go-ethereum/consensus/beacon/consensus.go
Péter Szilágyi 39638c81c5
all: nuke total difficulty (#30744)
The total difficulty is the sum of all block difficulties from genesis
to a certain block. This value was used in PoW for deciding which chain
is heavier, and thus which chain to select. Since PoS has a different
fork selection algorithm, all blocks since the merge have a difficulty
of 0, and all total difficulties are the same for the past 2 years.

Whilst the TDs are mostly useless nowadays, there was never really a
reason to mess around removing them since they are so tiny. This
reasoning changes when we go down the path of pruned chain history. In
order to reconstruct any TD, we **must** retrieve all the headers from
chain head to genesis and then iterate all the difficulties to compute
the TD.

In a world where we completely prune past chain segments (bodies,
receipts, headers), it is not possible to reconstruct the TD at all. In
a world where we still keep chain headers and prune only the rest,
reconstructing it possible as long as we process (or download) the chain
forward from genesis, but trying to snap sync the head first and
backfill later hits the same issue, the TD becomes impossible to
calculate until genesis is backfilled.

All in all, the TD is a messy out-of-state, out-of-consensus computed
field that is overall useless nowadays, but code relying on it forces
the client into certain modes of operation and prevents other modes or
other optimizations. This PR completely nukes out the TD from the node.
It doesn't compute it, it doesn't operate on it, it's as if it didn't
even exist.

Caveats:

- Whenever we have APIs that return TD (devp2p handshake, tracer, etc.)
we return a TD of 0.
- For era files, we recompute the TD during export time (fairly quick)
to retain the format content.
- It is not possible to "verify" the merge point (i.e. with TD gone, TTD
is useless). Since we're not verifying PoW any more, just blindly trust
it, not verifying but blindly trusting the many year old merge point
seems just the same trust model.
- Our tests still need to be able to generate pre and post merge blocks,
so they need a new way to split the merge without TTD. The PR introduces
a settable ttdBlock field on the consensus object which is used by tests
as the block where originally the TTD happened. This is not needed for
live nodes, we never want to generate old blocks.
- One merge transition consensus test was disabled. With a
non-operational TD, testing how the client reacts to TTD is useless, it
cannot react.

Questions:

- Should we also drop total terminal difficulty from the genesis json?
It's a number we cannot react on any more, so maybe it would be cleaner
to get rid of even more concepts.

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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
2025-01-28 18:55:41 +01:00

