fix: don't ban a peer for sending a banned peer #5843
Merged
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Description
Removes a check that would ban a peer if they sent a peer that we have banned.
Motivation and Context
The check would ban the source peer during peer sync if they sent a peer to us that we have banned. This is IMO exploitable, since a peer may not have connected to the banned peer in question and thus not know if it should be banned or not.
You could also get a peer banned in this manner:
How Has This Been Tested?
CI
What process can a PR reviewer use to test or verify this change?
Not sure it's quite a mission to replicate this.
Breaking Changes