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Atanas Minkov
2b6348781a Log a debug message when a request fails for a beacon node candidate (#4036)
## Issue Addressed
#3985

## Proposed Changes

Log a debug message when a BN candidate returns an error.

`Mar 01 16:40:24.011 DEBG Request to beacon node failed           error: ServerMessage(ErrorMessage { code: 503, message: "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: beacon node is syncing: head slot is 8416, current slot is 5098402", stacktraces: [] }), node: http://localhost:5052/`
2023-03-02 05:26:14 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
5b18fd92cb Cleaner logic for gossip subscriptions for new forks (#4030)
## Issue Addressed

Cleaner resolution for #4006 

## Proposed Changes

We are currently subscribing to core topics of new forks way before the actual fork since we had just a single `CORE_TOPICS` array. This PR separates the core topics for every fork and subscribes to only required topics based on the current fork.
Also adds logic for subscribing to the core topics of a new fork only 2 slots before the fork happens.

2 slots is to give enough time for the gossip meshes to form. 

Currently doesn't add logic to remove topics from older forks in new forks. For e.g. in the coupled 4844 world, we had to remove the `BeaconBlock` topic in favour of `BeaconBlocksAndBlobsSidecar` at the 4844 fork. It should be easy enough to add though. Not adding it because I'm assuming that  #4019 will get merged before this PR and we won't require any deletion logic. Happy to add it regardless though.
2023-03-01 09:22:48 +00:00
Michael Sproul
ca1ce381a9 Delete Kiln and Ropsten configs (#4038)
## Proposed Changes

Remove built-in support for Ropsten and Kiln via the `--network` flag. Both testnets are long dead and deprecated.

This shaves about 30MiB off the binary size, from 135MiB to 103MiB (maxperf), or 165MiB to 135MiB (release).
2023-03-01 06:16:14 +00:00
Divma
047c7544e3 Clean capella (#4019)
## Issue Addressed

Cleans up all the remnants of 4844 in capella. This makes sure when 4844 is reviewed there is nothing we are missing because it got included here 

## Proposed Changes

drop a bomb on every 4844 thing 

## Additional Info

Merge process I did (locally) is as follows:
- squash merge to produce one commit
- in new branch off unstable with the squashed commit create a `git revert HEAD` commit
- merge that new branch onto 4844 with `--strategy ours`
- compare local 4844 to remote 4844 and make sure the diff is empty
- enjoy

Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2023-03-01 03:19:02 +00:00
Paul Hauner
17d9a620cf Add more logs in the BN HTTP API during block production (#4025)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Adds two new `DEBG` logs to the HTTP API:

1. As soon as we are requested to produce a block.
2. As soon as a signed block is received.

In #3858 we added some very helpful logs to the VC so we could see when things are happening with block proposals in the VC. After doing some more debugging, I found that I can tell when the VC is sending a block but I *can't* tell the time that the BN receives it (I can only get the time after the BN has started doing some work with the block). Knowing when the VC published and as soon as the BN receives is useful for determining the delays introduced by network latency (and some other things like JSON decoding, etc).

## Additional Info

NA
2023-02-28 02:20:53 +00:00
Age Manning
0155455990 Docs for Siren (#4023)
This adds some documentation for the Siren app into the Lighthouse book.

Co-authored-by: Mavrik <mrricki.m.usmc@gmail.com>
2023-02-28 02:20:52 +00:00
Paul Hauner
caa6190d4a Use consensus-spec-tests v1.3.0-rc.3 (#4021)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Updates our `ef_tests` to use: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc.3

This required:

- Skipping a `merkle_proof_validity` test (see #4022)
- Account for the `eip4844` tests changing name to `deneb`
    - My IDE did some Python linting during this change. It seemed simple and nice so I left it there.

## Additional Info

NA
2023-02-28 02:20:51 +00:00
Alan Höng
cc4fc422b2 Add content-type header to metrics server response (#3970)
This fixes issues with certain metrics scrapers, which might error if the content-type is not correctly set.

## Issue Addressed

Fixes https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/3437

## Proposed Changes

Simply set header: `Content-Type: text/plain` on metrics server response. Seems like the errored branch does this correctly already.

