## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
As we've seen on Prater, there seems to be a correlation between these messages
```
WARN Not enough time for a discovery search subnet_id: ExactSubnet { subnet_id: SubnetId(19), slot: Slot(3742336) }, service: attestation_service
```
... and nodes falling 20-30 slots behind the head for short periods. These nodes are running ~20k Prater validators.
After running some metrics, I can see that the `network_recv` channel is processing ~250k `AttestationSubscribe` messages per minute. It occurred to me that perhaps the `AttestationSubscribe` messages are "washing out" the `SendRequest` and `SendResponse` messages. In this PR I separate the `AttestationSubscribe` and `SyncCommitteeSubscribe` messages into their own queue so the `tokio::select!` in the `NetworkService` can still process the other messages in the `network_recv` channel without necessarily having to clear all the subscription messages first.
~~I've also added filter to the HTTP API to prevent duplicate subscriptions going to the network service.~~
## Additional Info
- Currently being tested on Prater
## Issue Addressed
Partly resolves#3518
## Proposed Changes
Change the slot notifier to use `duration_to_next_slot` rather than an interval timer. This makes it robust against underlying clock changes.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds more `debug` logging to help troubleshoot invalid execution payload blocks. I was doing some of this recently and found it to be challenging.
With this PR we should be able to grep `Invalid execution payload` and get one-liners that will show the block, slot and details about the proposer.
I also changed the log in `process_invalid_execution_payload` since it was a little misleading; the `block_root` wasn't necessary the block which had an invalid payload.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
This PR is motivated by a recent consensus failure in Geth where it returned `INVALID` for an `VALID` block. Without this PR, the only way to recover is by re-syncing Lighthouse. Whilst ELs "shouldn't have consensus failures", in reality it's something that we can expect from time to time due to the complex nature of Ethereum. Being able to recover easily will help the network recover and EL devs to troubleshoot.
The risk introduced with this PR is that genuinely INVALID payloads get a "second chance" at being imported. I believe the DoS risk here is negligible since LH needs to be restarted in order to re-process the payload. Furthermore, there's no reason to think that a well-performing EL will accept a truly invalid payload the second-time-around.
## Additional Info
This implementation has the following intricacies:
1. Instead of just resetting *invalid* payloads to optimistic, we'll also reset *valid* payloads. This is an artifact of our existing implementation.
1. We will only reset payload statuses when we detect an invalid payload present in `proto_array`
- This helps save us from forgetting that all our blocks are valid in the "best case scenario" where there are no invalid blocks.
1. If we fail to revert the payload statuses we'll log a `CRIT` and just continue with a `proto_array` that *does not* have reverted payload statuses.
- The code to revert statuses needs to deal with balances and proposer-boost, so it's a failure point. This is a defensive measure to avoid introducing new show-stopping bugs to LH.
## Proposed Changes
This PR has two aims: to speed up attestation packing in the op pool, and to fix bugs in the verification of attester slashings, proposer slashings and voluntary exits. The changes are bundled into a single database schema upgrade (v12).
Attestation packing is sped up by removing several inefficiencies:
- No more recalculation of `attesting_indices` during packing.
- No (unnecessary) examination of the `ParticipationFlags`: a bitfield suffices. See `RewardCache`.
- No re-checking of attestation validity during packing: the `AttestationMap` provides attestations which are "correct by construction" (I have checked this using Hydra).
- No SSZ re-serialization for the clunky `AttestationId` type (it can be removed in a future release).
So far the speed-up seems to be roughly 2-10x, from 500ms down to 50-100ms.
Verification of attester slashings, proposer slashings and voluntary exits is fixed by:
- Tracking the `ForkVersion`s that were used to verify each message inside the `SigVerifiedOp`. This allows us to quickly re-verify that they match the head state's opinion of what the `ForkVersion` should be at the epoch(s) relevant to the message.
- Storing the `SigVerifiedOp` on disk rather than the raw operation. This allows us to continue track the fork versions after a reboot.
