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fix: keep an unclean shutdown from blocking index startup through the uncommitted tip - #8047
Follow-up to #8042. Since #8042, an index that writes entries as it appends blocks (address, spent, timestamp and governance collateral) records the tip of a commit it had to skip, and resumes from that tip after an unclean stop. That tip is always above the last coins flush. Coins flush daily but the block index is written hourly, so after a crash the tip's block can be missing from the block index or have only its header. The resume can then stop the node:
The block index lost the tip.Init() fails with "Please rebuild the index". The governance collateral index is always on, so the node doesn't start until -reindex. This happens after a crash within about an hour of the index catching up, e.g. after the first v24 start builds it.
The tip has only its header (common after a crash during IBD, since headers are stored long before block data). The index resumes above the active tip. When the node connects the first block above that tip again, BlockConnected() rewinds the index to that block's parent, which reads every block up to the uncommitted tip from disk. Those blocks aren't downloaded again yet, so the node stops with a fatal error. If the chain instead reorgs below the tip, the rewind fails the same way on every restart.
Both existed before #8042 via the committed locator; bitcoin#34897 fixed them for the other indexes, and the Dash adaptation carried them over for these four.
What was done?
BaseIndex::BlockConnected() skips a block that is already an ancestor of the index's best block instead of rewinding to its parent and appending it again. The block is already indexed, so this gives the same state without reading anything. It also stops notifications queued before the sync thread caught up from rewinding and re-appending blocks the sync already indexed, a small departure from upstream's BlockConnected().
The governance collateral index tolerates an uncommitted tip it can't use. A collateral only confirms while its block is on the active chain (CGovernanceObject::IsCollateralValid), and appending a block again overwrites its entries, so entries the index can't rewind are harmless. A new BaseIndex::IgnoresEntriesOffActiveChain() (true for governance only) makes Init() resume from the locator when the block index lost the tip, instead of failing. The governance rewind keeps the collaterals of a block without data instead of failing to read it.
It still resumes from a tip the block index has, as on develop. On a pruned node this keeps the sync check to the blocks above that tip, since the prune lock follows the index's in-memory tip.
Not covered here. If the chain reorgs below a header-only uncommitted tip after a crash, the address, spent and timestamp indexes still stop with a fatal error, as before #8042. That needs an unclean stop plus a reorg across those heights. These indexes are optional and can be rebuilt with -reindex; their entries can't be left in place, because readers trust them.
How Has This Been Tested?
New cases in existing scenarios:
baseindex_tests/restart_rewinds_blocks_synced_above_flush: an index resumes from a header-only uncommitted tip, and the block below it connects. The test index now reads each block it rewinds, as the address and spent indexes do.
governance_collateral_tests/sync_check_needs_only_blocks_above_the_resume_point: covers an uncommitted tip missing from the block index, where Start() succeeds and the index syncs from the locator. It also covers a header-only tip above the active tip: the sync check needs only blocks above the fork, the index resumes there, and after the tip is invalidated the index follows the replacement block.
Mutation checks:
Without the BlockConnected() change, the baseindex case hits the fatal rewind error and aborts.
Without the governance rewind skip, the header-only case does the same.
Without the Init() fallback, the governance index's Start() fails.
Full test_dash suite passes. feature_addressindex, feature_spentindex, feature_timestampindex, feature_index_prune, feature_coinstatsindex, feature_governance, feature_governance_cl, feature_governance_objects, feature_pruning, feature_dbcrash, feature_abortnode and rpc_getblockfilter pass.
Each commit builds and passes the index unit tests on its own.
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fix(index): stop an unclean stop from blocking startup through the uncommitted index tip
fix: keep an unclean shutdown from blocking index startup through the uncommitted tip
Nov 4, 2026
BaseIndex now permits initialization to continue when an uncommitted-tip block index is missing, if the index ignores off-chain entries. It also returns without changing the index when the indexed tip is an ancestor of the incoming block. GovCollateralIndex declares that it ignores off-chain entries and skips collateral erasure for blocks without data. Tests cover header-only restart, sync resumption, and rollback after invalidation.
dashpay/dash#8042: Adds uncommitted-tip persistence and missing-tip initialization behavior that this PR changes.
dashpay/dash#8030: Changes BaseIndex commit and rewind-locator behavior connected to this PR’s initialization and rewind changes.
dashpay/dash#7860: Adds GovCollateralIndex and block-hash-based collateral confirmation checks used with retained collateral entries.
Merge Risk: Low · up to c3661
The change makes restart recovery from a missing or header-only uncommitted tip more robust. A known, pre-existing exposure remains: pruning followed by an unclean stop can leave governance disabled with a warning until a reindex. This is bounded and does not need to block the merge.
