The `CoinbaseData` parses the block height separately from the rest of the
free-form coinbase data. However, it had two bugs:
1. It did not require that the height was canonically encoded;
2. Its canonical encoding was incorrect relative to the BIP34-inherited encoding.
This meant that we computed some transaction hashes incorrectly, because when
we re-serialized the coinbase transaction, we would canonically serialize the
coinbase transaction (using the incorrect definition of canonical, bug 2). And
we didn't notice that the wrong definition of canonical encoding was being used
because we accepted what we thought were non-canonically encoded heights.
The relevant rules are here: 877212414a/src/script/script.h (L307-L346)
This commit changes the encoding to reject non-canonically encoded heights, and
to match the correct encoding rules. We check that at least one
non-canonically encoded height is correctly rejected using a new test vector.
The database format increments because we saved a bunch of wrongly encoded blocks.
This discrepancy was originally noticed by @teor2345, who pointed out that a
previous version of the block 202 test vector (now preserved as "bad block
202") did not match the block from zcashd.
To avoid confusion with TESTNET_BLOCKS.
Automated search and replace, made using this script:
sed -i 's/TEST_BLOCKS/BLOCKS/' \
$(grep -r TEST_BLOCKS zebra* | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u)
* Move block test vectors into separate files
* Refactor block test vectors into their own module
* Remove some duplicate test vector data
* Add mainnet block test vectors for each network upgrade
* Add testnet block test vectors for each network upgrade
* Update the TEST_BLOCKS list
* Add basic tests using TEST_BLOCKS
* Ignore shell.nix
teor
Henry de Valence
Alfredo Garcia