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backport: bitcoin#33212, bitcoin#34897 (don't commit indexes ahead of the flushed chainstate) - #8030
#7883 brought in bitcoin#25193, which makes BaseIndex::Init resume from the locator's top block. On its own that brings back bitcoin#33208: BaseIndex::Rewind and the end-of-sync commit can write a locator that names a block the chainstate has not flushed yet. After an unclean shutdown that block is missing from the on-disk block index, and the node refuses to start with "best block of the index not found" until the index is rebuilt. Upstream fixed this with bitcoin#33212 and bitcoin#34897.
Dash needs two more adaptations. Without them, the address, spent and timestamp indexes can keep entries of blocks that are no longer in the active chain:
Unlike upstream indexes, Dash's address/spent/timestamp CustomRewind erases the rewound entries immediately. Once Rewind stops committing (index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212), a crash before the next flush could leave the old locator above the erased rows. The index would then report itself synced with those entries missing.
GovCollateralIndex::CustomRewind writes its own locator in the rewind batch, the same bug that index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212 removed from BaseIndex::Rewind. Because that index is always on, a crash at the wrong moment could make the node fail to start.
Merge indexes: Don't commit ahead of the flushed chainstate bitcoin/bitcoin#34897: Chainstate records its last flushed block and passes it to ChainStateFlushed, and BaseIndex::Commit() skips the write while the index tip is not an ancestor of that block. Commit() becomes void as upstream. The new baseindex_tests are adapted to Dash's test setup. The upstream chainstate_write_tests part is not ported, because it depends on validation test scaffolding that Dash doesn't have yet. The skip message uses LogPrint(BCLog::COINDB, …) because Dash has no LogDebug.
fix(index): don't let the governance collateral index persist a rewind ahead of the flush: that index writes the rewound locator only when the new tip is an ancestor of the last flushed block.
fix(index): don't leave the locator above the entries a rewind erases: if the chainstate's last flush is below a rewind target, the erasures were persisted while the committed locator stayed above them, and a restart where that branch wins again would skip the erased blocks. When the committed locator is above the new tip on the same branch, it is now moved to the new tip, which is always in the on-disk block index. This applies only to the four indexes that erase on rewind; the governance collateral index writes it in the same batch as its erasures. New baseindex_tests cover it with a test index that erases on rewind, the way the Dash indexes do, without needing a timed crash. They check each locator condition (same branch below, equal, competing branch, committed tip below the target), and a rewind past the last flush followed by a restart, which must re-index the erased blocks. With the helper as a no-op, the same-branch case and the restart test fail; with an earlier common-ancestor version, the competing-branch and committed-below cases fail. The helper also covers a rewind whose new tip is already flushed, so BaseIndex::Rewind stays exactly as index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212 left it. An earlier revision of this PR re-added Commit() at the end of Rewind; that was dropped after review as redundant.
test: feature_addressindex.py now checks that blocks orphaned while -addressindex was disabled are removed from the index once it is re-enabled.
Also run: feature_index_prune, feature_reindex, feature_spentindex, feature_timestampindex, feature_addressindex, feature_coinstatsindex, p2p_blockfilters, rpc_getblockfilter, rpc_misc, mempool_persist, wallet_backup, wallet_hd, plus the coinstatsindex/txindex/blockfilter_index unit suites.
Dropping the Commit() from Rewind was checked with a local crash test through the real Rewind path (index committed at the flushed tip, reorg rewinds one block, stop before the next flush, original block wins again). It passes with either Commit() or the rewind-locator helper and fails only with both removed. The rewind-locator tests fail with only Commit(), so the helper is the one that matters.
These changes make the committed index state follow the flushed chainstate and make rewinds durable. They do not cover one case that v23's synchronous indexes share: the entries of a block connected shortly before an unclean shutdown stay in the address, spent and timestamp indexes if that block is lost in the crash and never received again, because a competing block won. Nothing on disk records those entries after the crash, so no rewind can find them. A full -reindex (or starting once with these indexes disabled, stopping, deleting their indexes/ directories and starting again with them enabled) removes them. Closing this would need the index to track the blocks it wrote past its committed locator, which is a follow-up rather than part of this fix.
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None. While the chainstate is behind, an index's committed best block can now trail its in-memory tip until the next flush. After an unclean shutdown the index re-syncs those blocks.
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Chainstate now records the last block flushed to disk and uses its active-chain ancestor when notifying validation listeners. BaseIndex skips commits beyond that flushed block and adds conditional rewind-locator updates. AddressIndex, SpentIndex, TimestampIndex, and GovCollateralIndex write locator updates during rewind. New unit and functional tests cover flush ordering, commit heights, rewind behavior, reorgs, and index recovery after an unclean restart.
