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fix: keep short rotation quarters as selected - #8074
Rotating LLMQs (DIP0024) are built from four quarters, one per DKG cycle. When a cycle can't fill a quarter because too few eligible masternodes are left outside that quorum index's previous three quarters, the builder correctly selects fewer members. But neither legacy snapshot mode records quarter lengths, so when later cycles rebuild that quarter from its snapshot, GetQuorumQuarterMembersBySnapshot fills it up to quarterSize by continuing around the candidate list. That adds members that were never selected, and they can repeat members of the quorum's other quarters. Separately, the builder's early returns store no snapshot at all, and a missing snapshot makes later cycles stop loading their older quarters.
In regtest with 3 masternodes this produces compositions like [4a61 | 4a61 | 4a61 | dd15]. The DKG maps a proTxHash to a single member index, so a repeated masternode's extra slots never record a contribution; they are treated as non-contributing members, which leads to complaints and PoSe penalties for an honest masternode. This is what made feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py fail intermittently.
This is the ungated alternative to #8012: no deployment, the new rules apply to every cycle, and the few testnet cycles whose history differs keep the legacy rules. For identical preceding history, candidates are ordered and accepted exactly as before, so the new walk selects differently only where the legacy walk stopped early (short or empty quarters, too few enabled masternodes).
Not fixed here: when the builder collects previous members into CDeterministicMNLists with AddMN, unique-property conflicts between historical member states (e.g. an address reused after service updates) throw and are silently swallowed, so a member can drop out of its index's exclusion set and be selected again ([A, B, A]), even with many eligible masternodes. Mainnet history also depends on these AddMN conflicts (they reorder candidates at cycle 1800288 and block one at cycle 1878912), so excluding by proTxHash would need a gated change; #8012 does that.
What was done?
refactor(llmq): the existing selection and rebuild loops move unchanged into WalkLegacyQuarters / ReplayLegacyQuarters, with tests pinning their output, including the skip-list quirk where a first skip at position 0 is treated as unset, and the serialized snapshot bytes.
feat(llmq): WalkNewQuarters / ReplayNewQuarters, a walk that records skips as step numbers (first absolute, then positive deltas) and ends a quarter when full or after list.size() consecutive skips, so its replay reproduces exactly what was selected, including short and empty quarters.
feat: a regtest-only -llmqtestdip0024params=<size>:<threshold> that sets the LLMQ_TEST_DIP0024 size and sets minSize, threshold and dkgBadVotesThreshold to <threshold>; the size must be a positive multiple of 4 within the supported maximum.
feat(llmq): a new snapshot mode, MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS (4), for cycles with a short or empty quarter, whose skip list holds walk steps. Snapshots are now decoded by their mode: modes 0 and 1 keep the legacy replay byte for byte. LegacySkipListForWalk gives the skip list the legacy builder stores for a step walk whose quarters are all full, which is the same walk.
fix(llmq), the consensus change:
every cycle's new quarters are built with the step walk, and every successful build stores a snapshot, including cycles with short or empty quarters or no eligible masternodes (no early returns), except the testnet cycles that keep the legacy walk;
candidates are ordered and accepted exactly as before, AddMN conflicts included. Where every quarter fills, the step walk therefore selects what the legacy walk would have, and the snapshot stores exactly the legacy bytes, so the cycle is rebuilt as before, including after the walk wraps around the candidate list, where the legacy replay doesn't always rebuild what was built;
only a cycle with a short or empty quarter, or with too few enabled masternodes, is stored in MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS and rebuilt as it was selected, so clients that only know the legacy modes keep working until such a cycle occurs;
testnet's history has 12 cycles where the step walk selects differently: too few masternodes at h=838368, short quarters at h=901152-903168 and h=1366560-1367136. Their base block hashes are listed in a new consensus parameter, llmqLegacyRotationCycles, and those cycles keep the legacy walk.
fix(llmq): a MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshot whose skip list can't be replayed makes the cycle not computable instead of being rebuilt as empty quarters.
test: DashTestFramework gains a configurable rotating-quorum minimum size and optional "predictions must be known" checks; feature_llmq_rotation.py now requires known predictions.
test: new feature_llmq_rotation_short_quarters.py.
doc: release note, including the MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS decoding rule for SPV clients.
How Has This Been Tested?
Tested on macOS (Apple Silicon), depends build, configured with --enable-debug --enable-werror --enable-crash-hooks.
Unit tests (src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp, llmq_params_tests.cpp), full test_dash suite passing:
pinned legacy encoder/decoder output;
an exhaustive step walk round trip over small candidate lists and per-index used sets, and malformed-input rejection;
exhaustively over small candidate lists and used sets, wrap-around included: wherever the legacy walk fills every quarter, the step walk selects the same positions and LegacySkipListForWalk gives the legacy walk's skip list, also in the cases the legacy replay rebuilds differently;
MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshot serialization;
builder vs rebuild across cycles, with the short cycle stored in MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS;
zero candidates still storing a snapshot, and prediction writing no snapshot;
a candidate that conflicts with a previous member's historical state staying blocked, as before;
the testnet legacy cycle list.
New functional test feature_llmq_rotation_short_quarters.py (3 masternodes, -llmqtestdip0024params=8:3): every rebuilt quarter equals the builder's logged selection, no quorum repeats a member, short quorums form with accepted commitments, a below-minimum cycle forms no quorum, quorum rotationinfo (qrinfo) serves MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshots, and every member list survives a reorg of all driven cycles and a cold restart.
