go-ethereum/signer/fourbyte/validation.go

// Copyright 2018 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of go-ethereum.
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package fourbyte

import (
	"bytes"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"math/big"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/signer/core"
)

// ValidateTransaction does a number of checks on the supplied transaction, and
// returns either a list of warnings, or an error (indicating that the transaction
// should be immediately rejected).
func (db *Database) ValidateTransaction(selector *string, tx *core.SendTxArgs) (*core.ValidationMessages, error) {
	messages := new(core.ValidationMessages)

	// Prevent accidental erroneous usage of both 'input' and 'data' (show stopper)
	if tx.Data != nil && tx.Input != nil && !bytes.Equal(*tx.Data, *tx.Input) {
		return nil, errors.New(`ambiguous request: both "data" and "input" are set and are not identical`)
	}
	// Place data on 'data', and nil 'input'
	var data []byte
	if tx.Input != nil {
		tx.Data = tx.Input
		tx.Input = nil
	}
	if tx.Data != nil {
		data = *tx.Data
	}
	// Contract creation doesn't validate call data, handle first
	if tx.To == nil {
		// Contract creation should contain sufficient data to deploy a contract. A
		// typical error is omitting sender due to some quirk in the javascript call
		// e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/16106.
		if len(data) == 0 {
			// Prevent sending ether into black hole (show stopper)
			if tx.Value.ToInt().Cmp(big.NewInt(0)) > 0 {
				return nil, errors.New("tx will create contract with value but empty code")
			}
			// No value submitted at least, critically Warn, but don't blow up
			messages.Crit("Transaction will create contract with empty code")
		} else if len(data) < 40 { // arbitrary heuristic limit
			messages.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Transaction will will create contract, but payload is suspiciously small (%d bytes)", len(data)))
		}
		// Method selector should be nil for contract creation
		if selector != nil {
			messages.Warn("Transaction will create contract, but method selector supplied, indicating intent to call a method")
		}
		return messages, nil
	}
	// Not a contract creation, validate as a plain transaction
	if !tx.To.ValidChecksum() {
		messages.Warn("Invalid checksum on recipient address")
	}
	if bytes.Equal(tx.To.Address().Bytes(), common.Address{}.Bytes()) {
		messages.Crit("Transaction recipient is the zero address")
	}
	// Semantic fields validated, try to make heads or tails of the call data
	db.validateCallData(selector, data, messages)
	return messages, nil
}

// validateCallData checks if the ABI call-data + method selector (if given) can
// be parsed and seems to match.
func (db *Database) validateCallData(selector *string, data []byte, messages *core.ValidationMessages) {
	// If the data is empty, we have a plain value transfer, nothing more to do
	if len(data) == 0 {
		return
	}
	// Validate the call data that it has the 4byte prefix and the rest divisible by 32 bytes
	if len(data) < 4 {
		messages.Warn("Transaction data is not valid ABI (missing the 4 byte call prefix)")
		return
	}
	if n := len(data) - 4; n%32 != 0 {
		messages.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Transaction data is not valid ABI (length should be a multiple of 32 (was %d))", n))
	}
	// If a custom method selector was provided, validate with that
	if selector != nil {
		if info, err := verifySelector(*selector, data); err != nil {
			messages.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Transaction contains data, but provided ABI signature could not be matched: %v", err))
		} else {
			messages.Info(info.String())
			db.AddSelector(*selector, data[:4])
		}
		return
	}
	// No method selector was provided, check the database for embedded ones
	embedded, err := db.Selector(data[:4])
	if err != nil {
		messages.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Transaction contains data, but the ABI signature could not be found: %v", err))
		return
	}
	if info, err := verifySelector(embedded, data); err != nil {
		messages.Warn(fmt.Sprintf("Transaction contains data, but provided ABI signature could not be varified: %v", err))
	} else {
		messages.Info(info.String())
	}
}