network: return error if header message is too big

Big messages can still be processed but only first
2000 headers will be used.

pkg/network/message.go

@@ -201,13 +201,11 @@ func (m *Message) decodePayload(br *io.BinReader) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("can't decode command %s", cmdByteArrayToString(m.Command))
 	}
 	p.DecodeBinary(r)
-	if r.Err != nil {
-		return r.Err
+	if r.Err == nil || r.Err == payload.ErrTooManyHeaders {
+		m.Payload = p
 	}
 
-	m.Payload = p
-
-	return nil
+	return r.Err
 }
 
 // Encode encodes a Message to any given BinWriter.

pkg/network/payload/headers.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package payload
 import (
 	"github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/core"
 	"github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/io"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
 // Headers payload.
@@ -15,12 +16,17 @@ const (
 	MaxHeadersAllowed = 2000
 )
 
+// ErrTooManyHeaders is an error returned when too many headers were received.
+var ErrTooManyHeaders = errors.Errorf("too many headers were received (max: %d)", MaxHeadersAllowed)
+
 // DecodeBinary implements Serializable interface.
 func (p *Headers) DecodeBinary(br *io.BinReader) {
 	lenHeaders := br.ReadVarUint()
 
+	var limitExceeded bool
+
 	// C# node does it silently
-	if lenHeaders > MaxHeadersAllowed {
+	if limitExceeded = lenHeaders > MaxHeadersAllowed; limitExceeded {
 		lenHeaders = MaxHeadersAllowed
 	}
 
@@ -31,6 +37,10 @@ func (p *Headers) DecodeBinary(br *io.BinReader) {
 		header.DecodeBinary(br)
 		p.Hdrs[i] = header
 	}
+
+	if br.Err == nil && limitExceeded {
+		br.Err = ErrTooManyHeaders
+	}
 }
 
 // EncodeBinary implements Serializable interface.

pkg/network/payload/headers_test.go

@@ -11,36 +11,39 @@ import (
 )
 
 func TestHeadersEncodeDecode(t *testing.T) {
-	headers := &Headers{[]*core.Header{
-		{
-			BlockBase: core.BlockBase{
-				Version: 0,
-				Index:   1,
-				Script: transaction.Witness{
-					InvocationScript:   []byte{0x0},
-					VerificationScript: []byte{0x1},
-				},
-			}},
-		{
-			BlockBase: core.BlockBase{
-				Version: 0,
-				Index:   2,
-				Script: transaction.Witness{
-					InvocationScript:   []byte{0x0},
-					VerificationScript: []byte{0x1},
-				},
-			}},
-		{
-			BlockBase: core.BlockBase{
-				Version: 0,
-				Index:   3,
-				Script: transaction.Witness{
-					InvocationScript:   []byte{0x0},
-					VerificationScript: []byte{0x1},
-				},
-			}},
-	}}
+	t.Run("normal case", func(t *testing.T) {
+		headers := newTestHeaders(3)
 
+		testHeadersEncodeDecode(t, headers, 3, false)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("more than max", func(t *testing.T) {
+		const sent = MaxHeadersAllowed + 1
+		headers := newTestHeaders(sent)
+
+		testHeadersEncodeDecode(t, headers, MaxHeadersAllowed, true)
+	})
+}
+
+func newTestHeaders(n int) *Headers {
+	headers := &Headers{Hdrs: make([]*core.Header, n)}
+
+	for i := range headers.Hdrs {
+		headers.Hdrs[i] = &core.Header{
+			BlockBase: core.BlockBase{
+				Index: uint32(i + 1),
+				Script: transaction.Witness{
+					InvocationScript:   []byte{0x0},
+					VerificationScript: []byte{0x1},
+				},
+			},
+		}
+	}
+
+	return headers
+}
+
+func testHeadersEncodeDecode(t *testing.T, headers *Headers, expected int, limit bool) {
 	buf := io.NewBufBinWriter()
 	headers.EncodeBinary(buf.BinWriter)
 	assert.Nil(t, buf.Err)
@@ -49,9 +52,16 @@ func TestHeadersEncodeDecode(t *testing.T) {
 	r := io.NewBinReaderFromBuf(b)
 	headersDecode := &Headers{}
 	headersDecode.DecodeBinary(r)
-	assert.Nil(t, r.Err)
 
-	for i := 0; i < len(headers.Hdrs); i++ {
+	var err error
+	if limit {
+		err = ErrTooManyHeaders
+	}
+
+	assert.Equal(t, err, r.Err)
+	assert.Equal(t, expected, len(headersDecode.Hdrs))
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(headersDecode.Hdrs); i++ {
 		assert.Equal(t, headers.Hdrs[i].Version, headersDecode.Hdrs[i].Version)
 		assert.Equal(t, headers.Hdrs[i].Index, headersDecode.Hdrs[i].Index)
 		assert.Equal(t, headers.Hdrs[i].Script, headersDecode.Hdrs[i].Script)

pkg/network/tcp_transport.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/io"
+	"github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/network/payload"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 )
 
@@ -87,7 +88,12 @@ func (t *TCPTransport) handleConn(conn net.Conn) {
 	r := io.NewBinReaderFromIO(p.conn)
 	for {
 		msg := &Message{}
-		if err = msg.Decode(r); err != nil {
+		err := msg.Decode(r)
+
+		if err == payload.ErrTooManyHeaders {
+			t.log.Warn("not all headers were processed")
+			r.Err = nil
+		} else if err != nil {
 			break
 		}
 		if err = t.server.handleMessage(p, msg); err != nil {