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// Copyright 2021 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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package beacon
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"math/big"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/consensus"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/consensus/misc/eip1559"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/consensus/misc/eip4844"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/state"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/tracing"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/trie"
"github.com/holiman/uint256"
)
// Proof-of-stake protocol constants.
var (
beaconDifficulty = common.Big0 // The default block difficulty in the beacon consensus
beaconNonce = types.EncodeNonce(0) // The default block nonce in the beacon consensus
)
// Various error messages to mark blocks invalid. These should be private to
// prevent engine specific errors from being referenced in the remainder of the
// codebase, inherently breaking if the engine is swapped out. Please put common
// error types into the consensus package.
var (
errTooManyUncles = errors.New("too many uncles")
errInvalidNonce = errors.New("invalid nonce")
errInvalidUncleHash = errors.New("invalid uncle hash")
errInvalidTimestamp = errors.New("invalid timestamp")
)
// Beacon is a consensus engine that combines the eth1 consensus and proof-of-stake
// algorithm. There is a special flag inside to decide whether to use legacy consensus
// rules or new rules. The transition rule is described in the eth1/2 merge spec.
// https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-3675.md
//
// The beacon here is a half-functional consensus engine with partial functions which
// is only used for necessary consensus checks. The legacy consensus engine can be any
// engine implements the consensus interface (except the beacon itself).
type Beacon struct {
ethone consensus.Engine // Original consensus engine used in eth1, e.g. ethash or clique
ttdblock *uint64 // Merge block-number for testchain generation without TTDs
}
// New creates a consensus engine with the given embedded eth1 engine.
func New(ethone consensus.Engine) *Beacon {
if _, ok := ethone.(*Beacon); ok {
panic("nested consensus engine")
}
return &Beacon{ethone: ethone}
}
// TestingTTDBlock is a replacement mechanism for TTD-based pre-/post-merge
// splitting. With chain history deletion, TD calculations become impossible.
// This is fine for progressing the live chain, but to be able to generate test
// chains, we do need a split point. This method supports setting an explicit
// block number to use as the splitter *for testing*, instead of having to keep
// the notion of TDs in the client just for testing.
//
// The block with supplied number is regarded as the last pre-merge block.
func (beacon *Beacon) TestingTTDBlock(number uint64) {
beacon.ttdblock = &number
}
// Author implements consensus.Engine, returning the verified author of the block.
func (beacon *Beacon) Author(header *types.Header) (common.Address, error) {
if !beacon.IsPoSHeader(header) {
return beacon.ethone.Author(header)
}
return header.Coinbase, nil
}
// VerifyHeader checks whether a header conforms to the consensus rules of the
// stock Ethereum consensus engine.
func (beacon *Beacon) VerifyHeader(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header) error {
// During the live merge transition, the consensus engine used the terminal
// total difficulty to detect when PoW (PoA) switched to PoS. Maintaining the
// total difficulty values however require applying all the blocks from the
// genesis to build up the TD. This stops being a possibility if the tail of
// the chain is pruned already during sync.
//
// One heuristic that can be used to distinguish pre-merge and post-merge
// blocks is whether their *difficulty* is >0 or ==0 respectively. This of
// course would mean that we cannot prove anymore for a past chain that it
// truly transitioned at the correct TTD, but if we consider that ancient
// point in time finalized a long time ago, there should be no attempt from
// the consensus client to rewrite very old history.
//
// One thing that's probably not needed but which we can add to make this
// verification even stricter is to enforce that the chain can switch from
// >0 to ==0 TD only once by forbidding an ==0 to be followed by a >0.
// Verify that we're not reverting to pre-merge from post-merge
parent := chain.GetHeader(header.ParentHash, header.Number.Uint64()-1)