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Cover the off-chain collateral rejection in the restart test.
startup_resumes_from_the_locator checks only the CanSync() results and best_block_height. It never calls FindCollateral() or IsCollateralValid(). The three blocks mined above the flush carry no burn transactions, so the test has no collateral entry above the locator. The pindex && chainman.ActiveChain().Contains(pindex) check in CGovernanceObject::IsCollateralValid() can therefore be removed without failing this test. The proposal-collateral test covers only an active-chain collateral and a wrong-burn rejection.
The govcollateralindex.h comment states that the restart design relies on IsCollateralValid() rejecting entries whose block is off the active chain. Add a case that creates a burn above the locator, takes its block off the active chain, and expects IsCollateralValid() to reject that collateral.
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Extend startup_resumes_from_the_locator to create a collateral burn in a block
above the flushed locator, then take that block off the active chain and verify
IsCollateralValid() rejects the collateral. Ensure the test retrieves the
collateral through FindCollateral() and exercises the off-active-chain rejection
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Review comments at @src/index/govcollateralindex.cpp:
- Around line 131-135: Ensure the committed locator advances before the prune
lock can move past it: coordinate the locator update in Commit() with prune-lock
advancement so pruning cannot remove blocks still required by CanSync’s
tip-to-best_block check. Preserve the existing block-data validation in CanSync.
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Review comments at @src/test/governance_collateral_tests.cpp:
- Around line 222-224: Extend startup_resumes_from_the_locator to create a
collateral burn in a block above the flushed locator, then take that block off
the active chain and verify IsCollateralValid() rejects the collateral. Ensure
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
The ancestor-notification guard and governance collateral active-chain checks support the recovery approach, but locator-only recovery introduces a pruned-node regression that can leave governance disabled until a full reindex. Static verification confirms that the previous uncommitted-tip recovery handles the same pruning-and-crash sequence successfully. Current CI shows passing primary builds, tests, and static checks; ASan and TSan tests and the multiprocess build remain pending. No local builds or tests were run.
Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The change modifies index restart, rewind, and commit behavior across shared and governance-specific code with regression tests, but does not constitute a large or intricate change to a listed critical surface.
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In `src/index/govcollateralindex.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/index/govcollateralindex.cpp:131-135: Preserve required replay blocks when switching governance to locator-only recovery
Locator-only recovery can disable governance after a pruning-and-crash sequence that recovers successfully on the base revision. Let L be the committed locator and H a later ThreadSync checkpoint above the last coins flush, with a block file between L and H eligible for pruning after the retention margins. SetBestBlockIndex(H) advances the prune lock, but Commit() skips updating the locator. A subsequent prune can delete that intermediate file and persist the chainstate and block index. While ThreadSync is still catching up, ChainStateFlushed() returns without committing because m_synced is false. An unclean stop before the next successful index commit therefore leaves this CanSync() check requiring deleted blocks above L, and init.cpp disables governance until -reindex.
On the base revision, the skipped commit records H as the uncommitted tip. The prune lock preserves H and the blocks above it, and the pruning flush persists its block-index entry, so recovery from H succeeds in this same sequence. The narrow catch-up window and similar behavior in other prunable indexes do not make this pre-existing for governance: removing its recovery checkpoint introduces the failure here. Keep governance's prune boundary consistent with its durable restart checkpoint, without requiring unrelated indexes to change, and add a regression case covering a crash after pruning but before the next index commit.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Independently reviewed the complete diff at bbd476b and found no actionable defects. Governance retains usable uncommitted checkpoints, resolving the prior pruning-recovery regression, while the recovery exceptions remain limited to readers that reject off-chain collateral. Validation was static only: current CI shows Linux64 and fuzz builds, lint, Cppcheck, and ClangFormat passing; Linux64 tests and several platform and sanitizer builds remain pending, with no failed checks reported.
Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The changes alter crash recovery, index resume and rewind behavior across shared index logic and governance storage, requiring reasoning about persisted state and chain ancestry but not meeting the critical tier's size and surface requirements.
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An eager index (address, spent, timestamp) resumes from its uncommitted
tip after an unclean stop, which is above the restored active tip. The
blocks in between are often left with only their headers in the block
index, because headers are stored before block data and the block index
is written hourly while coins flush daily. When the node connects the
first of them again, BlockConnected() saw a block below the index tip and
rewound the index to its parent. That reads every block up to the
uncommitted tip from disk, which fails while they are still being
downloaded again, so the node stopped with a fatal error, and the next
start can fail the same way.
A connected block that is an ancestor of the index's best block is
already indexed, so skip it. This also stops queued notifications that
arrive after the sync thread caught up from rewinding and re-appending
blocks the sync already indexed.