Fails without the fix:
with the builder forced onto the legacy walk, the functional test fails at the first cycle (no snapshot, so predictions are unknown) and, with that check relaxed, at the first rebuilt short quarter (padded to 2 members where 1 was built);
without the per-index AddMN check under the step walk, rotation_candidate_conflicting_with_previous_member_is_skipped fails.
Functional regression runs on this branch, all passing: feature_llmq_rotation.py, feature_llmq_chainlocks.py, feature_llmq_is_cl_conflicts.py, feature_llmq_is_retroactive.py, rpc_verifyislock.py, feature_llmq_connections.py, feature_llmq_simplepose.py, feature_llmq_signing.py, feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py, feature_mnehf.py, feature_evo_shares_activation.py, interface_rest.py, feature_dip3_deterministicmns.py, feature_llmq_evo.py, rpc_masternode.py, p2p_quorum_data.py, feature_llmq_data_recovery.py, rpc_blockchain.py.
Replays: -reindex-chainstate -assumevalid=0 (every signature checked) of mainnet to h=2554746 and testnet to h=1579827 with a build of these rules plus a per-index proTxHash exclusion, both reaching the tip with no rejected block. On the walks observed in those variant builds, every non-exempt cycle round-tripped and filled its quarters, so both snapshot-mode policies chose the same legacy encoding. This mode-policy comparison does not establish identical historical member selections between those builds and this branch. Those builds chose the snapshot mode by whether the legacy encoding round-trips instead of by whether a quarter is short; every non-exempt cycle round-tripped and filled its quarters, so both choices store the same snapshots for the whole history.
Breaking Changes
Consensus change without activation. The reported variant-build replays accepted mainnet blocks through h=2554746 and testnet blocks through h=1579827; testnet's 12 identified differing cycle bases retain the legacy rules. Short or empty quarters only occur when very few masternodes are eligible. Older and upgraded nodes can then derive different quorum members, either in that cycle or when its quarters are reused in later cycles, and reject each other's commitments, so nodes have to upgrade before such a cycle occurs.
Devnets and regtest chains that already had a cycle with a short or empty quarter are not supported across this upgrade and have to be started over: upgraded nodes with retained state and nodes replaying from scratch can derive different members. For the recorded mainnet and testnet histories, the stored snapshots stay compatible, including testnet's 12 exempt cycle bases.
SPV clients that rebuild rotating quorums from qrinfo must be able to decode MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS (see the release note) before such a cycle occurs.
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fix(llmq): keep short rotation quarters as selected
fix: keep short rotation quarters as selected
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Move the legacy quarter selection and snapshot rebuild loops into
WalkLegacyQuarters and ReplayLegacyQuarters. The skip-list offsets relative to
the first skipped position, which are negative after the walk wraps around the
candidate list, are now computed in int64_t and narrowed explicitly instead of
wrapping size_t and narrowing implicitly. That gives the same int values for
every input, so their UBSan suppressions are no longer needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This is advisory only. It does not block CI. This PR and each open PR below change the same files and cannot be merged together cleanly, so whichever of the two merges second will likely need a rebase:
Rotating-quorum computation now supports step-based quarter walks that retain short or empty quarters and store snapshots using MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS. Snapshot replay validates the new skip-list format, and configured testnet cycles use legacy quarter walking. Regtest parameter parsing now supports LLMQ_TEST_DIP0024. Unit and functional tests cover parameter validation, quarter selection, snapshot replay, DKG formation, predictions, reorgs, and restarts.
sequenceDiagram
participant ComputeRotationQuarters
participant BuildNewQuorumQuarterMembers
participant QuarterWalkers
participant RotationSnapshot
participant DKG
ComputeRotationQuarters->>BuildNewQuorumQuarterMembers: Compute rotating quorum quarters
BuildNewQuorumQuarterMembers->>QuarterWalkers: Select candidate positions
QuarterWalkers-->>BuildNewQuorumQuarterMembers: Return quarters and skip list
BuildNewQuorumQuarterMembers->>RotationSnapshot: Store cycle snapshot
ComputeRotationQuarters-->>DKG: Provide assembled quorum membership
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Resolve or explicitly accept the upgrade, client-compatibility, and snapshot-recovery risks before merging. Short-quarter cycles can cause incompatible membership calculations, and the release notes should distinguish successful block replay from identical historical membership.
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701-702: Minor · Functional Correctness · Low value
Use legacy selection for known legacy cycle bases.
The RPC can predict a later index after its cycle base is mined. If the prior snapshots are available, predicting bypasses legacy selection even for a whitelisted cycle.
Use the cycle base for dispatch
- // A predicted cycle isn't mined yet, so it can't be one of the historical legacy cycles- const bool step_walk{predicting || !IsLegacyRotationCycle(chainman.GetConsensus(), *util_params.m_base_index)};+ const auto* cycle_base = util_params.m_base_index->GetAncestor(cycleBaseHeight);+ const bool step_walk{cycle_base == nullptr || !IsLegacyRotationCycle(chainman.GetConsensus(), *cycle_base)};
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Review comment at @src/llmq/utils.cpp around lines 701 - 702:
Update the legacy-versus-step-walk dispatch to check the cycle base rather than
the predicted index. Resolve the base at cycleBaseHeight from
util_params.m_base_index, and use legacy selection when that base exists and
IsLegacyRotationCycle identifies it as a legacy cycle; retain the step-walk
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Review comments at @src/chainparams.cpp:
- Around line 195-197: Update the LLMQ_TEST_DIP0024 parameter validation near
the existing size check to reject configurations where threshold exceeds size.
