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>

beacon_node/src/cli.rs

@@ -249,4 +249,17 @@ pub fn cli_app<'a, 'b>() -> App<'a, 'b> {
                 .value_name("GRAFFITI")
                 .takes_value(true)
         )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("max-skip-slots")
+                .long("max-skip-slots")
+                .help(
+                    "Refuse to skip more than this many slots when processing a block or attestation. \
+                    This prevents nodes on minority forks from wasting our time and RAM, \
+                    but might need to be raised or set to 'none' in times of extreme network \
+                    outage."
+                )
+                .value_name("NUM_SLOTS")
+                .takes_value(true)
+                .default_value("320")
+        )
 }

beacon_node/src/config.rs

@@ -386,6 +386,16 @@ pub fn get_config<E: EthSpec>(
     client_config.graffiti[..trimmed_graffiti_len]
         .copy_from_slice(&raw_graffiti[..trimmed_graffiti_len]);
 
+    if let Some(max_skip_slots) = cli_args.value_of("max-skip-slots") {
+        client_config.chain.import_max_skip_slots = match max_skip_slots {
+            "none" => None,
+            n => Some(
+                n.parse()
+                    .map_err(|_| "Invalid max-skip-slots".to_string())?,
+            ),
+        };
+    }
+
     Ok(client_config)
 }