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GETMNLISTDIFF and GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO are unauthenticated and have no per-peer rate limit. Both handlers build their response while holding cs_main. A diff for an uncached historical block makes the node load the nearest EvoDB snapshot and apply up to DISK_SNAPSHOT_PERIOD - 1 stored list diffs. The MN list cache is bounded by size, so requests spread over many historical heights miss it every time. A successful request carries no misbehavior score. One peer can therefore keep the message-handler thread and cs_main busy with a stream of small requests, which delays block, header, transaction, ChainLock and InstantSend processing for every other peer.

The existing cache bounds limit memory, not request rate.

Fixes #7564 (that issue asks for GETMNLISTDIFF; this change also covers GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO, which builds several diffs per request).

What was done?

Added a per-peer token bucket shared by both handlers, modelled on the existing ADDR token bucket on Peer. The bucket counts masternode list diffs, not requests:

• The bucket holds up to 100 diffs, refills at one diff every 10 seconds (the same rate as the ADDR bucket), and starts full.
• A GETMNLISTDIFF builds one diff and costs one token.
• A GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO builds one diff each for the tip, H and every target cycle (three, or four with extraShare), plus one per extra snapshot height. That last part is up to 3 * signingActiveQuorumCount in theory (96 on mainnet), so a reply can hold up to about 102 diffs. Its size is only known once it is built, so the request needs one token to be served, and then it is charged for every diff in its reply. A build that fails partway, including the silent block-data-unavailable case on pruned or snapshot nodes, is charged the same way. The bucket can go negative. The peer then waits until the refill covers the overdraft.
• The token check runs after deserialization, so a malformed getqrinfo is still penalized, and before cs_main is taken.
• When the bucket holds less than one token, the request is ignored: no reply, no misbehavior score, no disconnect. The drop is logged under -debug=net.
• Peers with the noban permission are exempt. I used noban rather than download so that the documented meaning of download stays unchanged.

On mainnet, a getqrinfo reply holds 6 or 7 diffs. I sampled quorum rotationinfo with extraShare at 152 heights across the rotation history (every 37th cycle, 5 and 100 blocks into the cycle). 145 replies had no extra snapshot diff and 7 had one.

The limits come from what current light clients send:

• DashSync (iOS): at initial sync, it requests one diff for each quorum block whose list it lacks, back-to-back to one peer. On mainnet that is roughly 30 diffs, plus a single getqrinfo with one base hash: about 37 diffs. On timeout it disconnects that peer and resends to another.
• dash-spv (rust-dashcore): at most 20 diffs in flight, spread across its peers, plus one getqrinfo: at most about 27 diffs.
• dashj (Android): strictly serial, one request per reply. When catching up, it asks for one diff per block, skipping to every 8th block for blocks older than an hour. That is about 90 diffs after a day offline, plus one getqrinfo (dashj sends up to 6 base hashes; the number of bases does not change the number of diffs built): about 97 diffs. A getqrinfo is served with a single token left, so this fits whichever order the requests come in.
• Synced clients: about one diff per block, plus a getqrinfo of 6–7 diffs roughly once per rotation cycle.
• Dash Platform: uses the protx diff RPC, not these P2P messages.

A full bucket covers each of these bursts. A refill of one diff every 10 seconds is about 15 diffs per block interval, more than ten times steady-state use.

This is a per-connection limit. A peer that reconnects gets a fresh bucket, and the total load from many connections still grows with the number of inbound slots. What the change does bound is how many diffs a single connection can make the node build under cs_main: at most 100 diffs plus one reply's overdraft (about 200) up front, then one diff every 10 seconds, the same for both messages. Before, the request rate was limited only by how fast the message handler loops.

How Has This Been Tested?

The checks extend the existing scenarios that already send these messages over P2P, rather than adding a new test file. Mocktime is held fixed between requests.

• feature_llmq_rotation.py, in the getqrinfo P2P scenario, which has real rotation quorums. The test reads the reply's diff count from the quorum rotationinfo RPC for the same request:
  • After one valid getqrinfo, the same peer sends enough getmnlistd to leave one token, and gets a mnlistdiff for each.
  • A getqrinfo is still answered with that one token left.
  • After mocktime advances 11 seconds (one token of refill), a further getqrinfo and getmnlistd both get no reply and no misbehavior score, because the previous getqrinfo overdrew the bucket by its other diffs. This covers both call sites and shows they share one bucket.
  • After mocktime advances by the refill time of a full getqrinfo reply, another getqrinfo is answered.
  • The existing oversized-getqrinfo check now runs with the bucket empty and still gets Misbehaving and a disconnect, because the token check comes after deserialization.
• feature_dip4_coinbasemerkleroots.py: at the end, the node restarts with -whitelist=noban@127.0.0.1, and a peer gets all 101 mnlistdiff replies.
• Mutation checks:
  • Against a dashd built without the extra getqrinfo charge (every request costing one token), feature_llmq_rotation.py fails at the overdraft check (not(22266 == 14844): a third qrinfo was served).
  • Against a dashd built without the noban exemption line, feature_dip4_coinbasemerkleroots.py fails at the noban check (not(100 == 101)).
  • Both tests pass with the change.
• test_dash --run_test=denialofservice_tests,peerman_tests passes.
• test/lint/lint-python.py and test/lint/lint-whitespace.py report nothing in the changed files.
• Environment: macOS arm64, --enable-debug --enable-werror.

