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bitcoin/src/test/logging_tests.cpp
Eugene Siegel d541409a64 log: Add rate limiting to LogPrintf, LogInfo, LogWarning, LogError, LogPrintLevel
To mitigate disk-filling attacks caused by unsafe usages of LogPrintf and
friends, we rate-limit them by passing a should_ratelimit bool that
eventually makes its way to LogPrintStr which may call
LogRateLimiter::Consume. The rate limiting is accomplished by
adding a LogRateLimiter member to BCLog::Logger which tracks source
code locations for the given logging window.

Every hour, a source location can log up to 1MiB of data. Source
locations that exceed the limit will have their logs suppressed for the
rest of the window determined by m_limiter.

This change affects the public LogPrintLevel function if called with
a level >= BCLog::Level::Info.

The UpdateTipLog function has been changed to use the private LogPrintLevel_
macro with should_ratelimit set to false. This allows UpdateTipLog to log
during IBD without hitting the rate limit.

Note that on restart, a source location that was rate limited before the
restart will be able to log until it hits the rate limit again.

Co-Authored-By: Niklas Gogge <n.goeggi@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: stickies-v <stickies-v@protonmail.com>
2025-07-09 09:13:00 -04:00

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