Preserve the current size validation and report the invalid threshold and size
in the error.
- Around line 195-197: Update the startup validation for LLMQ_TEST_DIP0024
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Review comments at @src/llmq/utils.cpp:
- Around line 701-702: Coordinate the new rotation-rule activation in the
step_walk selection near IsLegacyRotationCycle: do not switch validators to the
new member derivation based only on predicting or cycle type. Gate the switch on
a consensus activation point that allows validators sufficient time to upgrade,
using the project’s established activation mechanism; preserve legacy derivation
until that activation is reached.
- Around line 264-267: Update GetQuorumQuarterMembersBySnapshot so malformed
skip-list data signals replay failure instead of returning an empty
quarter-members vector as a valid result. Propagate that failure through the
callers so rotation reports membership as unavailable rather than using
incomplete quarters as known.
- Around line 409-416: Update the step walk around the can_add lambda to track
reused member identities independently of MnsUsedAtHIndexed’s historical
property-based exclusions. Exclude an identity already selected or reused even
when its address differs, while preserving the existing AddMN behavior and
historical consensus handling.
- Around line 240-241: Update the legacy snapshot handling identified by
`legacy_mode` so upgraded nodes rebuild affected historical rotation state
before reuse, including cycles whose snapshots are missing. Ensure retained
legacy short-quarter snapshots produce the same quarter lengths and derived
members as a clean replay.
Review comments at @src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp:
- Around line 1147-1152: Extend the legacy-cycle tests around
llmq::utils::IsLegacyRotationCycle to cover dispatch for a whitelisted cycle
with too few enabled masternodes. Assert that this path does not write a
snapshot, and verify the cycle retains legacy rules without forcing step_walk to
true.
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Review comments at @src/llmq/utils.cpp:
- Around line 701-702: Update the legacy-versus-step-walk dispatch to check the
cycle base rather than the predicted index. Resolve the base at cycleBaseHeight
from util_params.m_base_index, and use legacy selection when that base exists
and IsLegacyRotationCycle identifies it as a legacy cycle; retain the step-walk
fallback when the base is unavailable.
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Reconstruct historical rotation state on upgrade.
If an upgraded node retains a legacy short-quarter snapshot, it pads that quarter while a clean replay preserves its length. Nodes on the same version can then derive different members and reject each other’s commitments. Rebuild affected historical state, including cycles with missing snapshots, before reuse.
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Update the legacy snapshot handling identified by `legacy_mode` so upgraded
nodes rebuild affected historical rotation state before reuse, including cycles
whose snapshots are missing. Ensure retained legacy short-quarter snapshots
produce the same quarter lengths and derived members as a clean replay.
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Agreed on the retained-snapshot and missing-snapshot mechanisms. No migration is implemented: under the accepted compatibility policy, devnets and regtest chains with such history have to be reset, which the release note now documents. The mainnet/testnet compatibility claim concerns the recorded histories described in the reply to the blocking finding; future short-quarter cycles still require nodes to upgrade beforehand.
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@UdjinM6 Thanks for clarifying the policy. The release note documents that affected devnet and regtest chains must be reset, and that reindexing alone may not recover them.
The reported replays found no MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshots outside the exempt cycles. They do not establish identical historical member selections. Before merging, compare the selections across the recorded mainnet and testnet histories.
The separate blocking finding also calls for reset enforcement or state reconstruction, plus upgrade coverage for retained and missing snapshots.
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Exclude reused member identities from the step walk.
A historical property conflict can prevent a reused member from entering the exclusion list. If that member later has a different address, the step walk can select it again, producing duplicate DKG member positions. Track reused identities independently while preserving historical consensus behavior.
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Update the step walk around the can_add lambda to track reused member identities
independently of MnsUsedAtHIndexed’s historical property-based exclusions.
Exclude an identity already selected or reused even when its address differs,
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Known and intentionally deferred, as described under "Not fixed here". This PR keeps the historical AddMN property checks and the existing HasMN exclusion, so [A, B, A] remains possible when a historical insertion fails. An additional per-index proTxHash set could prevent that while keeping the property checks, but it changes the selection rules on those inputs, including when every quarter fills, so older nodes would disagree on such a case. Replays with that set accepted every recorded block on mainnet and testnet, which alone doesn't prove every historical selection was identical. The rule change belongs in a gated follow-up.
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@UdjinM6 Thanks for the clarification. I agree that changing the exclusion rules belongs in a gated follow-up, not this PR. That is consistent with the existing consensus-safety guidance.
The replay results do not by themselves establish identical historical member selections. The duplicate-member case remains unresolved.
Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for the gated follow-up?
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If older validators remain online during a short-quarter cycle, they can derive different members from upgraded validators. A commitment can meet minSize yet fail signature verification on the other version, splitting block acceptance. Add a coordinated activation with enough time for validators to upgrade.
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Review comment at @src/llmq/utils.cpp around lines 701 - 702:
Coordinate the new rotation-rule activation in the step_walk selection near
IsLegacyRotationCycle: do not switch validators to the new member derivation
based only on predicting or cycle type. Gate the switch on a consensus
activation point that allows validators sufficient time to upgrade, using the
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Intentional: this PR is the ungated alternative to #8012. For the same preceding history, full-quarter selection and the legacy snapshot encoding are unchanged. Short and empty quarters are handled differently, which can also change the members of later cycles that reuse those quarters. The release note requires nodes to upgrade before such a cycle occurs and documents the reset policy for affected devnets and regtest chains. #8012 remains the activation-based alternative.
