marcofleon 854a6d5a9a validation: fix UB in LoadChainTip
The removal of the chain tip from setBlockIndexCandidates was
happening after nSequenceId was modified. Since the set uses
nSequenceId as a sort key, modifying it while the element is in the
set is undefined behavior, which can cause the erase to fail.

With assumeutxo, a second form of UB exists: two chainstates each
have their own candidate set, but share the same CBlockIndex
objects. Calling LoadChainTip on one chainstate mutates nSequenceIds
that are also in the other chainstate's set.

Fix by populating setBlockIndexCandidates after all changes to
nSequenceId.
2026-03-04 19:39:20 +00:00
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2026-02-03 18:03:36 +01:00

src/node/

The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state (state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar classes).

Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI code to be maintained in separate source repositories.

As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/, src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.

This directory is at the moment sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like src/validation.cpp and src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.