Breaking Changes

A non-noban peer gets no reply to requests sent after it has used up its budget: 100 masternode list diffs in a burst, then one diff every 10 seconds. A GETMNLISTDIFF counts as one diff. A GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO counts as every diff in its reply, 6–7 on mainnet today, and is still served when only one token is left. The light clients listed above stay within these limits in normal use. Tools that bulk-fetch historical diffs or rotation info over P2P should connect with noban permission or use the protx diff and quorum rotationinfo RPCs.

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PeerManagerImpl applies a shared per-peer token bucket to GETMNLISTDIFF and GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO requests. The bucket refills at 0.1 tokens per second and holds up to 100 tokens. Peers with NoBan permission bypass the limit. Functional tests cover over-limit requests, token refill, and the bypass.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Peer
  participant PeerManagerImpl
  Peer->>PeerManagerImpl: Send GETMNLISTDIFF or GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO
  PeerManagerImpl->>PeerManagerImpl: Check and consume a token
  alt Token available or peer has NoBan
    PeerManagerImpl-->>Peer: Return request response
  else No token
    PeerManagerImpl-->>Peer: Ignore request
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Exercise the shared bucket through the existing valid QRINFO fixture.

p2p_mnlistdiff_ratelimit.py cannot establish a QRINFO success baseline because its one-node setup has no quorum snapshots. Add the cross-message assertion to feature_llmq_rotation.py, which already has valid QRINFO state. After one successful QRINFO request, send 99 valid GETMNLISTDIFF requests, then assert that another QRINFO request does not increment peer.message_count["qrinfo"].

Suggested fix

         with node.assert_debug_log([], unexpected_msgs=["Misbehaving"]):
             peer.send_and_ping(msg_getqrinfo([baseBlockHash] * MAX_BASE_BLOCK_HASHES, blockRequestHash))
         self.wait_until(lambda: node.getpeerinfo()[-1]["bytessent_per_msg"].get("qrinfo", 0) > 0)
 
+        qrinfo_replies = peer.message_count["qrinfo"]
+        for _ in range(99):
+            peer.send_message(msg_getmnlistd(0, blockRequestHash))
+        peer.sync_with_ping()
+        peer.send_and_ping(msg_getqrinfo([baseBlockHash], blockRequestHash))
+        assert_equal(peer.message_count["qrinfo"], qrinfo_replies)
+
         self.log.info("One past the limit is rejected and the peer is disconnected")

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Add the cross-message rate-limit assertion to the existing valid QRINFO scenario
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The rate-limit implementation correctly uses a shared, connection-local token bucket for both request types, checks it after deserialization and before acquiring cs_main, and synchronizes access under g_msgproc_mutex. The functional test updates cover shared exhaustion, refill, malformed-request handling, and the noban exemption. No in-scope defects were found; the supplied CI snapshot shows lint passing while build and ClangFormat checks remain queued.

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Rebased 8086770e55 → dee07de14bc0 onto the assigned develop base 1bc519789220, with an explicit force-with-lease against the old head. The C++ patch is unchanged. The conflict resolution retains #7877's shared P2PMnListDiffStore helpers and restores the direct message/peer imports used by the rate-limit checks. Range-diff confirms the single commit is preserved with only these import adaptations.

Local debug/Werror build, all 27 net_tests cases, feature_dip4_coinbasemerkleroots.py, feature_llmq_rotation.py, changed-file flake8, and clang-format-diff with clang 18.1.8 passed. lint-python.py's mypy phase reports eight errors in five untouched files; running it on 1bc519789220 reproduces the exact same errors.

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Charge GETQRINFO for all constructed diffs

For a mature chain, an untrusted peer can request a full rotation response and this check deducts only one token even though BuildQuorumRotationInfo can construct up to roughly 101 masternode-list diffs (src/llmq/snapshot.h:94-96, with the calls in src/llmq/snapshot.cpp:212-253) while the handler holds cs_main. A fresh connection can therefore trigger up to roughly 10,100 of the same historical list builds that GETMNLISTDIFF is being throttled for, followed by another full batch every 10 seconds, so the new request-rate limit still permits the GETQRINFO lock-contention DoS it claims to cover. Weight this request by its worst-case constructed work or give it a substantially tighter separate budget.

