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46 changes: 44 additions & 2 deletions state/protocol/badger/mutator.go
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Expand Up @@ -549,8 +549,9 @@ func (m *ParticipantState) checkOutdatedExtension(header flow.HeaderBody) error
}

// guaranteeExtend verifies the validity of the collection guarantees that are
// included in the block. Specifically, we check for expired collections and
// duplicated collections (also including ancestor blocks).
// included in the block. Specifically, we check for expired guarantees, duplicated
// guarantees (also including ancestor blocks), and conflicting guarantees for the same
// collection (a different guarantee already indexed for a collection referenced in the payload).
// Expected errors during normal operations:
// - state.InvalidExtensionError if the candidate block contains invalid collection guarantees
func (m *ParticipantState) guaranteeExtend(ctx context.Context, candidate *flow.Block) error {
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ancestorID = ancestor.ParentID
}

// Track the guarantee ID included for each collection within this payload, so that we can reject a
// block that references the same collection more than once — whether via an identical or a
// conflicting guarantee (see the collection-uniqueness check below).
guaranteesByCollection := make(map[flow.Identifier]flow.Identifier, len(payload.Guarantees))

// check each guarantee included in the payload for duplication and expiry
for _, guarantee := range payload.Guarantees {

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}
return fmt.Errorf("could not find guarantor for guarantee %v: %w", guarantee.ID(), err)
}

// A collection may be guaranteed at most once. We enforce this here for two scopes:
//
// 1. Within this payload: the same collection must not appear twice, whether via an identical
// guarantee (double execution / double fee charge) or via two *different* guarantees for the
// same collection (conflicting guarantees). The duplicate check above only inspects ancestor
// blocks, never the candidate's own guarantees, so it does not catch within-payload repeats.
//
// 2. Against all previously persisted guarantees: the storage layer enforces a single guarantee ID
// per collection ID globally, across all forks (see operation.IndexGuarantee). A *different*
// guarantee for an already-guaranteed collection therefore cannot be persisted.
// We reject it here as a typed InvalidExtensionError instead. An identical guarantee already
// persisted on another fork is legitimate (it re-indexes to the same value), so at this scope
// only a differing guarantee ID is a conflict.
//
// This check is performed last, so that a guarantee that is malformed for a more fundamental reason
// (e.g. invalid guarantors or an expired reference block) is reported with that more specific reason.
if priorGuaranteeID, ok := guaranteesByCollection[guarantee.CollectionID]; ok {
if priorGuaranteeID == guarantee.ID() {
return state.NewInvalidExtensionErrorf("payload includes duplicate guarantee (%x) for collection %x",
guarantee.ID(), guarantee.CollectionID)
}
return state.NewInvalidExtensionErrorf("payload includes conflicting guarantees (%x and %x) for the same collection %x",
priorGuaranteeID, guarantee.ID(), guarantee.CollectionID)
}
var indexedGuaranteeID flow.Identifier
err = operation.LookupGuarantee(m.db.Reader(), guarantee.CollectionID, &indexedGuaranteeID)
if err == nil {
if indexedGuaranteeID != guarantee.ID() {
return state.NewInvalidExtensionErrorf("payload includes guarantee %x for collection %x that is already guaranteed by a different guarantee %x",
guarantee.ID(), guarantee.CollectionID, indexedGuaranteeID)
}
} else if !errors.Is(err, storage.ErrNotFound) {
return fmt.Errorf("could not look up existing guarantee for collection %x: %w", guarantee.CollectionID, err)
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rg -n -C 8 "IndexByCollectionID|indexByCollectionID|Guarantees\{|NewGuarantees|Guarantees\." storage/store --glob '*.go'
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sed -n '365,435p' state/protocol/badger/mutator.go
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Translate the deferred guarantee-index conflict to state.InvalidExtensionError.

Concurrent calls can both observe storage.ErrNotFound. The second deferred operation.IndexGuarantee call then returns storage.ErrDataMismatch. Map this expected conflict to state.InvalidExtensionError instead of propagating an untyped error that can trigger a fatal compliance-engine failure.

