[UdjinM6]

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Fixes #7582 at the block assembly level, as an alternative to #7728.

CheckProUpServTx() verifies the operator signature against the masternode list of the previous block, and block connection applies provider transactions in block order without checking again who signed them. A ProUpServTx signed with the operator key that an earlier transaction in the same block changes (ProUpRegTx or ProUpSharedRegTx with a new operator key) or revokes (ProUpRevTx) therefore still applies: it writes the previous operator's service fields back and, after a key change, revives the masternode the change just PoSe-banned. The mempool accepts both transactions together, and block assembly orders them by feerate, so a displaced operator can broadcast a low-feerate service update and wait for the key change to be mined.

The reverse order is harmless: the key change resets the operator fields the service update set. This PR makes honest block assembly always produce that order, instead of keeping the two transactions out of the mempool as #7728 does. Compared to #7728, no valid service update the operator already broadcast is evicted or refused for being paired with a key change, and mempool contents do not depend on the order in which a node received the two transactions. Consensus is unchanged: a block with the harmful order is still valid, so a miner ignoring this policy can still produce one, as with #7728.

What was done?

• Block assembly (BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs): when a package contains an operator key change or revocation, the masternode's pending ProUpServTxs, with their unconfirmed ancestors, are pulled into the package and placed before it. New helper CTxMemPool::GetServiceUpdatesBeforeKeyChange().

  • A service update is left out if its own package fails the usual transaction checks, if it is one the mempool would refuse as unorderable (see below; the mempool rejects those on entry, but a reorg can return such ancestors below an update already in the pool), or if its package has a service update of a masternode whose key already changed in the block.
  • If the pulled-in updates do not fit, they are all left out and the key change goes in without them, so pending updates, however many, cannot hold it back.
  • Once a key change is in the template, no later ProUpServTx of that masternode is added, so an update left out, or one that only becomes eligible while the template is built, cannot follow it.
  • Whether a transaction is a key change is decided by CTxMemPool::GetKeyChangeTarget() against the current tip list, not when the transaction entered the mempool, so a registrar update that becomes a key change after a reorg is handled too.

• Mempool policy: a ProUpServTx that block assembly could not reliably put ahead of a key change is rejected with protx-dup (CTxMemPool::IsUnorderableServiceUpdate(), called next to existsProviderTxConflict()):

  • With a pending operator key change among its ancestors (it spends one, directly or through other pending transactions). It can only be mined after that change. For its own masternode it would restore the previous operator's fields. For another masternode, pulling it in would require that other change.
  • With a pending asset lock, asset unlock or MNHF signal among its ancestors. Their own checks during block assembly could keep the pulled-in update, and the key change with it, out of the block.

  Such a transaction can only arrive after the ancestor it spends, so every node makes the same decision. Package acceptance checks package members against the pool before adding any of them, so a package carrying both transactions is not caught. Packages are regtest-only.

• Reorg: MaybeUpdateMempoolForReorg() moves the deterministic masternode list tip to the new chain tip before re-adding disconnected transactions. Before, a key change returned to the mempool was compared with the list of the disconnected block, which already had the new key, and was not recognized as a key change. This change was first proposed in fix: drop stale operator service updates around an operator key change #7728 and is kept as its own commit.

• Release note doc/release-notes-7857.md.

This keeps pending provider transactions in the mempool and only changes their order in block templates, so it does not depend on how they were relayed.

How Has This Been Tested?

Built on macOS arm64 with --enable-debug --enable-werror --enable-crash-hooks.

