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PR intention

Both firod and firo-qt previously skipped internal entries as defined in BIP44. Therefore, if a user creates a transaction using alternative client (such as campfire) and then switches to firod/firo-qt using the same mnemonic the change from the transaction won't be seen. This PR fixes that problem.

Code changes brief

  • src/wallet/wallet.h — adds BIP44_INTERNAL_INDEX, the TopUpInternalChain / MarkInternalChainKeyUsed / *InternalChainRescanPending API, and a CKeyID → child index map for the chain.
  • src/wallet/wallet.cpp — derives m/44'/'/0'/1/ keys at startup and on unlock, with a -keypool-sized lookahead that extends when a key is seen on chain. Keys stay out of the keypool, so addresses and change still come off the external chain, and they carry the wallet birthday so a rescan isn't cut short. A wallet that already had history sets a persistent internal_chain_rescan flag, which forces one rescan from genesis and is cleared only when that rescan completes (skipped with a warning under -prune).
  • src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp — dumpwallet marks these keys internal=1; importwallet parses the marker.
  • Tests — new wallet-internalchain.py; wallet-dump.py asserts the internal=1 counts.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Wallets now monitor internal-chain addresses and can detect funds received at those addresses, including through a one-time rescan for earlier transactions.
    • Wallet dump and import operations preserve internal-address status.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for internal-chain monitoring, rescanning, spending, and wallet dump/import behavior.

Walkthrough

The wallet tracks and derives BIP44 internal-chain keys, replenishes lookahead as keys are used, and rescans for transactions when needed. Wallet dumps preserve internal-chain markers. RPC tests cover dump counts and internal-chain discovery and spending.

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Internal-chain wallet support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Internal-chain key management
src/wallet/wallet.h, src/wallet/wallet.cpp
The wallet defines the BIP44 internal-chain index, tracks matching keys, derives lookahead keys, and extends the chain when tracked keys are used.
Wallet startup and rescan lifecycle
src/wallet/wallet.cpp
The wallet tops up the internal chain during unlock and startup. It records pending rescans and clears the pending state after a successful scan.
Dump metadata and RPC validation
src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp, qa/rpc-tests/wallet-dump.py, qa/rpc-tests/wallet-internalchain.py, qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
Wallet dumps write and import internal=1 markers. RPC tests check internal-key counts and exercise internal-chain discovery, spending, and rescans; the default RPC test suite includes the new test.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CWallet
  participant WalletDatabase
  participant ScanForWalletTransactions
  CWallet->>CWallet: TopUpInternalChain during startup or unlock
  CWallet->>WalletDatabase: Persist pending rescan state
  CWallet->>ScanForWalletTransactions: Scan from genesis
  ScanForWalletTransactions-->>CWallet: Return scan result
  CWallet->>WalletDatabase: Clear pending state after successful scan
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4ac8d

Some historical internal-chain payments may remain undiscovered after recovery. Ensure the scan revisits earlier blocks when lookahead grows before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4ac8d

The change improves recovery of change-address funds, but imported wallet metadata can trigger excessive key generation, and an incomplete rescan can be treated as complete. Existing unlock and export protections limit exposure; no new ability to steal keys or spend another wallet’s funds was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An authorized import into an unlocked, non-mnemonic BIP44 wallet can register an arbitrary imported private key as an internal-chain key using its supplied hdKeypath, without checking that it belongs to the active seed. A payment to that key can then promote its claimed child index into the active seed’s derivation target. A near-limit index can request roughly two billion key derivations and database writes while wallet and chain locks are held. The address-space cap is not a practical workload bound. This requires acceptance of a crafted dump; unrelated network transactions cannot establish the metadata. Metadata parsing predates the PR, but registration and its derivation consequences are new.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: The new recovery lifecycle clears the durable pending flag when ScanForWalletTransactions returns a non-null pointer. A failed block read sets that pointer to null, but a subsequent successful read sets it again. Startup can therefore erase the recovery obligation and advance the saved chain locator despite skipped history, leaving internal-chain funds undiscovered without an automatic retry. The scanner behavior predates this PR; the newly introduced completion contract depends on a stronger success guarantee than it provides. Shutdown interruption correctly preserves the flag, and pruned-range checks reduce some failure cases, but neither covers an intermediate unreadable block on a non-pruned node.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The metadata-driven workload concern affects an importing wallet and its node’s shared chain processing because import holds both wallet and chain locks while scanning can trigger derivation. Independent nodes, other seeds’ spending authority, and credential access are not established as reachable outcomes.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A crafted dump can supply a valid private key with a network-matching internal hdKeypath and a very large child index. If an operator imports it into an eligible unlocked wallet, a historical or later payment to that imported key can trigger extensive derivation from the receiving wallet’s seed. Master-key metadata is stored but is not checked by internal-chain registration. This is a data-to-work authority problem, not a demonstrated key-extraction or unauthorized-spending path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Import requires an unlocked wallet, rejects mnemonic-enabled destinations, and is disabled in pruned mode. Transaction admission retains existing wallet-involvement checks. dumpwallet still requires unlock, and its standard wrapper retains one-time authorization unless the pre-existing unsafe-export build option is enabled.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The pending marker protects against shutdown interruption, but not every partial scan failure: an intermediate unreadable block can be followed by a non-null return and durable completion. This weakens failure containment for historical fund discovery without establishing a remote attacker’s ability to induce the disk failure.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep imported-key classification separate from authority to advance the active seed’s discovery range, and impose a practical derivation-work budget. Use an explicit, sticky scan-completeness result before erasing recovery state. Exercise these boundaries with foreign-master imports, large child indices, intermediate read failures, and partial key-write retries.