The test index now reads each block it rewinds, as the address and spent
indexes do, so the test fails without this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ncommitted tip
Since dashpay#8042 the governance collateral index records the tip of a commit
it had to skip and resumes from it after an unclean stop. That tip is
above the last coins flush, so the stop can leave it missing from the
block index, or with only its header:
- missing: Init() fails with "Please rebuild the index", and as the index
can't be disabled, the node doesn't start until -reindex;
- header-only, and the chain then reorgs below it: the rewind fails to
read it, the node stops with a fatal error, and every restart does the
same.
A collateral only confirms while its block is on the active chain
(CGovernanceObject::IsCollateralValid), and appending a block again
overwrites its entries, so entries the index can't rewind are harmless.
Resume from the locator when the block index lost the tip, and let the
rewind keep the collaterals of a block without data. The index still
resumes from a tip the block index has, which on a pruned node keeps the
blocks below it out of the sync check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static review of the complete diff at c366148 found no actionable issues: the ancestor shortcut avoids redundant rewinds, and governance-specific recovery remains consistent with active-chain collateral validation. The prior pruning regression is fixed by retaining usable uncommitted checkpoints in both startup and CanSync(). Current CI reports passing lint, formatting, Cppcheck, and several platform builds, with remaining builds and test jobs pending and no failed code checks reported; no builds or tests were run locally.
Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The change involves nontrivial index recovery and rewind behavior across crash, header-only tip, and reorg scenarios, but does not change a qualifying critical surface or storage format.
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Follow-up to #8042. Since #8042, an index that writes entries as it appends blocks (address, spent, timestamp and governance collateral) records the tip of a commit it had to skip, and resumes from that tip after an unclean stop. That tip is always above the last coins flush. Coins flush daily but the block index is written hourly, so after a crash the tip's block can be missing from the block index or have only its header. The resume can then stop the node:
Init()fails with "Please rebuild the index". The governance collateral index is always on, so the node doesn't start until-reindex. This happens after a crash within about an hour of the index catching up, e.g. after the first v24 start builds it.BlockConnected()rewinds the index to that block's parent, which reads every block up to the uncommitted tip from disk. Those blocks aren't downloaded again yet, so the node stops with a fatal error. If the chain instead reorgs below the tip, the rewind fails the same way on every restart.Both existed before #8042 via the committed locator; bitcoin#34897 fixed them for the other indexes, and the Dash adaptation carried them over for these four.
What was done?
BaseIndex::BlockConnected()skips a block that is already an ancestor of the index's best block instead of rewinding to its parent and appending it again. The block is already indexed, so this gives the same state without reading anything. It also stops notifications queued before the sync thread caught up from rewinding and re-appending blocks the sync already indexed, a small departure from upstream'sBlockConnected().The governance collateral index tolerates an uncommitted tip it can't use. A collateral only confirms while its block is on the active chain (
CGovernanceObject::IsCollateralValid), and appending a block again overwrites its entries, so entries the index can't rewind are harmless. A newBaseIndex::IgnoresEntriesOffActiveChain()(true for governance only) makesInit()resume from the locator when the block index lost the tip, instead of failing. The governance rewind keeps the collaterals of a block without data instead of failing to read it.It still resumes from a tip the block index has, as on develop. On a pruned node this keeps the sync check to the blocks above that tip, since the prune lock follows the index's in-memory tip.
Not covered here. If the chain reorgs below a header-only uncommitted tip after a crash, the address, spent and timestamp indexes still stop with a fatal error, as before #8042. That needs an unclean stop plus a reorg across those heights. These indexes are optional and can be rebuilt with
-reindex; their entries can't be left in place, because readers trust them.How Has This Been Tested?
baseindex_tests/restart_rewinds_blocks_synced_above_flush: an index resumes from a header-only uncommitted tip, and the block below it connects. The test index now reads each block it rewinds, as the address and spent indexes do.governance_collateral_tests/sync_check_needs_only_blocks_above_the_resume_point: covers an uncommitted tip missing from the block index, whereStart()succeeds and the index syncs from the locator. It also covers a header-only tip above the active tip: the sync check needs only blocks above the fork, the index resumes there, and after the tip is invalidated the index follows the replacement block.BlockConnected()change, the baseindex case hits the fatal rewind error and aborts.Init()fallback, the governance index'sStart()fails.test_dashsuite passes.feature_addressindex,feature_spentindex,feature_timestampindex,feature_index_prune,feature_coinstatsindex,feature_governance,feature_governance_cl,feature_governance_objects,feature_pruning,feature_dbcrash,feature_abortnodeandrpc_getblockfilterpass.Breaking Changes
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