forest/chain_sync/

tipset_syncer.rs

// Copyright 2019-2026 ChainSafe Systems
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0, MIT

use crate::chain_sync::BadBlockCache;
use crate::db::DbImpl;
use crate::networks::Height;
use crate::prelude::*;
use crate::shim::clock::ALLOWABLE_CLOCK_DRIFT;
use crate::shim::crypto::SignatureType;
use crate::shim::message::Message;
use crate::shim::{
    address::Address, crypto::verify_bls_aggregate, econ::BLOCK_GAS_LIMIT,
    gas::price_list_by_network_version, state_tree::StateTree,
};
use crate::state_manager::ExecutedTipset;
use crate::state_manager::{Error as StateManagerError, StateManager, utils::is_valid_for_sending};
use crate::{
    blocks::{Block, CachingBlockHeader, Error as ForestBlockError, FullTipset, Tipset},
    fil_cns::{self, FilecoinConsensus, FilecoinConsensusError},
};
use crate::{
    chain::{ChainStore, Error as ChainStoreError},
    metrics::HistogramTimerExt,
};
use crate::{
    eth::is_valid_eth_tx_for_sending,
    message::{MessageRead as _, valid_for_block_inclusion},
};
use ahash::HashMap;
use futures::TryFutureExt;
use fvm_ipld_encoding::to_vec;
use nunny::Vec as NonEmpty;
use thiserror::Error;
use tokio::task::JoinSet;
use tracing::{trace, warn};

use crate::chain_sync::{consensus::collect_errs, metrics, validation::TipsetValidator};

#[derive(Debug, Error)]
pub enum TipsetSyncerError {
    #[error("Block must have a signature")]
    BlockWithoutSignature,
    #[error("Block without BLS aggregate signature")]
    BlockWithoutBlsAggregate,
    #[error("Block received from the future: now = {0}, block = {1}")]
    TimeTravellingBlock(u64, u64),
    #[error("Validation error: {0}")]
    Validation(String),
    #[error("Processing error: {0}")]
    Calculation(String),
    #[error("Chain store error: {0}")]
    ChainStore(#[from] ChainStoreError),
    #[error("StateManager error: {0}")]
    StateManager(#[from] StateManagerError),
    #[error("Block error: {0}")]
    BlockError(#[from] ForestBlockError),
    #[error("Querying tipsets from the network failed: {0}")]
    NetworkTipsetQueryFailed(String),
    #[error("BLS aggregate signature {0} was invalid for msgs {1}")]
    BlsAggregateSignatureInvalid(String, String),
    #[error("Message signature invalid: {0}")]
    MessageSignatureInvalid(String),
    #[error("Block message root does not match: expected {0}, computed {1}")]
    BlockMessageRootInvalid(String, String),
    #[error("Computing message root failed: {0}")]
    ComputingMessageRoot(String),
    #[error("Resolving address from message failed: {0}")]
    ResolvingAddressFromMessage(String),
    #[error("Loading tipset parent from the store failed: {0}")]
    TipsetParentNotFound(ChainStoreError),
    #[error("Consensus error: {0}")]
    ConsensusError(FilecoinConsensusError),
}

impl From<tokio::task::JoinError> for TipsetSyncerError {
    fn from(err: tokio::task::JoinError) -> Self {
        TipsetSyncerError::NetworkTipsetQueryFailed(format!("{err}"))
    }
}

impl TipsetSyncerError {
    /// Concatenate all validation error messages into one comma separated
    /// version.
    fn concat(errs: NonEmpty<TipsetSyncerError>) -> Self {
        let msg = errs.iter().map(|e| e.to_string()).collect_vec().join(", ");

        TipsetSyncerError::Validation(msg)
    }
}

/// Validates full blocks in the tipset in parallel (since the messages are not
/// executed), adding the successful ones to the tipset tracker, and the failed
/// ones to the bad block cache, depending on strategy. Any bad block fails
/// validation.
pub async fn validate_tipset(
    state_manager: &StateManager,
    full_tipset: FullTipset,
    bad_block_cache: Option<BadBlockCache>,
) -> Result<(), TipsetSyncerError> {
    if full_tipset
        .key()
        .eq(state_manager.chain_store().genesis_tipset().key())
    {
        trace!("Skipping genesis tipset validation");
        return Ok(());
    }

    let timer = metrics::TIPSET_PROCESSING_TIME.start_timer();

    let epoch = full_tipset.epoch();
    let parent_state = *full_tipset.parent_state();
    let tipset_key = full_tipset.key();
    trace!("Tipset keys: {tipset_key}");
    let blocks = full_tipset.into_blocks();
    let mut validations = JoinSet::new();
    for b in blocks {
        validations.spawn(validate_block(state_manager.shallow_clone(), Arc::new(b)));
    }

