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fix: keep a background chainstate's BLS scheme off other threads - #8066
BLS operations that are not given a scheme read the process-wide bls::bls_legacy_scheme. ConnectBlock sets it to the scheme of the block being connected, and ConnectTip/DisconnectTip restore it only when they return. A background chainstate validating pre-V19 history while the active (snapshot) chainstate is past V19 therefore puts the whole process on the legacy scheme for most of every background block connection.
Other threads verify ChainLocks, recovered signatures and InstantSend locks for the active chain outside cs_main, and they read the same flag. Valid basic-scheme ChainLocks then fail: the peer gets Misbehaving(10) and the CLSIG is already in seenChainLocks. Batched recovered-signature verification bans honest peers. Quorum-commitment checks that ConnectBlock hands to the BLS CCheckQueue workers run under whatever the flag holds on those threads.
Switching the active chainstate has the same effect in the other direction. ActivateSnapshot and the invalid-snapshot fallback change which chainstate is active without updating the flag, so after a node whose tip is pre-V19 (or that has no coins yet) activates a post-V19 snapshot, every consumer thread stays on legacy until the snapshot chainstate connects a block above its base.
On develop there is no production background chainstate or snapshot loader yet, so these cases are latent. They become live with AssumeUTXO background validation, and are most exposed at mainnet scale (about 1.9M pre-V19 blocks to validate in the background). One instance is reachable today: verifychain at level 3 (the default) or 4 with a depth reaching below V19 runs VerifyDB under cs_main and temporarily switches the running node to legacy while verifying across V19.
What was done?
bls::EffectiveLegacyScheme() returns a thread-local override if one is set, else the process-wide flag. Every implicit-scheme read uses it: serialization and ToString defaults, lazy wrappers, implicit verify/aggregate overloads, signing shares, recovered sigs, DKG contributions, the coinbase ChainLock decode cache, the miner and verifyrecsig.
bls::ScopedLegacySchemeOverride sets that override for a scope. Scopes nest; the outermost always clears, so the override never outlives its scope.
Work handed to other threads captures the scheme when it is created: llmq::utils::BlsCheck (commitment checks on the CCheckQueue), CBLSBatchVerifier, and CBLSWorker sign and verify jobs. Mixed-scheme verify jobs are not batched together.
ScopedBLSLegacyScheme in validation.cpp writes the process-wide flag only for a scope that may commit the active chainstate's tip. A background chainstate, TestBlockValidity dry runs, VerifyDB and RollforwardBlock use the thread-local override. The V19 switch in Process/UndoSpecialTxsInBlock goes through bls::SetEffectiveLegacyScheme(). The startup EHF signal rebuild uses a scoped override instead of flipping the global. VerifyLoadedChainstate's re-store after VerifyDB can no longer do anything and is removed.
ActivateSnapshot and the invalid-snapshot fallback set the process-wide flag from the new active tip right after switching. The fallback runs inside the background chainstate's ConnectTip, under that thread's override, so it writes the flag directly. ActivateExistingSnapshot and InitializeChainstate run at init, before any consumer thread, and VerifyLoadedChainstate already establishes a post-V19 tip's scheme there.
With a single chainstate the active chain's code path is unchanged. The thread-local scopes give their own thread exactly the values the flag used to take; other threads simply stop seeing them.
The override is a thread_local std::optional<bool>. It is trivially destructible and constant-initialised, so it registers no TLS destructor and no init guard, including in libdashconsensus, which compiles bls/bls.cpp. That is the concern behind the note in util/threadnames.cpp to avoid adding thread_local variables (FreeBSD bug 278701).
How Has This Been Tested?
