When the local node is to be the proposer for a new round
(due to round change), the new Ibft Round is to be created using the
latest received PreparedCertificate, and a NewRound message multicast
to all validators.
It should be noted, the block in the NewRound Proposal must be
modified from that received in the PreparedCertificate such that it
contains the executing round number.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
This has required the MessageValidatorFactory used as part of the
RoundChangeMessageValidator to be renamed, which in turn has had
renaming knock on effects through the code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
An abstraction existed which allowed for the differentiation of IBFT
messages which were used 'in-round' (Proposal, Prepare, Commit) and
those that were inter-round (RoundChange, NewRound).
This abstraction has not proven useful now that actual capability has
been developed, and as such is being removed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
IbftBlockCreator is required to correctly set the MixHash, and also ensure the IbftBlockHashing function used to hash the block includes the round number, but not the commit seals.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
The IbftRound is responsible for sequencing the transmission of
network packets based on received data.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* Upgrade errorprone
* Upgrade errorprone from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2
* Upgrade Jenkinsfile so that CI will use Java 11
* Suppress these new rules:
* EqualsGetClass
* ImmutableEnumChecker
* UnnecessaryParentheses
* Change code to conform to these new rules:
* BadImport
* BadInstanceof
* InconsistentHashCode
* LockNotBeforeTry
* MathAbsoluteRandom
* ModifiedButNotUsed
* UndefinedEquals
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
The IBFT RoundState is responsible for determining if sufficient
valid messages have been received to deem the node "Prepared" or
"Committed".
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Received New Round messages require significant validation to ensure their content is consistent and valid with regard the current state of the system.
This commit includes a class (and tests) which ensures illegally constructed NewRound messages are identified.
This does not include the action to be taken upon detection of an illegal New Round message.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
The classes used around the IBFT Messaging classes have all been renamed to make their use less cumbersome throughout the codebase.
Other issues are yet to be found (not all variable names and function names have been captured in this sweep).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
A problem was identified whereby the vote in a child block was applied to the parent, this was resolved by
duplicating the parent VoteTally before modifying it, and injecting to the child block.
Some refactoring was also conducted to make VoteTally logic simpler.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Reverts #339
Görli's testnet regularly has proposers miss their turn and their
genesis block actually had a bad validator specified (that was voted out
as soon as they could) So many blocks do not have the proper "proposer"
as their block generator. As a consequence the
CliqueDifficultyValidationRule fails regularly, in fact it fails at
block 3, so this should be easy to re-create locally.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Clique Proposer Selection would choose an incorrect peer
when a signer was removed from the pool, as the algorithm worked
purely on the block count.
The algorithm has now been updated to ensure the next proposer is
incrementally the next signer in the ordered list, based on the
parent's proposer
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
RoundChangeValidator has been added which is responsible for
validating the content of a RoundChange message by using the
underlying MessageValidator capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
The ProposerSelection logic has been reworked such that it now accepts
a BlockInterface, through which IBFT parameters can be accessed
directly from the block header, without requiring literal hashing etc.
This has required the VoteBlockInterface to be renamed to
BlockInterface.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
IBFT requires various aspects of the mining infrastructure in order
to create a proposed block.
This includes specifically the BlockCreator and MiningCoordinating,
the mining executor is not required at this stage, nor is the miner.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* Remove release/retain requirement from MessageData.
MessageData now wraps a BytesValue rather than a Netty ByteBuf so we no longer need to call release/retain and pass that through to the underlying ByteBuf.
Entirely removed support for a BytesValue wrapping a Netty ByteBuf as it does not provide any way to release the underlying ByteBuf.
* Add BytesValue.copyTo(byte[]) to avoid the need to call getArrayUnsafe() to copy the data.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Removing dependency upon using map.entry to define a vote that has
been proposed via JSON RPC.
This is part of the general clean up of the voting infrastructure
used for IBFT, Clique and legacy IBFT.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
The consensus-mechanism specific block values have been separated
from the VoteTallyUpdater such that there is a single updater rather
than one per consensus mechanism.
This has necessitated the creation of a custom serialiser/
deserialiser for each mechanism instead.
This change will ultimatley bleed through to the proposed votes and
their insertion to mined blocks.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
We create our own instance of Clock. However the java.time.Clock
provides what is needed and already exists on the platform.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
The Ibft consensus mechanism is responsible for sending a variety of
messages to other validating nodes in the network (provided they have
a point-to-point connection to them).
This change tracks which nodes have connected to the IBFT
subprotocol, and provides the functionality to only transmit messages
to nodes which are also validators.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* Upgrade ethereum reference tests
* Add support for sealEngine: NoProof by skipping PoW validation for ommer headers as well. Production code continues to always use full validation for ommers.
* Add Constantinople to reference test schedules ready for when we enable Constantinople tests.
* Blacklist the new reference tests that are failing while we investigate them.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>