    while let Some(result) = validations.join_next().await {
        match result? {
            Ok(block) => {
                state_manager
                    .chain_store()
                    .add_to_tipset_tracker(block.header());
            }
            Err((cid, why)) => {
                warn!(
                    "Validating block [CID = {cid}, PARENT_STATE = {parent_state}] in EPOCH = {epoch} failed: {why}",
                );
                match &why {
                    TipsetSyncerError::TimeTravellingBlock(_, _) => {
                        // Do not mark a block as bad for temporary errors.
                        // See <https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/v1.34.1/chain/sync.go#L602> in Lotus
                    }
                    _ => {
                        // Do not mark block as bad if the parent state tree does not exist
                        if StateTree::new_from_root(state_manager.db(), &parent_state).is_ok()
                            && let Some(bad_block_cache) = bad_block_cache
                        {
                            bad_block_cache.push(cid);
                        }
                    }
                };
                return Err(why);
            }
        }
    }
    drop(timer);
    Ok(())
}

/// Validate the block according to the rules specific to the consensus being
/// used, and the common rules that pertain to the assumptions of the
/// `ChainSync` protocol.
///
/// Returns the validated block if `Ok`.
/// Returns the block CID (for marking bad) and `Error` if invalid (`Err`).
///
/// Common validation includes:
/// * Sanity checks
/// * Clock drifts
/// * Signatures
/// * Message inclusion (fees, sequences)
/// * Parent related fields: base fee, weight, the state root
/// * NB: This is where the messages in the *parent* tipset are executed.
///
/// Consensus specific validation should include:
/// * Checking that the messages in the block correspond to the agreed upon
///   total ordering
/// * That the block is a deterministic derivative of the underlying consensus
async fn validate_block(
    state_manager: StateManager,
    block: Arc<Block>,
) -> Result<Arc<Block>, (Cid, TipsetSyncerError)> {
    let consensus = FilecoinConsensus::new(state_manager.beacon_schedule().clone());
    trace!(
        "Validating block: epoch = {}, weight = {}, key = {}",
        block.header().epoch,
        block.header().weight,
        block.header().cid(),
    );
    let chain_store = state_manager.chain_store().shallow_clone();
    let block_cid = block.cid();

    // Check block validation cache in store
    let is_validated = chain_store.is_block_validated(block_cid);
    if is_validated {
        return Ok(block);
    }

    let _timer = metrics::BLOCK_VALIDATION_TIME.start_timer();

    let header = block.header();

    // Check to ensure all optional values exist
    block_sanity_checks(header).map_err(|e| (*block_cid, e))?;
    block_timestamp_checks(header).map_err(|e| (*block_cid, e))?;

    let base_tipset = chain_store
        .chain_index()
        .load_required_tipset(&header.parents)
        // The parent tipset will always be there when calling validate_block
        // as part of the sync_tipset_range flow because all of the headers in the range
        // have been committed to the store. When validate_block is called from sync_tipset
        // this guarantee does not exist, so we create a specific error to inform the caller
        // not to add this block to the bad blocks cache.
        .map_err(|why| (*block_cid, TipsetSyncerError::TipsetParentNotFound(why)))?;

    // Retrieve lookback tipset for validation
    let lookback_state = ChainStore::get_lookback_tipset_for_round(
        state_manager.chain_store().chain_index(),
        state_manager.chain_config(),
        &base_tipset,
        block.header().epoch,
    )
    .map_err(|e| (*block_cid, e.into()))
    .map(|(_, s)| Arc::new(s))?;

    // Work address needed for async validations, so necessary
    // to do sync to avoid duplication
    let work_addr = state_manager
        .get_miner_work_addr(*lookback_state, &header.miner_address)
        .map_err(|e| (*block_cid, e.into()))?;

    // Async validations
    let mut validations = JoinSet::new();

    // Check block messages
    validations.spawn(check_block_messages(
        state_manager.shallow_clone(),
        block.shallow_clone(),
        base_tipset.shallow_clone(),
    ));

    // Base fee check
    validations.spawn_blocking({
        let smoke_height = state_manager.chain_config().epoch(Height::Smoke);
        let firehorse_height = state_manager.chain_config().epoch(Height::FireHorse);
        let base_tipset = base_tipset.shallow_clone();
        let block_store = state_manager.db_owned();
        let block = block.shallow_clone();
        move || {
            let base_fee = crate::chain::compute_base_fee(
                &block_store,
                &base_tipset,
                smoke_height,
                firehorse_height,
            )
            .map_err(|e| {
                TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!("Could not compute base fee: {e}"))
            })?;
            let parent_base_fee = &block.header.parent_base_fee;
            if &base_fee != parent_base_fee {
                return Err(TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!(
                    "base fee doesn't match: {parent_base_fee} (header), {base_fee} (computed)"
                )));
            }
            Ok(())
        }
    });

