daemon: guard against rare 'difficulty drift' bug with checkpoints and recalculation

On startup, it checks against the difficulty checkpoints, and if any mismatch is found, recalculates all the blocks with wrong difficulties. Additionally, once a week it recalculates difficulties of blocks after the last difficulty checkpoint.

2 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.cpp b/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.cpp
index 5cec8879d..db19fb1a7 100644
--- a/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.cpp
+++ b/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.cpp
@@ -2750,6 +2750,44 @@ difficulty_type BlockchainLMDB::get_block_difficulty(const uint64_t& height) con
   return diff1 - diff2;
 }
 
+void BlockchainLMDB::correct_block_cumulative_difficulties(const uint64_t& start_height, const std::vector<difficulty_type>& new_cumulative_difficulties)
+{
+  LOG_PRINT_L3("BlockchainLMDB::" << __func__);
+  check_open();
+  mdb_txn_cursors *m_cursors = &m_wcursors;
+
+  int result = 0;
+  block_wtxn_start();
+  CURSOR(block_info)
+
+  const uint64_t bc_height = height();
+  if (start_height + new_cumulative_difficulties.size() != bc_height)
+  {
+    block_wtxn_abort();
+    throw0(DB_ERROR("Incorrect new_cumulative_difficulties size"));
+  }
+
+  for (uint64_t height = start_height; height < bc_height; ++height)
+  {
+    MDB_val_set(key, height);
+    result = mdb_cursor_get(m_cur_block_info, (MDB_val *)&zerokval, &key, MDB_GET_BOTH);
+    if (result)
+      throw1(BLOCK_DNE(lmdb_error("Failed to get block info: ", result).c_str()));
+
+    mdb_block_info bi = *(mdb_block_info*)key.mv_data;
+    const difficulty_type d = new_cumulative_difficulties[height - start_height];
+    bi.bi_diff_hi = ((d >> 64) & 0xffffffffffffffff).convert_to<uint64_t>();
+    bi.bi_diff_lo = (d & 0xffffffffffffffff).convert_to<uint64_t>();
+
+    MDB_val_set(key2, height);
+    MDB_val_set(val, bi);
+    result = mdb_cursor_put(m_cur_block_info, &key2, &val, MDB_CURRENT);
+    if (result)
+      throw0(DB_ERROR(lmdb_error("Failed to overwrite block info to db transaction: ", result).c_str()));
+  }
+  block_wtxn_stop();
+}
+
 uint64_t BlockchainLMDB::get_block_already_generated_coins(const uint64_t& height) const
 {
   LOG_PRINT_L3("BlockchainLMDB::" << __func__);
diff --git a/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.h b/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.h
index 6ddeed671..0213c1342 100644
--- a/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.h
+++ b/src/blockchain_db/lmdb/db_lmdb.h
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ public:
 
   virtual difficulty_type get_block_difficulty(const uint64_t& height) const;
 
+  virtual void correct_block_cumulative_difficulties(const uint64_t& start_height, const std::vector<difficulty_type>& new_cumulative_difficulties);
+
   virtual uint64_t get_block_already_generated_coins(const uint64_t& height) const;
 
   virtual uint64_t get_block_long_term_weight(const uint64_t& height) const;