The Append / truncate operations were racy. When a datafile reaches 2Gb, a new file is needed. For this operation, we require a writelock, which is not needed in the 99.99% of all cases where the data does fit in the current head-file.
This transition from readlock to writelock was incorrect, and as the readlock was released, a truncate operation could slip in between, and truncate the data. This would have been fine, however, the Append operation continued writing as if no truncation had occurred, e.g writing item 5 where item 0 should reside.
This PR changes the behaviour, so that if when we run into the situation that a new file is needed, it aborts, and retries, this time with a writelock.
The outcome of the situation described above, running on this PR, would instead be that the Append operation exits with a failure.
* build: use golangci-lint
This changes build/ci.go to download and run golangci-lint instead
of gometalinter.
* core/state: fix unnecessary conversion
* p2p/simulations: fix lock copying (found by go vet)
* signer/core: fix unnecessary conversions
* crypto/ecies: remove unused function cmpPublic
* core/rawdb: remove unused function print
* core/state: remove unused function xTestFuzzCutter
* core/vm: disable TestWriteExpectedValues in a different way
* core/forkid: remove unused function checksum
* les: remove unused type proofsData
* cmd/utils: remove unused functions prefixedNames, prefixFor
* crypto/bn256: run goimports
* p2p/nat: fix goimports lint issue
* cmd/clef: avoid using unkeyed struct fields
* les: cancel context in testRequest
* rlp: delete unreachable code
* core: gofmt
* internal/build: simplify DownloadFile for Go 1.11 compatibility
* build: remove go test --short flag
* .travis.yml: disable build cache
* whisper/whisperv6: fix ineffectual assignment in TestWhisperIdentityManagement
* .golangci.yml: enable goconst and ineffassign linters
* build: print message when there are no lint issues
* internal/build: refactor download a bit