    // Parent weight calculation check
    validations.spawn_blocking({
        let block_store = state_manager.db_owned();
        let base_tipset = base_tipset.shallow_clone();
        let weight = header.weight.clone();
        move || {
            let calc_weight = fil_cns::weight(&block_store, &base_tipset).map_err(|e| {
                TipsetSyncerError::Calculation(format!("Error calculating weight: {e:#}"))
            })?;
            if weight != calc_weight {
                return Err(TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!(
                    "Parent weight doesn't match: {weight} (header), {calc_weight} (computed)"
                )));
            }
            Ok(())
        }
    });

    // State root and receipt root validations
    validations.spawn({
        let state_manager = state_manager.shallow_clone();
        let block = block.shallow_clone();
        async move {
            let header = block.header();
            let ExecutedTipset {
                state_root,
                receipt_root,
                ..
            } = state_manager
                .load_executed_tipset(&base_tipset)
                .await
                .map_err(|e| {
                    TipsetSyncerError::Calculation(format!("Failed to calculate state: {e:#}"))
                })?;

            if state_root != header.state_root {
                return Err(TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!(
                    "Parent state root did not match computed state: {} (header), {} (computed)",
                    header.state_root, state_root,
                )));
            }

            if receipt_root != header.message_receipts {
                return Err(TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!(
                    "Parent receipt root did not match computed root: {} (header), {} (computed)",
                    header.message_receipts, receipt_root
                )));
            }
            Ok(())
        }
    });

    // Block signature check
    validations.spawn_blocking({
        let block = block.shallow_clone();
        move || {
            block.header().verify_signature_against(&work_addr)?;
            Ok(())
        }
    });

    validations.spawn({
        let block = block.shallow_clone();
        async move {
            consensus
                .validate_block(state_manager, block)
                .map_err(|errs| {
                    // NOTE: Concatenating errors here means the wrapper type of error
                    // never surfaces, yet we always pay the cost of the generic argument.
                    // But there's no reason `validate_block` couldn't return a list of all
                    // errors instead of a single one that has all the error messages,
                    // removing the caller's ability to distinguish between them.

                    TipsetSyncerError::concat(
                        errs.into_iter_ne()
                            .map(TipsetSyncerError::ConsensusError)
                            .collect_vec(),
                    )
                })
                .await
        }
    });

    // Collect the errors from the async validations
    if let Err(errs) = collect_errs(validations).await {
        return Err((*block_cid, TipsetSyncerError::concat(errs)));
    }

    chain_store.mark_block_as_validated(block_cid);

    Ok(block)
}

/// Validate messages in a full block, relative to the parent tipset.
///
/// This includes:
/// * signature checks
/// * gas limits, and prices
/// * account nonce values
/// * the message root in the header
///
/// NB: This loads/computes the state resulting from the execution of the parent
/// tipset.
async fn check_block_messages(
    state_manager: StateManager,
    block: Arc<Block>,
    base_tipset: Tipset,
) -> Result<(), TipsetSyncerError> {
    let network_version = state_manager
        .chain_config()
        .network_version(block.header.epoch);
    let eth_chain_id = state_manager.chain_config().eth_chain_id;

    if let Some(sig) = &block.header().bls_aggregate {
        // Do the initial loop here
        // check block message and signatures in them
        let mut pub_keys = Vec::with_capacity(block.bls_msgs().len());
        let mut cids = Vec::with_capacity(block.bls_msgs().len());
        let db = state_manager.db();
        for m in block.bls_msgs() {
            let pk = StateManager::get_bls_public_key(db, m.from, *base_tipset.parent_state())?;
            pub_keys.push(pk);
            cids.push(m.cid().to_bytes());
        }

        if !verify_bls_aggregate(
            &cids.iter().map(|x| x.as_slice()).collect_vec(),
            &pub_keys,
            sig,
        ) {
            return Err(TipsetSyncerError::BlsAggregateSignatureInvalid(
                format!("{sig:?}"),
                format!("{cids:?}"),
            ));
        }
    } else {
        return Err(TipsetSyncerError::BlockWithoutBlsAggregate);
    }

    let price_list = price_list_by_network_version(network_version);
    let mut sum_gas_limit = 0;

    // Check messages for validity
    let mut check_msg = |msg: &Message,
                         account_sequences: &mut HashMap<Address, u64>,
                         tree: &StateTree<DbImpl>|
     -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        // Phase 1: Syntactic validation
        let min_gas = price_list.on_chain_message(to_vec(msg).unwrap().len());
        valid_for_block_inclusion(msg, min_gas.total(), network_version)
            .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!("{}", e))?;
        sum_gas_limit += msg.gas_limit;
        if sum_gas_limit > BLOCK_GAS_LIMIT {
            anyhow::bail!("block gas limit exceeded");
        }