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In `@state/protocol/badger/mutator.go` around lines 661 - 669, Update the deferred
guarantee indexing flow around operation.IndexGuarantee to translate
storage.ErrDataMismatch into state.InvalidExtensionError, matching the existing
conflict handling in the guarantee lookup path. Preserve propagation of
unrelated indexing errors and include the guarantee/collection context in the
typed error.

}
guaranteesByCollection[guarantee.CollectionID] = guarantee.ID()
}

return nil
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Expand Up @@ -3361,6 +3361,185 @@ func TestExtendInvalidGuarantee(t *testing.T) {
})
}

// TestExtendConflictingGuaranteeSameCollection verifies that a block carrying a guarantee for a
// collection that a different guarantee was already ingested for is rejected as a typed
// state.InvalidExtensionError, rather than crashing the node.
//
// The storage layer (operation.IndexGuarantee) enforces one guarantee per collection globally.
// A proposer can include a guarantee for an already-guaranteed collection by changing the
// signature — producing a fresh guarantee.ID() that slips past the ancestor-dedup check (which
// is keyed by guarantee ID). Without an early check in guaranteeExtend, the conflict surfaces
// later as an untyped storage.ErrDataMismatch from the deferred storage batch. The compliance
// engine treats any unrecognized error from state.Extend as a fatal exception and crashes the
// node. The fix detects the conflict in guaranteeExtend and rejects it as InvalidExtensionError.
func TestExtendConflictingGuaranteeSameCollection(t *testing.T) {
rootSnapshot := unittest.RootSnapshotFixture(participants)
rootProtocolStateID := getRootProtocolStateID(t, rootSnapshot)
util.RunWithFullProtocolState(t, rootSnapshot, func(db storage.DB, state *protocol.ParticipantState) {
head, err := rootSnapshot.Head()
require.NoError(t, err)

cluster, err := unittest.SnapshotClusterByIndex(rootSnapshot, 0)
require.NoError(t, err)

all := cluster.Members().NodeIDs()
validSignerIndices, err := signature.EncodeSignersToIndices(all, all)
require.NoError(t, err)

usedViews := make(map[uint64]struct{})
usedViews[head.View] = struct{}{}

collectionID := unittest.IdentifierFixture()

// G1: a valid guarantee for collection C.
g1 := &flow.CollectionGuarantee{
CollectionID: collectionID,
ClusterChainID: cluster.ChainID(),
ReferenceBlockID: head.ID(),
SignerIndices: validSignerIndices,
}

block1 := unittest.BlockWithParentAndPayloadAndUniqueView(
head,
flow.Payload{
Guarantees: []*flow.CollectionGuarantee{g1},
ProtocolStateID: rootProtocolStateID,
},
usedViews,
)
err = state.Extend(context.Background(), unittest.ProposalFromBlock(block1))
require.NoError(t, err)

// G2: a guarantee for the same collection C with a mutated Signature, yielding a fresh
// guarantee.ID(). Guarantee signatures are not verified by consensus nodes, so this is
// sufficient to produce a distinct ID while keeping all other fields valid.
g2 := &flow.CollectionGuarantee{
CollectionID: collectionID,
ClusterChainID: cluster.ChainID(),
ReferenceBlockID: head.ID(),
SignerIndices: validSignerIndices,
Signature: unittest.SignatureFixture(),
}
require.NotEqual(t, g1.ID(), g2.ID(),
"mutating the guarantee signature must yield a fresh guarantee ID")

block2 := unittest.BlockWithParentAndPayloadAndUniqueView(
block1.ToHeader(),
flow.Payload{
Guarantees: []*flow.CollectionGuarantee{g2},
ProtocolStateID: rootProtocolStateID,
},
usedViews,
)
err = state.Extend(context.Background(), unittest.ProposalFromBlock(block2))

require.Error(t, err)
require.True(t, st.IsInvalidExtensionError(err),
"conflicting guarantee for an already-guaranteed collection must be rejected as InvalidExtensionError, got: %v", err)
require.NotErrorIs(t, err, storage.ErrDataMismatch,
"storage sentinel must not escape Extend")
})
}