New and extended unit tests:
quorum_proofs_tests/chainlock_verification_ignores_another_threads_scheme: with a real mined quorum, one thread holds a background-scheme scope. Another thread verifies a CLSIG through chainlock::VerifyChainLock (Valid) and a recovered-sig batch (no bad source). This is checked in both directions (legacy background with a basic active chain, and the reverse).
validation_chainstate_tests/chainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme: the background chainstate really connects a pre-V19 block (the old version of this step connected nothing). From inside its ConnectTip, after the block is committed, a second thread still verifies a basic signature and batch. Activating its pre-V19 snapshot over a basic process now also requires legacy right after activation.
validation_chainstate_tests/snapshot_activation_establishes_bls_scheme: activating a post-V19 snapshot over a legacy process makes the flag basic at once, and a fresh thread accepts a basic signature and batch, with no block connected.
validation_chainstate_tests/invalid_snapshot_fallback_establishes_bls_scheme: an invalid snapshot (UTXO mismatch) at completion, run under a thread-local override as inside the background ConnectTip, hands the active role back to the pre-V19 chainstate; the flag is legacy and a fresh thread accepts a legacy signature and batch.
bls_tests/v19_boundary_validation_failure_restores_bls_scheme: also runs a level-4 VerifyDB across V19, requires success, observes legacy on its own thread in at least one progress callback, requires the process-wide flag to stay basic at every callback, and checks cleanup on return.
llmq_utils_tests/bls_check_keeps_the_scheme_it_was_built_under: BlsChecks built under one scheme are submitted to a CCheckQueue with workers running, then verified after leaving that scope while the process default is the opposite scheme. They pass when built under the right scheme, and each one fails on its own when built under the wrong one.
bls_tests/batch_verifier_tests: every row (secure and insecure aggregation, with and without per-message fallback, both schemes) also runs Verify() on another thread under the opposite scheme and must give the same bad sources and messages.
bls_tests/scheme_override_is_per_thread_and_nests: override isolation, nesting, and that the override always clears on scope exit.
bls_tests/worker_jobs_keep_the_submitting_scheme: a CBLSWorker with one thread is held by a blocking job while AsyncSign and AsyncVerifySig jobs are submitted under alternating scoped schemes, so its verification batches are fixed. The jobs run after their scopes have ended, once with the process default set to each scheme. Each signature must verify only under the scheme it was submitted under. Each verification must pass exactly when its signature matches that scheme, across a singleton, an aggregated batch, a per-signature fallback, and a signature that would pass if it joined the previous scheme's batch.
Each new test was checked against a revert:
making the scope write the global (develop's behaviour) fails chainlock_verification_ignores_another_threads_scheme, chainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme and scheme_override_is_per_thread_and_nests;
dropping the BlsCheck capture, or letting either of its paths accept both schemes, fails bls_check_keeps_the_scheme_it_was_built_under;
making CBLSBatchVerifier read the scheme when Verify() runs (develop's behaviour), in all its verify calls or only the aggregate or only the per-message ones, fails batch_verifier_tests;
making CBLSWorker's sign or verify jobs read the scheme when they run (develop's behaviour), in all its verify calls or only the singleton, aggregate or per-signature one, or dropping the mixed-scheme batch flush, fails worker_jobs_keep_the_submitting_scheme;
forcing the background scopes process-wide fails chainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme;
making VerifyDB's scope process-wide (develop's call site) fails the new VerifyDB check;
dropping the two activation-switch calls fails snapshot_activation_establishes_bls_scheme, invalid_snapshot_fallback_establishes_bls_scheme and the activation check in chainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme;
setting the flag through SetEffectiveLegacyScheme() instead fails only invalid_snapshot_fallback_establishes_bls_scheme.
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make check;
the bls/llmq/evo/governance/validation unit suites, including validation_chainstatemanager_tests;
the new tests and the BLS/LLMQ/validation suites under TSan (clang-19, libc++, Linux). The only report is a pre-existing intermittent race in RenameThreadPool/ctpl, which develop's TSan build shows in the same suites.