        // Phase 2: (Partial) Semantic validation
        // Send exists and is an account actor, and sequence is correct
        let sequence: u64 = match account_sequences.get(&msg.from()) {
            Some(sequence) => *sequence,
            None => {
                let actor = tree.get_actor(&msg.from)?.ok_or_else(|| {
                    anyhow::anyhow!(
                        "Failed to retrieve nonce for addr: Actor does not exist in state"
                    )
                })?;
                let network_version = state_manager
                    .chain_config()
                    .network_version(block.header.epoch);
                if !is_valid_for_sending(network_version, &actor) {
                    anyhow::bail!("not valid for sending!");
                }
                actor.sequence
            }
        };

        // Sequence equality check
        if sequence != msg.sequence {
            anyhow::bail!(
                "Message has incorrect sequence (exp: {} got: {})",
                sequence,
                msg.sequence
            );
        }
        account_sequences.insert(msg.from(), sequence + 1);
        Ok(())
    };

    let mut account_sequences: HashMap<Address, u64> = HashMap::default();
    let ExecutedTipset { state_root, .. } = state_manager
        .load_executed_tipset(&base_tipset)
        .await
        .map_err(|e| TipsetSyncerError::Calculation(format!("Could not update state: {e:#}")))?;
    let tree = StateTree::new_from_root(state_manager.db(), &state_root).map_err(|e| {
        TipsetSyncerError::Calculation(format!(
            "Could not load from new state root in state manager: {e:#}"
        ))
    })?;

    // Check validity for BLS messages
    for (i, msg) in block.bls_msgs().iter().enumerate() {
        check_msg(msg, &mut account_sequences, &tree).map_err(|e| {
            TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!(
                "Block had invalid BLS message at index {i}: {e:#}"
            ))
        })?;
    }

    // Check validity for SECP messages
    for (i, msg) in block.secp_msgs().iter().enumerate() {
        if msg.signature().signature_type() == SignatureType::Delegated
            && !is_valid_eth_tx_for_sending(eth_chain_id, network_version, msg)
        {
            return Err(TipsetSyncerError::Validation(
                "Network version must be at least NV23 for legacy Ethereum transactions".to_owned(),
            ));
        }
        check_msg(msg.message(), &mut account_sequences, &tree).map_err(|e| {
            TipsetSyncerError::Validation(format!(
                "block had an invalid secp message at index {i}: {e:#}"
            ))
        })?;
        // Resolve key address for signature verification
        let key_addr = state_manager
            .resolve_to_deterministic_address(msg.from(), &base_tipset)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| TipsetSyncerError::ResolvingAddressFromMessage(e.to_string()))?;
        // SecP256K1 Signature validation
        msg.signature
            .authenticate_msg(eth_chain_id, msg, &key_addr)
            .map_err(|e| TipsetSyncerError::MessageSignatureInvalid(e.to_string()))?;
    }

    // Validate message root from header matches message root
    let msg_root =
        TipsetValidator::compute_msg_root(state_manager.db(), block.bls_msgs(), block.secp_msgs())
            .map_err(|err| TipsetSyncerError::ComputingMessageRoot(err.to_string()))?;
    if block.header().messages != msg_root {
        return Err(TipsetSyncerError::BlockMessageRootInvalid(
            format!("{:?}", block.header().messages),
            format!("{msg_root:?}"),
        ));
    }

    Ok(())
}

/// Checks optional values in header.
///
/// It only looks for fields which are common to all consensus types.
fn block_sanity_checks(header: &CachingBlockHeader) -> Result<(), TipsetSyncerError> {
    if header.signature.is_none() {
        return Err(TipsetSyncerError::BlockWithoutSignature);
    }
    if header.bls_aggregate.is_none() {
        return Err(TipsetSyncerError::BlockWithoutBlsAggregate);
    }
    Ok(())
}

/// Check the clock drift.
fn block_timestamp_checks(header: &CachingBlockHeader) -> Result<(), TipsetSyncerError> {
    let time_now = chrono::Utc::now().timestamp() as u64;
    if header.timestamp > time_now.saturating_add(ALLOWABLE_CLOCK_DRIFT) {
        return Err(TipsetSyncerError::TimeTravellingBlock(
            time_now,
            header.timestamp,
        ));
    } else if header.timestamp > time_now {
        warn!(
            "Got block from the future, but within clock drift threshold, {} > {}",
            header.timestamp, time_now
        );
    }
    Ok(())
}