lighthouse-pulse/beacon_node/beacon_chain
Michael Sproul ae47a93c42 Don't panic in forkchoiceUpdated handler (#3165)
## Issue Addressed

Fix a panic due to misuse of the Tokio executor when processing a forkchoiceUpdated response. We were previously calling `process_invalid_execution_payload` from the async function `update_execution_engine_forkchoice_async`, which resulted in a panic because `process_invalid_execution_payload` contains a call to fork choice, which ultimately calls `block_on`.

An example backtrace can be found here: https://gist.github.com/michaelsproul/ac5da03e203d6ffac672423eaf52fb20

## Proposed Changes

Wrap the call to `process_invalid_execution_payload` in a `spawn_blocking` so that `block_on` is no longer called from an async context.

## Additional Info

- I've been thinking about how to catch bugs like this with static analysis (a new Clippy lint).
- The payload validation tests have been re-worked to support distinct responses from the mock EE for newPayload and forkchoiceUpdated. Three new tests have been added covering the `Invalid`, `InvalidBlockHash` and `InvalidTerminalBlock` cases.
- I think we need a bunch more tests of different legal and illegal variations
2022-05-04 23:30:34 +00:00
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src Don't panic in forkchoiceUpdated handler (#3165) 2022-05-04 23:30:34 +00:00
tests Don't panic in forkchoiceUpdated handler (#3165) 2022-05-04 23:30:34 +00:00
Cargo.toml Update and consolidate dependencies (#3136) 2022-04-04 00:26:16 +00:00