Rebased onto develop 4c5c015, which now runs clang-tidy over unit tests too: the test loop in llmq_utils_tests reserves its vector, clang-tidy 19 reports nothing on the changed .cpp files, and bls_tests, llmq_utils_tests, validation_chainstatemanager_tests and validation_chainstate_tests pass on the new base.
Breaking Changes
None. ScopedBLSLegacyScheme is internal to validation.cpp; its constructor now takes (process_wide, enter).
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BLS scheme selection now combines a process-wide default with an optional thread-local override. BLS operations and asynchronous verification use the effective scheme, and queued jobs carry their scheme into worker-thread verification. Chainstate validation scopes scheme changes according to the chainstate being processed. Tests cover thread overrides, worker-thread verification, V19 boundary checks, and snapshot transitions.
dashpay/dash#8015: Adds vvecLegacyScheme to record the scheme used to decode DKG verification vectors.
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This test constructs and verifies the batch on the same thread, so it cannot detect a regression that reads the scheme at verification time. Add a test that constructs under an override and verifies on a thread with the opposite default. Cover aggregate and per-message fallback verification.
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Review comment at @src/test/quorum_proofs_tests.cpp around lines 505 - 508:
The current test verifies the batch on the same thread that constructs it, so it
does not detect scheme changes between construction and verification. Extend the
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Test opposite-scheme rejection for the multi-key check separately.
If the multi-key check accepts the opposite scheme, the single-key failure still makes the queue return false. Run the multi-key check alone so the test detects that regression.
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Review comment at @src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp around lines 499 - 500:
Update the multi-key verification test to run the members check independently
under the opposite BLS scheme and assert that it rejects the signature, so a
failure in the single-key check cannot mask a regression. Reuse the existing
multi-key inputs and scheme-override pattern around the relevant test.
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Review comments at @src/bls/bls.h:
- Line 216: Update CBLSWrapper::GetHash to record the effective BLS scheme
alongside the cached hash, using scheme-aware cache identity because the hash
derives from the selected serialization. Before VerifyVerificationVectors or
FindVerificationVectorsWithSharedCoefficients uses the cached value, recompute
it whenever the effective scheme differs from the recorded scheme.
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Review comments at @src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp:
- Around line 499-500: Update the multi-key verification test to run the members
check independently under the opposite BLS scheme and assert that it rejects the
signature, so a failure in the single-key check cannot mask a regression. Reuse
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- Around line 505-508: The current test verifies the batch on the same thread
that constructs it, so it does not detect scheme changes between construction
and verification. Extend the test around CBLSBatchVerifier to construct under a
scheme override and verify on a separate thread with the opposite default; cover
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Both nitpicks were valid, and they're addressed in f7d5d3e, folded into "refactor(bls): resolve the implicit BLS scheme per thread":
Batch verification across a scheme change (quorum_proofs_tests.cpp:505-508). I added this in bls_tests, whose batch-verifier scenario already covers CBLSBatchVerifier. Every row of that table (secure and insecure aggregation, with and without per-message fallback, both schemes, including the invalid-signature and cancelling-error rows) now also runs Verify() on another thread that overrides to the opposite scheme, and it must give the same bad sources and messages. Making the verifier read the scheme when Verify() runs, in all three calls or only the aggregate or only the per-message one, fails batch_verifier_tests. Before this change, no test caught that.
Masked multi-key rejection (llmq_utils_tests.cpp:499-500). The opposite-scheme case now runs each BlsCheck alone, so the single-key and multi-key rejections can't mask each other in either direction. Letting either path accept both schemes now fails the test. Before, both mutations passed.
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
At f7d5d3e, the scheme-isolation and active-chainstate switch changes are consistent with their stated goal; no blocking correctness issue was confirmed, and one regression-coverage suggestion remains. Current CI shows successful platform builds, lint, and standard, nowallet, multiprocess, and TSan tests; ASan tests and multiprocess lint remain pending, while the milestone policy check fails. The overlapping base-branch commits neither supersede nor conflict with this change, and the supplied merge evidence reports no conflicts.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate, cross-cutting diff changes cryptographic signature behavior in src/bls/bls.cpp, src/bls/bls_batchverifier.h and src/bls/bls_worker.cpp by introducing thread-local scheme selection and propagating schemes across asynchronous verification, coordinated with chainstate transitions in src/validation.cpp.