This is mostly contained in this commit 52bb1840ae5c4356a8fc3a51e5df23ed65ed2c7f.
## Additional Info
The schema upgrade uses the justified state to re-verify attestations and compute `attesting_indices` for them. It will drop any attestations that fail to verify, by the logic that attestations are most valuable in the few slots after they're observed, and are probably stale and useless by the time a node restarts. Exits and proposer slashings and similarly re-verified to obtain `SigVerifiedOp`s.
This PR contains a runtime killswitch `--paranoid-block-proposal` which opts out of all the optimisations in favour of closely verifying every included message. Although I'm quite sure that the optimisations are correct this flag could be useful in the event of an unforeseen emergency.
Finally, you might notice that the `RewardCache` appears quite useless in its current form because it is only updated on the hot-path immediately before proposal. My hope is that in future we can shift calls to `RewardCache::update` into the background, e.g. while performing the state advance. It is also forward-looking to `tree-states` compatibility, where iterating and indexing `state.{previous,current}_epoch_participation` is expensive and needs to be minimised.
## Issue Addressed
#3465
## Proposed Changes
Filter out any validator registrations for validators that are not `active` or `pending`. I'm adding this filtering the beacon node because all the information is readily available there. In other parts of the VC we are usually sending per-validator requests based on duties from the BN. And duties will only be provided for active validators so we don't have this type of filtering elsewhere in the VC.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
#3032
## Proposed Changes
Pause sync when ee is offline. Changes include three main parts:
- Online/offline notification system
- Pause sync
- Resume sync
#### Online/offline notification system
- The engine state is now guarded behind a new struct `State` that ensures every change is correctly notified. Notifications are only sent if the state changes. The new `State` is behind a `RwLock` (as before) as the synchronization mechanism.
- The actual notification channel is a [tokio::sync::watch](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/watch/index.html) which ensures only the last value is in the receiver channel. This way we don't need to worry about message order etc.
- Sync waits for state changes concurrently with normal messages.
#### Pause Sync
Sync has four components, pausing is done differently in each:
- **Block lookups**: Disabled while in this state. We drop current requests and don't search for new blocks. Block lookups are infrequent and I don't think it's worth the extra logic of keeping these and delaying processing. If we later see that this is required, we can add it.
- **Parent lookups**: Disabled while in this state. We drop current requests and don't search for new parents. Parent lookups are even less frequent and I don't think it's worth the extra logic of keeping these and delaying processing. If we later see that this is required, we can add it.
- **Range**: Chains don't send batches for processing to the beacon processor. This is easily done by guarding the channel to the beacon processor and giving it access only if the ee is responsive. I find this the simplest and most powerful approach since we don't need to deal with new sync states and chain segments that are added while the ee is offline will follow the same logic without needing to synchronize a shared state among those. Another advantage of passive pause vs active pause is that we can still keep track of active advertised chain segments so that on resume we don't need to re-evaluate all our peers.
- **Backfill**: Not affected by ee states, we don't pause.
#### Resume Sync
- **Block lookups**: Enabled again.
- **Parent lookups**: Enabled again.
- **Range**: Active resume. Since the only real pause range does is not sending batches for processing, resume makes all chains that are holding read-for-processing batches send them.
- **Backfill**: Not affected by ee states, no need to resume.
## Additional Info
**QUESTION**: Originally I made this to notify and change on synced state, but @pawanjay176 on talks with @paulhauner concluded we only need to check online/offline states. The upcheck function mentions extra checks to have a very up to date sync status to aid the networking stack. However, the only need the networking stack would have is this one. I added a TODO to review if the extra check can be removed
Next gen of #3094
Will work best with #3439
Co-authored-by: Pawan Dhananjay <pawandhananjay@gmail.com>
## Proposed Changes
Update the merge migration docs to encourage updating mainnet configs _now_!
The docs are also updated to recommend _against_ `--suggested-fee-recipient` on the beacon node (https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/3432).