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PR intention

Both firod and firo-qt previously skipped internal entries as defined in BIP44. Therefore, if a user creates a transaction using alternative client (such as campfire) and then switches to firod/firo-qt using the same mnemonic the change from the transaction won't be seen. This PR fixes that problem.

Code changes brief

  • src/wallet/wallet.h — adds BIP44_INTERNAL_INDEX, the TopUpInternalChain / MarkInternalChainKeyUsed / *InternalChainRescanPending API, and a CKeyID → child index map for the chain.
  • src/wallet/wallet.cpp — derives m/44'/'/0'/1/ keys at startup and on unlock, with a -keypool-sized lookahead that extends when a key is seen on chain. Keys stay out of the keypool, so addresses and change still come off the external chain, and they carry the wallet birthday so a rescan isn't cut short. A wallet that already had history sets a persistent internal_chain_rescan flag, which forces one rescan from genesis and is cleared only when that rescan completes (skipped with a warning under -prune).
  • src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp — dumpwallet marks these keys internal=1; importwallet parses the marker.
  • Tests — new wallet-internalchain.py; wallet-dump.py asserts the internal=1 counts.

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Detect and recover BIP44 internal-chain funds in restored wallets

What Changed

  • Wallets now derive and monitor BIP44 internal (change) addresses, allowing funds sent there by another compatible wallet to be recognized and spent
  • Internal-chain monitoring keeps a configurable lookahead and extends it when higher-index entries are used
  • Existing wallets perform a one-time rescan to find previously missed internal-chain transactions; interrupted rescans resume on the next start, while pruned nodes show a warning
  • Wallet dumps identify internal-chain keys, and wallet imports preserve that classification

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✅ Finds previously missed change funds
✅ Keeps restored wallets synchronized with BIP44 clients
✅ Resumes interrupted internal-chain rescans

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1. The new counter accepts every internal=1 line without checking its address or derivation path, so the test can pass with incorrect internal keys.

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2. This classifies every key whose parsed change component is 1 as internal, including valid BIP44 paths with the wrong purpose, coin, or account.

Logic error · src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp:798-799

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Comment thread qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
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uint64_t nSize = uint64_t(mi->second) + InternalChainLookahead() + 1;
TopUpInternalChain(uint32_t(std::min(nSize, uint64_t(BIP32_HARDENED_KEY_LIMIT))));

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P1 Badge Preserve internal-chain growth requests until unlock

When an encrypted wallet is locked and a transaction uses one of the watched internal keys, this call requests a larger lookahead, but TopUpInternalChain returns at its IsLocked() check and the requested high-water mark is discarded. The later unlock calls TopUpInternalChain() only with the default size; because the persisted counter already equals that default, it returns without deriving anything. For example, after internal index 99 is used while locked with a 100-key lookahead, index 100 and later remain unknown indefinitely, so subsequent change from the other BIP44 client is invisible. Persist the requested size or recompute it from the highest used key when unlocking.