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- [SUGGESTION] src/bls/bls_worker.cpp:847-853: Add regression coverage for worker scheme capture and mixed-scheme queueing
The PR changes CBLSWorker::AsyncSign and AsyncVerifySig to capture the submitting scheme and adds this mixed-scheme queue-flush condition, but no unit test invokes either worker API. The new CBLSBatchVerifier and BlsCheck tests exercise separate implementations, and AsyncVerifySig's only external caller is the benchmark, so the functional suites do not cover this queue behavior either. Add deterministic coverage in bls_tests using worker.Start(1) and a promise-controlled callback to hold the worker while jobs are submitted under both scoped schemes. Verify signing, singleton and aggregated verification, per-signature fallback, and opposite-scheme rejection after the submitting scopes have ended and the process default differs from the queued jobs' schemes. This would catch loss of a scheme capture or removal of the flush condition without timing-dependent sleeps.
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✅ Resolved at ba207fc2; see the replies below.
🟡 Suggestion: Add regression coverage for worker scheme capture and mixed-scheme queueing
The PR changes CBLSWorker::AsyncSign and AsyncVerifySig to capture the submitting scheme and adds this mixed-scheme queue-flush condition, but no unit test invokes either worker API. The new CBLSBatchVerifier and BlsCheck tests exercise separate implementations, and AsyncVerifySig's only external caller is the benchmark, so the functional suites do not cover this queue behavior either. Add deterministic coverage in bls_tests using worker.Start(1) and a promise-controlled callback to hold the worker while jobs are submitted under both scoped schemes. Verify signing, singleton and aggregated verification, per-signature fallback, and opposite-scheme rejection after the submitting scopes have ended and the process default differs from the queued jobs' schemes. This would catch loss of a scheme capture or removal of the flush condition without timing-dependent sleeps.
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Agreed, and added in ba207fc, folded into "refactor(bls): resolve the implicit BLS scheme per thread": bls_tests/worker_jobs_keep_the_submitting_scheme.
A CBLSWorker started with one thread is held by a blocking AsyncSign callback, using a promise handshake with no sleeps. With nothing in flight, AsyncSign and AsyncVerifySig jobs are submitted under alternating ScopedLegacySchemeOverride scopes, so the batch layout is fixed. The worker is released only after the scopes have ended, and the test runs once with the process default set to each scheme.
Verification covers a singleton, an aggregated batch that passes, an aggregated batch that falls back to per-signature checks, and opposite-scheme rejection, including signatures that are valid only under the process default. Each AsyncSign result must verify under the submitting scheme and fail under the other.
One case sits at a scheme boundary: a basic-scope job carrying a legacy signature, right after an all-valid legacy batch. Without the mixed-scheme flush it is aggregated into that batch under legacy and reported valid, so the flush changes outcomes as well as cost.
Each of these mutants fails the test: AsyncSign reading the scheme when the job runs (18 failures); all verify calls reading it at run time (9), or only the singleton (3), aggregate (2) or per-signature fallback (4) call; dropping the mixed-scheme flush (2). The real code passes 21/21 runs under TSan, along with bls_tests, llmq_utils_tests, quorum_proofs_tests and validation_chainstate_tests. The only TSan report is the existing CBLSWorker::Start → RenameThreadPool race, which develop shows too.
