contractcourt: enhance chainAction type

We distinguish between dangling and dust htlcs. This does not
change any logic but only introduces new types to later act on them
differently when we begin to fail dust htlcs earlier in a later
commit.

contractcourt/channel_arbitrator.go

@@ -1256,19 +1256,28 @@ func (c *ChannelArbitrator) stateStep(
 				return StateError, closeTx, err
 			}
 
-			// If we can fail an HTLC immediately (an outgoing HTLC
-			// with no contract and it was not canceled before),
-			// then we'll assemble an HTLC fail packet to send.
+			// We can fail the upstream HTLC for an outgoing
+			// dangling and dust HTLC because we can be sure they
+			// will not be resolved onchain.
 			getIdx := func(htlc channeldb.HTLC) uint64 {
 				return htlc.HtlcIndex
 			}
 			remoteDangling := fn.NewSet(fn.Map(
-				getIdx, htlcActions[HtlcFailNowAction],
+				getIdx, htlcActions[HtlcFailDanglingAction],
 			)...)
 			err := c.abandonForwards(remoteDangling)
 			if err != nil {
 				return StateError, closeTx, err
 			}
+
+			dustHTLCs := fn.NewSet(fn.Map(
+				getIdx, htlcActions[HtlcFailDustAction],
+			)...)
+
+			err = c.abandonForwards(dustHTLCs)
+			if err != nil {
+				return StateError, closeTx, err
+			}
 		}
 
 		// Now that we know we'll need to act, we'll process all the
@@ -1716,10 +1725,11 @@ const (
 	// before its timeout period.
 	HtlcClaimAction = 2
 
-	// HtlcFailNowAction indicates that we should fail an outgoing HTLC
-	// immediately by cancelling it backwards as it has no corresponding
-	// output in our commitment transaction.
-	HtlcFailNowAction = 3
+	// HtlcFailDustAction indicates that we should fail the upstream HTLC
+	// for an outgoing dust HTLC immediately (even before the commitment
+	// transaction is confirmed) because it has no output on the commitment
+	// transaction. This also includes remote pending outgoing dust HTLCs.
+	HtlcFailDustAction = 3
 
 	// HtlcOutgoingWatchAction indicates that we can't yet timeout this
 	// HTLC, but we had to go to chain on order to resolve an existing
@@ -1738,6 +1748,13 @@ const (
 	// HtlcIncomingDustFinalAction indicates that we should mark an incoming
 	// dust htlc as final because it can't be claimed on-chain.
 	HtlcIncomingDustFinalAction = 6
+
+	// HtlcFailDanglingAction indicates that we should fail the upstream
+	// HTLC for an outgoing HTLC immediately after the commitment
+	// transaction has confirmed because it has no corresponding output on
+	// the commitment transaction. This category does NOT include any dust
+	// HTLCs which are mapped in the "HtlcFailDustAction" category.
+	HtlcFailDanglingAction = 7
 )
 
 // String returns a human readable string describing a chain action.
@@ -1752,8 +1769,8 @@ func (c ChainAction) String() string {
 	case HtlcClaimAction:
 		return "HtlcClaimAction"
 
-	case HtlcFailNowAction:
-		return "HtlcFailNowAction"
+	case HtlcFailDustAction:
+		return "HtlcFailDustAction"
 
 	case HtlcOutgoingWatchAction:
 		return "HtlcOutgoingWatchAction"
@@ -1764,6 +1781,9 @@ func (c ChainAction) String() string {
 	case HtlcIncomingDustFinalAction:
 		return "HtlcIncomingDustFinalAction"
 
+	case HtlcFailDanglingAction:
+		return "HtlcFailDanglingAction"
+
 	default:
 		return "<unknown action>"
 	}
@@ -1944,8 +1964,8 @@ func (c *ChannelArbitrator) checkCommitChainActions(height uint32,
 				"failing dust htlc=%x", c.cfg.ChanPoint,
 				htlc.RHash[:])
 
-			actionMap[HtlcFailNowAction] = append(
-				actionMap[HtlcFailNowAction], htlc,
+			actionMap[HtlcFailDustAction] = append(
+				actionMap[HtlcFailDustAction], htlc,
 			)
 
 		// If we don't need to immediately act on this HTLC, then we'll
@@ -2138,12 +2158,30 @@ func (c *ChannelArbitrator) checkRemoteDanglingActions(
 			continue
 		}
 
+		// Dust htlcs can be canceled back even before the commitment
+		// transaction confirms. Dust htlcs are not enforceable onchain.
+		// If another version of the commit tx would confirm we either
+		// gain or lose those dust amounts but there is no other way
+		// than cancelling the incoming back because we will never learn
+		// the preimage.
+		if htlc.OutputIndex < 0 {
+			log.Infof("ChannelArbitrator(%v): fail dangling dust "+
+				"htlc=%x from local/remote commitments diff",
+				c.cfg.ChanPoint, htlc.RHash[:])
+
+			actionMap[HtlcFailDustAction] = append(
+				actionMap[HtlcFailDustAction], htlc,
+			)
+
+			continue
+		}
+
 		log.Infof("ChannelArbitrator(%v): fail dangling htlc=%x from "+
 			"local/remote commitments diff",
 			c.cfg.ChanPoint, htlc.RHash[:])
 
-		actionMap[HtlcFailNowAction] = append(
-			actionMap[HtlcFailNowAction], htlc,
+		actionMap[HtlcFailDanglingAction] = append(
+			actionMap[HtlcFailDanglingAction], htlc,
 		)
 	}
 
@@ -2232,8 +2270,21 @@ func (c *ChannelArbitrator) checkRemoteDiffActions(
 			continue
 		}
 
-		actionMap[HtlcFailNowAction] = append(
-			actionMap[HtlcFailNowAction], htlc,
+		// Dust HTLCs on the remote commitment can be failed back.
+		if htlc.OutputIndex < 0 {
+			log.Infof("ChannelArbitrator(%v): fail dangling dust "+
+				"htlc=%x from remote commitments diff",
+				c.cfg.ChanPoint, htlc.RHash[:])
+
+			actionMap[HtlcFailDustAction] = append(
+				actionMap[HtlcFailDustAction], htlc,
+			)
+
+			continue
+		}
+
+		actionMap[HtlcFailDanglingAction] = append(
+			actionMap[HtlcFailDanglingAction], htlc,
 		)
 
 		log.Infof("ChannelArbitrator(%v): fail dangling htlc=%x from "+