Merge #14811: Mining: Enforce that segwit option must be set in GBT

d2ce315fbf [docs] add release note for change to GBT (John Newbery)
0025c9eae4 [mining] segwit option must be set in GBT (John Newbery)

Pull request description:

  Calling getblocktemplate without the segwit rule specified is most
  likely a client error, since it results in lower fees for the miner.
  Prevent this client error by failing getblocktemplate if called without
  the segwit rule specified.

  Of the previous 1000 blocks (measured at block [551591 (hash 0x...173c811)](https://blockstream.info/block/000000000000000000173c811e79858808abc3216af607035973f002bef60a7a)), 991 included segwit transactions.

Tree-SHA512: 7933b073d72683c9ab9318db46a085ec19a56a14937945c73f783ac7656887619a86b74db0bdfcb8121df44f63a1d6a6fb19e98505b2a26a6a8a6e768e442fee

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/rpc/mining.cpp b/src/rpc/mining.cpp
index 29684d0e6c..2fd6f99be5 100644
--- a/src/rpc/mining.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/mining.cpp
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static UniValue getblocktemplate(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
                 "    https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawiki#getblocktemplate_changes\n"
                 "    https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0145.mediawiki\n",
                 {
-                    {"template_request", RPCArg::Type::OBJ, /* opt */ true, /* default_val */ "", "A json object in the following spec",
+                    {"template_request", RPCArg::Type::OBJ, /* opt */ false, /* default_val */ "", "A json object in the following spec",
                         {
                             {"mode", RPCArg::Type::STR, /* opt */ true, /* default_val */ "", "This must be set to \"template\", \"proposal\" (see BIP 23), or omitted"},
                             {"capabilities", RPCArg::Type::ARR, /* opt */ true, /* default_val */ "", "A list of strings",
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static UniValue getblocktemplate(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
                                     {"support", RPCArg::Type::STR, /* opt */ true, /* default_val */ "", "client side supported feature, 'longpoll', 'coinbasetxn', 'coinbasevalue', 'proposal', 'serverlist', 'workid'"},
                                 },
                                 },
-                            {"rules", RPCArg::Type::ARR, /* opt */ true, /* default_val */ "", "A list of strings",
+                            {"rules", RPCArg::Type::ARR, /* opt */ false, /* default_val */ "", "A list of strings",
                                 {
                                     {"support", RPCArg::Type::STR, /* opt */ true, /* default_val */ "", "client side supported softfork deployment"},
                                 },
@@ -503,21 +503,17 @@ static UniValue getblocktemplate(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
     }
 
     const struct VBDeploymentInfo& segwit_info = VersionBitsDeploymentInfo[Consensus::DEPLOYMENT_SEGWIT];
-    // If the caller is indicating segwit support, then allow CreateNewBlock()
-    // to select witness transactions, after segwit activates (otherwise
-    // don't).
-    bool fSupportsSegwit = setClientRules.find(segwit_info.name) != setClientRules.end();
+    // GBT must be called with 'segwit' set in the rules
+    if (setClientRules.count(segwit_info.name) != 1) {
+        throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER, "getblocktemplate must be called with the segwit rule set (call with {\"rules\": [\"segwit\"]})");
+    }
 
     // Update block
     static CBlockIndex* pindexPrev;
     static int64_t nStart;
     static std::unique_ptr<CBlockTemplate> pblocktemplate;
-    // Cache whether the last invocation was with segwit support, to avoid returning
-    // a segwit-block to a non-segwit caller.
-    static bool fLastTemplateSupportsSegwit = true;
     if (pindexPrev != chainActive.Tip() ||
-        (mempool.GetTransactionsUpdated() != nTransactionsUpdatedLast && GetTime() - nStart > 5) ||
-        fLastTemplateSupportsSegwit != fSupportsSegwit)
+        (mempool.GetTransactionsUpdated() != nTransactionsUpdatedLast && GetTime() - nStart > 5))
     {
         // Clear pindexPrev so future calls make a new block, despite any failures from here on
         pindexPrev = nullptr;
@@ -526,11 +522,10 @@ static UniValue getblocktemplate(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
         nTransactionsUpdatedLast = mempool.GetTransactionsUpdated();
         CBlockIndex* pindexPrevNew = chainActive.Tip();
         nStart = GetTime();
-        fLastTemplateSupportsSegwit = fSupportsSegwit;
 
         // Create new block
         CScript scriptDummy = CScript() << OP_TRUE;
-        pblocktemplate = BlockAssembler(Params()).CreateNewBlock(scriptDummy, fSupportsSegwit);
+        pblocktemplate = BlockAssembler(Params()).CreateNewBlock(scriptDummy);
         if (!pblocktemplate)
             throw JSONRPCError(RPC_OUT_OF_MEMORY, "Out of memory");
 
@@ -682,7 +677,7 @@ static UniValue getblocktemplate(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
     result.pushKV("bits", strprintf("%08x", pblock->nBits));
     result.pushKV("height", (int64_t)(pindexPrev->nHeight+1));
 
-    if (!pblocktemplate->vchCoinbaseCommitment.empty() && fSupportsSegwit) {
+    if (!pblocktemplate->vchCoinbaseCommitment.empty()) {
         result.pushKV("default_witness_commitment", HexStr(pblocktemplate->vchCoinbaseCommitment.begin(), pblocktemplate->vchCoinbaseCommitment.end()));
     }