evidence: cap evidence to an absolute number #4780
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I'm not too sure how I feel about some of these tests - they seem to quite arbitrarily be testing basic math operations involving constants and I think serve mainly as a check when one of these constants change. |
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| if params.Evidence.MaxNumEvidence > params.Block.MaxBytes { |
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aren't these different things? pieces vs bytes
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yes correct, do you think I should have some sort of catch here to stop people from picking a maxnum that multiplied by the max num of bytes ends up being greater than the block max bytes
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| // mechanism for handling [Nothing-At-Stake | |||
| // attacks](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ#what-is-the-nothing-at-stake-problem-and-how-can-it-be-fixed). | |||
| MaxAgeDuration time.Duration `json:"max_age_duration"` | |||
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| // Ratio for the max amount of evidence relative to the amount of validators to be included in a block | |||
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Whoops I went from first trying as a ratio to switching it to just an absolute number so forgot to update the commenting
types/params.go
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| // Ratio for the max amount of evidence relative to the amount of validators to be included in a block | ||
| // i.e. MaxNumEvidence = ValSize * MaxEvidenceToValidatorsRatio | ||
| // where MaxNumEvidence is always rounded up. Default is 1/3 of validator size | ||
| MaxNumEvidence int64 `json:"max_num_evidence"` |
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sure, I agree - does that mean I can remove the greater than 0 catch as well?
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the only problem I see with uint16 is that there will most likely need to be quite a few conversions
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Also I just discovered this:
json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type uint16)
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uint32 should work. could we try this?
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sure I can give it a go
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this should be added to the abci consensusparams as well https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/abci/types/types.proto#L298
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Two questions: should I be changing the abci ConsensusParams type as well and should the minimum number of evidence be 0 or 1 (being able to set 0 effectively bypasses the use of evidence) |
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| maxBytes := state.ConsensusParams.Block.MaxBytes | |||
| maxGas := state.ConsensusParams.Block.MaxGas | |||
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| // Fetch a limited amount of valid evidence | |||
| maxNumEvidence, _ := types.MaxEvidencePerBlock(maxBytes) | |||
| maxNumEvidence := int64(state.ConsensusParams.Evidence.MaxNumEvidence) | |||
| evidence := blockExec.evpool.PendingEvidence(maxNumEvidence) | |||
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can we change PendingEvidence to accept uint32?
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Okay but then we take away the functionality of passing -1 to return all evidence
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We could instead make it that PendingEvidence(0) returns all the pending evidence
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we're only using -1 in tests, so maybe instead we call PendingEvidence with a high number?
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Sure - we also use -1 for listevidence in regards to going through all the pending evidence on startup
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Also I think it might be handy (I'm not sure in which case) if there is a function that you can easily pull all the pending evidence from
Do you mean should we expose this to the apps? I think so, yes. Also, we should update the ABCI spec https://github.com/tendermint/spec/blob/master/spec/abci/abci.md#evidenceparams
evidence is essential piece in PoS networks. but I don't think we should restrict users from setting it to 0. At least, we don't do it for other things. |
I will do this once this PR is merged |
# Conflicts: # state/helpers_test.go # state/services.go
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| option (gogoproto.equal) = true; | |||
| // Note: must be greater than 0 | |||
| int64 max_age_num_blocks = 1; | |||
| google.protobuf.Duration max_age_duration = 2 | |||
| google.protobuf.Duration max_age_duration = 2; | |||
| uint32 max_num_evidence = 3 | |||
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can we rename this to max_num? why keep the evidence suffix if the struct called Evidence?
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Also, spec (tendermint/spec) needs to be updated. |
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Description
Added the consensus param
MaxNumEvidenceto dictate the maximum number of evidence to be committed to a block. It is defaulted at 50There was some discussion around making it proportional to the validator set size which although makes sense has eventually been decided as something that the application can choose to do if they want.
Closes: #2590