if parent == nil {
return consensus.ErrUnknownAncestor
}
if parent.Difficulty.Sign() == 0 && header.Difficulty.Sign() > 0 {
return consensus.ErrInvalidTerminalBlock
}
// Check >0 TDs with pre-merge, --0 TDs with post-merge rules
if header.Difficulty.Sign() > 0 {
return beacon.ethone.VerifyHeader(chain, header)
}
return beacon.verifyHeader(chain, header, parent)
}
// splitHeaders splits the provided header batch into two parts according to
// the difficulty field.
//
// Note, this function will not verify the header validity but just split them.
func (beacon *Beacon) splitHeaders(headers []*types.Header) ([]*types.Header, []*types.Header) {
var (
preHeaders = headers
postHeaders []*types.Header
)
for i, header := range headers {
if header.Difficulty.Sign() == 0 {
preHeaders = headers[:i]
postHeaders = headers[i:]
break
}
}
return preHeaders, postHeaders
}
// VerifyHeaders is similar to VerifyHeader, but verifies a batch of headers
// concurrently. The method returns a quit channel to abort the operations and
// a results channel to retrieve the async verifications.
// VerifyHeaders expect the headers to be ordered and continuous.
func (beacon *Beacon) VerifyHeaders(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, headers []*types.Header) (chan<- struct{}, <-chan error) {
preHeaders, postHeaders := beacon.splitHeaders(headers)
if len(postHeaders) == 0 {
return beacon.ethone.VerifyHeaders(chain, headers)
}
if len(preHeaders) == 0 {
return beacon.verifyHeaders(chain, headers, nil)
}
// The transition point exists in the middle, separate the headers
// into two batches and apply different verification rules for them.
var (
abort = make(chan struct{})
results = make(chan error, len(headers))
)
go func() {
var (
old, new, out = 0, len(preHeaders), 0
errors = make([]error, len(headers))
done = make([]bool, len(headers))
oldDone, oldResult = beacon.ethone.VerifyHeaders(chain, preHeaders)
newDone, newResult = beacon.verifyHeaders(chain, postHeaders, preHeaders[len(preHeaders)-1])
)
// Collect the results
for {
for ; done[out]; out++ {
results <- errors[out]
if out == len(headers)-1 {
return
}
}
select {
case err := <-oldResult:
if !done[old] { // skip TTD-verified failures
errors[old], done[old] = err, true
}
old++
case err := <-newResult:
errors[new], done[new] = err, true
new++
case <-abort:
close(oldDone)
close(newDone)
return
}
}
}()
return abort, results
}
// VerifyUncles verifies that the given block's uncles conform to the consensus
// rules of the Ethereum consensus engine.
func (beacon *Beacon) VerifyUncles(chain consensus.ChainReader, block *types.Block) error {
if !beacon.IsPoSHeader(block.Header()) {
return beacon.ethone.VerifyUncles(chain, block)
}
// Verify that there is no uncle block. It's explicitly disabled in the beacon
if len(block.Uncles()) > 0 {
return errTooManyUncles
}
return nil
}
// verifyHeader checks whether a header conforms to the consensus rules of the
// stock Ethereum consensus engine. The difference between the beacon and classic is
// (a) The following fields are expected to be constants:
// - difficulty is expected to be 0
// - nonce is expected to be 0
// - unclehash is expected to be Hash(emptyHeader)
// to be the desired constants
//
// (b) we don't verify if a block is in the future anymore
// (c) the extradata is limited to 32 bytes
func (beacon *Beacon) verifyHeader(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, header, parent *types.Header) error {
// Ensure that the header's extra-data section is of a reasonable size
if len(header.Extra) > int(params.MaximumExtraDataSize) {
return fmt.Errorf("extra-data longer than 32 bytes (%d)", len(header.Extra))
}
// Verify the seal parts. Ensure the nonce and uncle hash are the expected value.
if header.Nonce != beaconNonce {
return errInvalidNonce
}
if header.UncleHash != types.EmptyUncleHash {
return errInvalidUncleHash
}
// Verify the timestamp
if header.Time <= parent.Time {
return errInvalidTimestamp
}
// Verify the block's difficulty to ensure it's the default constant
if beaconDifficulty.Cmp(header.Difficulty) != 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid difficulty: have %v, want %v", header.Difficulty, beaconDifficulty)
}
// Verify that the gas limit is <= 2^63-1
if header.GasLimit > params.MaxGasLimit {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid gasLimit: have %v, max %v", header.GasLimit, params.MaxGasLimit)
}
// Verify that the gasUsed is <= gasLimit
if header.GasUsed > header.GasLimit {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid gasUsed: have %d, gasLimit %d", header.GasUsed, header.GasLimit)
