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@Sjors Sjors commented Jun 21, 2019

FundTransaction calls GetMinimumFee which, when the fee rate is absurdly high, quietly reduces the fee to -maxtxfee.

Becaue an absurdly high fee rate is usually the result of a fat finger, aborting seems safer behavior.

Before:

bitcoin-cli walletcreatefundedpsbt '[]' '[{"tb1q...": 0.01}]' 0 '{"feeRate": 10}' true
{
  "psbt": "cHNidP8...gAA=",
  "fee": 0.10000000,
  "changepos": 1
}

After:

bitcoin-cli walletcreatefundedpsbt '[]' '[{"tb1q...": 0.01}]' 0 '{"feeRate": 10}' true
error code: -25
error message:
Fee exceeds maximum configured by -maxtxfee

QT still checks the max fee rate as expected:
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promag commented Jun 21, 2019

Also affects fundrawtransaction. Despite the fact that these are low level calls and the client can also discard high fees, I guess it's ok to be on the safe side.

Deserves a small release note like

walletcreatefundedpsbt and fundrawtransaction now fail to create transactions with a resulting fee greater then -maxtxfee.

Concept ACK.

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Sjors commented Jun 21, 2019

In additional to small transactions with a fat fingered fee rate, there's also an issue with extremely large transactions, which silently get their fee rate reduced. I didn't check if this PR fixes that as well, but I would assume so.

See also #16192 and #16192.

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Sjors commented Jun 21, 2019

Full list of transactions that pay exactly 0.1 BTC in fees: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transactions?q=fee(10000000)# (there could be other wallets doing that of course)

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Concept ACK: user safety first!

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If aborting above maxtxfee is the desired behavior, then this PR should be merged in stead of #16192 because it catches that situation too.

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achow101 commented Jun 27, 2019

Are we certain that this does not affect the other methods of transaction creation (i.e. CreateTransaction)? Are there tests for absurdly high fees in regular wallet transactions, and if not, could you add some?

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Sjors commented Jun 27, 2019

One specific case this prevents is when a user sets feeRate: 1 (thinking it's satoshi per byte). A 1 SegWit input to 1 output transaction is 110 vbytes or 0.11 kilobyte. At 1 BTC per kilobyte the fee for that transaction would be 0.11 BTC which is just above -maxtxfee.

@achow101 CreateTransaction is called by:

  • CreateRateBumpTransaction
  • sendtoaddress (via SendMoney)
  • sendmany
  • fundrawtransaction (via FundTransaction)

I'll try to add some tests for those. Note that sendtoaddress and sendmany don't have a feeRate argument.

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  1. in coin control, absurd fees would no longer be capt to maxtxfee (which probably is okay, just that we are aware). You can't send from the GUI with fees > maxfee, but you currently can play with absurde fees in coin-control (I don't think this makses sense).

  2. There is a comment in walletmodel.cpp that needs overhaul:

        // reject absurdly high fee. (This can never happen because the
        // wallet caps the fee at m_default_max_tx_fee. This merely serves as a
        // belt-and-suspenders check)
        if (nFeeRequired > m_wallet->getDefaultMaxTxFee())
            return AbsurdFee;
  1. verified that the impact of removing the FeeReason::MAXTXFEE (and remove of the silent auto-cap to maxfee) in other places then FundTransaction are non-significant.

Tested ACK 5735eb4

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LGTM 5735eb4

Much safer behaviour IMO

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Sjors commented Jun 27, 2019

Added release note and test for fundrawtransaction, sorry for breaking ACKs. Regarding @jonasschnelli's points:

  1. I think allowing this "playing" is OK. If someone encounters the error, they can google it and find out about the -maxtxfee setting. If we simply make it impossible, they won't know what to google for. Anyway, in practice it's unlikely to matter: it's way more difficult to make a fee fat finger mistake in the GUI than in the RPC.
  2. Fixed

@Sjors Sjors force-pushed the 2019/06/max_fee branch 3 times, most recently from a1dfa74 to 734c00d Compare June 27, 2019 23:56
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kallewoof commented Jun 28, 2019

Concept ACK

utACK 734c00d

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Concept ACK, some style questions

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promag commented Jun 29, 2019

@jonasschnelli not sure if I understand your review, it's still possible to set a high fee rate that causes the fee capping effectively reducing the fee rate. I think this PR should also change the GUI behaviour, or is there a reason to have them different?

Edit: my bad, bitcoin-qt wasn't compiled because of other changes I had.

It would be nice to have the same error in the GUI?