Additionally the `--help` for the CLI is updated to match with a few small semantic changes:
- `--execution-jwt` is no longer allowed without `--execution-endpoint`. We've ended up without a default for `--execution-endpoint`, so I think that's fine.
- The flags related to the JWT are only allowed if `--execution-jwt` is provided.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Bump versions to v3.0.0
## Additional Info
- ~~Blocked on #3439~~
- ~~Blocked on #3459~~
- ~~Blocked on #3463~~
- ~~Blocked on #3462~~
- ~~Requires further testing~~
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Run fork choice when the head is 256 slots from the wall-clock slot, rather than 4.
The reason we don't *always* run FC is so that it doesn't slow us down during sync. As the comments state, setting the value to 256 means that we'd only have one interrupting fork-choice call if we were syncing at 20 slots/sec.
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds some metrics so we can track payload status responses from the EE. I think this will be useful for troubleshooting and alerting.
I also bumped the `BecaonChain::per_slot_task` to `debug` since it doesn't seem too noisy and would have helped us with some things we were debugging in the past.
## Additional Info
NA
## Proposed Changes
Match the timeouts from the `execution-apis` spec. Our existing values were already quite close so I don't imagine this change to be very disruptive.
The spec sets the timeout for `engine_getPayloadV1` to only 1 second, but we were already using a longer value of 2 seconds. I've kept the 2 second timeout as I don't think there's any need to fail faster when producing a payload.
There's no timeout specified for `eth_syncing` so I've matched it to the shortest timeout from the spec (1 second). I think the previous value of 250ms was likely too low and could have been contributing to spurious timeouts, particularly for remote ELs.
## Additional Info
The timeouts are defined on each endpoint in this document: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/blob/main/src/engine/specification.md
## Issue Addressed
Fixes an issue whereby syncing a post-merge network without an execution endpoint would silently stall. Sync swallows the errors from block verification so previously there was no indication in the logs for why the node couldn't sync.
## Proposed Changes
Add an error log to the merge-readiness notifier for the case where the merge has already completed but no execution endpoint is configured.
## Issue Addressed
Closes https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2962
## Proposed Changes
Build all caches on the checkpoint state before storing it in the database.
Additionally, fix a bug in `signature_verify_chain_segment` which prevented block verification from succeeding unless the previous epoch cache was already built. The previous epoch cache is required to verify the signatures of attestations included from previous epochs, even when all the blocks in the segment are from the same epoch.
The comments around `signature_verify_chain_segment` have also been updated to reflect the fact that it should only be used on a chain of blocks from a single epoch. I believe this restriction had already been added at some point in the past and that the current comments were just outdated (and I think because the proposer shuffling can change in the next epoch based on the blocks applied in the current epoch that this limitation is essential).
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Start issuing merge-readiness logs 2 weeks before the Bellatrix fork epoch. Additionally, if the Bellatrix epoch is specified and the use has configured an EL, always log merge readiness logs, this should benefit pro-active users.
### Lookahead Reasoning
- Bellatrix fork is:
- epoch 144896
- slot 4636672
- Unix timestamp: `1606824023 + (4636672 * 12) = 1662464087`
- GMT: Tue Sep 06 2022 11:34:47 GMT+0000
- Warning start time is:
- Unix timestamp: `1662464087 - 604800 * 2 = 1661254487`
- GMT: Tue Aug 23 2022 11:34:47 GMT+0000
The [current expectation](https://discord.com/channels/595666850260713488/745077610685661265/1007445305198911569) is that EL and CL clients will releases out by Aug 22nd at the latest, then an EF announcement will go out on the 23rd. If all goes well, LH will start alerting users about merge-readiness just after the announcement.
## Additional Info
NA
## Proposed Changes
Enable multiple database backends for the slasher, either MDBX (default) or LMDB. The backend can be selected using `--slasher-backend={lmdb,mdbx}`.