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Resolved (re-reviewed at ba207fc2): Your worker_jobs_keep_the_submitting_scheme test holds a single worker with a promise handshake until the submitting scopes have ended, and its job sequences cover signing, singleton verification, successful aggregation, fallback, and opposite-scheme rejection under both process defaults. I also verified that the legacy-to-basic boundary case would incorrectly pass without the mixed-scheme flush; this resolves the finding by static inspection, without independently rerunning the reported mutation or TSan checks.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static review of the complete diff at ba207fc found no actionable in-scope issues, and the prior worker regression-coverage gap is fixed. Current CI source builds, lint, formatting, Cppcheck, multiprocess tests, and nowallet tests pass; linux64, ASan, TSan tests and multiprocess lint remain pending, while the only failing check is the unrelated milestone policy. No builds or tests were run locally; the inspected base-drift commits neither supersede nor conflict with the BLS changes.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate, cross-cutting diff changes implicit cryptographic scheme selection in src/bls/bls.cpp, asynchronous signature verification in CBLSWorker and CBLSBatchVerifier, and scheme transitions during chainstate validation in src/validation.cpp.
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BLS operations that are not given a scheme read the process-wide
bls::bls_legacy_scheme. Add bls::EffectiveLegacyScheme(), which returns
a thread-local override when one is set (bls::ScopedLegacySchemeOverride)
and the process-wide value otherwise, and route every implicit read
through it: the CBLSWrapper and CBLSLazyWrapper serialization defaults,
the implicit aggregate and verify overloads, sig share signing, recovered
sigs, DKG contributions, the coinbase ChainLock decode cache, the miner
and `verifyrecsig`.
Work that runs on another thread captures the scheme where it is created:
utils::BlsCheck (run by the commitment CCheckQueue), CBLSBatchVerifier,
and CBLSWorker's AsyncSign and AsyncVerifySig jobs, using new
explicit-scheme VerifyInsecureAggregated/VerifySecureAggregated
overloads. AsyncVerifySig no longer batches jobs of different schemes.
Nothing sets an override yet, so behaviour is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ConnectBlock establishes the BLS scheme of the block it connects by
writing the process-wide bls::bls_legacy_scheme, and ConnectTip and
DisconnectTip restore it only on return. A background chainstate
validating pre-V19 history under a post-V19 snapshot therefore leaves
the whole process on the legacy scheme for most of each background block
connection, while other threads verify ChainLocks, recovered signatures
and InstantSend locks for the active chain outside cs_main. Valid
ChainLocks then fail (Misbehaving(10) and a poisoned seen set) and
batched recovered-signature verification bans honest peers.
ScopedBLSLegacyScheme now writes the process-wide scheme only for a
scope that may commit the active chainstate's tip. Every other scope (a
background chainstate, a TestBlockValidity dry run, VerifyDB,
RollforwardBlock), and any scope nested in one, sets a thread-local
override instead. The V19 switch in Process/UndoSpecialTxsInBlock goes
through bls::SetEffectiveLegacyScheme(), and the EHF signal rebuild at
startup uses a scoped override instead of flipping the global.
ConnectTip and DisconnectTip Assume() that no thread-local scope
encloses a move of the active chainstate's tip.
With a single chainstate the active chain's path is unchanged. The
thread-local scopes give their own thread the values the process-wide
flag used to take, but other threads no longer see them; for example a
`verifychain 4` reaching below V19 no longer switches the running node
to legacy while it runs. VerifyDB no longer touches the process-wide
scheme at all, so VerifyLoadedChainstate's re-store of it after VerifyDB
(already unreachable, because VerifyDB restored the scheme on return) is
removed.
The existing background-connect test never connected a block (the
snapshot setup drops the data below the base). It now restores one
block's data, connects it, and checks from inside ConnectTip that
another thread still verifies a basic signature and batch. The V19
boundary test also runs a level-4 VerifyDB across V19 and checks that
the process-wide scheme stays basic throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…changes
The process-wide bls::bls_legacy_scheme describes the active
chainstate's tip, and while the node runs only the active chainstate's
ConnectTip and DisconnectTip update it. ActivateSnapshot and the
invalid-snapshot fallback in MaybeCompleteSnapshotValidation switch the
active chainstate without doing so. After a node whose tip is pre-V19,
or that has no coins yet, activates a post-V19 snapshot, every thread
that verifies for the active chain stays on the legacy scheme until the
snapshot chainstate connects a block above its base: valid ChainLocks
fail and recovered-signature batches mark honest sources bad. The
fallback leaves the reverse mismatch.
