Part of #27463 in the “make orphan handling more robust” section.
Currently the main map in TxOrphanage
is indexed by txid; we do not allow 2 transactions with the same txid into TxOrphanage. This means that if we receive a transaction and want to store it in orphanage, we’ll fail to do so if a same-txid-different-witness version of the tx already exists in the orphanage. The existing orphanage entry can stay until it expires 20 minutes later, or until we find that it is invalid.
This means an attacker can try to block/delay us accepting an orphan transaction by sending a mutated version of the child ahead of time. See included test.
Prior to #28970, we don’t rely on the orphanage for anything and it would be relatively difficult to guess what transaction will go to a node’s orphanage. After the parent(s) are accepted, if anybody sends us the correct transaction, we’ll end up accepting it. However, this is a bit more painful for 1p1c: it’s easier for an attacker to tell when a tx is going to hit a node’s orphanage, and we need to store the correct orphan + receive the parent before we’ll consider the package. If we start out with a bad orphan, we can’t evict it until we receive the parent + try the 1p1c, and then we’ll need to download the real child, put it in orphanage, download the parent again, and then retry 1p1c.