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Fix vmflags for witness generation 1934. #1961

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Changes included in this PR:

  • Fix issue where vmflags were being reset in the middle of processBlocksImpl. I needed these vmflags to work so I could enable witness generation in the test.
  • Turned on witness generation and verification in the test_blockchain_json test. The witness generation was previously disabled. Note that witnesses generation is still disabled by default (in production) but can be enabled by setting the GenerateWitness vmflag.
  • Fixed a minor issue where witness generation would fail for blocks with no transactions. The code has been updated to return an empty witness for a block that has no transactions. This should almost never happen in practice I'm guessing but probably a good idea to cover anyway.

if witness.len() == 0:
if vmState.stateDB.makeMultiKeys().keys.len() != 0:
raise newException(ValidationError, "Invalid trie generated from block witness")
return
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Returning here because we can't validate an empty witness. The witness should only be empty if the multikeys are empty due to having no transactions in a block.

@@ -221,6 +227,7 @@ proc importBlock(ctx: var TestCtx, com: CommonRef,
com,
tracerInst,
)
ctx.vmState.generateWitness = true # Enable saving witness data
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I'm enabling this for all tests in this file. Will this be a problem because its not covering the default code path where witness generation is disabled? If so I can create a separate test which has the witness generation enabled and leave this one as is.

I guess it depends if there are already other tests covering this.

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I'm assuming this is just an additional code path, and the default is still taken too?

But I don't know this code well at all, @jangko can probably answer better.

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It's ok. Like @kdeme said, the witness generation is is just additional code path. And test_blockchain_json actually don't care about block witness. I piggyback the block witness test in test_blockchain_json because the required code is simply there, instead of crafting another similar test code just to test block witness.

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Ok thanks for the explanation. I'll leave it as is in that case.

@web3-developer web3-developer merged commit e60e580 into master Jan 9, 2024
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@web3-developer web3-developer deleted the fix-vmflags-for-witness-generation-1934 branch January 9, 2024 15:15
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