New unit tests in src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp, using block templates unless noted:

• test_miner_service_update_before_key_change:
  • a low-fee ProUpServTx is placed before a high-fee key change or revocation of its masternode;
  • a registrar update that keeps the operator key is ordered by fee as usual;
  • a ProUpServTx that cannot be mined (it takes another masternode's address) does not hold the key change back.
• test_mempool_rejects_unorderable_service_update, through ProcessTransaction: a ProUpServTx is rejected with protx-dup when funded from a pending key change of its masternode, from a transaction spending one, from a pending key change of another masternode, or from a pending asset lock. An independently funded one is accepted.
• test_miner_service_update_before_reorged_key_change: a key change returned to the mempool by InvalidateBlock still counts as the masternode's pending key change, so a second one is rejected with protx-dup, and a pending ProUpServTx is still placed before it.
• test_miner_service_update_before_key_change_surviving_reorg: a registrar update that kept the operator key when it entered the mempool becomes a key change after a reorg, and a service update signed with the restored key still goes in before it.
• test_miner_service_update_never_after_key_change: a ProUpServTx that follows a key change in the pool (it spends it) is never mined after it, while one following a registrar update that keeps the key still is.
• test_miner_key_change_not_held_back_after_reorg: a reorg returns a zero-fee key change of another masternode below a pending ProUpServTx; the key change of the update's own masternode is mined and the update is left out.
• test_miner_service_update_with_parent_before_key_change: a ProUpServTx funded by an ordinary pending transaction goes in as parent, service update, key change.
• test_miner_key_change_without_room_for_service_update: with room for either the parent and the service update or the key change, but not all three, the key change goes in without the service update, and the template stays within its size limit.
• test_miner_key_change_not_held_back_by_service_updates: two independently funded ProUpServTxs that fit ahead of a key change only one at a time; the key change goes in and neither update does.
• test_miner_key_change_not_held_back_by_other_key_change: a key change of masternode A goes in without A's service updates; a service update of masternode B funded by one of them is left out instead of holding back B's key change.

Reverting each piece in turn makes the corresponding case fail:

• the pull-in in block assembly (both ordering tests);
• the reorg tip move (only the reorg test);
• limiting the rejection to the update's own masternode (the other-masternode case);
• removing asset locks from the rejection (the asset-lock case);
• leaving unorderable service updates in the pull-in (test_miner_key_change_not_held_back_after_reorg);
• holding the key change back when the pulled-in updates do not fit (both block-space tests);
• pulling in an update package with a service update of a masternode whose key already changed in the block (test_miner_key_change_not_held_back_by_other_key_change).

Run at the head of this PR:

• Unit tests: all pass (test_dash, 1071 cases).
• Functional tests: all pass: feature_asset_locks.py, feature_dip3_deterministicmns.py --descriptors, feature_llmq_chainlocks.py, feature_masternode_shares.py, feature_protx_version.py, mempool_packages.py, mempool_reorg.py, mining_basic.py, rpc_masternode.py, rpc_packages.py.
• Lint: test/lint/all-lint.py reports only an existing cppcheck warning in src/governance/object.cpp, which this PR does not touch.

Breaking Changes

None for consensus. Mempool policy: a ProUpServTx spending an output of a pending operator key change, asset lock, asset unlock or MNHF signal is rejected until that transaction confirms. It can then be sent again, signed with the operator key current at that point. Mining policy: pending service updates of a masternode that do not fit in the block ahead of its key change are left out of that block, and become invalid once the key change confirms.

Checklist:

• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have assigned this pull request to a milestone

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Walkthrough

The change rejects service updates from the mempool when their pending transaction ancestors make them unorderable around an operator-key change. During block assembly, eligible service updates and their ancestors are ordered before the key change when they pass transaction checks and fit block limits. Reorg processing refreshes the masternode-list tip before re-adding disconnected transactions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BlockAssembler
  participant CTxMemPool
  participant BlockTemplate
  BlockAssembler->>CTxMemPool: GetServiceUpdatesBeforeKeyChange
  CTxMemPool-->>BlockAssembler: Pending service updates
  BlockAssembler->>BlockTemplate: Add the ordered transaction package

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7645a

A transaction package can admit a service update that the new mempool policy is meant to reject. Close the package-admission gap before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: mining a pending ProUpServTx before its masternode's operator key change.
Description check		The description directly explains the issue, implementation, mempool policy, reorg handling, testing, and scope of the changes.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#7582] requires preventing an old-key ProUpServTx from applying after an operator key change in an honest same-block order. The PR orders eligible service updates and their ancestors before r…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes support issue [#7582]. Mempool dependency checks, shared-registrar handling, asset-lock handling, reorg handling, release notes, and regression tests address transaction ordering and its d…

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✅ Final review complete — no blockers (commit 64b828d) · triage: normal

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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Both supplied blocking findings are confirmed: reorg-surviving entries can retain stale key-change classification, and a skipped service update can become eligible later during the same template construction. Both paths defeat the PR's stated ordering guarantee. Verification was static; the supplied CI snapshot shows successful lint, multiple platform builds, and the no-wallet test job, with several build and test jobs still pending.