}
// Verify that the block number is parent's +1
if diff := new(big.Int).Sub(header.Number, parent.Number); diff.Cmp(common.Big1) != 0 {
return consensus.ErrInvalidNumber
}
// Verify the header's EIP-1559 attributes.
if err := eip1559.VerifyEIP1559Header(chain.Config(), parent, header); err != nil {
return err
}
// Verify existence / non-existence of withdrawalsHash.
shanghai := chain.Config().IsShanghai(header.Number, header.Time)
if shanghai && header.WithdrawalsHash == nil {
return errors.New("missing withdrawalsHash")
}
if !shanghai && header.WithdrawalsHash != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("invalid withdrawalsHash: have %x, expected nil", header.WithdrawalsHash)
}
// Verify the existence / non-existence of cancun-specific header fields
cancun := chain.Config().IsCancun(header.Number, header.Time)
if !cancun {
switch {
case header.ExcessBlobGas != nil:
return fmt.Errorf("invalid excessBlobGas: have %d, expected nil", header.ExcessBlobGas)
case header.BlobGasUsed != nil:
return fmt.Errorf("invalid blobGasUsed: have %d, expected nil", header.BlobGasUsed)
case header.ParentBeaconRoot != nil:
return fmt.Errorf("invalid parentBeaconRoot, have %#x, expected nil", header.ParentBeaconRoot)
}
} else {
if header.ParentBeaconRoot == nil {
return errors.New("header is missing beaconRoot")
}
if err := eip4844.VerifyEIP4844Header(parent, header); err != nil {
return err
}
}
return nil
}
// verifyHeaders is similar to verifyHeader, but verifies a batch of headers
// concurrently. The method returns a quit channel to abort the operations and
// a results channel to retrieve the async verifications. An additional parent
// header will be passed if the relevant header is not in the database yet.
func (beacon *Beacon) verifyHeaders(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, headers []*types.Header, ancestor *types.Header) (chan<- struct{}, <-chan error) {
var (
abort = make(chan struct{})
results = make(chan error, len(headers))
)
go func() {
for i, header := range headers {
var parent *types.Header
if i == 0 {
if ancestor != nil {
parent = ancestor
} else {
parent = chain.GetHeader(headers[0].ParentHash, headers[0].Number.Uint64()-1)
}
} else if headers[i-1].Hash() == headers[i].ParentHash {
parent = headers[i-1]
}
if parent == nil {
select {
case <-abort:
return
case results <- consensus.ErrUnknownAncestor:
}
continue
}
err := beacon.verifyHeader(chain, header, parent)
select {
case <-abort:
return
case results <- err:
}
}
}()
return abort, results
}
// Prepare implements consensus.Engine, initializing the difficulty field of a
// header to conform to the beacon protocol. The changes are done inline.
func (beacon *Beacon) Prepare(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header) error {
// The beacon engine requires access to total difficulties to be able to
// seal pre-merge and post-merge blocks. With the transition to removing
// old blocks, TDs become unaccessible, thus making TTD based pre-/post-
// merge decisions impossible.
//
// We do not need to seal non-merge blocks anymore live, but we do need
// to be able to generate test chains, thus we're reverting to a testing-
// settable field to direct that.
if beacon.ttdblock != nil && *beacon.ttdblock >= header.Number.Uint64() {
return beacon.ethone.Prepare(chain, header)
}
header.Difficulty = beaconDifficulty
return nil
}
// Finalize implements consensus.Engine and processes withdrawals on top.
func (beacon *Beacon) Finalize(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header, state vm.StateDB, body *types.Body) {
if !beacon.IsPoSHeader(header) {
beacon.ethone.Finalize(chain, header, state, body)
return
}
// Withdrawals processing.
for _, w := range body.Withdrawals {
// Convert amount from gwei to wei.
amount := new(uint256.Int).SetUint64(w.Amount)
amount = amount.Mul(amount, uint256.NewInt(params.GWei))
state.AddBalance(w.Address, amount, tracing.BalanceIncreaseWithdrawal)
}
// No block reward which is issued by consensus layer instead.
}
// FinalizeAndAssemble implements consensus.Engine, setting the final state and
// assembling the block.
func (beacon *Beacon) FinalizeAndAssemble(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, header *types.Header, state *state.StateDB, body *types.Body, receipts []*types.Receipt) (*types.Block, error) {
if !beacon.IsPoSHeader(header) {
return beacon.ethone.FinalizeAndAssemble(chain, header, state, body, receipts)
}
shanghai := chain.Config().IsShanghai(header.Number, header.Time)
if shanghai {
// All blocks after Shanghai must include a withdrawals root.
if body.Withdrawals == nil {