## Additional Info

This is needed also to enable influx-db metric scraping which work very nicely with Geth.
2023-02-28 02:20:50 +00:00
Michael Sproul
47b22d5256 Allow compilation with no slasher backend (#3888)
## Proposed Changes

Allowing compiling without MDBX by running:

```bash
CARGO_INSTALL_EXTRA_FLAGS="--no-default-features" make
```

The reasons to do this are several:

- Save compilation time if the slasher won't be used
- Work around compilation errors in slasher backend dependencies (our pinned version of MDBX is currently not compiling on FreeBSD with certain compiler versions).

## Additional Info

When I opened this PR we were using resolver v1 which [doesn't disable default features in dependencies](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html#resolver-version-2-command-line-flags), and `mdbx` is default for the `slasher` crate. Even after the resolver got changed to v2 in #3697 compiling with `--no-default-features` _still_ wasn't turning off the slasher crate's default features, so I added `default-features = false` in all the places we depend on it.

Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
2023-02-28 02:20:49 +00:00
Age Manning
be29394a9d Execution Integration Tests Correction (#4034)
The execution integration tests are currently failing.

This is a quick modification to pin the execution client version to correct the tests.
2023-02-27 21:26:16 +00:00
Paul Hauner
0fb58a680d v3.5.0 (#3996)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

- Bump versions

## Sepolia Capella Upgrade

This release will enable the Capella fork on Sepolia. We are planning to publish this release on the 23rd of Feb 2023.

Users who can build from source and wish to do pre-release testing can use this branch.

## Additional Info

- [ ] Requires further testing
2023-02-22 06:00:49 +00:00
Age Manning
5c63d8758e Register disconnected peers when temporarily banned (#4001)
This is a correction to #3757. 

The correction registers a peer that is being disconnected in the local peer manager db to ensure we are tracking the correct state.
2023-02-21 23:45:44 +00:00
Pawan Dhananjay
3721f3a83c Fix doppelganger script (#3988)
## Issue Addressed

N/A

## Proposed Changes

The doppelganger tests were failing silently since the `PROPOSER_BOOST` config was not set. Sets the config and script returns an error if any subprocess fails.
2023-02-21 23:45:43 +00:00
Michael Sproul
fa8b920dd8
Merge branch 'capella' into unstable 2023-02-22 10:25:45 +11:00
Paul Hauner
9c81be8ac4
Fix metric (#4020) 2023-02-22 09:46:45 +11:00
Pawan Dhananjay
bb5285ac6d
Remove BeaconBlockAndBlobsSidecar from core topics (#4016) 2023-02-22 09:45:38 +11:00
Michael Sproul
b7d7addd4a Disable debug info on CI (#4018)
## Issue Addressed

Closes #4005

Alternative to #4017

## Proposed Changes

Disable debug info on CI to save RAM and disk space.
2023-02-21 20:54:57 +00:00
Mac L
3642efe76a Cache validator balances and allow them to be served over the HTTP API (#3863)
## Issue Addressed

#3804

## Proposed Changes

- Add `total_balance` to the validator monitor and adjust the number of historical epochs which are cached. 
- Allow certain values in the cache to be served out via the HTTP API without requiring a state read.