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participant Chainstate
participant BaseIndex
participant IndexDatabase
Chainstate->>Chainstate: Record last flushed block
BaseIndex->>Chainstate: Read last flushed block
BaseIndex->>BaseIndex: Check whether index tip is covered
BaseIndex->>IndexDatabase: Persist index state when covered
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dashpay/dash#7860: Adds GovCollateralIndex, whose CustomRewind locator handling is changed here.
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a602f6f test: index with an unclean restart after a reorg (Martin Zumsande)
01b95ac index: don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind (Martin Zumsande)
Pull request description:
The committed state of an index should never be ahead of the flushed chainstate.
Otherwise, in the case of an unclean shutdown, the blocks necessary to revert
from the prematurely committed state are not be available, which would corrupt the coinstatsindex in particular.
Instead, the index state will be committed with the next ChainStateFlushed notification.
Fixesbitcoin#33208
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BACKPORT NOTE:
The unclean-restart scenario calls syncwithvalidationinterfacequeue before the kill: the index stays
"synced" across the reorg, so without it the kill can land before Rewind() and the test passes without the fix.
Dash's TestNode has no kill_process(), so the functional test kills the process directly and
expects the same exit code (-9, or 1 on Windows) that upstream's helper checks.
…state
e9ed898 validation: Don't use m_chain.Tip() in FlushStateToDisk (Martin Zumsande)
3679f1e index: Don't commit ahead of the flushed chainstate (Martin Zumsande)
6573572 index: Remove return value from Commit() (Martin Zumsande)
09c0696 validation: track last flushed block (Martin Zumsande)
13c02b5 test: add test for index commits ahead of the last flushed block (Martin Zumsande)
Pull request description:
If indexes commit their data ahead of the flushed chainstate, and there is an unclean shutdown, the index will be corrupted. This is especially the case for the coinstatsindex, which has state (the muhash) which can't easily be rolled back without access to the blocks. This was only partly fixed in bitcoin#33212 (for reorg scenarios) but could still happen during initial sync.
Fix this more thoroughly by having the node keep track of the last flushed block, and skipping index commits if the current block of the index is not an ancestor of the node's last flushed block (similar to the suggestion by stickies-v in bitcoin#33212 (review).
Fixesbitcoin#33208Fixesbitcoin#34261
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BACKPORT NOTE:
- Commit() keeps Dash's existing LogError call; LogDebug becomes LogPrint(BCLog::COINDB, ...).
- In FlushStateToDisk the last flushed block is recorded right after the coins flush, as upstream does; Dash
then commits EvoDB in the same flush before ChainStateFlushed is sent.
- src/test/chainstate_write_tests.cpp does not exist in Dash, so its two assertions are not ported.
- baseindex_tests uses Dash's index API: Init() and Sync() are private here, so the test starts the index
and holds back the sync thread with g_indexes_ready_to_sync to read the committed best block.
… from it
A node that runs without -addressindex across a reorg and then enables it
again must rewind the index past the orphaned blocks instead of keeping
their entries. Before bitcoin#25193 (8588588) the index resumed from
the fork point of its locator and never removed them.
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Add a competing-branch case to the commit-boundary test.
The new test covers only a linear chain and asserts only best_block_height. Removing the ancestor check in BaseIndex::Commit() (src/index/base.cpp:258-264) leaves all three phases passing. Add a case where the index tip is at the last flushed height on a competing branch. After reload, assert the previously committed block hash, not only its height.
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Extend the commit-boundary test using sync_index and CreateAndProcessBlock to
cover an index tip at the last flushed height on a competing branch, then reload
the index and assert that its block hash remains the previously committed hash;
preserve the existing linear-chain phases.
On the follow-up about adding a competing-branch case to baseindex_tests: leaving that test as ported from bitcoin#34897. The guard's branch behaviour is covered by the functional reorg scenarios (the feature_coinstatsindex unclean-restart case and the new feature_addressindex reorg-while-disabled case).
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static verification at head 0abf95d confirms one blocking Dash-specific recovery regression and two non-blocking suggestions. The omitted upstream test assertions were explicitly excluded in the PR description and backport notes, so that prerequisite finding is dropped. Current CI shows the Linux build and tests, lint, formatting, and Cppcheck passing; other platform and sanitizer builds remain pending, and no local builds or tests were run.
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🟡 Suggestion: Consolidate the governance rewind fix with its replacement <commit:0abf95de591>:1
Commit 56b0d3b introduces a last-flushed-block guard in GovCollateralIndex::CustomRewind(), and 0abf95d removes that entire guard in favor of WriteRewindLocator() to correct the erase/locator inconsistency. These are successive implementations of the same Dash-specific adaptation, not separate upstream provenance boundaries. Reorder and squash the governance guard commit with its replacement into one coherent rewind-locator adaptation, including the helper and regression tests. Keep the upstream backports and the wallet-notification adaptation separate.
Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The changes intricately coordinate index rewind persistence and chainstate flush notifications, but do not change consensus rules, funds handling, cryptography, network deserialization, or storage migrations.
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In `src/index/base.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/index/base.cpp:260-263: Preserve recovery information for eager writes when skipping the checkpoint
This return also skips ThreadSync's end-of-sync checkpoint after AddressIndex, SpentIndex, and TimestampIndex have already persisted their rows in CustomAppend(). Let background synchronization finish at T above the last full chainstate flush F, with T's block, undo data, and block-index entry already durable. That state is possible because validation.cpp:3264–3304 has a periodic-write path that persists those files and the block index without flushing CoinsTip. After a crash, restart with the optional index disabled, reorganize away T, and re-enable the index. Its saved locator still names F, so synchronization follows the replacement branch without invoking CustomRewind() for the orphaned rows above F. The index can then report synced while returning stale address history/UTXOs or spent/timestamp results.
The author's comparison with v23 and rc.6 does not establish safety against this PR's actual base: bf9a6cb3 already resumes from locator.vHave[0], and its unconditional end-of-sync Commit() records T. Because T survives this scenario, that base can rewind it when the index is re-enabled. This is therefore distinct from the documented limitation involving blocks lost from the on-disk block index. Keep the checkpoint guard, but retain recovery information for eager writes beyond the committed locator, and add coverage for the durable-block crash followed by a reorganization while the index is disabled.
In `src/index/addressindex.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/index/addressindex.cpp:401-403: Rewind erasures and locator move use separate batches
The new rewind-locator adaptation still persists the address erasures in RewindBatch() before writing the locator in this separate batch. SpentIndex and TimestampIndex use the same ordering. A crash after an erasure batch but before the locator batch leaves the saved locator above missing records; if that branch is active again at restart, Init() can resume beyond those records without rebuilding them. GovCollateralIndex avoids this window by including its erasures and WriteRewindLocator() in the same batch.
Make the locator follow each per-block erasure atomically, using that block's parent as the recovery tip. This preserves bounded memory for deep rewinds instead of accumulating the entire rewind into one batch. The window also existed before this PR, so this is a non-blocking completeness issue in the Dash-specific recovery adaptation rather than a new regression. If deferred, record the residual crash window in a tracking issue.
In `<commit:0abf95de591>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:0abf95de591>:1: Consolidate the governance rewind fix with its replacement
Commit 56b0d3b3f4b introduces a last-flushed-block guard in GovCollateralIndex::CustomRewind(), and 0abf95de591 removes that entire guard in favor of WriteRewindLocator() to correct the erase/locator inconsistency. These are successive implementations of the same Dash-specific adaptation, not separate upstream provenance boundaries. Reorder and squash the governance guard commit with its replacement into one coherent rewind-locator adaptation, including the helper and regression tests. Keep the upstream backports and the wallet-notification adaptation separate.
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🔴 Blocking: Preserve recovery information for eager writes when skipping the checkpoint
This return also skips ThreadSync's end-of-sync checkpoint after AddressIndex, SpentIndex, and TimestampIndex have already persisted their rows in CustomAppend(). Let background synchronization finish at T above the last full chainstate flush F, with T's block, undo data, and block-index entry already durable. That state is possible because validation.cpp:3264–3304 has a periodic-write path that persists those files and the block index without flushing CoinsTip. After a crash, restart with the optional index disabled, reorganize away T, and re-enable the index. Its saved locator still names F, so synchronization follows the replacement branch without invoking CustomRewind() for the orphaned rows above F. The index can then report synced while returning stale address history/UTXOs or spent/timestamp results.
The author's comparison with v23 and rc.6 does not establish safety against this PR's actual base: bf9a6cb already resumes from locator.vHave[0], and its unconditional end-of-sync Commit() records T. Because T survives this scenario, that base can rewind it when the index is re-enabled. This is therefore distinct from the documented limitation involving blocks lost from the on-disk block index. Keep the checkpoint guard, but retain recovery information for eager writes beyond the committed locator, and add coverage for the durable-block crash followed by a reorganization while the index is disabled.
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Correction (after reproducing it): my ChainLock and "hour-old" reasoning below was wrong. A periodic block-index write can make a block durable seconds after it connects, and an unlocked tip can be reorged without crossing a ChainLock.
I reproduced the scenario deterministically with a local unit test (not part of this PR):
The index sync ends at T above the last chainstate flush.
The index stops with no further commit, modelling an unclean stop.
