Fix kusama validators getting 0 backing rewards the first session they enter the active set #3734
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…y enter the active set (#3722) There is a problem in the way we update `authorithy-discovery` next keys and because of that nodes that enter the active set would be noticed at the start of the session they become active, instead of the start of the previous session as it was intended. This is problematic because: 1. The node itself advertises its addresses on the DHT only when it notices it should become active on around ~10m loop, so in this case it would notice after it becomes active. 2. The other nodes won't be able to detect the new nodes addresses at the beginning of the session, so it won't added them to the reserved set. With 1 + 2, we end-up in a situation where the the new node won't be able to properly connect to its peers because it won't be in its peers reserved set. Now, the nodes accept by default`MIN_GOSSIP_PEERS: usize = 25` connections to nodes that are not in the reserved set, but given Kusama size(> 1000 nodes) you could easily have more than`25` new nodes entering the active set or simply the nodes don't have slots anymore because, they already have connections to peers not in the active set. In the end what the node would notice is 0 backing rewards because it wasn't directly connected to the peers in its backing group. ## Root-cause The flow is like this: 1. At BAD_SESSION - 1, in `rotate_session` new nodes are added to QueuedKeys https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/02e1a7f476d7d7c67153e975ab9a1bdc02ffea12/substrate/frame/session/src/lib.rs#L609 ``` <QueuedKeys<T>>::put(queued_amalgamated.clone()); <QueuedChanged<T>>::put(next_changed); ``` 2. AuthorityDiscovery::on_new_session is called with `changed` being the value of `<QueuedChanged<T>>:` at BAD_SESSION - **2** because it was saved before being updated https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/02e1a7f476d7d7c67153e975ab9a1bdc02ffea12/substrate/frame/session/src/lib.rs#L613 3. At BAD_SESSION - 1, `AuthorityDiscovery::on_new_session` doesn't updated its next_keys because `changed` was false. 4. For the entire durations of `BAD_SESSION - 1` everyone calling runtime api `authorities`(should return past, present and future authorities) won't discover the nodes that should become active . 5. At the beginning of BAD_SESSION, all nodes discover the new nodes are authorities, but it is already too late because reserved_nodes are updated only at the beginning of the session by the `gossip-support`. See above why this bad. ## Fix Update next keys with the queued_validators at every session, not matter the value of `changed` this is the same way babe pallet correctly does it. https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/02e1a7f476d7d7c67153e975ab9a1bdc02ffea12/substrate/frame/babe/src/lib.rs#L655 ## Notes - The issue doesn't reproduce with proof-authorities changes like `versi` because `changed` would always be true and `AuthorityDiscovery` correctly updates its next_keys every time. - Confirmed at session `37651` on kusama that this is exactly what it happens by looking at blocks with polkadot.js. ## TODO - [ ] Move versi on proof of stake and properly test before and after fix to confirm there is no other issue. --------- Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghe <alexandru.gheorghe@parity.io> Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <git@kchr.de> (cherry picked from commit 8d0cd4f) Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghe <alexandru.gheorghe@parity.io>
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Closing as this according to Morgan it will be cherry-picked after the release on crates is done. |
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This is a cherry-pick from master of #3722
Expected patches for (1.7.0):
pallet-authorithy-discovery