## Usage
```
curl -X POST "http://localhost:5052/lighthouse/ui/validator_info" -d '{"indices": [0]}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq
```

```
{
  "data": {
    "validators": {
      "0": {
        "info": [
          {
            "epoch": 172981,
            "total_balance": 36566388519
          },
         ...
          {
            "epoch": 172990,
            "total_balance": 36566496513
          }
        ]
      },
      "1": {
        "info": [
          {
            "epoch": 172981,
            "total_balance": 36355797968
          },
          ...
          {
            "epoch": 172990,
            "total_balance": 36355905962
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Additional Info

This requires no historical states to operate which mean it will still function on the freshly checkpoint synced node, however because of this, the values will populate each epoch (up to a maximum of 10 entries).

Another benefit of this method, is that we can easily cache any other values which would normally require a state read and serve them via the same endpoint. However, we would need be cautious about not overly increasing block processing time by caching values from complex computations.

This also caches some of the validator metrics directly, rather than pulling them from the Prometheus metrics when the API is called. This means when the validator count exceeds the individual monitor threshold, the cached values will still be available.

Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2023-02-21 20:54:55 +00:00
Paul Hauner
40669da486
Modify some Capella comments (#4015)
* Modify comment to only include 4844

Capella only modifies per epoch processing by adding
`process_historical_summaries_update`, which does not change the realization of
justification or finality.

Whilst 4844 does not currently modify realization, the spec is not yet final
enough to say that it never will.

* Clarify address change verification comment

The verification of the address change doesn't really have anything to do with
the current epoch. I think this was just a copy-paste from a function like
`verify_exit`.
2023-02-21 18:03:42 +11:00
Paul Hauner
1bce7a02c8
Fix post-Bellatrix checkpoint sync (#4014)
* Recognise execution in post-merge blocks

* Remove `.body()`

* Fix typo

* Use `is_default_with_empty_roots`.
2023-02-21 18:03:24 +11:00
Paul Hauner
eed7d65ce7
Allow for withdrawals in max block size (#4011)
* Allow for withdrawals in max block size

* Ensure payload size is counted
2023-02-21 18:03:10 +11:00
Paul Hauner
729c178020
Revert Sepolia genesis change (#4013) 2023-02-21 17:18:28 +11:00
Paul Hauner
b72f273e47
Capella consensus review (#4012)
* Add extra encoding/decoding tests

* Remove TODO

The method LGTM

* Remove `FreeAttestation`

This is an ancient relic, I'm surprised it still existed!

* Add paranoid check for eip4844 code

This is not technically necessary, but I think it's nice to be explicit about
EIP4844 consensus code for the time being.

* Reduce big-O complexity of address change pruning

I'm not sure this is *actually* useful, but it might come in handy if we see a
ton of address changes at the fork boundary. I know the devops team have been
testing with ~100k changes, so maybe this will help in that case.

* Revert "Reduce big-O complexity of address change pruning"

This reverts commit e7d93e6cc7cf1b92dd5a9e1966ce47d4078121eb.
2023-02-21 15:33:27 +11:00
Paul Hauner
d53d43844c
Suggestions for Capella beacon_chain (#3999)
* Remove CapellaReadiness::NotSynced

Some EEs have a habit of flipping between synced/not-synced, which causes some
spurious "Not read for the merge" messages back before the merge. For the
merge, if the EE wasn't synced the CE simple wouldn't go through the transition
(due to optimistic sync stuff). However, we don't have that hard requirement
for Capella; the CE will go through the fork and just wait for the EE to catch
up. I think that removing `NotSynced` here will avoid false-positives on the
"Not ready logs..". We'll be creating other WARN/ERRO logs if the EE isn't
synced, anyway.

* Change some Capella readiness logging

There's two changes here:

1. Shorten the log messages, for readability.
2. Change the hints.

Connecting a Capella-ready LH to a non-Capella-ready EE gives this log:

```
WARN Not ready for Capella                   info: The execution endpoint does not appear to support the required engine api methods for Capella: Required Methods Unsupported: engine_getPayloadV2 engine_forkchoiceUpdatedV2 engine_newPayloadV2, service: slot_notifier
```

This variant of error doesn't get a "try updating" style hint, when it's the
one that needs it. This is because we detect the method-not-found reponse from
the EE and return default capabilities, rather than indicating that the request
fails. I think it's fair to say that an EE upgrade is required whenever it
doesn't provide the required methods.

I changed the `ExchangeCapabilitiesFailed` message since that can only happen
when the EE fails to respond with anything other than success or not-found.
2023-02-21 11:05:36 +11:00
Paul Hauner
c3c181aa03
Remove "eip4844" network (#4008) 2023-02-21 11:01:22 +11:00
Michael Sproul
0b6850221e
Fix Capella schema downgrades (#4004) 2023-02-20 17:50:42 +11:00
Paul Hauner
9a41f65b89
Add capella fork epoch (#3997) 2023-02-17 16:25:20 +11:00
Michael Sproul
1f419f4653
Merge pull request #3981 from michaelsproul/capella-update
Update `capella` to `unstable`
2023-02-17 12:47:34 +11:00
Michael Sproul
066c27750a
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/staging' into capella-update 2023-02-17 12:05:36 +11:00
Paul Hauner
4aa8a2ab12
Suggestions for Capella execution_layer (#3983)
* Restrict Engine::request to FnOnce

* Use `Into::into`

* Impl IntoIterator for VariableList

* Use Instant rather than SystemTime
2023-02-17 11:58:33 +11:00
Michael Sproul
ebf2fec5d0 Fix exec integration tests for Geth v1.11.0 (#3982)
## Proposed Changes

* Bump Go from 1.17 to 1.20. The latest Geth release v1.11.0 requires 1.18 minimum.
* Prevent a cache miss during payload building by using the right fee recipient. This prevents Geth v1.11.0 from building a block with 0 transactions. The payload building mechanism is overhauled in the new Geth to improve the payload every 2s, and the tests were failing because we were falling back on a `getPayload` call with no lookahead due to `get_payload_id` cache miss caused by the mismatched fee recipient. Alternatively we could hack the tests to send `proposer_preparation_data`, but I think the static fee recipient is simpler for now.
* Add support for optionally enabling Lighthouse logs in the integration tests. Enable using `cargo run --release --features logging/test_logger`. This was very useful for debugging.
2023-02-16 23:34:33 +00:00
Jimmy Chen
245e922c7b Improve testing slot clock to allow manipulation of time in tests (#3974)
## Issue Addressed

I discovered this issue while implementing [this test](https://github.com/jimmygchen/lighthouse/blob/test-example/beacon_node/network/src/beacon_processor/tests.rs#L895), where I tried to manipulate the slot clock with: 

`rig.chain.slot_clock.set_current_time(duration);`

however the change doesn't get reflected in the `slot_clock` in `ReprocessQueue`, and I realised `slot_clock` was cloned a few times in the code, and therefore changing the time in `rig.chain.slot_clock` doesn't have any effect in `ReprocessQueue`.

I've incorporated the suggestion from the @paulhauner and @michaelsproul - wrapping the `ManualSlotClock.current_time` (`RwLock<Duration>)` in an `Arc`, and the above test now passes. 

Let's see if this breaks any existing tests :)
2023-02-16 23:34:32 +00:00
Divma
ffeb8b6e05 blacklist tests in windows (#3961)
## Issue Addressed
Windows tests for subscription and unsubscriptions fail in CI sporadically. We usually ignore this failures, so this PR aims to help reduce the failure noise. Associated issue is https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/3960
2023-02-16 23:34:30 +00:00
Michael Sproul
461bda6e85
Execution engine suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2023-02-16 16:54:05 +11:00
Michael Sproul
2fcfdf1a01 Fix docker and deps (#3978)
## Proposed Changes

- Fix this cargo-audit failure for `sqlite3-sys`: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/actions/runs/4179008889/jobs/7238473962
- Prevent the Docker builds from running out of RAM on CI by removing `gnosis` and LMDB support from the `-dev` images (see: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3959#issuecomment-1430531155, successful run on my fork: https://github.com/michaelsproul/lighthouse/actions/runs/4179162480/jobs/7239537947).
2023-02-15 11:51:46 +00:00
Michael Sproul
918b688f72
Simplify payload traits and reduce cloning (#3976)
* Simplify payload traits and reduce cloning

* Fix self limiter
2023-02-15 14:17:56 +11:00
Michael Sproul
10d32ee04c
Quote Capella BeaconState fields (#3967) 2023-02-14 14:41:28 +11:00
Michael Sproul
5fc798dd1b
Merge pull request #3973 from michaelsproul/capella-merge
Update Capella to latest `unstable`
2023-02-14 14:41:14 +11:00
Age Manning
8dd9249177 Enforce a timeout on peer disconnect (#3757)
On heavily crowded networks, we are seeing many attempted connections to our node every second. 

Often these connections come from peers that have just been disconnected. This can be for a number of reasons including: 
- We have deemed them to be not as useful as other peers
- They have performed poorly
- They have dropped the connection with us
- The connection was spontaneously lost
- They were randomly removed because we have too many peers

In all of these cases, if we have reached or exceeded our target peer limit, there is no desire to accept new connections immediately after the disconnect from these peers. In fact, it often costs us resources to handle the established connections and defeats some of the logic of dropping them in the first place. 

This PR adds a timeout, that prevents recently disconnected peers from reconnecting to us.

Technically we implement a ban at the swarm layer to prevent immediate re connections for at least 10 minutes. I decided to keep this light, and use a time-based LRUCache which only gets updated during the peer manager heartbeat to prevent added stress of polling a delay map for what could be a large number of peers.

This cache is bounded in time. An extra space bound could be added should people consider this a risk.

Co-authored-by: Diva M <divma@protonmail.com>
2023-02-14 03:25:42 +00:00
Michael Sproul
f7bd4bf06e
Update block rewards API for Capella 2023-02-14 12:09:40 +11:00
Michael Sproul
d53ccf8fc7
Placeholder for BlobsByRange outbound rate limit 2023-02-14 12:08:14 +11:00
Michael Sproul
18c8cab4da
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/unstable' into capella-merge 2023-02-14 12:07:27 +11:00
Nazar Hussain
fa1d4c7054 Invalid cross build feature flag (#3959)
## Issue Addressed

The documentation referring to build from source mismatches with the what gitworkflow uses. 

aa5b7ef783/book/src/installation-source.md (L118-L120)

## Proposed Changes

Because the github workflow uses `cross` to build from source and for that build there is different env variable `CROSS_FEATURES` so need pass at the compile time. 

## Additional Info

Verified that existing `-dev` builds does not contains the `minimal` spec enabled. 

