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Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus.

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Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks,
actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which
headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent
accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to
do.

We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers
filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once
a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before
that point are allowed anymore.
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Pieter Wuille
2015-03-19 05:34:06 -07:00
parent 23254131a3
commit dce8360e44
6 changed files with 15 additions and 38 deletions
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@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ CBlockIndex* CBlockIndex::GetAncestor(int height)
while (heightWalk > height) {
int heightSkip = GetSkipHeight(heightWalk);
int heightSkipPrev = GetSkipHeight(heightWalk - 1);
if (heightSkip == height ||
(heightSkip > height && !(heightSkipPrev < heightSkip - 2 &&
heightSkipPrev >= height))) {
if (pindexWalk->pskip != NULL &&
(heightSkip == height ||
(heightSkip > height && !(heightSkipPrev < heightSkip - 2 &&
heightSkipPrev >= height)))) {
// Only follow pskip if pprev->pskip isn't better than pskip->pprev.
pindexWalk = pindexWalk->pskip;
heightWalk = heightSkip;