// TestExtendConflictingGuaranteesWithinSamePayload verifies that a block carrying two different
// guarantees for the same collection within a single payload is rejected as InvalidExtensionError.
func TestExtendConflictingGuaranteesWithinSamePayload(t *testing.T) {
rootSnapshot := unittest.RootSnapshotFixture(participants)
rootProtocolStateID := getRootProtocolStateID(t, rootSnapshot)
util.RunWithFullProtocolState(t, rootSnapshot, func(db storage.DB, state *protocol.ParticipantState) {
head, err := rootSnapshot.Head()
require.NoError(t, err)

cluster, err := unittest.SnapshotClusterByIndex(rootSnapshot, 0)
require.NoError(t, err)

all := cluster.Members().NodeIDs()
validSignerIndices, err := signature.EncodeSignersToIndices(all, all)
require.NoError(t, err)

usedViews := make(map[uint64]struct{})
usedViews[head.View] = struct{}{}

collectionID := unittest.IdentifierFixture()

g1 := &flow.CollectionGuarantee{
CollectionID: collectionID,
ClusterChainID: cluster.ChainID(),
ReferenceBlockID: head.ID(),
SignerIndices: validSignerIndices,
}
g2 := &flow.CollectionGuarantee{
CollectionID: collectionID,
ClusterChainID: cluster.ChainID(),
ReferenceBlockID: head.ID(),
SignerIndices: validSignerIndices,
Signature: unittest.SignatureFixture(),
}
require.NotEqual(t, g1.ID(), g2.ID())

block := unittest.BlockWithParentAndPayloadAndUniqueView(
head,
flow.Payload{
Guarantees: []*flow.CollectionGuarantee{g1, g2},
ProtocolStateID: rootProtocolStateID,
},
usedViews,
)
err = state.Extend(context.Background(), unittest.ProposalFromBlock(block))

require.Error(t, err)
require.True(t, st.IsInvalidExtensionError(err),
"two conflicting guarantees for the same collection in one payload must be rejected as InvalidExtensionError, got: %v", err)
require.NotErrorIs(t, err, storage.ErrDataMismatch)
})
}

// TestExtendDuplicateGuaranteeWithinSamePayload verifies that a block carrying the same guarantee
// twice within a single payload is rejected as InvalidExtensionError. The ancestor-based
// duplicate check does not cover within-payload repeats.
func TestExtendDuplicateGuaranteeWithinSamePayload(t *testing.T) {
rootSnapshot := unittest.RootSnapshotFixture(participants)
rootProtocolStateID := getRootProtocolStateID(t, rootSnapshot)
util.RunWithFullProtocolState(t, rootSnapshot, func(db storage.DB, state *protocol.ParticipantState) {
head, err := rootSnapshot.Head()
require.NoError(t, err)

cluster, err := unittest.SnapshotClusterByIndex(rootSnapshot, 0)
require.NoError(t, err)

all := cluster.Members().NodeIDs()
validSignerIndices, err := signature.EncodeSignersToIndices(all, all)
require.NoError(t, err)

usedViews := make(map[uint64]struct{})
usedViews[head.View] = struct{}{}

guarantee := &flow.CollectionGuarantee{
CollectionID: unittest.IdentifierFixture(),
ClusterChainID: cluster.ChainID(),
ReferenceBlockID: head.ID(),
SignerIndices: validSignerIndices,
}

block := unittest.BlockWithParentAndPayloadAndUniqueView(
head,
flow.Payload{
Guarantees: []*flow.CollectionGuarantee{guarantee, guarantee}, // [G, G]
ProtocolStateID: rootProtocolStateID,
},
usedViews,
)
err = state.Extend(context.Background(), unittest.ProposalFromBlock(block))

require.Error(t, err)
require.True(t, st.IsInvalidExtensionError(err),
"identical guarantee twice in one payload must be rejected as InvalidExtensionError, got: %v", err)

_, err = state.AtBlockID(block.ID()).Head()
require.Error(t, err)
})
}

// If block B is finalized and contains a seal for block A, then A is the last sealed block
func TestSealed(t *testing.T) {
rootSnapshot := unittest.RootSnapshotFixture(participants)
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