c57f03ce17 refactor: Replace const char* to std::string (Calvin Kim)
Pull request description:
Rationale: Addresses #19000
Some functions should be returning std::string instead of const char*.
This commit changes that.
Main benefits/reasoning:
1. The functions never return nullptr, so returning a string makes code at call sites easier to review (reviewers don't have to read the source code to verify that a nullptr is never returned)
2. All call sites convert to string anyway
ACKs for top commit:
MarcoFalke:
re-ACK c57f03ce17 (no changes since previous review) 🚃
Empact:
Fair enough, Code Review ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19004/commits/c57f03ce1741b38af448bec7b22ab9f8ac21f067
practicalswift:
ACK c57f03ce17 -- patch looks correct
hebasto:
re-ACK c57f03ce17
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to allow passing rpcwallet independently from the -rpcwallet user option, and to
move the logic to the top-level layer where most of the other option args are
handled.
to ConnectAndCallRPC() to be callable for individual connections.
This is needed for RPCs that need to be called and handled sequentially, rather
than alone or in a batch.
For example, when fetching the balances for each loaded wallet, -getinfo will
call RPC listwallets, and then, depending on the result, RPC getbalances.
It may be somewhat helpful to review this commit with `git show -w`.
ASLR is not currently working for the bitcoin-cli.exe binary. This is
due to it not having a .reloc section, which is stripped by default by
the mingw-w64 ld we use for gitian builds. A good summary of issues with
ld and mingw-w64 is available in this thread:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19011.
All other Windows binaries that we distribute (bitcoind, bitcoin-qt,
bitcoin-wallet, bitcoin-tx and test_bitcoin) do not suffer this issue,
and currently having working ASLR. This is due to them exporting
(inadvertent or not) libsecp256k1 symbols, and, as a result, the .reloc
section is not stripped by ld.
This change is a temporary workaround, also the same one described here:
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/307144/, that causes main() to be
exported. Exporting a symbol will mean that the .reloc section is not
stripped, and ASLR will function correctly.
01a3392b1b Drop bitcoin-wallet dependency on libevent (Russell Yanofsky)
0660119ac3 Drop unintended bitcoin-tx dependency on libevent (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
This fixes compile errors trying to build bitcoin-tx and bitcoin-wallet without libevent, which were reported by Luke Dashjr in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/18465
The fix avoiding `bitcoin-tx` dependency on libevent just adds a conditional build rule. This is implemented in the first commit (more details in commit description).
The fix avoiding `bitcoin-wallet` dependency on libevent requires minor code changes, because `bitcoin-wallet` (unlike `bitcoin-tx`) links against code that calls `urlDecode` / `evhttp_uridecode`. This fix is implemented in the second commit (again details in the commit description).
ACKs for top commit:
jonasschnelli:
utACK 01a3392b1b.
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Don't require urlDecode function in wallet code since urlDecode implementation
currently uses libevent. Just call urlDecode indirectly though URL_DECODE
function pointer constant if available.
In bitcoind and bitcoin-qt, URL_DECODE is implemented and used to interpret RPC
wallet requests. In bitcoin-wallet, URL_DECODE is null to avoid depending on
libevent.
This is safe because MilliSleep is never executed in a boost::thread,
the only type of thread that is interruptible.
* The RPC server uses std::thread
* The wallet is either executed in an RPC thread or the main thread
* bitcoin-cli, benchmarks and tests are only one thread (the main thread)
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
sed -i --regexp-extended -e 's/MilliSleep\((\S+)\);/UninterruptibleSleep(std::chrono::milliseconds{\1});/g' $(git grep -l MilliSleep)
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
In accordance with #17314, Removing noisy fields from -getinfo. Fields removed: protocolversion, walletversion and keypoololdest. In addition to changing bitcoin-cli -getinfo, there is another change to test/functional/interface_bitcoin_cli.py. This change deletes tests that utilize removed -getinfo calls.
31879345ee cli: Add "headers" and "verificationprogress" to -getinfo (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
These values are useful to know the current progress of initial sync, or of catching up, which is arguably the use of a quick `-getinfo` command.
ACKs for top commit:
MarcoFalke:
unsigned ACK 31879345ee
jonasschnelli:
utACK 31879345ee
jonatack:
Tested ACK 31879345ee on Debian 4.19.37-5+deb10u2 (2019-08-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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