body.Withdrawals = make([]*types.Withdrawal, 0)
}
} else {
if len(body.Withdrawals) > 0 {
return nil, errors.New("withdrawals set before Shanghai activation")
}
}
// Finalize and assemble the block.
beacon.Finalize(chain, header, state, body)
// Assign the final state root to header.
header.Root = state.IntermediateRoot(true)
// Assemble the final block.
block := types.NewBlock(header, body, receipts, trie.NewStackTrie(nil))
// Create the block witness and attach to block.
// This step needs to happen as late as possible to catch all access events.
if chain.Config().IsVerkle(header.Number, header.Time) {
keys := state.AccessEvents().Keys()
// Open the pre-tree to prove the pre-state against
parent := chain.GetHeaderByNumber(header.Number.Uint64() - 1)
if parent == nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("nil parent header for block %d", header.Number)
}
preTrie, err := state.Database().OpenTrie(parent.Root)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("error opening pre-state tree root: %w", err)
}
vktPreTrie, okpre := preTrie.(*trie.VerkleTrie)
vktPostTrie, okpost := state.GetTrie().(*trie.VerkleTrie)
// The witness is only attached iff both parent and current block are
// using verkle tree.
if okpre && okpost {
if len(keys) > 0 {
verkleProof, stateDiff, err := vktPreTrie.Proof(vktPostTrie, keys)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("error generating verkle proof for block %d: %w", header.Number, err)
}
block = block.WithWitness(&types.ExecutionWitness{
StateDiff: stateDiff,
VerkleProof: verkleProof,
})
}
}
}
return block, nil
}
// Seal generates a new sealing request for the given input block and pushes
// the result into the given channel.
//
// Note, the method returns immediately and will send the result async. More
// than one result may also be returned depending on the consensus algorithm.
func (beacon *Beacon) Seal(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, block *types.Block, results chan<- *types.Block, stop <-chan struct{}) error {
if !beacon.IsPoSHeader(block.Header()) {
return beacon.ethone.Seal(chain, block, results, stop)
}
// The seal verification is done by the external consensus engine,
// return directly without pushing any block back. In another word
// beacon won't return any result by `results` channel which may
// blocks the receiver logic forever.
return nil
}
// SealHash returns the hash of a block prior to it being sealed.
func (beacon *Beacon) SealHash(header *types.Header) common.Hash {
return beacon.ethone.SealHash(header)
}
// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns
// the difficulty that a new block should have when created at time
// given the parent block's time and difficulty.
func (beacon *Beacon) CalcDifficulty(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, time uint64, parent *types.Header) *big.Int {
// The beacon engine requires access to total difficulties to be able to
// seal pre-merge and post-merge blocks. With the transition to removing
// old blocks, TDs become unaccessible, thus making TTD based pre-/post-
// merge decisions impossible.
//
// We do not need to seal non-merge blocks anymore live, but we do need
// to be able to generate test chains, thus we're reverting to a testing-
// settable field to direct that.
if beacon.ttdblock != nil && *beacon.ttdblock > parent.Number.Uint64() {
return beacon.ethone.CalcDifficulty(chain, time, parent)
}
return beaconDifficulty
}
// APIs implements consensus.Engine, returning the user facing RPC APIs.
func (beacon *Beacon) APIs(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader) []rpc.API {
return beacon.ethone.APIs(chain)
}
// Close shutdowns the consensus engine
func (beacon *Beacon) Close() error {
return beacon.ethone.Close()
}
// IsPoSHeader reports the header belongs to the PoS-stage with some special fields.
// This function is not suitable for a part of APIs like Prepare or CalcDifficulty
// because the header difficulty is not set yet.
func (beacon *Beacon) IsPoSHeader(header *types.Header) bool {
if header.Difficulty == nil {
panic("IsPoSHeader called with invalid difficulty")
}
return header.Difficulty.Cmp(beaconDifficulty) == 0
}
// InnerEngine returns the embedded eth1 consensus engine.
func (beacon *Beacon) InnerEngine() consensus.Engine {
return beacon.ethone
}
// SetThreads updates the mining threads. Delegate the call
// to the eth1 engine if it's threaded.
func (beacon *Beacon) SetThreads(threads int) {
type threaded interface {
SetThreads(threads int)
}
if th, ok := beacon.ethone.(threaded); ok {
th.SetThreads(threads)
}
}