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@UdjinM6 Understood. This PR intentionally uses an ungated rollout; #8012 is the activation-based alternative. The mixed-version consensus risk remains, so nodes must upgrade before a short or empty quarter occurs. Differences can also affect later cycles.
The repository’s review guidance calls for direct old-versus-new member comparisons across affected historical cycles, including full-quarter cycles. Successful block replay alone does not establish equivalence. Before merge, please verify those comparisons and confirm the upgrade plan.
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static verification at fbee323 confirms an upgrade-state consistency issue for existing small devnet/regtest chains: retained legacy snapshots can produce different quorum membership from a clean replay using the same binary. The historical mainnet/testnet compatibility measures do not cover those chains. Current build, test, and lint checks pass; the automated review remains pending, and no local builds or tests were run.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate changes in src/llmq/utils.cpp to quarter selection and snapshot replay directly alter consensus-relevant rotating quorum membership, including short and empty quarters and historical compatibility exceptions.
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In `src/llmq/utils.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/llmq/utils.cpp:701-702: Handle persisted legacy rotation state when upgrading existing chains
Upgrading an existing small devnet/regtest after a short or empty-quarter cycle immediately enables the new walk, but the history loader below still consumes retained snapshots without canonicalizing them. A legacy mode-0/1 snapshot reconstructs a short quarter at full quarterSize, whereas a clean replay now stores mode 4 and preserves its actual length. Likewise, a missing legacy snapshot stops history loading, while a clean replay now writes that snapshot and continues loading older quarters. Consequently, nodes running this same binary can derive different quorum members from identical blocks solely because one retained its pre-upgrade EvoDB. Once enough eligible masternodes are available, these different member lists can affect commitment signature verification and block acceptance. The exceptions are configured only for testnet, and EvoDB is wiped only when reindexing is explicitly requested; ordinary startup does not guarantee reconstruction of all affected history. Rebuild affected non-exempt rotation history before reuse, or enforce an explicit reset/reindex requirement for affected networks. Add upgrade coverage seeded with both legacy short-quarter snapshots and missing snapshots; restarting state created entirely by the new implementation does not exercise this case.
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✅ Withdrawn at 22bc7b36; see the replies below.
🔴 Blocking: Handle persisted legacy rotation state when upgrading existing chains
Upgrading an existing small devnet/regtest after a short or empty-quarter cycle immediately enables the new walk, but the history loader below still consumes retained snapshots without canonicalizing them. A legacy mode-0/1 snapshot reconstructs a short quarter at full quarterSize, whereas a clean replay now stores mode 4 and preserves its actual length. Likewise, a missing legacy snapshot stops history loading, while a clean replay now writes that snapshot and continues loading older quarters. Consequently, nodes running this same binary can derive different quorum members from identical blocks solely because one retained its pre-upgrade EvoDB. Once enough eligible masternodes are available, these different member lists can affect commitment signature verification and block acceptance. The exceptions are configured only for testnet, and EvoDB is wiped only when reindexing is explicitly requested; ordinary startup does not guarantee reconstruction of all affected history. Rebuild affected non-exempt rotation history before reuse, or enforce an explicit reset/reindex requirement for affected networks. Add upgrade coverage seeded with both legacy short-quarter snapshots and missing snapshots; restarting state created entirely by the new implementation does not exercise this case.
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Agreed: retained legacy short-quarter snapshots and missing legacy snapshots can make an upgraded devnet/regtest node derive different members from a clean replay. This revision doesn't rebuild that state or detect it at startup.
For this ungated change we accept resetting devnets and regtest chains with such history, and the release note now states that requirement. For identical preceding history, full-quarter cycles keep the legacy selection, snapshot bytes and rebuild, and testnet's 12 exempt cycle bases keep the legacy walk. Full -reindex-chainstate -assumevalid=0 replays reached mainnet h=2554746 and testnet h=1579827 with the variant build described in the PR's testing section, and stored no MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshot outside the exempt cycles. So this is addressed through the reset policy rather than a migration of stored snapshots or a startup check.
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Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 22bc7b36): Your release note now explicitly requires affected devnet/regtest chains to start over and warns that reindexing can fail, so I withdraw the migration/startup-enforcement requirement for those unsupported histories rather than treating retained-state reconstruction as fixed. The variant-build replays do not establish exact-head historical equivalence, which remains a separate non-blocking validation/documentation suggestion.
Add MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS for snapshots of cycles with a short or empty quarter,
whose skip list holds the steps of WalkNewQuarters, and decode every snapshot
by its mode: MODE_NO_SKIPPING and MODE_SKIPPING_ENTRIES keep the legacy
replay, MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS uses ReplayNewQuarters. Nothing writes the new
mode yet.
LegacySkipListForWalk gives the skip list WalkLegacyQuarters stores for a step
walk whose quarters are all full, which is the same walk: a builder can keep
storing exactly the legacy snapshots for such cycles, including the ones the
legacy replay rebuilds differently after wrapping around the candidate list.
