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Fix attestation shuffling filter (#3629)

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## Issue Addressed

Fix a bug in block production that results in blocks with 0 attestations during the first slot of an epoch.

The bug is marked by debug logs of the form:

> DEBG Discarding attestation because of missing ancestor, block_root: 0x3cc00d9c9e0883b2d0db8606278f2b8423d4902f9a1ee619258b5b60590e64f8, pivot_slot: 4042591

It occurs when trying to look up the shuffling decision root for an attestation from a slot which is prior to fork choice's finalized block. This happens frequently when proposing in the first slot of the epoch where we have:

- `current_epoch == n`
- `attestation.data.target.epoch == n - 1`
- attestation shuffling epoch `== n - 3` (decision block being the last block of `n - 3`)
- `state.finalized_checkpoint.epoch == n - 2` (first block of `n - 2` is finalized)

Hence the shuffling decision slot is out of range of the fork choice backwards iterator _by a single slot_.

Unfortunately this bug was hidden when we weren't pruning fork choice, and then reintroduced in v2.5.1 when we fixed the pruning (https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v2.5.1). There's no way to turn that off or disable the filtering in our current release, so we need a new release to fix this issue.

Fortunately, it also does not occur on every epoch boundary because of the gradual pruning of fork choice every 256 blocks (~8 epochs):

01e84b71f5/consensus/proto_array/src/proto_array_fork_choice.rs (L16)

01e84b71f5/consensus/proto_array/src/proto_array.rs (L713-L716)

So the probability of proposing a 0-attestation block given a proposal assignment is approximately `1/32 * 1/8 = 0.39%`.

## Proposed Changes

- Load the block's shuffling ID from fork choice and verify it against the expected shuffling ID of the head state. This code was initially written before we had settled on a representation of shuffling IDs, so I think it's a nice simplification to make use of them here rather than more ad-hoc logic that fundamentally does the same thing.

## Additional Info

Thanks to @moshe-blox for noticing this issue and bringing it to our attention.
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Michael Sproul
2022-10-18 04:02:06 +00:00
parent 59ec6b71b8
commit edf23bb40e
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beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/beacon_chain.rs
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@@ -1991,60 +1991,75 @@ impl<T: BeaconChainTypes> BeaconChain<T> {
target_epoch: Epoch,
state: &BeaconState<T::EthSpec>,
) -> bool {
let slots_per_epoch = T::EthSpec::slots_per_epoch();
let shuffling_lookahead = 1 + self.spec.min_seed_lookahead.as_u64();
// Shuffling can't have changed if we're in the first few epochs
if state.current_epoch() < shuffling_lookahead {
return true;
}
// Otherwise the shuffling is determined by the block at the end of the target epoch
// minus the shuffling lookahead (usually 2). We call this the "pivot".
let pivot_slot =
if target_epoch == state.previous_epoch() || target_epoch == state.current_epoch() {
(target_epoch - shuffling_lookahead).end_slot(slots_per_epoch)
} else {
return false;
};
let state_pivot_block_root = match state.get_block_root(pivot_slot) {
Ok(root) => *root,
Err(e) => {
warn!(
&self.log,
"Missing pivot block root for attestation";
"slot" => pivot_slot,
"error" => ?e,
);
return false;
}
};
// Use fork choice's view of the block DAG to quickly evaluate whether the attestation's
// pivot block is the same as the current state's pivot block. If it is, then the
// attestation's shuffling is the same as the current state's.
// To account for skipped slots, find the first block at *or before* the pivot slot.
let fork_choice_lock = self.canonical_head.fork_choice_read_lock();
let pivot_block_root = fork_choice_lock
.proto_array()
.core_proto_array()
.iter_block_roots(block_root)
.find(|(_, slot)| *slot <= pivot_slot)
.map(|(block_root, _)| block_root);
drop(fork_choice_lock);
match pivot_block_root {
Some(root) => root == state_pivot_block_root,
None => {
self.shuffling_is_compatible_result(block_root, target_epoch, state)
.unwrap_or_else(|e| {
debug!(
&self.log,
"Discarding attestation because of missing ancestor";
"pivot_slot" => pivot_slot.as_u64(),
self.log,
"Skipping attestation with incompatible shuffling";
"block_root" => ?block_root,
"target_epoch" => target_epoch,
"reason" => ?e,
);
false
})
}
fn shuffling_is_compatible_result(
&self,
block_root: &Hash256,
target_epoch: Epoch,
state: &BeaconState<T::EthSpec>,
) -> Result<bool, Error> {
// Compute the shuffling ID for the head state in the `target_epoch`.
let relative_epoch = RelativeEpoch::from_epoch(state.current_epoch(), target_epoch)
.map_err(|e| Error::BeaconStateError(e.into()))?;
let head_shuffling_id =
AttestationShufflingId::new(self.genesis_block_root, state, relative_epoch)?;
// Load the block's shuffling ID from fork choice. We use the variant of `get_block` that
// checks descent from the finalized block, so there's one case where we'll spuriously
// return `false`: where an attestation for the previous epoch nominates the pivot block
// which is the parent block of the finalized block. Such attestations are not useful, so
// this doesn't matter.
let fork_choice_lock = self.canonical_head.fork_choice_read_lock();
let block = fork_choice_lock
.get_block(block_root)
.ok_or(Error::AttestationHeadNotInForkChoice(*block_root))?;
drop(fork_choice_lock);
let block_shuffling_id = if target_epoch == block.current_epoch_shuffling_id.shuffling_epoch
{
block.current_epoch_shuffling_id
} else if target_epoch == block.next_epoch_shuffling_id.shuffling_epoch {
block.next_epoch_shuffling_id
} else if target_epoch > block.next_epoch_shuffling_id.shuffling_epoch {
AttestationShufflingId {
shuffling_epoch: target_epoch,
shuffling_decision_block: *block_root,
}
} else {
debug!(
self.log,
"Skipping attestation with incompatible shuffling";
"block_root" => ?block_root,
"target_epoch" => target_epoch,
"reason" => "target epoch less than block epoch"
);
return Ok(false);
};
if head_shuffling_id == block_shuffling_id {
Ok(true)
} else {
debug!(
self.log,
"Skipping attestation with incompatible shuffling";
"block_root" => ?block_root,
"target_epoch" => target_epoch,
"head_shuffling_id" => ?head_shuffling_id,
"block_shuffling_id" => ?block_shuffling_id,
);
Ok(false)
}
}
@@ -4460,7 +4475,7 @@ impl<T: BeaconChainTypes> BeaconChain<T> {
///
/// If the committee for `(head_block_root, shuffling_epoch)` isn't found in the
/// `shuffling_cache`, we will read a state from disk and then update the `shuffling_cache`.
pub(crate) fn with_committee_cache<F, R>(
pub fn with_committee_cache<F, R>(
&self,
head_block_root: Hash256,
shuffling_epoch: Epoch,