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Source: reviewer 1: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The cross-cutting changes to BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs, mempool admission, and reorg handling require careful reasoning about transaction dependencies but change ordering policy rather than consensus rules, signature verification, or operator-key handling itself.
• Phase 1 reviewers: gemini-3.8-flash-high — general (completed, effort high); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: gemini-3.8-flash-high — antigravity quota: weekly 83% left, 5h 97% left
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In `src/txmempool.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/txmempool.cpp:1105-1107: Refresh key-change classification for entries surviving a reorg
  `GetKeyChangeTarget()` relies on `isKeyChangeProTx`, which `addUncheckedProTx()` computes against the masternode list at admission. The reorg tip move fixes classification for re-added transactions, but neither `MaybeUpdateMempoolForReorg()` nor `removeForReorg()` refreshes that flag for entries already in the pool.

  Confirm an operator change from A to B, then accept an independently funded registrar update R that retains B. R is classified as not changing the key. Disconnect the block introducing B: R survives the finality and maturity checks and now changes A to B, but its flag remains false. When the disconnected original key change has no waiting InstantSend lock, its re-admission is rejected because R already occupies B's mempool key slot; removing that original transaction does not remove independently funded R. A service update signed by A can then be accepted. If R has the higher feerate, this helper returns no service updates for it, allowing assembly to mine R before the service update and reproduce the unwanted revival.

  Determine key changes against the current list when enforcing these policies, or refresh surviving entries when the list changes, including before reorg re-admission. Cover a registrar update that was already pending before the reorg; the existing reorg test covers only a newly re-added key change. `IsUnorderableServiceUpdate()` also relies on the same stale flag.

In `src/node/miner.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/node/miner.cpp:635-637: Keep skipped service updates excluded for the rest of the template
  Failure of `TestPackageTransactions(updatePackage)` does not mean the service update will remain ineligible throughout this template. That check calls `ChainlockHandler::IsTxSafeForMining()`, which reads the current clock on every call and becomes true at the ten-minute transaction-age timeout (`src/chainlock/handler.cpp:257–268`). Holding `cs_main` and the mempool lock does not freeze time.

  An eligible high-fee key change can encounter an independently funded, low-fee service update just before that timeout. The pull-in check fails, so the update is omitted and the key change enters the block. If normal selection reaches the service update after the timeout, its package check passes and it is appended after the key change. The failed pull-in does not mark the update as excluded, and later selection does not check whether its masternode's key change is already in the block. Because special-transaction checks still use the previous block's list, the resulting template is consensus-valid and restores the displaced operator's service fields, including reviving a masternode banned by the key change.

  Freeze the relevant eligibility decision for the template, or, once the key change is selected, exclude each skipped service update and every later package containing it from that template.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Withdrawn at 7645a26d; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Refresh key-change classification for entries surviving a reorg

GetKeyChangeTarget() relies on isKeyChangeProTx, which addUncheckedProTx() computes against the masternode list at admission. The reorg tip move fixes classification for re-added transactions, but neither MaybeUpdateMempoolForReorg() nor removeForReorg() refreshes that flag for entries already in the pool.

Confirm an operator change from A to B, then accept an independently funded registrar update R that retains B. R is classified as not changing the key. Disconnect the block introducing B: R survives the finality and maturity checks and now changes A to B, but its flag remains false. When the disconnected original key change has no waiting InstantSend lock, its re-admission is rejected because R already occupies B's mempool key slot; removing that original transaction does not remove independently funded R. A service update signed by A can then be accepted. If R has the higher feerate, this helper returns no service updates for it, allowing assembly to mine R before the service update and reproduce the unwanted revival.