ReplayNewQuarters now also rejects a skip list that would repeat a position
within one quarter, which the walk never produces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A rotation cycle that can't fill a quarter selects fewer members, but the
legacy snapshot can't record that, so every later rebuild of the quarter padded
it by wrapping around the candidate list, adding members that were never
selected and could repeat members of the quorum's other quarters. Builds with
too few enabled masternodes or without progress stored no snapshot at all.
Build every cycle's new quarters with WalkNewQuarters and always store a
snapshot. Candidates are ordered and accepted exactly as before, so where every
quarter fills, the step walk selects what the legacy walk would have, and the
snapshot stores exactly what the legacy builder would have stored: the cycle is
rebuilt as before. Only a cycle with a short or empty quarter, or with too few
enabled masternodes, is stored in MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS and rebuilt as it was
selected.
Mainnet replays unchanged. Testnet's history includes such cycles (too few
masternodes at h=838368, short quarters at h=901152-903168 and
h=1366560-1367136); their base blocks are listed in llmqLegacyRotationCycles
and keep the legacy walk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Let DashTestFramework tests lower the minimum size a rotating DKG needs, and
let mine_quorum/mine_cycle_quorum require every upcoming DKG prediction to be
known. feature_llmq_rotation.py now requires that.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The QuorumComposition, QuarterComposition, sortedCombinedMns and
DKGComposition debug logs identified masternodes by the first 4 hex
characters of their proTxHash, which collide often enough to make
log-based checks of these compositions ambiguous. Use 16 characters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three masternodes can't fill the quarters of an 8-member llmq_test_dip0024,
so cycles keep building short and empty quarters. Check that every rebuilt
quarter is the one built, that no quorum repeats a member, that short quorums
form and below-minSize ones don't, that qrinfo serves MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS
snapshots, and that every member list survives a reorg of all the cycles and a
restart.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshot whose skip list can't be replayed was rebuilt as
empty quarters, so the next cycle was computed, and its snapshot stored, from
history that doesn't exist. Report the cycle as not computable instead, like a
skip list overflow, so predictions say its members are unknown and nothing is
built on it.
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quarter_walk_roundtrip_exhaustive iterates 2^(list_size*quorums) * 2^list_size * 2 cases. That is about 2.2M walks for list_size=5 and quorums=3, each running several Boost assertions. The unit suite can become very slow, especially under the sanitizer builds now that the UBSan suppressions are removed.
A long test runtime or CI timeouts.
This can occur when: Running test_dash in CI, in particular sanitizer or debug builds.
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- Around line 716-733: Update the cycle-history handling around
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Limit the snapshot guarantee to successful builds.
If a previous snapshot is malformed or the skip-list walk overflows, the build returns without storing a snapshot. qrinfo fails when it needs a missing snapshot. Qualify the guarantee to cover successful, non-predicted builds.
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Update the snapshot guarantee in the release note to apply only to successful,
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When a qrinfo response contains a short-quarter snapshot, the inspected dash-spv decoder rejects mode 4 as invalid. Clients using that decoder cannot process the response. Coordinate client support and rollout before serving the new mode.
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Keep cycles unavailable when required snapshots are missing.
If a malformed snapshot prevents storing cycle C+1, cycle C+2 skips the missing snapshot and stores members without older quarters. Commitment validation can then reject valid commitments using that incomplete member list. Distinguish missing history from rotation startup and preserve the unavailable state.
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Update the cycle-history handling around GetQuorumQuarterMembersBySnapshot so a
missing required snapshot leaves that cycle unavailable instead of allowing
later cycles to store members from incomplete quarter history. Distinguish
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Reviewed the complete diff at 22bc7b3; no blocking implementation defect was confirmed. Three non-blocking suggestions remain concerning historical compatibility evidence, downstream snapshot-mode readiness, and commit organization; the prior migration finding is withdrawn under the explicitly documented reset-only compatibility policy. Validation was static-only: git diff --check passed, current CI shows ClangFormat passing and the automated review pending, and no build or test results are listed.
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🟡 Suggestion: Fold the replay-failure correction into the short-quarter implementation <commit:7be06e303f>:1
Commit 7be06e3 repairs error handling introduced within this stack: 2b42fce adds the malformed-mode-4 fallback to empty quarters, and f757aec integrates that result into subsequent cycle computation. The correction changes the result to nullopt, propagates failure, and adds its regression test. CONTRIBUTING.md explicitly permits requesting that intra-PR fixups be folded into their originating changes. Fold the decoder correction into the snapshot-mode commit and the propagation/regression coverage into the integration commit, keeping intermediate callers coherent and preserving the other logical commit boundaries.
Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate changes to quorum selection and snapshot reconstruction in src/llmq/utils.cpp, including WalkNewQuarters and ReplayNewQuarters, directly change consensus-determined rotating LLMQ membership for short and empty quarters.
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In `doc/release-notes-8074.md`:
- [SUGGESTION] doc/release-notes-8074.md:13-15: Match historical compatibility claims to the exact replay evidence
The unconditional statement that mainnet history replays unchanged exceeds the validation reported in the PR. Those replays used an additional per-index proTxHash exclusion and a different snapshot-mode policy, whereas this head retains the HasMN/AddMN callback at utils.cpp:411–418. Historical property conflicts can make those exclusion rules produce different selections. The exhaustive walk tests prove equivalence for matching inputs, and the synthetic exception test proves dispatch, but neither establishes identical preceding inputs throughout mainnet/testnet history. Successful block verification with the variant also does not compare member lists for quorums that never committed. Record an exact-head comparison against the base, including historical member lists and snapshot bytes, or qualify this release-note statement and the equivalent claim in commit f757aec856 to describe the variant-build evidence and its limits.
