wallet: protect against exceptions in the block pull thread

This can happen when the daemon exits, which would also cause
the wallet to crash via unhandled exception

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
index cfa33b283..19b598af8 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
@@ -648,21 +648,30 @@ void wallet2::refresh(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t & blocks_fetched)
   refresh(start_height, blocks_fetched, received_money);
 }
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-void wallet2::pull_next_blocks(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t &blocks_start_height, std::list<crypto::hash> &short_chain_history, const std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &prev_blocks, std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &blocks)
+void wallet2::pull_next_blocks(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t &blocks_start_height, std::list<crypto::hash> &short_chain_history, const std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &prev_blocks, std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &blocks, bool &error)
 {
-  // prepend the last 3 blocks, should be enough to guard against a block or two's reorg
-  cryptonote::block bl;
-  std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry>::const_reverse_iterator i = prev_blocks.rbegin();
-  for (size_t n = 0; n < std::min((size_t)3, prev_blocks.size()); ++n)
+  error = false;
+
+  try
   {
-    bool ok = cryptonote::parse_and_validate_block_from_blob(i->block, bl);
-    THROW_WALLET_EXCEPTION_IF(!ok, error::block_parse_error, i->block);
-    short_chain_history.push_front(cryptonote::get_block_hash(bl));
-    ++i;
-  }
+    // prepend the last 3 blocks, should be enough to guard against a block or two's reorg
+    cryptonote::block bl;
+    std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry>::const_reverse_iterator i = prev_blocks.rbegin();
+    for (size_t n = 0; n < std::min((size_t)3, prev_blocks.size()); ++n)
+    {
+      bool ok = cryptonote::parse_and_validate_block_from_blob(i->block, bl);
+      THROW_WALLET_EXCEPTION_IF(!ok, error::block_parse_error, i->block);
+      short_chain_history.push_front(cryptonote::get_block_hash(bl));
+      ++i;
+    }
 
-  // pull the new blocks
-  pull_blocks(start_height, blocks_start_height, short_chain_history, blocks);
+    // pull the new blocks
+    pull_blocks(start_height, blocks_start_height, short_chain_history, blocks);
+  }
+  catch(...)
+  {
+    error = true;
+  }
 }
 //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 void wallet2::refresh(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t & blocks_fetched, bool& received_money)
@@ -689,7 +698,8 @@ void wallet2::refresh(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t & blocks_fetched, bool& re
       // pull the next set of blocks while we're processing the current one
       uint64_t next_blocks_start_height;
       std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> next_blocks;
-      pull_thread = std::thread([&]{pull_next_blocks(start_height, next_blocks_start_height, short_chain_history, blocks, next_blocks);});
+      bool error = false;
+      pull_thread = std::thread([&]{pull_next_blocks(start_height, next_blocks_start_height, short_chain_history, blocks, next_blocks, error);});
 
       process_blocks(blocks_start_height, blocks, added_blocks);
       blocks_fetched += added_blocks;
@@ -700,6 +710,12 @@ void wallet2::refresh(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t & blocks_fetched, bool& re
       // switch to the new blocks from the daemon
       blocks_start_height = next_blocks_start_height;
       blocks = next_blocks;
+
+      // handle error from async fetching thread
+      if (error)
+      {
+        throw std::runtime_error("proxy exception in refresh thread");
+      }
     }
     catch (const std::exception&)
     {
diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet2.h b/src/wallet/wallet2.h
index adb7b13e2..77a9fd18e 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet2.h
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet2.h
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ namespace tools
     bool is_transfer_unlocked(const transfer_details& td) const;
     bool clear();
     void pull_blocks(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t& blocks_start_height, const std::list<crypto::hash> &short_chain_history, std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &blocks);
-    void pull_next_blocks(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t &blocks_start_height, std::list<crypto::hash> &short_chain_history, const std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &prev_blocks, std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &blocks);
+    void pull_next_blocks(uint64_t start_height, uint64_t &blocks_start_height, std::list<crypto::hash> &short_chain_history, const std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &prev_blocks, std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &blocks, bool &error);
     void process_blocks(uint64_t start_height, const std::list<cryptonote::block_complete_entry> &blocks, uint64_t& blocks_added);
     uint64_t select_transfers(uint64_t needed_money, bool add_dust, uint64_t dust, std::list<transfer_container::iterator>& selected_transfers);
     bool prepare_file_names(const std::string& file_path);