Set the process-wide scheme from the new active tip right after both
switches. The fallback runs inside the background chainstate's
ConnectTip, under that thread's override, so the helper writes the
global directly instead of going through SetEffectiveLegacyScheme().
ActivateExistingSnapshot and InitializeChainstate need no call: they
run at init, before the tip is loaded and before any consumer thread
starts, and VerifyLoadedChainstate establishes a post-V19 tip's scheme.
On develop only tests activate a snapshot, so this is latent until a
snapshot loader lands. The new tests activate a post-V19 snapshot over a
legacy process and a pre-V19 snapshot over a basic one, and fall back
from an invalid snapshot under a thread-local override; each checks the
process-wide scheme, and the first and last also check that a fresh
thread accepts a signature in the new active tip's scheme.
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Rebased onto develop 4c5c015 and pushed 7e080ec. The only change from ba207fc is one line in the first commit: sigs.reserve(sks.size()); before the signing loop in llmq_utils_tests.
Develop's d3032d1 removed src/test/.clang-tidy, so clang-tidy now checks unit tests with src/.clang-tidy, and this PR's old base still exempted them. Merged as it was, the loop would have failed develop's tidy job (performance-inefficient-vector-operation). On the new base, clang-tidy 19 reports nothing on the changed .cpp files, and the BLS, LLMQ utils and chainstate suites pass. The range-diff against the previous head shows only that line.
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Review comments at @src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp:
- Around line 469-507: Use scope-based cleanup for the worker threads in this
test: ensure `queue.StopWorkerThreads()` runs both on normal completion and
during stack unwinding, including if an allocation throws after the workers
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If an allocation throws after the workers start, the test skips StopWorkerThreads(). The queue destructor then asserts because the workers remain registered, which can abort the test binary. Use scope-based cleanup to stop the workers during unwinding.
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Review comment at @src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp around lines 469 - 507:
Use scope-based cleanup for the worker threads in this test: ensure
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Thanks, but I'll leave this as it is. Every check in the test is a non-throwing BOOST_CHECK, so the only way to leave the block early after StartWorkerThreads() is an allocation failure such as the reserve throwing bad_alloc. That takes the test binary down whether or not the workers are stopped first. The explicit StopWorkerThreads() at the end also matches the other CCheckQueue tests on develop.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static verification of the complete diff at 7e080ec found no actionable defects in thread-local scheme isolation, asynchronous scheme capture, or active-chainstate switching. The prior worker regression-coverage finding is fixed by deterministic tests covering signing, singleton and aggregate verification, fallback, and mixed-scheme rejection. Current CI reports successful builds, standard/no-wallet/multiprocess tests, TSan tests, and lint checks; ASan testing remains pending, and no local builds or tests were run.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The cross-cutting changes to implicit BLS scheme resolution in src/bls/bls.cpp, asynchronous signature verification jobs, and chainstate scheme transitions in src/validation.cpp are intricate and directly alter cryptographic signature handling.
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BLS operations that are not given a scheme read the process-wide
bls::bls_legacy_scheme.ConnectBlocksets it to the scheme of the block being connected, andConnectTip/DisconnectTiprestore it only when they return. A background chainstate validating pre-V19 history while the active (snapshot) chainstate is past V19 therefore puts the whole process on the legacy scheme for most of every background block connection.Other threads verify ChainLocks, recovered signatures and InstantSend locks for the active chain outside
cs_main, and they read the same flag. Valid basic-scheme ChainLocks then fail: the peer getsMisbehaving(10)and the CLSIG is already inseenChainLocks. Batched recovered-signature verification bans honest peers. Quorum-commitment checks thatConnectBlockhands to the BLSCCheckQueueworkers run under whatever the flag holds on those threads.Switching the active chainstate has the same effect in the other direction.