Determine key changes against the current list when enforcing these policies, or refresh surviving entries when the list changes, including before reorg re-admission. Cover a registrar update that was already pending before the reorg; the existing reorg test covers only a newly re-added key change. IsUnorderableServiceUpdate() also relies on the same stale flag.

_{source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: general)}

[thepastaclaw]

Resolved (re-reviewed at daeb1db7): Your GetKeyChangeTarget() now compares the payload's operator key against the current tip masternode list, and both mining selection and the service-update ancestor policy use that helper rather than the admission-time flag. The surviving-reorg test specifically checks ordering for a registrar update that becomes a key change after its original key-setting block is disconnected.

[thepastaclaw]

Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 7645a26d): I withdraw this finding: your previously reviewed GetKeyChangeTarget() already classified mining dependencies against the current tip list rather than the admission-time flag. Your current code retains that behavior, and the surviving-reorg test explicitly checks service-update ordering before a registrar update that becomes a key change.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Withdrawn at 7645a26d; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Keep skipped service updates excluded for the rest of the template

Failure of TestPackageTransactions(updatePackage) does not mean the service update will remain ineligible throughout this template. That check calls ChainlockHandler::IsTxSafeForMining(), which reads the current clock on every call and becomes true at the ten-minute transaction-age timeout (src/chainlock/handler.cpp:257–268). Holding cs_main and the mempool lock does not freeze time.

An eligible high-fee key change can encounter an independently funded, low-fee service update just before that timeout. The pull-in check fails, so the update is omitted and the key change enters the block. If normal selection reaches the service update after the timeout, its package check passes and it is appended after the key change. The failed pull-in does not mark the update as excluded, and later selection does not check whether its masternode's key change is already in the block. Because special-transaction checks still use the previous block's list, the resulting template is consensus-valid and restores the displaced operator's service fields, including reviving a masternode banned by the key change.

Freeze the relevant eligibility decision for the template, or, once the key change is selected, exclude each skipped service update and every later package containing it from that template.

_{source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: general)}

[thepastaclaw]

Resolved (re-reviewed at daeb1db7): Your keyChangedMNs tracking now persists across accepted packages, and the package scan rejects a service update for any masternode whose key has already changed in the template. This also excludes an update skipped earlier if it becomes eligible later, without relying on its transaction checks remaining unchanged.

[thepastaclaw]

Withdrawn (re-reviewed at 7645a26d): I withdraw this finding: your previously reviewed head already used template-wide keyChangedMNs to reject later packages containing service updates for an affected masternode, including updates reconsidered after eligibility changes. Your current head retains that protection and additionally filters affected ancestors before pulling in another update.

[thepastaclaw]

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Verified the complete PR diff at daeb1db: both prior blocking findings are fixed, and no additional blocking defect was confirmed. One nonblocking suggestion remains for testing pulled-in ancestors and block-space accounting. This was a static review; the supplied CI snapshot at 2026-10-08T22:17:10Z shows successful lint, multiple builds, and nowallet tests, while TSAN, SQLite, and standard Linux tests plus multiprocess and ASAN builds remain pending.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff introduces intricate mining-package ordering, mempool admission policy, and reorg bookkeeping, but does not change consensus rules, signature verification, or operator key handling itself.
• Phase 1 reviewers: gemini-3.8-flash-high — general (completed, effort high); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: gemini-3.8-flash-high — antigravity quota: weekly 79% left, 5h 67% left
• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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In `src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp:1661-1664: Cover pulled-in ancestors and insufficient block space
  This ordering scenario uses independently funded transactions, so it does not exercise pulling an ordinary unconfirmed ancestor into the service-update package. None of the new template scenarios constrains block space to exercise the added extra-size accounting and key-change deferral in miner.cpp. Add a low-fee ordinary parent funding a low-fee service update, paired with an independently funded high-fee key change. With sufficient space, assert parent < service update < key change. With a block-size limit that fits either the parent/service-update package or the key change individually, but not their union, assert that the key change is omitted and the template stays within the configured limit. These assertions would protect two new behavior paths that the standalone ordering checks cannot detect regressions in.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Resolved at b7b899c2; see the replies below.

