from the SetBestChain callback prior to having processed the transaction from that block.

[1] "you could go to select coins, need to use 0-conf change, but
such 0-conf change may have been included in a block who's
callbacks have not yet been processed - resulting in thinking they
are not in mempool and, thus, not selectable."

This is extracted from Core's PR10286 commit 17220d6325ef8d7789373055586e4332977077b0

Depends on D2268

Test Plan:

make check
./test/functional/test_runner.py

Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Subscribers: Fabien, teamcity, schancel

Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D2269

Details

Provenance
Matt Corallo <git@bluematt.me>Authored on Jan 20 2017, 21:38
deadalnixCommitted on Jan 14 2019, 14:59
deadalnixPushed on Jan 14 2019, 15:53
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Differential Revision
D2269: Use callbacks to cache whether wallet transactions are in mempool
Parents
rSTAGINGef7ab2674294: Add calls to CWallet::BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain() in RPCs
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References
tag: phabricator/base/6661, tag: phabricator/base/6660, tag: phabricator/base/6656, tag: phabricator/base/6648