```bash
> docker run --rm --name node-5-cl-lighthouse sigp/lighthouse:latest-amd64-unstable-dev lighthouse --version
Lighthouse v3.4.0-aa5b7ef
BLS library: blst-portable
SHA256 hardware acceleration: true
Allocator: jemalloc
Specs: mainnet (true), minimal (false), gnosis (true)
```
2023-02-13 03:32:03 +00:00
Michael Sproul
2f456ff9eb Fix regression in DB write atomicity (#3931)
## Issue Addressed

Fix a bug introduced by #3696. The bug is not expected to occur frequently, so releasing this PR is non-urgent.

## Proposed Changes

* Add a variant to `StoreOp` that allows a raw KV operation to be passed around.
* Return to using `self.store.do_atomically` rather than `self.store.hot_db.do_atomically`. This streamlines the write back into a single call and makes our auto-revert work again.
* Prevent `import_block_update_shuffling_cache` from failing block import. This is an outstanding bug from before v3.4.0 which may have contributed to some random unexplained database corruption.

## Additional Info

In #3696 I split the database write into two calls, one to convert the `StoreOp`s to `KeyValueStoreOp`s and one to write them. This had the unfortunate side-effect of damaging our atomicity guarantees in case of a write error. If the first call failed, we would be left with the block in fork choice but not on-disk (or the snapshot cache), which would prevent us from processing any descendant blocks. On `unstable` the first call is very unlikely to fail unless the disk is full, but on `tree-states` the conversion is more involved and a user reported database corruption after it failed in a way that should have been recoverable.

Additionally, as @emhane observed, #3696 also inadvertently removed the import of the new block into the block cache. Although this seems like it could have negatively impacted performance, there are several mitigating factors:

- For regular block processing we should almost always load the parent block (and state) from the snapshot cache.
- We often load blinded blocks, which bypass the block cache anyway.
- Metrics show no noticeable increase in the block cache miss rate with v3.4.0.

However, I expect the block cache _will_ be useful again in `tree-states`, so it is restored to use by this PR.
2023-02-13 03:32:01 +00:00
Paul Hauner
84843d67d7 Reduce some EE and builder related ERRO logs to WARN (#3966)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Our `ERRO` stream has been rather noisy since the merge due to some unexpected behaviours of builders and EEs. Now that we've been running post-merge for a while, I think we can drop some of these `ERRO` to `WARN` so we're not "crying wolf".

The modified logs are:

#### `ERRO Execution engine call failed`

I'm seeing this quite frequently on Geth nodes. They seem to timeout when they're busy and it rarely indicates a serious issue. We also have logging across block import, fork choice updating and payload production that raise `ERRO` or `CRIT` when the EE times out, so I think we're not at risk of silencing actual issues.

#### `ERRO "Builder failed to reveal payload"`

In #3775 we reduced this log from `CRIT` to `ERRO` since it's common for builders to fail to reveal the block to the producer directly whilst still broadcasting it to the networ. I think it's worth dropping this to `WARN` since it's rarely interesting.

I elected to stay with `WARN` since I really do wish builders would fulfill their API promises by returning the block to us. Perhaps I'm just being pedantic here, I could be convinced otherwise.

#### `ERRO "Relay error when registering validator(s)"`

It seems like builders and/or mev-boost struggle to handle heavy loads of validator registrations. I haven't observed issues with validators not actually being registered, but I see timeouts on these endpoints many times a day. It doesn't seem like this `ERRO` is worth it.

#### `ERRO Error fetching block for peer     ExecutionLayerErrorPayloadReconstruction`

This means we failed to respond to a peer on the P2P network with a block they requested because of an error in the `execution_layer`. It's very common to see timeouts or incomplete responses on this endpoint whilst the EE is busy and I don't think it's important enough for an `ERRO`. As long as the peer count stays high, I don't think the user needs to be actively concerned about how we're responding to peers.

## Additional Info

NA
2023-02-12 23:14:08 +00:00
Michael Sproul
3b4c677727 Use release profile for Windows binaries (#3965)
## Proposed Changes

Disable `maxperf` profile on Windows due to #3964. This is required for the v3.5.0 release CI to succeed without crashing.
2023-02-12 23:14:07 +00:00
ethDreamer
e743d75c9b
Update Mock Builder for Post-Capella Tests (#3958)
* Update Mock Builder for Post-Capella Tests

* Add _mut Suffix to BidStuff Functions

* Fix Setting Gas Limit
2023-02-10 13:30:14 -06:00
ethDreamer
39f8327f73
Properly Deserialize ForkVersionedResponses (#3944)
* Move ForkVersionedResponse to consensus/types

* Properly Deserialize ForkVersionedResponses

* Elide Types in from_value Calls

* Added Tests for ForkVersionedResponse Deserialize

* Address Sean's Comments & Make Less Restrictive

* Utilize `map_fork_name!`
2023-02-10 08:49:25 -06:00
Michael Sproul
c9354a9d25 Tweaks to reward APIs (#3957)
## Proposed Changes

* Return the effective balance in gwei to align with the spec ([ideal attestation rewards](https://ethereum.github.io/beacon-APIs/?urls.primaryName=dev#/Rewards/getAttestationsRewards)).
* Use quoted `i64`s for attestation and sync committee rewards.
2023-02-10 06:19:42 +00:00
Paul Hauner
5276dd0cb0 Fix edge-case when finding the finalized descendant (#3924)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Description

We were missing an edge case when checking to see if a block is a descendant of the finalized checkpoint. This edge case is described for one of the tests in this PR:

a119edc739/consensus/proto_array/src/proto_array_fork_choice.rs (L1018-L1047)

This bug presented itself in the following mainnet log:

```
Jan 26 15:12:42.841 ERRO Unable to validate attestation error: MissingBeaconState(0x7c30cb80ec3d4ec624133abfa70e4c6cfecfca456bfbbbff3393e14e5b20bf25), peer_id: 16Uiu2HAm8RPRciXJYtYc5c3qtCRdrZwkHn2BXN3XP1nSi1gxHYit, type: "unaggregated", slot: Slot(5660161), beacon_block_root: 0x4a45e59da7cb9487f4836c83bdd1b741b4f31c67010c7ae343fa6771b3330489
```

Here the BN is rejecting an attestation because of a "missing beacon state". Whilst it was correct to reject the attestation, it should have rejected it because it attests to a block that conflicts with finality rather than claiming that the database is inconsistent.

The block that this attestation points to (`0x4a45`) is block `C` in the above diagram. It is a non-canonical block in the first slot of an epoch that conflicts with the finalized checkpoint. Due to our lazy pruning of proto array, `0x4a45` was still present in proto-array. Our missed edge-case in [`ForkChoice::is_descendant_of_finalized`](38514c07f2/consensus/fork_choice/src/fork_choice.rs (L1375-L1379)) would have indicated to us that the block is a descendant of the finalized block. Therefore, we would have accepted the attestation thinking that it attests to a descendant of the finalized *checkpoint*.

Since we didn't have the shuffling for this erroneously processed block, we attempted to read its state from the database. This failed because we prune states from the database by keeping track of the tips of the chain and iterating back until we find a finalized block. This would have deleted `C` from the database, hence the `MissingBeaconState` error.
2023-02-09 23:51:18 +00:00