## Additional Info
In order to abstract over the two library's different handling of database lifetimes I've used `Box::leak` to give the `Environment` type a `'static` lifetime. This was the only way I could think of using 100% safe code to construct a self-referential struct `SlasherDB`, where the `OpenDatabases` refers to the `Environment`. I think this is OK, as the `Environment` is expected to live for the life of the program, and both database engines leave the database in a consistent state after each write. The memory claimed for memory-mapping will be freed by the OS and appropriately flushed regardless of whether the `Environment` is actually dropped.
We are depending on two `sigp` forks of `libmdbx-rs` and `lmdb-rs`, to give us greater control over MDBX OS support and LMDB's version.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Fix clippy lints for latest rust version 1.63. I have allowed the [derive_partial_eq_without_eq](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#derive_partial_eq_without_eq) lint as satisfying this lint would result in more code that we might not want and I feel it's not required.
Happy to fix this lint across lighthouse if required though.
## Issue Addressed
Solves #3390
So after checking some logs @pawanjay176 got, we conclude that this happened because we blacklisted a chain after trying it "too much". Now here, in all occurrences it seems that "too much" means we got too many download failures. This happened very slowly, exactly because the batch is allowed to stay alive for very long times after not counting penalties when the ee is offline. The error here then was not that the batch failed because of offline ee errors, but that we blacklisted a chain because of download errors, which we can't pin on the chain but on the peer. This PR fixes that.
## Proposed Changes
Adds a missing piece of logic so that if a chain fails for errors that can't be attributed to an objectively bad behavior from the peer, it is not blacklisted. The issue at hand occurred when new peers arrived claiming a head that had wrongfully blacklisted, even if the original peers participating in the chain were not penalized.
Another notable change is that we need to consider a batch invalid if it processed correctly but its next non empty batch fails processing. Now since a batch can fail processing in non empty ways, there is no need to mark as invalid previous batches.
Improves some logging as well.
## Additional Info
We should do this regardless of pausing sync on ee offline/unsynced state. This is because I think it's almost impossible to ensure a processing result will reach in a predictable order with a synced notification from the ee. Doing this handles what I think are inevitable data races when we actually pause sync
This also fixes a return that reports which batch failed and caused us some confusion checking the logs
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Removes three types of TODOs:
1. `execution_layer/src/lib.rs`: It was [determined](https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/issues/2636#issuecomment-988688742) that there is no action required here.
2. `beacon_processor/worker/gossip_methods.rs`: Removed TODOs relating to peer scoring that have already been addressed via `epe.penalize_peer()`.
- It seems `cargo fmt` wanted to adjust some things here as well 🤷
3. `proto_array_fork_choice.rs`: it would be nice to remove that useless `bool` for cleanliness, but I don't think it's something we need to do and the TODO just makes things look messier IMO.
## Additional Info
There should be no functional changes to the code in this PR.
There are still some TODOs lingering, those ones require actual changes or more thought.
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#3388Resolves#2638
## Proposed Changes
- Return the `BellatrixPreset` on `/eth/v1/config/spec` by default.
- Allow users to opt out of this by providing `--http-spec-fork=altair` (unless there's a Bellatrix fork epoch set).
- Add the Altair constants from #2638 and make serving the constants non-optional (the `http-disable-legacy-spec` flag is deprecated).
- Modify the VC to only read the `Config` and not to log extra fields. This prevents it from having to muck around parsing the `ConfigAndPreset` fields it doesn't need.
## Additional Info
This change is backwards-compatible for the VC and the BN, but is marked as a breaking change for the removal of `--http-disable-legacy-spec`.
I tried making `Config` a `superstruct` too, but getting the automatic decoding to work was a huge pain and was going to require a lot of hacks, so I gave up in favour of keeping the default-based approach we have now.
## Issue Addressed
Resolves#3379
## Proposed Changes
Remove instances of `InvalidTerminalBlock` in lighthouse and use
`Invalid {latest_valid_hash: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"}`
to represent that status.
## Issue Addressed
- Resolves#3266
## Proposed Changes
Return 200 OK rather than an error when a block, attestation or sync message is already known.