ActivateSnapshotand the invalid-snapshot fallback change which chainstate is active without updating the flag, so after a node whose tip is pre-V19 (or that has no coins yet) activates a post-V19 snapshot, every consumer thread stays on legacy until the snapshot chainstate connects a block above its base.On develop there is no production background chainstate or snapshot loader yet, so these cases are latent. They become live with AssumeUTXO background validation, and are most exposed at mainnet scale (about 1.9M pre-V19 blocks to validate in the background). One instance is reachable today:
verifychainat level 3 (the default) or 4 with a depth reaching below V19 runsVerifyDBundercs_mainand temporarily switches the running node to legacy while verifying across V19.What was done?
bls::EffectiveLegacyScheme()returns a thread-local override if one is set, else the process-wide flag. Every implicit-scheme read uses it: serialization andToStringdefaults, lazy wrappers, implicit verify/aggregate overloads, signing shares, recovered sigs, DKG contributions, the coinbase ChainLock decode cache, the miner andverifyrecsig.bls::ScopedLegacySchemeOverridesets that override for a scope. Scopes nest; the outermost always clears, so the override never outlives its scope.llmq::utils::BlsCheck(commitment checks on theCCheckQueue),CBLSBatchVerifier, andCBLSWorkersign and verify jobs. Mixed-scheme verify jobs are not batched together.ScopedBLSLegacySchemeinvalidation.cppwrites the process-wide flag only for a scope that may commit the active chainstate's tip. A background chainstate,TestBlockValiditydry runs,VerifyDBandRollforwardBlockuse the thread-local override. The V19 switch inProcess/UndoSpecialTxsInBlockgoes throughbls::SetEffectiveLegacyScheme(). The startup EHF signal rebuild uses a scoped override instead of flipping the global.VerifyLoadedChainstate's re-store afterVerifyDBcan no longer do anything and is removed.ActivateSnapshotand the invalid-snapshot fallback set the process-wide flag from the new active tip right after switching. The fallback runs inside the background chainstate'sConnectTip, under that thread's override, so it writes the flag directly.ActivateExistingSnapshotandInitializeChainstaterun at init, before any consumer thread, andVerifyLoadedChainstatealready establishes a post-V19 tip's scheme there.With a single chainstate the active chain's code path is unchanged. The thread-local scopes give their own thread exactly the values the flag used to take; other threads simply stop seeing them.
The override is a
thread_local std::optional<bool>. It is trivially destructible and constant-initialised, so it registers no TLS destructor and no init guard, including inlibdashconsensus, which compilesbls/bls.cpp. That is the concern behind the note inutil/threadnames.cppto avoid addingthread_localvariables (FreeBSD bug 278701).How Has This Been Tested?