In `src/llmq/snapshot.h`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/llmq/snapshot.h:36: Track mode-4 support in the owning SPV repository
The new snapshot mode requires a coordinated consumer update. In the available rust-dashcore source at ee50584d23c6169b0e6663f9fda0c16fa1325043, dash/src/network/message_qrinfo.rs defines only modes 0–3, and MNSkipListMode::consensus_decode rejects 4 with "Invalid MnSkipListMode". A qrinfo response containing a short-quarter snapshot therefore fails decoding in that consumer. The release note correctly documents the compatibility requirement, and the implementation belongs in rust-dashcore rather than a Core fallback. Link a tracking issue or follow-up PR covering mode decoding, reconstruction, and shared test vectors before rollout on affected networks; the supplied PR evidence contains no such link.
In `<commit:7be06e303f>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:7be06e303f>:1: Fold the replay-failure correction into the short-quarter implementation
Commit 7be06e303f repairs error handling introduced within this stack: 2b42fced2b adds the malformed-mode-4 fallback to empty quarters, and f757aec856 integrates that result into subsequent cycle computation. The correction changes the result to nullopt, propagates failure, and adds its regression test. CONTRIBUTING.md explicitly permits requesting that intra-PR fixups be folded into their originating changes. Fold the decoder correction into the snapshot-mode commit and the propagation/regression coverage into the integration commit, keeping intermediate callers coherent and preserving the other logical commit boundaries.
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🟡 Suggestion: Match historical compatibility claims to the exact replay evidence
The unconditional statement that mainnet history replays unchanged exceeds the validation reported in the PR. Those replays used an additional per-index proTxHash exclusion and a different snapshot-mode policy, whereas this head retains the HasMN/AddMN callback at utils.cpp:411–418. Historical property conflicts can make those exclusion rules produce different selections. The exhaustive walk tests prove equivalence for matching inputs, and the synthetic exception test proves dispatch, but neither establishes identical preceding inputs throughout mainnet/testnet history. Successful block verification with the variant also does not compare member lists for quorums that never committed. Record an exact-head comparison against the base, including historical member lists and snapshot bytes, or qualify this release-note statement and the equivalent claim in commit f757aec to describe the variant-build evidence and its limits.
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🟡 Suggestion: Track mode-4 support in the owning SPV repository
The new snapshot mode requires a coordinated consumer update. In the available rust-dashcore source at ee50584d23c6169b0e6663f9fda0c16fa1325043, dash/src/network/message_qrinfo.rs defines only modes 0–3, and MNSkipListMode::consensus_decode rejects 4 with "Invalid MnSkipListMode". A qrinfo response containing a short-quarter snapshot therefore fails decoding in that consumer. The release note correctly documents the compatibility requirement, and the implementation belongs in rust-dashcore rather than a Core fallback. Link a tracking issue or follow-up PR covering mode decoding, reconstruction, and shared test vectors before rollout on affected networks; the supplied PR evidence contains no such link.
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A previously padded quarter can change the used-member set for later selections. Those selections can differ even when their new quarters fill. Qualify the guarantee to require identical prior-quarter inputs.
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Update the full-quarter compatibility guarantee in the release note to specify
that selections are guaranteed to remain unchanged only when prior-quarter
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Limit the mainnet replay statement to the reported result.
The current wording can imply that historical quorum members are identical. The reported replay establishes block acceptance, not member equivalence.
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--- "a/doc/release-notes-8074.md"+++ "b/doc/release-notes-8074.md"@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
snapshot. Cycles whose quarters all fill are selected, stored and rebuilt exactly as before. Quorum sizes,
minimum sizes and thresholds are unchanged: the existing `minSize`, DKG and commitment rules still decide
whether a quorum with short quarters forms.
-- There is no activation: the new rules apply to every cycle. Mainnet history replays unchanged under them. The- testnet cycles whose selection differs (base blocks at h=838368, h=901152-903168 and h=1366560-1367136) keep+- There is no activation: the new rules apply to every cycle. In reported tests, variant builds replayed mainnet+ blocks through height 2554746 without rejection. These tests did not establish identical historical quorum members.+ The testnet cycles whose selection differs (base blocks at h=838368, h=901152-903168 and h=1366560-1367136) keep
the old rules. Short or empty quarters only occur when very few masternodes are eligible. Older and upgraded
nodes can then derive different quorum members, either in that cycle or when its quarters are reused in later
cycles, and reject each other's commitments, so nodes have to upgrade before such a cycle occurs.
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Update the release-note wording near the mainnet replay statement to report only
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Static verification at a9ea3df confirms that a missing snapshot after replay failure lets a later cycle persist and cache membership built from incomplete history; two non-blocking findings concern SPV rollout tracking and overstated compatibility evidence. The inspected base-drift commit only updates unrelated AssumeUTXO hashes, and the supplied merge evidence reports no conflicting files. Current CI shows successful builds, lint, nowallet and multiprocess tests, with ASan pending and ThreadSanitizer failing; both failed-log retrieval routes were unavailable, so the ThreadSanitizer failure cannot be attributed to this change, and no local builds or tests were run.
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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate changes to quorum selection and snapshot replay in src/llmq/utils.cpp alter consensus-relevant rotating LLMQ membership, including short-quarter reconstruction and historical testnet exceptions.