Presently, we will log return an error which causes a BN to go "offline" from the VCs perspective which causes the fallback mechanism to do work to try and avoid and upcheck offline nodes. This can be observed as instability in the `vc_beacon_nodes_available_count` metric.
The current behaviour also causes scary logs for the user. There's nothing to *actually* be concerned about when we see duplicate messages, this can happen on fallback systems (see code comments).
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
Resolves https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/3394
Adds a check in `is_healthy` about whether the head is optimistic when choosing whether to use the builder network.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Modifies `lcli skip-slots` and `lcli transition-blocks` allow them to source blocks/states from a beaconAPI and also gives them some more features to assist with benchmarking.
## Additional Info
Breaks the current `lcli skip-slots` and `lcli transition-blocks` APIs by changing some flag names. It should be simple enough to figure out the changes via `--help`.
Currently blocked on #3263.
## Proposed Changes
Update the invalid head tests so that they work with the current default fork choice configuration.
Thanks @realbigsean for fixing the persistence test and the EF tests.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
#3418
## Proposed Changes
- Remove `eth/v2/validator/blinded_blocks/{slot}` as this endpoint does not exist in the spec.
- Return `version` in the `eth/v1/validator/blinded_blocks/{slot}` endpoint.
## Additional Info
Since this removes the `v2` endpoint, this is *technically* a breaking change, but as this does not exist in the spec users may or may not be relying on this.
Depending on what we feel is appropriate, I'm happy to edit this so we keep the `v2` endpoint for now but simply bring the `v1` endpoint in line with `v2`.
## Issue Addressed
A 204 from the connected builder just indicates there's no payload available from the builder, not that there's an issue. So I don't actually think this should be a warn. During the merge transition when we are pre-finalization a 204 will actually be expected. And maybe even longer if the relay chooses to delay providing payloads for a longer period post-merge.
Co-authored-by: realbigsean <sean@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/issues/3930
## Proposed Changes
We can trivially support beacon nodes which do not provide the `is_optimistic` field by wrapping the field in an `Option`.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
There was a regression in #3244 (released in v2.4.0) which stopped pruning fork choice (see [here](https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3244#discussion_r935187485)).
This would form a very slow memory leak, using ~100mb per month. The release has been out for ~11 days, so users should not be seeing a dangerous increase in memory, *yet*.
Credits to @michaelsproul for noticing this 🎉
## Additional Info
NA
## Issue Addressed
Fixes an issue identified by @remyroy whereby we were logging a recommendation to use `--eth1-endpoints` on merge-ready setups (when the execution layer was out of sync).
## Proposed Changes
I took the opportunity to clean up the other eth1-related logs, replacing "eth1" by "deposit contract" or "execution" as appropriate.
I've downgraded the severity of the `CRIT` log to `ERRO` and removed most of the recommendation text. The reason being that users lacking an execution endpoint will be informed by the new `WARN Not merge ready` log pre-Bellatrix, or the regular errors from block verification post-Bellatrix.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
This PR will make Lighthouse return blocks with invalid payloads via the API with `execution_optimistic = true`. This seems a bit awkward, however I think it's better than returning a 404 or some other error.
Let's consider the case where the only possible head is invalid (#3370 deals with this). In such a scenario all of the duties endpoints will start failing because the head is invalid. I think it would be better if the duties endpoints continue to work, because it's likely that even though the head is invalid the duties are still based upon valid blocks and we want the VC to have them cached. There's no risk to the VC here because we won't actually produce an attestation pointing to an invalid head.
Ultimately, I don't think it's particularly important for us to distinguish between optimistic and invalid blocks on the API. Neither should be trusted and the only *real* reason that we track this is so we can try and fork around the invalid blocks.
## Additional Info
- ~~Blocked on #3370~~
## Issue Addressed
Enable https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3322 by default on all networks.
The feature can be opted out of using `--count-unrealized=false` (the CLI flag is updated to take a parameter).
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Uses the `penalize_peer` function added in #3350 in sync methods as well. The existing code in sync methods missed the `ExecutionPayloadError::UnverifiedNonOptimisticCandidate` case.