Uploading Screenshot 2019-06-29 at 01.48.10.png…

FundTransaction calls GetMinimumFee which, when the fee rate is absurdly high, quietly reduced the fee to -maxtxfee. Becaue an absurdly high fee rate is usually the result of a fat finger, aborting seems safer behavior.
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Sjors commented Jun 29, 2019

I moved the check from RPC to the wallet.

On a related note, I have in a work in progress branch which replaces all _failReason occurrences with TransactionError.

@promag I'd rather not change the GUI messaging here.

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promag commented Jun 29, 2019

@promag I'd rather not change the GUI messaging here.

@Sjors fair enough.

Is it me or RPC bumpfee (thru feebumper::CreateRateBumpTransaction) doesn't check for -maxtxfee?

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@laanwj laanwj merged commit 806b005 into bitcoin:master Jul 1, 2019
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…ove -maxtxfee

806b005 [wallet] abort when attempting to fund a transaction above maxtxfee (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  `FundTransaction` calls `GetMinimumFee` which, when the fee rate is absurdly high, quietly reduces the fee to `-maxtxfee`.

  Becaue an absurdly high fee rate is usually the result of a fat finger, aborting seems safer behavior.

  Before:
  ```
  bitcoin-cli walletcreatefundedpsbt '[]' '[{"tb1q...": 0.01}]' 0 '{"feeRate": 10}' true
  {
    "psbt": "cHNidP8...gAA=",
    "fee": 0.10000000,
    "changepos": 1
  }

  ```

  After:
  ```
  bitcoin-cli walletcreatefundedpsbt '[]' '[{"tb1q...": 0.01}]' 0 '{"feeRate": 10}' true
  error code: -25
  error message:
  Fee exceeds maximum configured by -maxtxfee
  ```

  QT still checks the max fee rate as expected:
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…xfee

FundTransaction calls GetMinimumFee which, when the fee rate is absurdly high, quietly reduced the fee to -maxtxfee. Becaue an absurdly high fee rate is usually the result of a fat finger, aborting seems safer behavior.

Github-Pull: bitcoin#16257
Rebased-From: 806b005
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…e -maxtxfee

0e7c746 wallet: Fix -maxtxfee check by moving it to CWallet::CreateTransaction (João Barbosa)
e9adb96 [wallet] abort when attempting to fund a transaction above maxtxfee (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  Backport #16257.

  Cherry-picked from the 0.18 backport in #16414, but without the [wip] messages and without the last commit (which adds a test in a file that didn't exist in 0.17).

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…et::CreateTransaction

d3b3bb8 0.18: test: Add test for maxtxfee option (MarcoFalke)
a11dbaa 0.18: wallet: Fix -maxtxfee check by moving it to CWallet::CreateTransaction (João Barbosa)
8f354ce 0.18: [wallet] abort when attempting to fund a transaction above maxtxfee (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  Backports #16322 and #16257.

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gmaxwell commented Jan 26, 2020

oy. this interface takes feerates in btc but most ecosystem stuff takes feerates in satoshis. :( So not as likely a "fat finger" as just genuine misunderstanding about the interface.

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3867727 rpc: settxfee respects -maxtxfee wallet setting (Fabian Jahr)
bda84a0 rpc: Add documentation for deactivating settxfee (Fabian Jahr)

Pull request description:

  ~~Closes 18315~~

  `settxfee` can be deactivated by passing 0 as the fee. That does not seem to be documented for the user so this PR adds it in the description. The return value of a simple boolean seems also too simplified given the multiple dimensions that this deactivation feature enables. I.e. it does not seem intuitive if the returned boolean shows that the call succeeded or if means that `settxfee` is active. My suggested solution is to change the return value to a JSON object that included the "active" state and the currently set fee rate.

  Examples:
  ```
  $ src/bitcoin-cli settxfee 0.0000000
  {
    "active": false,
    "fee_rate": "0.00000000 BTC/kB"
  }
  $ src/bitcoin-cli settxfee 0.0001
  {
    "active": true,
    "fee_rate": "0.00010000 BTC/kB"
  }
  ```

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…ettxfee

3867727 rpc: settxfee respects -maxtxfee wallet setting (Fabian Jahr)
bda84a0 rpc: Add documentation for deactivating settxfee (Fabian Jahr)

Pull request description:

  ~~Closes 18315~~

  `settxfee` can be deactivated by passing 0 as the fee. That does not seem to be documented for the user so this PR adds it in the description. The return value of a simple boolean seems also too simplified given the multiple dimensions that this deactivation feature enables. I.e. it does not seem intuitive if the returned boolean shows that the call succeeded or if means that `settxfee` is active. My suggested solution is to change the return value to a JSON object that included the "active" state and the currently set fee rate.

  Examples:
  ```
  $ src/bitcoin-cli settxfee 0.0000000
  {
    "active": false,
    "fee_rate": "0.00000000 BTC/kB"
  }
  $ src/bitcoin-cli settxfee 0.0001
  {
    "active": true,
    "fee_rate": "0.00010000 BTC/kB"
  }
  ```

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  jonatack:
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  meshcollider:
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deadalnix pushed a commit to Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc that referenced this pull request May 29, 2020
Summary:
FundTransaction calls GetMinimumFee which, when the fee rate is absurdly high, quietly reduced the fee to -maxtxfee. Becaue an absurdly high fee rate is usually the result of a fat finger, aborting seems safer behavior.

This is a backport of Core [[bitcoin/bitcoin#16257 | PR16257]]

Depends on D6267

Test Plan:
  ninja all check-all

Also run the test suite on the no wallet build

Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, jasonbcox

Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, jasonbcox

Subscribers: jasonbcox

Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D6268
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…fundedpsbt

e5327f9 [rpc] fundrawtransaction: add_inputs option to control automatic input adding (Sjors Provoost)
79804fe [rpc] walletcreatefundedpsbt: don't automatically append inputs (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  When the user doesn't specificy inputs, it makes sense to automatically select them. But when the user does specify inputs, `walletcreatefundedpsbt` now fails if the amount is insufficient, unless `addInputs` is set to `true`.

  Similarly for `fundrawtransaction` if the original transaction already specified inputs, we only add more if `addInputs` is set to `true`.

  This protects against fat finger mistakes in the amount or fee rate (see also #16257). The behavior is also more similar to GUI coin selection.

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…tcreatefundedpsbt

e5327f9 [rpc] fundrawtransaction: add_inputs option to control automatic input adding (Sjors Provoost)
79804fe [rpc] walletcreatefundedpsbt: don't automatically append inputs (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  When the user doesn't specificy inputs, it makes sense to automatically select them. But when the user does specify inputs, `walletcreatefundedpsbt` now fails if the amount is insufficient, unless `addInputs` is set to `true`.

  Similarly for `fundrawtransaction` if the original transaction already specified inputs, we only add more if `addInputs` is set to `true`.

  This protects against fat finger mistakes in the amount or fee rate (see also bitcoin#16257). The behavior is also more similar to GUI coin selection.

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  meshcollider:
    utACK e5327f9

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…let::CreateTransaction

0d101a3 test: Add test for maxtxfee option (MarcoFalke)
1775501 wallet: Remove unreachable code in CreateTransaction (MarcoFalke)
5c1b971 wallet: Fix -maxtxfee check by moving it to CWallet::CreateTransaction (João Barbosa)

Pull request description:

  Follow up to bitcoin#16257, this PR makes `bumpfee` aware of `-maxtxfee`.

  It also prevents dangling locked unspents when calling `fundrawtransaction` - because the previous check was after `LockCoin`.

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…let::CreateTransaction

0d101a3 test: Add test for maxtxfee option (MarcoFalke)
1775501 wallet: Remove unreachable code in CreateTransaction (MarcoFalke)
5c1b971 wallet: Fix -maxtxfee check by moving it to CWallet::CreateTransaction (João Barbosa)

Pull request description:

  Follow up to bitcoin#16257, this PR makes `bumpfee` aware of `-maxtxfee`.

  It also prevents dangling locked unspents when calling `fundrawtransaction` - because the previous check was after `LockCoin`.

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    re-ACK 0d101a3, only change is small test fixup

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…let::CreateTransaction

0d101a3 test: Add test for maxtxfee option (MarcoFalke)
1775501 wallet: Remove unreachable code in CreateTransaction (MarcoFalke)
5c1b971 wallet: Fix -maxtxfee check by moving it to CWallet::CreateTransaction (João Barbosa)

Pull request description:

  Follow up to bitcoin#16257, this PR makes `bumpfee` aware of `-maxtxfee`.

  It also prevents dangling locked unspents when calling `fundrawtransaction` - because the previous check was after `LockCoin`.

ACKs for top commit:
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    re-ACK 0d101a3, only change is small test fixup

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…let::CreateTransaction

0d101a3 test: Add test for maxtxfee option (MarcoFalke)
1775501 wallet: Remove unreachable code in CreateTransaction (MarcoFalke)
5c1b971 wallet: Fix -maxtxfee check by moving it to CWallet::CreateTransaction (João Barbosa)

Pull request description:

  Follow up to bitcoin#16257, this PR makes `bumpfee` aware of `-maxtxfee`.

  It also prevents dangling locked unspents when calling `fundrawtransaction` - because the previous check was after `LockCoin`.

ACKs for top commit:
  MarcoFalke:
    re-ACK 0d101a3, only change is small test fixup

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