New and extended unit tests:
quorum_proofs_tests/chainlock_verification_ignores_another_threads_scheme: with a real mined quorum, one thread holds a background-scheme scope. Another thread verifies a CLSIG throughchainlock::VerifyChainLock(Valid) and a recovered-sig batch (no bad source). This is checked in both directions (legacy background with a basic active chain, and the reverse).validation_chainstate_tests/chainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme: the background chainstate really connects a pre-V19 block (the old version of this step connected nothing). From inside itsConnectTip, after the block is committed, a second thread still verifies a basic signature and batch. Activating its pre-V19 snapshot over a basic process now also requires legacy right after activation.validation_chainstate_tests/snapshot_activation_establishes_bls_scheme: activating a post-V19 snapshot over a legacy process makes the flag basic at once, and a fresh thread accepts a basic signature and batch, with no block connected.validation_chainstate_tests/invalid_snapshot_fallback_establishes_bls_scheme: an invalid snapshot (UTXO mismatch) at completion, run under a thread-local override as inside the backgroundConnectTip, hands the active role back to the pre-V19 chainstate; the flag is legacy and a fresh thread accepts a legacy signature and batch.bls_tests/v19_boundary_validation_failure_restores_bls_scheme: also runs a level-4VerifyDBacross V19, requires success, observes legacy on its own thread in at least one progress callback, requires the process-wide flag to stay basic at every callback, and checks cleanup on return.llmq_utils_tests/bls_check_keeps_the_scheme_it_was_built_under:BlsChecks built under one scheme are submitted to aCCheckQueuewith workers running, then verified after leaving that scope while the process default is the opposite scheme. They pass when built under the right scheme, and each one fails on its own when built under the wrong one.bls_tests/batch_verifier_tests: every row (secure and insecure aggregation, with and without per-message fallback, both schemes) also runsVerify()on another thread under the opposite scheme and must give the same bad sources and messages.bls_tests/scheme_override_is_per_thread_and_nests: override isolation, nesting, and that the override always clears on scope exit.bls_tests/worker_jobs_keep_the_submitting_scheme: aCBLSWorkerwith one thread is held by a blocking job whileAsyncSignandAsyncVerifySigjobs are submitted under alternating scoped schemes, so its verification batches are fixed. The jobs run after their scopes have ended, once with the process default set to each scheme. Each signature must verify only under the scheme it was submitted under. Each verification must pass exactly when its signature matches that scheme, across a singleton, an aggregated batch, a per-signature fallback, and a signature that would pass if it joined the previous scheme's batch.Each new test was checked against a revert:
chainlock_verification_ignores_another_threads_scheme,chainstate_connectblock_bls_schemeandscheme_override_is_per_thread_and_nests;BlsCheckcapture, or letting either of its paths accept both schemes, failsbls_check_keeps_the_scheme_it_was_built_under;CBLSBatchVerifierread the scheme whenVerify()runs (develop's behaviour), in all its verify calls or only the aggregate or only the per-message ones, failsbatch_verifier_tests;CBLSWorker's sign or verify jobs read the scheme when they run (develop's behaviour), in all its verify calls or only the singleton, aggregate or per-signature one, or dropping the mixed-scheme batch flush, failsworker_jobs_keep_the_submitting_scheme;chainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme;VerifyDB's scope process-wide (develop's call site) fails the newVerifyDBcheck;snapshot_activation_establishes_bls_scheme,invalid_snapshot_fallback_establishes_bls_schemeand the activation check inchainstate_connectblock_bls_scheme;SetEffectiveLegacyScheme()instead fails onlyinvalid_snapshot_fallback_establishes_bls_scheme.Also run:
make check;validation_chainstatemanager_tests;feature_protx_version.py(V19 transition),feature_init.py,rpc_blockchain.py(v1 and v2 transports),feature_llmq_signing.py(and--spork21),feature_llmq_chainlocks.py,feature_llmq_chainlocks_automatic.py,feature_llmq_is_retroactive.py,feature_llmq_is_retroactive_session_timeout.py,feature_llmq_is_cl_conflicts.py,feature_llmq_rotation.py,feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py,feature_dip3_deterministicmns.py,feature_mnehf.py,feature_asset_locks.py,rpc_verifychainlock.py(macOS, debug build);RenameThreadPool/ctpl, which develop's TSan build shows in the same suites.Rebased onto develop 4c5c015, which now runs clang-tidy over unit tests too: the test loop in
llmq_utils_testsreserves its vector, clang-tidy 19 reports nothing on the changed.cppfiles, andbls_tests,llmq_utils_tests,validation_chainstatemanager_testsandvalidation_chainstate_testspass on the new base.Breaking Changes
None.
ScopedBLSLegacySchemeis internal tovalidation.cpp; its constructor now takes(process_wide, enter).Checklist:
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