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fanquake 551dc7f664 Merge #18806: net: remove is{Empty,Full} flags from CBloomFilter, clarify CVE fix
1ad8ea2b73 net: remove is{Empty,Full} flags from CBloomFilter, clarify CVE fix (Sebastian Falbesoner)

Pull request description:

  The BIP37 bloom filter class `CBloomFilter` contains two flags `isEmpty`/`isFull` together with an update method with the purpose to, according to the comments, "avoid wasting cpu", i.e. the mechanism should serve as an optimization for the trivial cases of empty (all bits zero) or full (all bits one) filters.
  However, the real reason of adding those flags (introduced with commit 37c6389c5a by gmaxwell) was a _covert fix_ of [CVE-2013-5700](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5700), a vulnerability that allowed a divide-by-zero remote node crash.
  According to gmaxwell himself (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9060#issuecomment-257749165):
  > the IsEmpty/IsFull optimizations were largely a pretextual optimization intended to make unexploitable a remote crash vulnerability (integer division by zero) that existed in the original bloom filtering code without disclosing it. I'm doubtful that they are all that useful. :)

  For more information on how to trigger this crash, see PR https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/18515 which contains a detailled description and a regression test. It has also been discussed on a [recent PR club meeting on fuzzing](https://bitcoincore.reviews/18521.html).

  The covert fix code already led to issues and PR based on the wrong assumption that the flags are there for optimization reasons (see #16886 and #16922). This PR gets rid of the flags and the update method and just focuses on the CVE fix itself, i.e. it can be seen as a revert of the covert fix commit modulo the actual fix.

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Unit tests

The sources in this directory are unit test cases. Boost includes a unit testing framework, and since Bitcoin Core already uses Boost, it makes sense to simply use this framework rather than require developers to configure some other framework (we want as few impediments to creating unit tests as possible).

The build system is set up to compile an executable called test_bitcoin that runs all of the unit tests. The main source file for the test library is found in util/setup_common.cpp.

Compiling/running unit tests

Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in ./configure and tests weren't explicitly disabled.

After configuring, they can be run with make check.

To run the unit tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin. To recompile after a test file was modified, run make and then run the test again. If you modify a non-test file, use make -C src/test to recompile only what's needed to run the unit tests.

To add more unit tests, add BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE functions to the existing .cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.

To run the GUI unit tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt

To add more GUI unit tests, add them to the src/qt/test/ directory and the src/qt/test/test_main.cpp file.

Running individual tests

test_bitcoin has some built-in command-line arguments; for example, to run just the getarg_tests verbosely:

test_bitcoin --log_level=all --run_test=getarg_tests -- DEBUG_LOG_OUT

log_level controls the verbosity of the test framework, which logs when a test case is entered, for example. The DEBUG_LOG_OUT after the two dashes redirects the debug log, which would normally go to a file in the test datadir (BasicTestingSetup::m_path_root), to the standard terminal output.

... or to run just the doubledash test:

test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/doubledash

Run test_bitcoin --help for the full list.

Adding test cases

To add a new unit test file to our test suite you need to add the file to src/Makefile.test.include. The pattern is to create one test file for each class or source file for which you want to create unit tests. The file naming convention is <source_filename>_tests.cpp and such files should wrap their tests in a test suite called <source_filename>_tests. For an example of this pattern, see uint256_tests.cpp.

Logging and debugging in unit tests

make check will write to a log file foo_tests.cpp.log and display this file on failure. For running individual tests verbosely, refer to the section above.

To write to logs from unit tests you need to use specific message methods provided by Boost. The simplest is BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE.

For debugging you can launch the test_bitcoin executable with gdbor lldb and start debugging, just like you would with any other program:

gdb src/test/test_bitcoin