T's branch is reorged away while the index is not running.
rc.6 commits T, but its pre-bitcoin#25193 Init() resolves the locator with FindForkInGlobalIndex and starts at the fork point, so it never rewinds the orphaned blocks. So this is a regression against the unreleased develop base, not against rc.6 or v23.1.10. Leaving the thread open for a maintainer decision.
Original reply (the ChainLock point is superseded)
Agreed on the comparison with this PR's base: there, the end-of-sync commit records T. If a periodic block-index write made T durable before the crash, a later rewind from T can erase the orphaned rows. This PR leaves the locator at F instead.
I'm still not treating it as blocking for this backport:
On Dash the remaining case needs a reorg past ChainLocks. (Wrong, see the correction above.)
The enabled-index crash case is related. With the index enabled, the same rows above F are already left behind after a crash: on the base, on v23.1.10 and with this PR.
The fix is not small. Keeping recovery information for rows above the committed locator needs a new persisted marker that Init() starts from and the rewind code also moves.
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I agree the checkpoint guard fixes the missing-block-index startup failure and should stay. However, the hourly write does not imply that the blocks it persists are an hour old: fPeriodicWrite in FlushStateToDisk() measures time since the previous write, so a newly connected T can become durable immediately before background index sync finishes, without a full coins flush. Chainlocks::HasConflictingChainLock() returns false above the best known ChainLock height, so reorganizing that fresh, unlocked tip does not require crossing a ChainLock. The existing enabled-index crash limitation is real, but it does not make this additional loss of recovery relative to the base pre-existing; I therefore can't accept deferring this regression solely because the recovery-marker change is larger.
On the commit-history suggestion (squash 56b0d3b into 0abf95d): I'm keeping them separate. The governance-guard commit is what reviewers checked, and the v24.0.x PR (#8033) doesn't carry the governance index, so its commit list already differs. The PR description lists the commits by SHA, and rewriting them now would invalidate that list for no change in the final tree. They can be squashed at merge if maintainers prefer.
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fix(index): commit a rewound index once its new tip is flushed (780ad78) is redundant once the final commit lands. Its commit message describes exactly the scenario WriteRewindLocator covers. It reverses what bitcoin#33212 deliberately removed, and erasing indexes now write the locator twice per rewind. Dropping it keeps BaseIndex::Rewind 1:1 with upstream and confines the Dash behaviour to the four CustomRewind overrides.
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Agreed, and dropped. The new head is 337c464, and the same commit was dropped from the v24.0.x backport #8033 (new head 8a1fa43). BaseIndex::Rewind is now identical to bitcoin#33212, and the final commit's message says why.
Before dropping it, I checked the scenario 780ad78's own commit message describes: the index is committed at the flushed tip and a reorg rewinds one block. The node then stops before the next flush, and the original block wins again on restart. That rewind runs through the real BaseIndex::Rewind, which the existing baseindex_tests cases don't exercise because they call CustomRewind directly. I added it locally as a unit test and ran it 3× in each configuration:
So the helper covers everything the commit did, and the commit doesn't cover the case where the rewind target is above the last flush. In the cases where Commit() would write and the helper doesn't (no committed locator, committed tip at or below the new tip, or on another branch), a restart resumes or rewinds from the committed locator correctly. That only costs re-appending a few blocks. It also no longer runs CustomCommit from Rewind, which matches upstream.
On the new heads, the unit suites baseindex_tests, txindex_tests, validation_flush_tests, coinstatsindex_tests and blockfilter_index_tests pass. They are joined by governance_collateral_tests on develop and index_migration_tests on v24.0.x. These functional tests also pass: feature_addressindex, feature_spentindex, feature_timestampindex, feature_index_prune and feature_init, plus feature_governance on develop.
Your approval was for 0abf95d, so it needs a fresh look. The code change since then is this one-line removal and its comment.
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…d ahead of the flush
GovCollateralIndex::CustomRewind writes the rewound locator in the same batch as the
erased collaterals. Like the commit bitcoin#33212 removed from BaseIndex::Rewind, that
locator can name a block that is not in the on-disk block index yet. After an unclean
shutdown the index then fails BaseIndex::Init with "best block of the index not found",
and since this index is always on, the node does not start.
Write the locator only when the new tip is an ancestor of the chainstate's last flushed
block, the same condition bitcoin#34897 adds to BaseIndex::Commit().
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bitcoin#34897 announces the last flushed block in ChainStateFlushed. Upstream
only indexes listen to that signal, since bitcoin#30221 stopped the wallet from
storing its locator. Dash's wallet still writes the announced locator as its
best block. A flush inside ConnectTip() happens after the coins are updated but
before the block is part of m_chain and before its BlockConnected is queued, so
the wallet could record the block it is about to scan as the chain tip. A crash
in that window would skip the rescan on restart and miss the block's
transactions.