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looks valid

Comment thread src/wallet/wallet.cpp Outdated
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if (walletInstance->TopUpInternalChain() && !fFirstRun && !walletInstance->mnemonicContainer.IsNull())
walletInstance->SetInternalChainRescanPending(true);

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P2 Badge Rescan upgraded non-mnemonic HD wallets

When an existing wallet created with -usemnemonic=0 first loads, TopUpInternalChain derives the internal keys, but this mnemonic check prevents setting the rescan flag; the identical check in Unlock causes the same problem for encrypted wallets. These VERSION_WITH_BIP44 wallets are explicitly accepted by TopUpInternalChain and can share the extended private master key exported by dumpwallet, so they can have historical m/44'/…/0'/1/* outputs from another client. Ordinary startup then scans only from the wallet's saved best block and never discovers those outputs. Schedule the initial rescan for every pre-existing supported HD wallet, not only mnemonic-backed ones.

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This one also looks valid.

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if (!masterKeyID.IsNull() && vstr[nStr] == "internal=1")
fLabel = false;

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P2 Badge Honor the internal marker when importing into non-HD wallets

When a dump is imported into a wallet created with -usehd=0, masterKeyID is null, so this condition leaves fLabel true for every internal=1 key. The importer then adds each key to the address book as a receiving address, unlike the existing unconditional handling of change=1. Because legacy change detection treats owned address-book destinations as non-change, transactions restored from such a dump can report their internal change as an external payment and produce incorrect transaction accounting. Treat internal=1 as non-label metadata regardless of the destination wallet's HD state.

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🟠 Major · Stop the scan when ReadBlockFromDisk fails. · wallet.cpp:2385-2397

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Stop the scan when ReadBlockFromDisk fails. The failure currently sets ret to nullptr but continues scanning. A later successful block sets ret again, so the startup caller can clear internal_chain_rescan even though an earlier block was skipped. Set ret to nullptr and break on the first read failure, or return an explicit completion status that the caller checks before clearing the marker.

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In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp` around lines 2385 - 2397, Update the rescan loop in
CWallet’s surrounding scan method so a ReadBlockFromDisk failure sets ret to
nullptr and immediately breaks out of the scan, preventing later blocks from
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In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp`:
- Line 1497: Update ScanForWalletTransactions around MarkInternalChainKeyUsed to
track whether marking an internal chain key derives new keys, and repeat the
scan from its original start point whenever the pass expands the lookahead
range. Continue complete passes until one derives no new keys, preserving the
existing transaction-processing behavior.
- Around line 433-435: Update TopUpInternalChain so an existing eligible wallet
persists and validates the internal_chain_rescan marker before advancing
hdChain.nExternalChainCounters, preferably within one transaction covering
derived key records, the HD chain, and marker. Make
SetInternalChainRescanPending explicitly handle WriteKV and EraseKV failures,
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In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp`:
- Around line 2385-2397: Update the rescan loop in CWallet’s surrounding scan
method so a ReadBlockFromDisk failure sets ret to nullptr and immediately breaks
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// Internal chain keys are watched rather than handed out, so they are not in
// the keypool and are kept ahead of the highest index seen on chain instead.
MarkInternalChainKeyUsed(keyid);

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Repeat the historical scan when lookahead grows.

ScanForWalletTransactions processes blocks in forward order. If a later transaction derives a previously unlooked-ahead internal key, the scan does not revisit earlier blocks. The startup path then clears the pending marker when the scan returns, even if MarkInternalChainKeyUsed expanded the key range during that pass.

Track whether MarkInternalChainKeyUsed derives new keys. Repeat the scan from its original start point until one complete pass derives no new keys.

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In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp` at line 1497, Update ScanForWalletTransactions around
MarkInternalChainKeyUsed to track whether marking an internal chain key derives
new keys, and repeat the scan from its original start point whenever the pass
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Validated against PR head 8b283a8d893660c8cca7b66b2ecc2445efbf0f5f. I would request changes: the missing test explains the Linux CI failure, and wallet recovery still misses funds.

I reran isolated regtest checks using the macOS RelWithDebInfo artifact from CI run 35504351817. Its embedded commit is a56849b68ef2, the CI merge of this head into 6284ec2; I checked that the merge does not change the recovery code under review.

The following findings are confirmed. Existing discussions are linked to avoid opening duplicate threads.

