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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

When multiple registrations decode to the same operator key, the global decoded-operator lookup may select a registration for another service. The later address check then prevents a valid local registration from reaching READY. Bind initial identity selection to the unique local service and the configured operator key.

What was done?

Prefer the registration indexed by the unique resolved local service only when its decoded operator public key matches the configured key. This selects the matching local registration without changing operator-key uniqueness or block acceptance rules. Otherwise retain the existing operator-key lookup and its mismatch diagnostics. The existing validity, primary-address and connectivity checks remain in place.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Full local make -j2 using prebuilt aarch64 Apple dependencies, with wallet and unit/fuzz binaries built.
  • Extended evo_dip3_activation_tests/migration_rejected_when_key_squatted. Before v24, registration A uses a legacy-scheme operator key and registration B carries the same key in the basic scheme, so both decode to one operator key. The test moves the local service (via ProUpServTx) to whichever registration GetMNByOperatorKey does not return, then checks that CActiveMasternodeManager startup reaches READY with that registration's proTxHash, collateral outpoint and service.
  • With src/active/masternode.cpp reverted to develop, that test fails: the state is ERROR instead of READY, and the proTxHash and outpoint checks fail. With the change it passes.
  • Full evo_dip3_activation_tests suite (42 cases, including dip3_activation_legacy and v19_activation_legacy) passes.
  • feature_dip3_deterministicmns.py passes.
  • Whitespace, includes and circular-dependency linters.

No mainnet routable-address test was run.

Breaking Changes

None. No block acceptance, deployment or transaction-validation rules change.

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  • 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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InitInternal now checks for a deterministic masternode at the local service address first. If no matching entry exists, or its operator public key differs from the local key, initialization falls back to operator-key lookup. A test checks that the manager selects the locally advertised masternode when operator-only lookup returns another registration.

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src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp (1)

1873-1876: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a cross-scheme collision to the startup test.

The current registrations use different operator keys, so the assertions also pass with operator-key-only lookup. Before v24, register two different services with the same BLS key encoded under different schemes. Assert that GetMNByOperatorKey selects the nonlocal registration, then assert that startup selects the local registration.

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Review comment at @src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp around lines 1873 -
1876:
Extend the startup test using GetMNByOperatorKey: register two distinct services
with the same BLS operator key encoded under different schemes, then assert the
lookup selects the nonlocal registration while startup selects the local
registration before v24. Reuse the existing registration and startup test setup.

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Review comments at @src/test/evo_deterministicmns_tests.cpp:
- Around line 1873-1876: Extend the startup test using GetMNByOperatorKey:
register two distinct services with the same BLS operator key encoded under
different schemes, then assert the lookup selects the nonlocal registration
while startup selects the local registration before v24. Reuse the existing
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Final validation — Phase 2 only (queue backlog)

Verified the supplied Phase-2 claims against head 4f692ad; no correctness defects were identified, and the formatting-only commit warrants one history-cleanup suggestion. The startup change preserves the operator-key fallback and existing validity, primary-address, and connectivity checks; the added cross-scheme scenario checks READY and the selected registration's identity. This was a static review: the supplied CI snapshot shows successful container builds and formatting checks, two queued manifest jobs, and no completed unit-test results.

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🟡 Suggestion: Fold the formatting-only follow-up into the startup fix
<commit:527379c13b>:1

Commit 527379c only reorders an include and adjusts line wrapping in the startup controls introduced by cc2f5ed. It has no independent logical change, so retaining it separately adds avoidable history and blame noise. Fold it into cc2f5ed before merge, keeping 4f692ad separate as the substantive cross-scheme coverage addition.

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- [SUGGESTION] <commit:527379c13b>:1: Fold the formatting-only follow-up into the startup fix
  Commit 527379c13b8f8e0bdbfacbd0d50376129b576b0f only reorders an include and adjusts line wrapping in the startup controls introduced by cc2f5ed06e2b94dd4e8b7a91d9de537e8ad307e9. It has no independent logical change, so retaining it separately adds avoidable history and blame noise. Fold it into cc2f5ed06e before merge, keeping 4f692ad206 separate as the substantive cross-scheme coverage addition.

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When multiple registrations decode to the same operator key

isn't it impossible situation?
There could be only one masternode with the operator key, all others are refused.

doing lookup by m_service is so workaround. I can't justify this changes, why exactly is it needed?

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NACK

Real scenario that justifies the PR

  1. Attacker reads any legacy masternode's operator key from protx list (all public).
  2. Attacker registers a ProRegTx with their own IP, the same key basic-encoded, and 1000 DASH collateral. It is accepted pre-v24. No operator signature is needed. The collateral is recoverable by spending it later, so the cost is only lock-up time.
  3. The victim restarts, or any non-READY state calls Init on every block. GetMNByOperatorKey is a linear scan over mnMap comparing decoded keys, so it is scheme-agnostic and returns whichever of A or B comes first in iteration order. If it returns B, the victim hits "Local address does not match the address from ProTx", never reaches READY, stops DKG and signing, and eventually gets PoSe-banned. Iteration order is deterministic, so the victim is stuck, not flaky.

is already fixed by v24 fork:

            // CheckProRegTx ran against pindexPrev, so transactions in this same block are invisible
            // to each other and two of them could claim one operator key under different encodings.
            // Re-probe the list as rebuilt so far. AddMN() reports a duplicate by throwing, which
            // would escape block assembly, so reject cleanly here instead.
            if (is_v24_active &&
                newList.HasOperatorKeyUnderAnyScheme(dmn->pdmnState->pubKeyOperator.Get(), /*self=*/uint256())) {
                return state.Invalid(BlockValidationResult::BLOCK_CONSENSUS, "bad-protx-dup-key");
            }

Before v24 a second registration can carry the same BLS operator key
encoded under the other scheme. The operator-only lookup at startup could
then select that registration instead of the local one and stop at
"Local address does not match". Prefer the registration that owns the
local service when its operator key matches, and fall back to the
operator-key lookup otherwise so the existing diagnostics are unchanged.

Extend migration_rejected_when_key_squatted to put the local service on
the cross-scheme registration that the operator-only lookup does not
select and check that startup reaches READY with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 2 only (queue backlog)

Independently reviewed the complete diff at 9bab875 and confirmed no actionable in-scope defects: service-first selection verifies the decoded operator key, retains the existing fallback and readiness checks, and the regression test checks READY and the selected registration’s identity independently of lookup order. The prior formatting-only follow-up is consolidated into the single startup-fix commit. Validation was static only; current CI shows ClangFormat and infrastructure checks passing, two container-manifest jobs pending, and PR-title validation failing with its failure log unavailable; the author’s reported build and test results were not independently reproduced.

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Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: 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: low by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff makes a small, contained change to initial masternode identity selection, preserves existing validation checks, and adds a targeted regression test without changing consensus or cryptographic rules.
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Closing. knst's point holds: v24's bad-protx-dup-key rule stops new cross-scheme operator-key squats. Squats registered before v24 would survive activation, but mainnet has none today. A squatted operator can also recover without this change by rotating to a new operator key with ProUpRegTx and then sending ProUpServTx. That leaves too little benefit to justify a startup-path workaround.


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