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In `src/llmq/utils.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/llmq/utils.cpp:723-728: Preserve unavailability across cycles after snapshot replay fails
Replay failure stops only the computation that directly encounters the malformed snapshot. If cycle C has a malformed MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshot, computing C+1 returns at the new optional-result check and stores no snapshot, as rotation_malformed_snapshot_is_unavailable verifies. Computing C+2 then encounters the missing C+1 snapshot here and breaks before inspecting C. Execution continues with empty previous quarters, builds and stores C+2's snapshot, and GetAllQuorumMembers caches the resulting incomplete membership. Block processing can advance through intervening null commitments because those do not require member-signature verification, so later non-null commitments can be checked against incorrect members. This is a failure-propagation gap in the newly added malformed-snapshot handling, not the unsupported legacy-upgrade case. Distinguish permitted bootstrap or legacy gaps from missing required history and preserve unavailability before storing or caching dependent results. Extend the existing regression through at least C+2; replacing every missing-snapshot break indiscriminately would also affect legitimate startup and legacy gaps.
In `src/llmq/snapshot.h`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/llmq/snapshot.h:36: Track mode-4 support in the owning SPV repository
(existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/8074#discussion_r4515449227)
The new builder persists MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS and the qrinfo construction path serves the stored snapshot without translating its mode. Independently checked rust-dashcore commit ee50584d23c6169b0e6663f9fda0c16fa1325043: dash/src/network/message_qrinfo.rs accepts only modes 0–3 and rejects mode 4 with "Invalid MnSkipListMode", while dash-spv's rotated-quarter reconstruction likewise handles only the existing modes. The release note explains the decoding rule, but the supplied PR description and discussion contain no owning-repository issue or PR tracking that implementation. Link a rust-dashcore follow-up covering decoding, reconstruction and shared test vectors before rollout on affected networks. This is a coordination suggestion, not a request to move SPV implementation into Core or provide a lossy legacy-mode fallback.
In `doc/release-notes-8074.md`:
- [SUGGESTION] doc/release-notes-8074.md:10-15: Match historical compatibility claims to the exact replay evidence
(existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/8074#discussion_r4515449212)
The release note still states that "Mainnet history replays unchanged under them", and f757aec856 records the same unqualified claim. The PR's testing section instead reports variant builds with an additional per-index proTxHash exclusion and a different snapshot-mode policy accepting mainnet through h=2554746 and testnet through h=1579827, explicitly noting that this does not establish identical historical member selections for this branch. The source retains the historical HasMN/AddMN property-conflict behavior, so the variant's observed full quarters and equivalent encoding policies do not close that evidence gap. Qualify the release note and commit statement with the tested variants, endpoints and block-acceptance result, or supply an exact-head comparison. Also qualify line 10's full-quarter guarantee with identical preceding-quarter inputs: corrected short-quarter history can change later selections even when those later quarters fill.
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🔴 Blocking: Preserve unavailability across cycles after snapshot replay fails
Replay failure stops only the computation that directly encounters the malformed snapshot. If cycle C has a malformed MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS snapshot, computing C+1 returns at the new optional-result check and stores no snapshot, as rotation_malformed_snapshot_is_unavailable verifies. Computing C+2 then encounters the missing C+1 snapshot here and breaks before inspecting C. Execution continues with empty previous quarters, builds and stores C+2's snapshot, and GetAllQuorumMembers caches the resulting incomplete membership. Block processing can advance through intervening null commitments because those do not require member-signature verification, so later non-null commitments can be checked against incorrect members. This is a failure-propagation gap in the newly added malformed-snapshot handling, not the unsupported legacy-upgrade case. Distinguish permitted bootstrap or legacy gaps from missing required history and preserve unavailability before storing or caching dependent results. Extend the existing regression through at least C+2; replacing every missing-snapshot break indiscriminately would also affect legitimate startup and legacy gaps.
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Rotating LLMQs (DIP0024) are built from four quarters, one per DKG cycle. When a cycle can't fill a quarter because too few eligible masternodes are left outside that quorum index's previous three quarters, the builder correctly selects fewer members. But neither legacy snapshot mode records quarter lengths, so when later cycles rebuild that quarter from its snapshot,
GetQuorumQuarterMembersBySnapshotfills it up toquarterSizeby continuing around the candidate list. That adds members that were never selected, and they can repeat members of the quorum's other quarters. Separately, the builder's early returns store no snapshot at all, and a missing snapshot makes later cycles stop loading their older quarters.In regtest with 3 masternodes this produces compositions like
[4a61 | 4a61 | 4a61 | dd15]. The DKG maps a proTxHash to a single member index, so a repeated masternode's extra slots never record a contribution; they are treated as non-contributing members, which leads to complaints and PoSe penalties for an honest masternode. This is what madefeature_llmq_dkgerrors.pyfail intermittently.This is the ungated alternative to #8012: no deployment, the new rules apply to every cycle, and the few testnet cycles whose history differs keep the legacy rules. For identical preceding history, candidates are ordered and accepted exactly as before, so the new walk selects differently only where the legacy walk stopped early (short or empty quarters, too few enabled masternodes).