🟡 Suggestion: Cover pulled-in ancestors and insufficient block space

This ordering scenario uses independently funded transactions, so it does not exercise pulling an ordinary unconfirmed ancestor into the service-update package. None of the new template scenarios constrains block space to exercise the added extra-size accounting and key-change deferral in miner.cpp. Add a low-fee ordinary parent funding a low-fee service update, paired with an independently funded high-fee key change. With sufficient space, assert parent < service update < key change. With a block-size limit that fits either the parent/service-update package or the key change individually, but not their union, assert that the key change is omitted and the template stays within the configured limit. These assertions would protect two new behavior paths that the standalone ordering checks cannot detect regressions in.

_{source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: general)}

[thepastaclaw]

Resolved (re-reviewed at b7b899c2): Your new ancestor scenario verifies the actual template order parent → service update → key change. The constrained-space scenario also verifies that the parent and service update are included, the key change is omitted, and the template remains below its configured size limit.

[knst]

it's indeed updated synchronously but after this function.
Firstly, calling here UpdatedMNListTip can cause inconsistency in case if some exception will be throw after this line but before tip will be actually switched.

Secondly, the consensus checks already uses pindex instead tip: PreChecks hands m_chain.Tip() to CheckSpecialTxForMempool at src/validation.cpp:1108, and CheckProUpRegTx uses GetListForBlock(pindexPrev). Instead using GetListAtTip() should be used GetListForBlock.
GetListAtTip() is an legacy artefact from the times when dmnman had been a global object and chain had been global object, and there was no snapshot.

Instead hardcoding here UpdateMNListTip here I would suggest to call GetListForBlock in this PR; as follow-up in the future GetListAtTip should be considered deprecated or at least its usage should be reduced over time in the future

[UdjinM6]

By the time MaybeUpdateMempoolForReorg() re-adds transactions after blocks were disconnected, DisconnectTip()/ConnectTip() have already moved m_chain, and UpdatedMNListTip() only assigns tipIndex under cs, so this points the list at the actual current tip (possibly an intermediate one in a multi-step reorg, which is still the real tip at that moment), never ahead of m_chain. An exception during the re-add does not undo the already-completed tip switch. Without this, the list can keep pointing at a disconnected block during the re-add, until a subsequent tip notification updates it. That closes the window this PR depends on; test_miner_service_update_before_reorged_key_change now covers it (a second key change after the reorg must be rejected with protx-dup, which fails without the tip move).

To see what taking the list for an explicit block would look like, I implemented it on top of this PR: UdjinM6:refactor/mempool-explicit-mn-list (UdjinM6@768c4eddba). The mempool no longer calls GetListAtChainTip(); existsProviderTxConflict(), existsProviderTxCrossSchemeConflict(), removeProTxConflicts()/removeProTxSpentCollateralConflicts(), addUnchecked()/addUncheckedProTx(), GetKeyChangeTarget(), IsUnorderableServiceUpdate(), GetServiceUpdatesBeforeKeyChange() and removeForBlock() take the block whose list applies: the chain tip on admission, the parent of the connected block in removeForBlock(), and pindexPrev in block assembly. That replaces the tip move here, and the reorg test above passes with it and fails if the mempool reads the manager's tip again. It is +74/−63 in 6 production files plus +41/−31 in tests, including small signature changes in two upstream test files (mempool_tests.cpp, policyestimator_tests.cpp), so I'd keep it out of this PR and keep the tip move here as the minimal fix.

[knst]

hm. it seems as chain is available only here:

CTxMemPool::removeForReorg(CChain& chain, std::function<bool(txiter)> check_final_and_mature)

It means that addUnchecked and other members doesn't have tip. ok, let's keep it as it is now; and re-consider in the future. Maybe some future refactorings of mempool will narrow scope and make it simplier to do, maybe something like bitcoin#31122 will help. Haven't dig deep

[thepastaclaw]

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Reviewed the complete four-commit PR diff at b7b899c and independently confirmed that all three prior findings are fixed. One new blocker remains: the mandatory, unbounded service-update pull-in lets the operator being replaced pin an otherwise mineable key change. Validation was static only; the supplied CI snapshot shows successful lint, several platform builds, and nowallet tests, with other build and test jobs still in progress.

