lighthouse-pulse/consensus/fork_choice
Paul Hauner bd39cc8e26 Apply hotfix for inconsistent head (#1639)
## Issue Addressed

- Resolves #1616

## Proposed Changes

If we look at the function which persists fork choice and the canonical head to disk:

1db8daae0c/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/beacon_chain.rs (L234-L280)

There is a race-condition which might cause the canonical head and fork choice values to be out-of-sync.

I believe this is the cause of #1616. I managed to recreate the issue and produce a database that was unable to sync under the `master` branch but able to sync with this branch.

These new changes solve the issue by ignoring the persisted `canonical_head_block_root` value and instead getting fork choice to generate it. This ensures that the canonical head is in-sync with fork choice.

## Additional Info

This is hotfix method that leaves some crusty code hanging around. Once this PR is merged (to satisfy the v0.2.x users) we should later update and merge #1638 so we can have a clean fix for the v0.3.x versions.
2020-09-22 02:06:10 +00:00
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src Apply hotfix for inconsistent head (#1639) 2020-09-22 02:06:10 +00:00
tests Fix bad assumption when checking finalized descendant (#1629) 2020-09-18 05:14:31 +00:00
Cargo.toml v0.12 fork choice update (#1229) 2020-06-17 11:10:22 +10:00