Private nodes should never wish to forward HTLCs at all, which we
support here by disabling forwards out over private channels by
default. As private nodes should not have any public channels, this
suffices, without allowing users to disable forwarding over
channels announced in the routing graph already.
Closes#969
Currently the base fee we apply is always the expected cost to
claim an HTLC on-chain in case of closure. This results in
significantly higher than market rate fees [1], and doesn't really
match the actual forwarding trust model anyway - as long as
channel counterparties are honest, our HTLCs shouldn't end up
on-chain no matter what the HTLC sender/recipient do.
While some users may wish to use a feerate that implies they will
not lose funds even if they go to chain (assuming no flood-and-loot
style attacks), they should do so by calculating fees themselves;
since they're already charging well above market-rate,
over-estimating some won't have a large impact.
Worse, we current re-calculate fees at forward-time, not based on
the fee we set in the channel_update. This means that the fees
others expect to pay us (and which they calculate their route based
on), is not what we actually want to charge, and that any attempt
to forward through us is inherently race-y.
This commit adds a configuration knob to set the base fee
explicitly, defaulting to 1 sat, which appears to be market-rate
today.
[1] Note that due to an msat-vs-sat bug we currently actually
charge 1000x *less* than the calculated cost.
After the merge of #984, Jeff pointed out that `ChannelDetails` has
become a bit of a "bag of variables", and that a few of the variable
names in #984 were more confusing than necessary in context.
This addresses several issues by:
* Splitting counterparty parameters into a separate
`ChannelCounterpartyParameters` struct,
* using the name `unspendable_punishment_reserve` for both outbound
and inbound channel reserves, differentiating them based on their
position in the counterparty parameters struct or not,
* Using the name `force_close_spend_delay` instead of
`spend_csv_on_our_commitment_funds` to better communicate what
is occurring.
If our channel party sends us our own channel_update message, we'll
erroneously use the information in that message to update our view
of the forwarding parameters our counterparty requires of us,
ultimately generating invoices with bogus forwarding information.
This fixes that behavior by checking the channel_update's
directionality before handling it.
If we are a public node and have a private channel, our
counterparty needs to know the fees which we will charge to forward
payments to them. Without sending them a channel_update, they have
no way to learn that information, resulting in the channel being
effectively useless for outbound-from-us payments.
This commit fixes our lack of channel_update messages to private
channel counterparties, ensuring we always send them a
channel_update after the channel funding is confirmed.
This adds four new fields in `ChannelDetails`:
1. holder_selected_ and counterparty_selected_channel_reserve_delay
are useful to determine what amount of the channel is
unavailable for payments.
2. confirmations_required is useful when awaiting funding
confirmation to determine how long you will need to wait.
3. to_self_delay is useful to determine how long it will take to
receive funds after a force-close.
Fixes#983.
Currently we always generate a
`MessageSendEvent::BroadcastChannelUpdate` when a channel is closed
even if the channel is private. Our immediate peers should ignore
such messages as they haven't seen a corresponding
`channel_announcement`, but we are still giving up some privacy by
informing our immediate peers of which channels were ours.
Here we split `ChannelManager::get_channel_update` into a
`get_channel_update_for_broadcast` and
`get_channel_update_for_unicast`. The first is used when we are
broadcasting a `channel_update`, allowing us to refuse to do so
for private channels. The second is used when failing a payment (in
which case the recipient has already shown that they are aware of
the channel so no such privacy concerns exist).
We use `Channel::is_live()` to gate inclusion of a channel in
`ChannelManager::list_usable_channels()` and when sending an
HTLC to select whether a channel is available for
forwarding through/sending to.
In both of these cases, we should consider a channel `is_live()` when
they are pending a monitor update. Some clients may update monitors
asynchronously, thus we may simply be waiting a short duration for a
monitor update to complete, and shouldn't fail all forwarding HTLCs
during that time.
After #851, we always ensure any holding cells are free'd when
sending P2P messages, making this change much more trivially
correct - instead of having to ensure that we always free the holding
cell when a channel becomes live again after adding something to the
holding cell, we can simply rely on the fact that it always happens.
Fixes#661.
If we receive a `channel_update` message for a channel unrelated to
our own, we shouldn't trigger a persistence of our
`ChannelManager`. This avoids significant persistence traffic during
initial node startup.
ChannelMonitor and related log entries can generally lean towards
being higher log levels than they necessarily need to be, as they
should be exceedingly rare, if only because they require
confirmation of an on-chain transaction.
This updates a number of log sites in channel and channelmanager to
* Be a bit more verbose at the TRACE level,
* Move some error/useful messages to the ERROR/WARN/INFO level,
* Add new logs to always log once at the DEBUG level when we
send/receive a commitment_signed (with some extra data),
* Include the channel id being operated on in more log messages.
We had a client application which provided inconsistent monitor
state when deserializing a ChannelManager, resulting in opaque and
generic "InvalidData" deserialization failures. Instead, we log
some informative (and appropriately scary) warning messages in
such cases.
lnd has a long-standing bug where, upon reconnection, if the
channel is not yet confirmed they will not send a
channel_reestablish until the channel locks in. Then, they will
send a funding_locked *before* sending the channel_reestablish
(which is clearly a violation of the BOLT specs). We copy
c-lightning's workaround here and simply store the funding_locked
message until we receive a channel_reestablish.
See-also https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/4006Fixes#963
Previous to this PR, TLV serialization involved iterating from 0 to the highest
given TLV type. This worked until we decided to implement keysend, which has a
TLV type of ~5.48 billion.
So instead, we now specify the type of whatever is being (de)serialized (which
can be an Option, a Vec type, or a non-Option (specified in the serialization macros as "required").
When a peer sends us the routing graph, it may include gossip
messages for our channels, despite it not being a party to them.
This is completely fine, but we currently print a somewhat-scary
looking log messages in these cases, eg:
```
ERROR [lightning::ln::channelmanager:4104] Got a message for a channel from the wrong node!
TRACE [lightning::ln::peer_handler:1267] Handling SendErrorMessage HandleError event in peer_handler for node ... with message Got a message for a channel from the wrong node!
```
Instead, we should simply not consider this an "error" condition
and stay silent.
Previously we handled most of the logic of announcement_signatures
in ChannelManager, rather than Channel. This is somewhat unique as
far as our message processing goes, but it also avoided having to
pass the node_secret in to the Channel.
Eventually, we'll move the node_secret behind the signer anyway, so
there isn't much reason for this, and storing the
announcement_signatures-provided signatures in the Channel allows
us to recreate the channel_announcement later for rebroadcast,
which may be useful.
Currently our serialization is very compact, and contains version
numbers to indicate which versions the code can read a given
serialized struct. However, if you want to add a new field without
needlessly breaking the ability of previous versions of the code to
read the struct, there is not a good way to do so.
This adds dummy, currently empty, TLVs to the major structs we
serialize out for users, providing an easy place to put new
optional fields without breaking previous versions.