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Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The change intricately modifies block assembly, mempool policy, and reorg handling, but does not itself alter consensus rules, signature verification, operator-key application, or another listed critical surface.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (antigravity below 15% reserve: weekly 14% left, 5h 38% left), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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In `src/node/miner.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/node/miner.cpp:658-667: Bound service-update pull-in so the displaced operator cannot pin a key change
  This makes the aggregate size of every eligible pending service update a mandatory condition for mining the key change. `existsProviderTxConflict()` permits multiple independently funded ProUpServTxs for the same masternode when they claim distinct, otherwise unused addresses, and `GetServiceUpdatesBeforeKeyChange()` returns all of them without a per-masternode bound. The current operator can therefore submit normally admitted updates whose combined size exceeds the default 2,000,000-byte block limit. Even a highest-feerate, independently funded owner-authorized key change is then skipped here, although it fits by itself.

  Mining some updates does not remove the remaining independently funded updates with distinct addresses or retire the operator key. The operator can replenish the backlog between blocks and keep the key change excluded at miners following this policy for as long as they maintain that backlog. This newly gives the operator being replaced control over key retirement under ordinary miner settings, rather than merely causing the documented finite delay for insufficient space.

  Bound the mandatory pull-in or provide a fallback that mines the key change while omitting excess updates. The existing template-wide `keyChangedMNs` guard already prevents omitted updates from following it, so requiring every update to fit is unnecessary to prevent the harmful order. Add a regression with multiple independently funded updates whose aggregate size exceeds the normal block limit and verify that the key change remains mineable.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Resolved at ed244e50; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Bound service-update pull-in so the displaced operator cannot pin a key change

This makes the aggregate size of every eligible pending service update a mandatory condition for mining the key change. existsProviderTxConflict() permits multiple independently funded ProUpServTxs for the same masternode when they claim distinct, otherwise unused addresses, and GetServiceUpdatesBeforeKeyChange() returns all of them without a per-masternode bound. The current operator can therefore submit normally admitted updates whose combined size exceeds the default 2,000,000-byte block limit. Even a highest-feerate, independently funded owner-authorized key change is then skipped here, although it fits by itself.

Mining some updates does not remove the remaining independently funded updates with distinct addresses or retire the operator key. The operator can replenish the backlog between blocks and keep the key change excluded at miners following this policy for as long as they maintain that backlog. This newly gives the operator being replaced control over key retirement under ordinary miner settings, rather than merely causing the documented finite delay for insufficient space.

Bound the mandatory pull-in or provide a fallback that mines the key change while omitting excess updates. The existing template-wide keyChangedMNs guard already prevents omitted updates from following it, so requiring every update to fit is unnecessary to prevent the harmful order. Add a regression with multiple independently funded updates whose aggregate size exceeds the normal block limit and verify that the key change remains mineable.

_{source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: general)}

[thepastaclaw]

Resolved (re-reviewed at ed244e50): Your combined size/sigop check now clears the pulled-in updates instead of rejecting the original key-change package, so independently funded service updates cannot pin an otherwise eligible key change. The constrained-space tests explicitly check that the key change is included while the updates are omitted.

[thepastaclaw]

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Reviewed the complete PR diff and surrounding block-assembly, provider-transaction, mempool, and reorg code at the exact head. All four prior findings are addressed, and no additional actionable in-scope defects were confirmed. Verification was static only: the supplied CI snapshot reports successful completed builds and lint checks, with five test jobs and the multiprocess build still pending.