Announce the most recent flushed block that is part of the active chain. That
is the parent while ConnectTip() is connecting a block, which is what was
announced before bitcoin#34897, and the flushed parent after DisconnectTip(),
which keeps the upstream fix for that case.
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The address, spent, timestamp and governance collateral indexes erase the
entries of rewound blocks in CustomRewind. Since bitcoin#33212 a rewind no
longer commits its locator, and since bitcoin#34897 a later commit only writes
it once the index tip is an ancestor of the last flushed block. If the
chainstate's last flush is below the rewind target, the erasures
were persisted while the committed locator stayed above them, on the rewound
branch. After an unclean restart in which that branch wins again, the index
resumed from the old locator and never appended the erased blocks again. The
governance collateral index used to write its locator in the same batch as the
erasures; skipping it there opened the same gap.
When the committed locator is above the new tip on the same branch, move it to
the new tip. The committed tip was an ancestor of a flushed block when it was
written, so the new tip below it is in the block index after a restart. The
locator then matches what the index holds, whichever branch wins afterwards. A
committed locator at or below the new tip, or on another branch, is left alone:
a restart resumes or rewinds from it correctly. The governance collateral index
writes it in the same batch as its erasures, the others right after theirs, as
the full commit did before bitcoin#33212. This also covers a rewind whose new
tip is already flushed, so BaseIndex::Rewind() stays as upstream left it.
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Follow-up Comments
Batch the rewind erasures and the rewind locator into one write.
161-163: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Batch the rewind erasures and the rewind locator into one write.
CustomRewind erases each rewound block's spent keys in a separate write, then writes the rewind locator last. A crash between these writes keeps the old locator. If that block is still active at startup, Init accepts the old tip and does not re-append it. Spent-index lookups then miss confirmed spends from that block. Collect all erasures and WriteRewindLocator into one CDBBatch and write it once. This change predates the PR. It is a follow-up.
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Review comment at @src/index/spentindex.cpp around lines 161 - 163:
Update CustomRewind to collect the spent-key erasures for all rewound blocks and
the WriteRewindLocator update in one CDBBatch, then persist them with a single
write. Preserve the existing rewind behavior while ensuring the locator and
erasures are committed atomically.
Write the timestamp erasures and the rewind locator in one batch.
88-90: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Write the timestamp erasures and the rewind locator in one batch.
CustomRewind erases each rewound block's timestamp entry immediately, then writes the rewind locator in a separate batch. If the process stops between these writes, the committed locator stays above erased entries. On restart, an active block can stay missing from getblockhashes until the index is rebuilt. Apply the erasures and the locator in the same CDBBatch.
Suggested fix
- for (const CBlockIndex* pindex = current_tip_index; pindex != new_tip_index; pindex = pindex->pprev) {+ CDBBatch batch(GetDB());+ for (const CBlockIndex* pindex = current_tip_index; pindex != new_tip_index; pindex = pindex->pprev) {
// Skip genesis block
if (pindex->nHeight == 0) continue;
CTimestampIndexKey key(pindex->nTime, pindex->GetBlockHash());
- if (!m_db->EraseTimestampIndex(key)) {- LogError("%s: Failed to erase timestamp index for block %s during rewind\n", __func__,- pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString());- return false;- }+ batch.Erase(std::make_pair(DB_TIMESTAMPINDEX, key));
}
- CDBBatch locator_batch(GetDB());- WriteRewindLocator(locator_batch, new_tip_index);- return GetDB().WriteBatch(locator_batch);+ WriteRewindLocator(batch, new_tip_index);+ return GetDB().WriteBatch(batch);
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Review comment at @src/index/timestampindex.cpp around lines 88 - 90:
Update CustomRewind to queue each rewound block’s timestamp-index erasure in the
same CDBBatch as the rewind locator, then write that batch once. Preserve the
genesis-block skip and ensure an erasure failure still prevents reporting a
successful rewind.
Write the erasures and the rewound locator in one batch.
401-403: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Write the erasures and the rewound locator in one batch.
AddressIndex::CustomRewind erases each block's records in its own RewindBatch call and writes the locator in a later batch (src/index/addressindex.cpp:394-403). A crash between these writes leaves the committed locator above erased records. On restart, BaseIndex::Init resumes from that locator and does not re-index them. Address RPCs then return incomplete results. Collect the rewind entries for all blocks, then write them with WriteRewindLocator in one batch, as GovCollateralIndex::CustomRewind does.
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Review comment at @src/index/addressindex.cpp around lines 401 - 403:
Update AddressIndex::CustomRewind to collect the erasures for all rewound blocks
in one CDBBatch, add the rewound locator with WriteRewindLocator, and commit
both together; avoid committing each block’s erasures separately through
RewindBatch.
Cover a competing index tip in baseindexnocommitaheadofflush.
Cover a competing index tip in baseindex_no_commit_ahead_of_flush.
The test builds only a linear chain. A height-only check in Commit() would pass all three of its cases. The ancestry check changes the result only when the index tip is on another branch at or below the last-flushed height, and this test does not create that state. Add a case that commits a competing block at or below the flushed height, then asserts that the committed tip is unchanged. The competing block setup in rewind_locator_follows_erased_entries can serve as a model.
Why this matters
If a committed tip on an unflushed branch is persisted, the index runs ahead of the flushed chainstate. The test header says that state can corrupt the index after an unclean shutdown.
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Review comment at @src/test/baseindex_tests.cpp around lines 140 - 150:
Extend baseindex_no_commit_ahead_of_flush with a competing-branch case at or
below the last-flushed height, using the competing-block setup in
rewind_locator_follows_erased_entries as a model. Attempt the commit and assert
that the committed tip remains unchanged; preserve the existing linear-chain
cases.
Assert the restored CoinStats muhash after the unclean restart.
Assert the restored CoinStats muhash after the unclean restart.
After the unclean restart, the test checks only best_block_height. Restored statistics at committed_height can be wrong while that check passes. Record the muhash at committed_height before the reorg, then compare it after the restart. The pre-reorg query does not change the on-disk state, because the clean restart has already committed committed_height.
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Review comment at @test/functional/feature_coinstatsindex.py around lines 352 -
354:
In the CoinStats unclean-restart test, preserve the indexed muhash at
committed_height before the reorg and assert it matches the restored indexed
muhash after sync_index_node, alongside the existing height check. Use the
existing gettxoutsetinfo call with muhash and the index enabled; ensure the
baseline query occurs after the clean restart has committed committed_height.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static verification at 337c464 confirms one blocking eager-write recovery regression and one non-blocking atomicity gap in the Dash-specific rewind adaptation. The omitted upstream chainstate-write assertions are explicitly excluded by the PR description, and the commit-consolidation request is withdrawn. Completed CI checks pass; TSan testing and the multiprocess build remain pending, and the inspected base-drift changes neither supersede these fixes nor conflict with them.
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2 carried-forward finding(s) already raised on this PR; not re-posting as new inline comments.
Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The change intricately coordinates index rewind persistence and chainstate flush notifications across multiple files, but does not itself change consensus rules, funds movement, cryptography, peer-facing deserialization, or storage migrations.
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In `src/index/base.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/index/base.cpp:260-263: Preserve recovery information for eager writes when skipping the checkpoint
(existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/8030#discussion_r4452414654)
AddressIndex, SpentIndex and TimestampIndex persist their rows during CustomAppend(), before this guard can skip the checkpoint. ThreadSync then marks the index synced even when that checkpoint was skipped. FlushStateToDisk's periodic-write path can persist block/undo files and the block index without flushing CoinsTip, so an indexed tip T above the saved locator F can remain available after a crash. If T is reorganized away while the optional index is disabled, re-enabling it loads F and follows the replacement branch without rewinding T's persisted rows. The index consequently reports synced while returning stale results.
This regresses against bf9a6cb3: its Init() also loads the locator's top block directly, but its unconditional end-of-sync commit records T, allowing recovery to rewind the surviving orphaned blocks. The corrected reproduction in the discussion agrees with these source paths; behavior in released versions does not remove this base-relative regression. Removing Commit() from Rewind does not change the append/checkpoint path, and WriteRewindLocator cannot discover writes above a locator that never recorded them. Keep the safe checkpoint guard, but atomically preserve recovery information for eager mutations in the owning Dash indexes, or buffer those mutations until a safe checkpoint. Add committed coverage for durable blocks followed by an unclean stop and a reorganization while the index is disabled; the current address-index scenario uses a clean restart and does not cover it.
In `src/index/addressindex.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/index/addressindex.cpp:401-403: Rewind erasures and locator move use separate batches
(existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/8030#discussion_r4452414669)
AddressIndex commits each RewindBatch() before writing this separate locator batch. SpentIndex and TimestampIndex likewise commit their erasures before their trailing locator update. A process crash between those writes leaves the saved locator above records already erased; if that branch is active at restart, Init() resumes beyond the missing records instead of rebuilding them. GovCollateralIndex avoids this interval by including the locator adjustment in its erasure batch.
This is a non-blocking completeness gap in the new Dash-specific recovery adaptation because the crash window predates the PR. The proposed per-block fix preserves bounded memory, but the current database helpers construct and commit their batches internally: they need to accept or populate a caller-owned batch so WriteRewindLocator(batch, pindex->pprev) and that block's erasures are actually committed together. Implement that atomic batching, or link a tracking issue or PR before deferring this residual window; the stated follow-up plan currently has no tracking reference in the supplied discussion.
…itcoin#32875, bitcoin#32878, bitcoin#32882, bitcoin#33212, bitcoin#34897, bitcoin#36150 (index unify + relevant fixes)
73ba99d fix(index): reject an uncommitted tip the block index lost (pasta)
3cc304e fix(index): check the blocks governance resumes from at startup (pasta)
5e37377 fix(index): resume from the tip a skipped commit leaves behind (pasta)
0afd6c3 fix(index): write a rewound block's erasures in one batch with its locator (pasta)
cc8362d fix(index): move the committed locator below the entries a rewind erases (Konstantin Akimov)
fa8a7c5 Merge bitcoin#36150: indexes: set prune lock to genesis before first block (Konstantin Akimov)
df7ac41 partial Merge bitcoin#34897: indexes: Don't commit ahead of the flushed chainstate (Konstantin Akimov)
7ad8070 Merge bitcoin#32875: index: handle case where pindex_prev equals chain tip in NextSyncBlock() (Konstantin Akimov)
ce05350 Merge bitcoin#32882: index: remove unnecessary locator cleaning in BaseIndex::Init() (Konstantin Akimov)
4bdfb4e Merge bitcoin#33212: index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind (Konstantin Akimov)
a4cc3c0 Merge bitcoin#32878: index: fix wrong assert of current_tip == m_best_block_index (Konstantin Akimov)
ee7021f partial Merge bitcoin#32580: wallet, test: best block locator matches scan state follow-ups (Konstantin Akimov)
7e86e46 partial Merge bitcoin#30221: wallet: Ensure best block matches wallet scan state (Konstantin Akimov)
059ce4a partial Merge bitcoin#32069: test: fix intermittent failure in wallet_reorgsrestore.py (Konstantin Akimov)
ee9bb26 test: Test bdb_ro dump of wallet without reset LSNs (Konstantin Akimov)
Pull request description:
## Issue being fixed or feature implemented
bitcoin#25193 (#7883) brought back bitcoin#33208: after an unclean shutdown an index can name a block that was never flushed, and the node refuses to start until the index is rebuilt. Alternative to #8030: the upstream fixesbitcoin#33212 and bitcoin#34897 applied 1:1, with the upstream prerequisites they need instead of Dash-only adaptations.
## What was done?
- bitcoin#30221, bitcoin#32580: the wallet no longer stores the locator from `ChainStateFlushed`, so the bitcoin#34897 notification applies unchanged.
- bitcoin#26606 (one hunk), bitcoin#32069: `kill_process()` for the bitcoin#33212 functional test.
- bitcoin#32875, bitcoin#32878, bitcoin#32882, bitcoin#36150: small `BaseIndex` fixes on the same code.
- Two Dash-only commits: Dash's address, spent, timestamp and governance collateral indexes erase entries on rewind, so the committed locator is moved below them, and each rewound block's erasures are written in one batch with that locator so an interrupted rewind can't leave it above erased entries.
Omitted hunks and Dash adaptations are listed in each commit's BACKPORT NOTE. bitcoin#29867 is skipped: Dash never took the bitcoin#28955 lock release it fixes.
## How Has This Been Tested?
- `baseindex_tests`: committed height stays at the last flush (bitcoin#34897); erased blocks are indexed again after a restart, including after a rewind interrupted between blocks (Dash-only commits, each fails with its fix removed).
- `blockfilter_index_tests/index_reorg_crash` (bitcoin#32878), `wallet_tests/scan_for_wallet_transactions` (bitcoin#30221).
- `feature_coinstatsindex.py` unclean restart after a reorg (bitcoin#33212), `feature_pruning.py` new index on a pruned node (bitcoin#36150).
## Breaking Changes
None. An index's committed best block may trail its in-memory tip until the next flush and re-syncs after an unclean shutdown.
## Checklist:
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [x] I have assigned this pull request to a milestone _(if you have permission to set one)_
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Issue being fixed or feature implemented
#7883 brought in bitcoin#25193, which makes
BaseIndex::Initresume from the locator's top block. On its own that brings back bitcoin#33208:BaseIndex::Rewindand the end-of-sync commit can write a locator that names a block the chainstate has not flushed yet. After an unclean shutdown that block is missing from the on-disk block index, and the node refuses to start with "best block of the index not found" until the index is rebuilt. Upstream fixed this with bitcoin#33212 and bitcoin#34897.Dash needs two more adaptations. Without them, the address, spent and timestamp indexes can keep entries of blocks that are no longer in the active chain:
CustomRewinderases the rewound entries immediately. OnceRewindstops committing (index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212), a crash before the next flush could leave the old locator above the erased rows. The index would then report itself synced with those entries missing.GovCollateralIndex::CustomRewindwrites its own locator in the rewind batch, the same bug that index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212 removed fromBaseIndex::Rewind. Because that index is always on, a crash at the wrong moment could make the node fail to start.What was done?