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Valid, though with smaller numbers in practice. A reply holds 2 + 3 (or 4 with extraShare) + one diff per extra snapshot height, so the theoretical maximum is about 102. On mainnet I sampled quorum rotationinfo at 152 heights across the rotation history: 145 replies had no extra snapshot diff and 7 had one, so 6–7 diffs per reply. Either way, one token per request undercharged it.

Fixed in 3ced318. The bucket now counts diffs. A getqrinfo still needs one token to be served, and is then charged for every diff it built (2 + GetCycles().size() + mnListDiffList.size()), on both the legacy and the efficient path. A build that fails partway is charged the same way. The bucket can go negative, and the peer waits for the refill to cover the overdraft. A fixed pre-charge of the worst case (~102) would not fit the 100 burst and would break dashj's ~90 diffs + 1 getqrinfo catch-up. Charging the real count keeps every listed client inside the burst. Per connection, the work is now at most 100 diffs plus one reply's overdraft up front, then 1 diff every 10 s for both messages. Before, it was up to 100 requests of up to ~102 diffs each, then one such request every 10 s.

feature_llmq_rotation.py now reads the reply's cost from the RPC. It checks that a getqrinfo is served with one token left, and that 11 s of refill then still leaves both messages ignored. A dashd without the extra charge fails that check (not(22266 == 14844)). The PR body has the updated numbers.

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The rate limiter is correctly shared between GETMNLISTDIFF and GETQUORUMROTATIONINFO, checks permissions before charging, and accounts for the fixed and successfully appended diff components. However, a failed snapshot-diff build can perform substantial work before the diff is appended, and that attempted diff is omitted from the charge, allowing one such build per request to escape the intended budget.

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In `src/net_processing.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/net_processing.cpp:5708-5710: Charge partially constructed snapshot diffs when QRINFO building fails
  `mnListDiffList.size()` counts only snapshot diffs that were successfully appended to the response. In `BuildQuorumRotationInfo`, the append occurs after `BuildSimplifiedMNListDiff` succeeds; that function can perform masternode-list and quorum-diff work and then fail later, such as while building chainlock information or reading the target block. The current snapshot diff is then absent from `mnListDiffList`, so this request consumes one fewer token than the work it performed. A peer able to trigger a deterministic failure can repeat the path and obtain one uncharged snapshot-diff build per request. Track attempted or completed work in the builder and charge the current snapshot diff even when construction fails.

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🟡 Suggestion: Charge partially constructed snapshot diffs when QRINFO building fails

mnListDiffList.size() counts only snapshot diffs that were successfully appended to the response. In BuildQuorumRotationInfo, the append occurs after BuildSimplifiedMNListDiff succeeds; that function can perform masternode-list and quorum-diff work and then fail later, such as while building chainlock information or reading the target block. The current snapshot diff is then absent from mnListDiffList, so this request consumes one fewer token than the work it performed. A peer able to trigger a deterministic failure can repeat the path and obtain one uncharged snapshot-diff build per request. Track attempted or completed work in the builder and charge the current snapshot diff even when construction fails.

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I'm leaving this one as is. On a failed build, the charge is 2 + GetCycles().size() + mnListDiffList.size() tokens in total, so it already counts the tip, H and every target cycle no matter how far the builder got. That means the half-built snapshot diff is the only work that can go uncharged, and only on the legacy path:

• Efficient path: the snapshot loop runs first. A failure at snapshot k has built k diffs and is charged 5 + (k-1) = k + 4, an overcharge of 4.
• Legacy path: the tip, H and the cycles are built before the snapshot loop. A failure at snapshot k has built about 5 + k diffs and is charged 5 + (k-1), so it is short by at most one diff.

Every request still pays at least 5 tokens, and the worst-case gap is a single diff on a path that only peers below EFFICIENT_QRINFO_VERSION take. That keeps the per-connection rate within a small constant of the intended bound. Tracking attempted work inside BuildQuorumRotationInfo would change the builder's interface to close a one-diff gap, which I don't think is worth it here.

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You're right about the accounting: I checked the construction order, and the efficient path's tip/H/cycle charges more than cover the failed snapshot attempt. On the legacy path, the shortfall is at most one diff, while every admitted request is still charged at least five tokens. I overstated the need for exact attempt tracking here; that bounded discrepancy does not defeat the per-connection rate limit, so I'm withdrawing the suggestion to change the builder interface.

Withdrawing this finding.

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Re-review after discussion — commit 3ced318

Standing review was COMMENTED; this re-review is APPROVE: no blocking findings remain.

Approved: the discussion withdrew or deferred every finding the full review of 3ced3187 (run 4971) raised, and the approval rests on that review.

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approved