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Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff intricately changes block-template ordering, mempool admission policy, and reorg tip synchronization, but does not change consensus rules, signature verification, key handling itself, or another qualifying critical surface.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
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- Line 1115: Update SubmitPackage to check package-local ancestry after it is
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Independently reviewed the complete diff at 7645a26 and found no actionable in-scope defects. Service-update pull-in preserves ancestry, falls back without withholding key changes when space is insufficient, and prevents later updates from following an included key change; two prior findings are fixed and two are withdrawn because their claimed omissions were already covered at the previously reviewed head. This was static verification only: the supplied CI snapshot shows successful completed builds, lint, and no-wallet tests, with TSAN, SQLite, and standard Linux tests plus multiprocess and ASAN builds still pending.

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Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff adds intricate transaction-ordering and mempool policy in BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs and CTxMemPool plus reorg tip synchronization, but does not change consensus rules, signature verification, cryptography, or operator-key mutation itself.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
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• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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[PastaPastaPasta]

Reviewed 7645a26 and compared it with #7728, which fixes the same issue.

How this approach differs from #7728:

• Neither changes consensus, and in both a block with the harmful order stays valid. Here, a service update the operator already broadcast is mined ahead of the key change, which then resets the fields the update set. fix: drop stale operator service updates around an operator key change #7728 refuses or evicts the update instead.
• Key changes are classified against the tip list (GetKeyChangeTarget()), not the admission-time isKeyChangeProTx flag. fix: drop stale operator service updates around an operator key change #7728 relies on that flag, so it misses a registrar update that only becomes a key change after a reorg (the case test_miner_service_update_before_key_change_surviving_reorg covers).
• Block validity: each pulled-in transaction still goes through TestPackageTransactions() (finality, IsTxSafeForMining, the CheckSpecialTx recheck) and the combined size and sigop check. An update comes in with its whole unconfirmed ancestor set, sorted ahead of the rest of the package. Updates that descend from the key change, or that have any key change among their ancestors, are never pulled in, so the template order stays topological. TestBlockValidity still checks the final template.

On the review threads:

• Tip move in MaybeUpdateMempoolForReorg() (validation.cpp thread): I checked every caller. Each one runs under cs_main, after DisconnectTip()/ConnectTip() has already moved m_chain. CDeterministicMNManager::UpdatedBlockTip() only assigns tipIndex. If an exception is thrown later, tipIndex still equals m_chain.Tip(), and the SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip notification sets the same value afterwards. Switching the mempool to explicit GetListForBlock() calls would be a good follow-up, but correctness here does not depend on it.
• Package bypass (CodeRabbit): answered in that thread. The gap is real, but no change is needed.

Follow-up commit, cherry-pickable onto this branch: PastaPastaPasta@104c4f6 (test: mine a pending service update before a shared masternode's key change).
No test covered the ProUpSharedRegTx branch of GetKeyChangeTarget(). This commit adds an ordering check to feature_masternode_shares.py, with the rotation prioritised above the service update. With src/node/miner.cpp reverted to develop it fails on the ordering check. At this head it passes.

Tested at 7645a26 plus that commit, on macOS arm64. All of these pass:

• test_dash: evo_dip3_activation_tests, evo_sharedmn_tests, evo_assetlocks_tests, mempool_tests, miner_tests, txpackage_tests, validation_block_tests.
• Functional: feature_masternode_shares.py, feature_dip3_deterministicmns.py --descriptors, feature_protx_version.py, mempool_packages.py, mempool_reorg.py, mining_basic.py, rpc_packages.py.

The branch also merges cleanly with develop c8bfd7a, #7638 and #7846.

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Independently reviewed the complete diff at 64b828d and verified all four prior findings are fixed; no actionable in-scope defects remain. The implementation preserves ancestor ordering, lets key changes proceed without oversized service-update packages, and prevents later service updates from following their masternode's key change, including after reorgs. This was static verification only: the supplied CI snapshot shows lint passing, with platform build/test prerequisites, ClangFormat, and other checks still queued.

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Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate changes to BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs, mempool policy, and reorg tip synchronization affect transaction selection and ordering, but do not themselves change consensus rules, signature verification, key handling, or another qualifying critical surface.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (antigravity below 15% reserve: weekly 14% left, 5h 100% left), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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