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authorPieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>2015-03-19 05:34:06 -0700
committerPieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>2015-05-13 12:52:57 -0700
commitdce8360e44d5330cc9f9d09c9b09ac9237237204 (patch)
treeadeb8c21937470d6bd326f6a8cf2d9ae5f8904b9 /src/chain.cpp
parent23254131a3fdaeae9c50dafca6d0addbbf235820 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-dce8360e44d5330cc9f9d09c9b09ac9237237204.tar.xz
Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus.
Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks, actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to do. We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before that point are allowed anymore.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/chain.cpp')
-rw-r--r--src/chain.cpp7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/chain.cpp b/src/chain.cpp
index 719256106e..5b8ce076c4 100644
--- a/src/chain.cpp
+++ b/src/chain.cpp
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ CBlockIndex* CBlockIndex::GetAncestor(int height)
while (heightWalk > height) {
int heightSkip = GetSkipHeight(heightWalk);
int heightSkipPrev = GetSkipHeight(heightWalk - 1);
- if (heightSkip == height ||
- (heightSkip > height && !(heightSkipPrev < heightSkip - 2 &&
- heightSkipPrev >= height))) {
+ if (pindexWalk->pskip != NULL &&
+ (heightSkip == height ||
+ (heightSkip > height && !(heightSkipPrev < heightSkip - 2 &&
+ heightSkipPrev >= height)))) {
// Only follow pskip if pprev->pskip isn't better than pskip->pprev.
pindexWalk = pindexWalk->pskip;
heightWalk = heightSkip;