BaseIndex::Rewindno longer commits. The upstream functional test is included; Dash'sTestNodehas nokill_process(), so the test kills the process inline.Chainstaterecords its last flushed block and passes it toChainStateFlushed, andBaseIndex::Commit()skips the write while the index tip is not an ancestor of that block.Commit()becomesvoidas upstream. The newbaseindex_testsare adapted to Dash's test setup. The upstreamchainstate_write_testspart is not ported, because it depends on validation test scaffolding that Dash doesn't have yet. The skip message usesLogPrint(BCLog::COINDB, …)because Dash has noLogDebug.ChainStateFlushed. Upstream only indexes listen to that signal since wallet: Ensure best block matches wallet scan state bitcoin/bitcoin#30221, but Dash's wallet still stores the announced locator as its best block. A flush insideConnectTip()would make the wallet record a block before it has scanned it. The notification now names the newest flushed block that is part of the active chain: the parent duringConnectTip(), as before indexes: Don't commit ahead of the flushed chainstate bitcoin/bitcoin#34897. New unit testvalidation_flush_tests/chainstate_flushed_after_block_connectedforces that flush; it fails without the change and passes with it.baseindex_testscover it with a test index that erases on rewind, the way the Dash indexes do, without needing a timed crash. They check each locator condition (same branch below, equal, competing branch, committed tip below the target), and a rewind past the last flush followed by a restart, which must re-index the erased blocks. With the helper as a no-op, the same-branch case and the restart test fail; with an earlier common-ancestor version, the competing-branch and committed-below cases fail. The helper also covers a rewind whose new tip is already flushed, soBaseIndex::Rewindstays exactly as index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212 left it. An earlier revision of this PR re-addedCommit()at the end ofRewind; that was dropped after review as redundant.feature_addressindex.pynow checks that blocks orphaned while-addressindexwas disabled are removed from the index once it is re-enabled.How Has This Been Tested?
baseindex_tests(from indexes: Don't commit ahead of the flushed chainstate bitcoin/bitcoin#34897): passes with the change. With theCommit()guard disabled, it fails at all three steps (committed height 100 ≠ 0, 101 ≠ 100).feature_addressindex.pyscenario: passes with the change and fails on v24.0.0-rc.6 (the orphaned coinbase is still reported).feature_coinstatsindex.pywith the index: Don't commit state in BaseIndex::Rewind bitcoin/bitcoin#33212 unclean-restart scenario passes. With only indexes: Read the locator's top block during init, allow interaction with reindex-chainstate bitcoin/bitcoin#25193 it fails 4/4 with "txindex: best block of the index not found". Unlike upstream, the test drains the validation queue (syncwithvalidationinterfacequeue) before the kill; without that it can kill the node beforeRewind()runs and pass without the fix. A separate regtest harness that crashes the node after a reorg and index catch-up gives 10/10 refused starts with only indexes: Read the locator's top block during init, allow interaction with reindex-chainstate bitcoin/bitcoin#25193, and 0/10 with this PR.feature_index_prune,feature_reindex,feature_spentindex,feature_timestampindex,feature_addressindex,feature_coinstatsindex,p2p_blockfilters,rpc_getblockfilter,rpc_misc,mempool_persist,wallet_backup,wallet_hd, plus thecoinstatsindex/txindex/blockfilter_indexunit suites.Commit()fromRewindwas checked with a local crash test through the realRewindpath (index committed at the flushed tip, reorg rewinds one block, stop before the next flush, original block wins again). It passes with eitherCommit()or the rewind-locator helper and fails only with both removed. The rewind-locator tests fail with onlyCommit(), so the helper is the one that matters.Known limitation (not fixed here)
These changes make the committed index state follow the flushed chainstate and make rewinds durable. They do not cover one case that v23's synchronous indexes share: the entries of a block connected shortly before an unclean shutdown stay in the address, spent and timestamp indexes if that block is lost in the crash and never received again, because a competing block won. Nothing on disk records those entries after the crash, so no rewind can find them. A full
-reindex(or starting once with these indexes disabled, stopping, deleting theirindexes/directories and starting again with them enabled) removes them. Closing this would need the index to track the blocks it wrote past its committed locator, which is a follow-up rather than part of this fix.Breaking Changes
None. While the chainstate is behind, an index's committed best block can now trail its in-memory tip until the next flush. After an unclean shutdown the index re-syncs those blocks.
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