Ignore blocks that skip a large distance from their parent (#1530)

## Proposed Changes

To mitigate the impact of minority forks on RAM and disk usage, this change rejects blocks whose parent lies more than 320 slots (10 epochs, ~1 hour) in the past. The behaviour is configurable via `lighthouse bn --max-skip-slots N`, and can be turned off entirely using `--max-skip-slots none`.

Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
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Michael Sproul
2020-08-17 10:54:58 +00:00
parent a58aa6ee55
commit 719a69aee0
13 changed files with 131 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -1150,6 +1150,22 @@ pub fn handle_attestation_verification_failure<E: EthSpec>(
* The peer has published an invalid consensus message.
*/
}
AttnError::TooManySkippedSlots {
head_block_slot,
attestation_slot,
} => {
/*
* The attestation references a head block that is too far behind the attestation slot.
*
* The message is not necessarily invalid, but we choose to ignore it.
*/
debug!(
log,
"Rejected long skip slot attestation";
"head_block_slot" => head_block_slot,
"attestation_slot" => attestation_slot,
)
}
AttnError::BeaconChainError(e) => {
/*
* Lighthouse hit an unexpected error whilst processing the attestation. It