Not fixed here: when the builder collects previous members into
CDeterministicMNLists withAddMN, unique-property conflicts between historical member states (e.g. an address reused after service updates) throw and are silently swallowed, so a member can drop out of its index's exclusion set and be selected again ([A, B, A]), even with many eligible masternodes. Mainnet history also depends on theseAddMNconflicts (they reorder candidates at cycle 1800288 and block one at cycle 1878912), so excluding by proTxHash would need a gated change; #8012 does that.What was done?
refactor(llmq): the existing selection and rebuild loops move unchanged intoWalkLegacyQuarters/ReplayLegacyQuarters, with tests pinning their output, including the skip-list quirk where a first skip at position 0 is treated as unset, and the serialized snapshot bytes.feat(llmq):WalkNewQuarters/ReplayNewQuarters, a walk that records skips as step numbers (first absolute, then positive deltas) and ends a quarter when full or afterlist.size()consecutive skips, so its replay reproduces exactly what was selected, including short and empty quarters.feat: a regtest-only-llmqtestdip0024params=<size>:<threshold>that sets theLLMQ_TEST_DIP0024size and setsminSize,thresholdanddkgBadVotesThresholdto<threshold>; the size must be a positive multiple of 4 within the supported maximum.feat(llmq): a new snapshot mode,MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS(4), for cycles with a short or empty quarter, whose skip list holds walk steps. Snapshots are now decoded by their mode: modes 0 and 1 keep the legacy replay byte for byte.LegacySkipListForWalkgives the skip list the legacy builder stores for a step walk whose quarters are all full, which is the same walk.fix(llmq), the consensus change:AddMNconflicts included. Where every quarter fills, the step walk therefore selects what the legacy walk would have, and the snapshot stores exactly the legacy bytes, so the cycle is rebuilt as before, including after the walk wraps around the candidate list, where the legacy replay doesn't always rebuild what was built;MODE_SHORT_QUARTERSand rebuilt as it was selected, so clients that only know the legacy modes keep working until such a cycle occurs;llmqLegacyRotationCycles, and those cycles keep the legacy walk.fix(llmq): aMODE_SHORT_QUARTERSsnapshot whose skip list can't be replayed makes the cycle not computable instead of being rebuilt as empty quarters.test:DashTestFrameworkgains a configurable rotating-quorum minimum size and optional "predictions must be known" checks;feature_llmq_rotation.pynow requires known predictions.llmq: rotation composition debug logs print 16-character proTxHash prefixes instead of 4.test: newfeature_llmq_rotation_short_quarters.py.doc: release note, including theMODE_SHORT_QUARTERSdecoding rule for SPV clients.How Has This Been Tested?
Tested on macOS (Apple Silicon), depends build, configured with
--enable-debug --enable-werror --enable-crash-hooks.src/test/llmq_utils_tests.cpp,llmq_params_tests.cpp), fulltest_dashsuite passing:LegacySkipListForWalkgives the legacy walk's skip list, also in the cases the legacy replay rebuilds differently;MODE_SHORT_QUARTERSsnapshot serialization;MODE_SHORT_QUARTERS;feature_llmq_rotation_short_quarters.py(3 masternodes,-llmqtestdip0024params=8:3): every rebuilt quarter equals the builder's logged selection, no quorum repeats a member, short quorums form with accepted commitments, a below-minimum cycle forms no quorum,quorum rotationinfo(qrinfo) servesMODE_SHORT_QUARTERSsnapshots, and every member list survives a reorg of all driven cycles and a cold restart.AddMNcheck under the step walk,rotation_candidate_conflicting_with_previous_member_is_skippedfails.feature_llmq_rotation.py,feature_llmq_chainlocks.py,feature_llmq_is_cl_conflicts.py,feature_llmq_is_retroactive.py,rpc_verifyislock.py,feature_llmq_connections.py,feature_llmq_simplepose.py,feature_llmq_signing.py,feature_llmq_dkgerrors.py,feature_mnehf.py,feature_evo_shares_activation.py,interface_rest.py,feature_dip3_deterministicmns.py,feature_llmq_evo.py,rpc_masternode.py,p2p_quorum_data.py,feature_llmq_data_recovery.py,rpc_blockchain.py.-reindex-chainstate -assumevalid=0(every signature checked) of mainnet to h=2554746 and testnet to h=1579827 with a build of these rules plus a per-index proTxHash exclusion, both reaching the tip with no rejected block. On the walks observed in those variant builds, every non-exempt cycle round-tripped and filled its quarters, so both snapshot-mode policies chose the same legacy encoding. This mode-policy comparison does not establish identical historical member selections between those builds and this branch. Those builds chose the snapshot mode by whether the legacy encoding round-trips instead of by whether a quarter is short; every non-exempt cycle round-tripped and filled its quarters, so both choices store the same snapshots for the whole history.Breaking Changes
Consensus change without activation. The reported variant-build replays accepted mainnet blocks through h=2554746 and testnet blocks through h=1579827; testnet's 12 identified differing cycle bases retain the legacy rules. Short or empty quarters only occur when very few masternodes are eligible. Older and upgraded nodes can then derive different quorum members, either in that cycle or when its quarters are reused in later cycles, and reject each other's commitments, so nodes have to upgrade before such a cycle occurs.
Devnets and regtest chains that already had a cycle with a short or empty quarter are not supported across this upgrade and have to be started over: upgraded nodes with retained state and nodes replaying from scratch can derive different members. For the recorded mainnet and testnet histories, the stored snapshots stay compatible, including testnet's 12 exempt cycle bases.
SPV clients that rebuild rotating quorums from
qrinfomust be able to decodeMODE_SHORT_QUARTERS(see the release note) before such a cycle occurs.Checklist: