Merge #15759: p2p: Add 2 outbound block-relay-only connections

0ba08020c9 Disconnect peers violating blocks-only mode (Suhas Daftuar)
937eba91e1 doc: improve comments relating to block-relay-only peers (Suhas Daftuar)
430f489027 Don't relay addr messages to block-relay-only peers (Suhas Daftuar)
3a5e885306 Add 2 outbound block-relay-only connections (Suhas Daftuar)
b83f51a4bb Add comment explaining intended use of m_tx_relay (Suhas Daftuar)
e75c39cd42 Check that tx_relay is initialized before access (Suhas Daftuar)
c4aa2ba822 [refactor] Change tx_relay structure to be unique_ptr (Suhas Daftuar)
4de0dbac9b [refactor] Move tx relay state to separate structure (Suhas Daftuar)
26a93bce29 Remove unused variable (Suhas Daftuar)

Pull request description:

  Transaction relay is optimized for a combination of redundancy/robustness as well as bandwidth minimization -- as a result transaction relay leaks information that adversaries can use to infer the network topology.

  Network topology is better kept private for (at least) two reasons:

  (a) Knowledge of the network graph can make it easier to find the source IP of a given transaction.

  (b) Knowledge of the network graph could be used to split a target node or nodes from the honest network (eg by knowing which peers to attack in order to achieve a network split).

  We can eliminate the risks of (b) by separating block relay from transaction relay; inferring network connectivity from the relay of blocks/block headers is much more expensive for an adversary.

  After this commit, bitcoind will make 2 additional outbound connections that are only used for block relay. (In the future, we might consider rotating our transaction-relay peers to help limit the effects of (a).)

ACKs for top commit:
  sipa:
    ACK 0ba08020c9
  ajtowns:
    ACK 0ba08020c9 -- code review, ran tests. ran it on mainnet for a couple of days with MAX_BLOCKS_ONLY_CONNECTIONS upped from 2 to 16 and didn't observe any unexpected behaviour: it disconnected a couple of peers that tried sending inv's, and it successfully did compact block relay with some block relay peers.
  TheBlueMatt:
    re-utACK 0ba08020c9. Pointed out that stats.fRelayTxes was sometimes uninitialized for blocksonly peers (though its not a big deal and only effects RPC), which has since been fixed here. Otherwise changes are pretty trivial so looks good.
  jnewbery:
    utACK 0ba08020c9
  jamesob:
    ACK 0ba08020c9

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fanquake
2019-09-07 17:24:05 +08:00
6 changed files with 318 additions and 231 deletions

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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class P2PBlocksOnly(BitcoinTestFramework):
def run_test(self):
self.nodes[0].add_p2p_connection(P2PInterface())
self.log.info('Check that txs from p2p are rejected')
self.log.info('Check that txs from p2p are rejected and result in disconnect')
prevtx = self.nodes[0].getblock(self.nodes[0].getblockhash(1), 2)['tx'][0]
rawtx = self.nodes[0].createrawtransaction(
inputs=[{
@@ -42,13 +42,17 @@ class P2PBlocksOnly(BitcoinTestFramework):
assert_equal(self.nodes[0].getnetworkinfo()['localrelay'], False)
with self.nodes[0].assert_debug_log(['transaction sent in violation of protocol peer=0']):
self.nodes[0].p2p.send_message(msg_tx(FromHex(CTransaction(), sigtx)))
self.nodes[0].p2p.sync_with_ping()
self.nodes[0].p2p.wait_for_disconnect()
assert_equal(self.nodes[0].getmempoolinfo()['size'], 0)
# Remove the disconnected peer and add a new one.
del self.nodes[0].p2ps[0]
self.nodes[0].add_p2p_connection(P2PInterface())
self.log.info('Check that txs from rpc are not rejected and relayed to other peers')
assert_equal(self.nodes[0].getpeerinfo()[0]['relaytxes'], True)
txid = self.nodes[0].testmempoolaccept([sigtx])[0]['txid']
with self.nodes[0].assert_debug_log(['received getdata for: tx {} peer=0'.format(txid)]):
with self.nodes[0].assert_debug_log(['received getdata for: tx {} peer=1'.format(txid)]):
self.nodes[0].sendrawtransaction(sigtx)
self.nodes[0].p2p.wait_for_tx(txid)
assert_equal(self.nodes[0].getmempoolinfo()['size'], 1)