Finding Validation
Missing internal-chain test The registered qa/rpc-tests/wallet-internalchain.py is absent from the commit. Both Linux jobs pass 97/97 unit tests and then raise FileNotFoundError at that entry in the RPC runner.
Locked-wallet lookahead With -keypool=2, confirm 1 FIRO to internal index 1 while the wallet is locked, unlock, then confirm 1 FIRO to index 2. Index 2 still has ismine=false; the wallet shows 1 FIRO instead of 2. The failed growth request is not replayed on unlock.
Wallet birthday truncates migration recovery — new inline comment Automatic internal-chain recovery shows 0 FIRO, while restarting with explicit -rescan discovers 3 FIRO from the same history. The local wallet creation time is later than the seed's payments.
Historical scan needs another pass after deriving more keys With lookahead 2 and confirmed 1-FIRO payments to internal indices 1, 2, 5, 4 in that order, a fresh seed restore shows 3 FIRO. A second rescan shows all 4. Index 5 is derived only after its block has already been scanned.
Non-mnemonic BIP44 migration An existing -usemnemonic=0 HD wallet receives a historical payment to internal index 0 while that key is unknown. After internal keys are derived, ismine=true but balance remains 0. Explicit -rescan finds the 1 FIRO.

For the two migration reproductions, I used -keypool=0 to construct wallets with no internal keys, then restarted with -keypool=2. The birthday fixture also uses mock time one day after the payments to model a previously restored wallet. These are controlled migration-state fixtures, not tests run with a pre-PR binary.

Two additional findings remain valid from tracing the source and database calls; I did not inject real disk failures:

  • Rescan-marker persistence: derived keys and the HD counter are written before the caller writes the pending marker, with no transaction spanning them. A crash after the counter write can suppress the migration on restart; SetInternalChainRescanPending also ignores database failure returns.
  • Scan completion after a block-read failure: ReadBlockFromDisk failure sets ret=nullptr, but a later successful block sets it non-null again. The new startup check at wallet.cpp:5355 then clears the pending marker despite incomplete scanning.

The existing wallet-dump.py test passes against the same CI binary. Please include the missing test and cover these recovery cases before merging. Jenkins logs require authentication, so I have not attributed its separate errors to these findings.

Comment thread src/wallet/wallet.cpp Outdated
Comment on lines +5329 to +5332
// ScanForWalletTransactions walks this forward to the wallet birthday, which no key on
// the internal chain is older than.
LogPrintf("Rescanning for transactions on the bip44 internal chain\n");
pindexRescan = chainActive.Genesis();

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[P1] Do not use the local wallet birthday to limit the migration rescan

For an existing wallet restored from a mnemonic after that seed's transactions occurred, nTimeFirstKey describes the local key creation time, not the beginning of the seed's history. Setting pindexRescan to genesis here does not guarantee historical recovery: ScanForWalletTransactions receives fRecoverMnemonic=false for this existing wallet and, without explicit -rescan, skips blocks older than nTimeFirstKey - 7200.

I reproduced this with the PR's CI binary: create a wallet with the same seed after its confirmed internal payments, using -keypool=0 to model the pre-migration state and mock time one day later, then restart with -keypool=2. The log requests the internal-chain rescan, but the balance stays at 0. Restarting the same wallet with explicit -rescan finds the historical payments (3 FIRO in this fixture). The genesis pointer alone does not bypass the birthday optimization.

Make the pending internal-chain migration invoke the appropriate recovery scan mode, preserving any explicitly supplied scan date. Add a regression for an existing restored seed whose payments predate the wallet file.

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PR intention

Both firod and firo-qt previously skipped internal entries as defined in BIP44. Therefore, if a user creates a transaction using alternative client (such as campfire) and then switches to firod/firo-qt using the same mnemonic the change from the transaction won't be seen. This PR fixes that problem.

Code changes brief

  • src/wallet/wallet.h — adds BIP44_INTERNAL_INDEX, the TopUpInternalChain / MarkInternalChainKeyUsed / *InternalChainRescanPending API, and a CKeyID → child index map for the chain.
  • src/wallet/wallet.cpp — derives m/44'/'/0'/1/ keys at startup and on unlock, with a -keypool-sized lookahead that extends when a key is seen on chain. Keys stay out of the keypool, so addresses and change still come off the external chain, and they carry the wallet birthday so a rescan isn't cut short. A wallet that already had history sets a persistent internal_chain_rescan flag, which forces one rescan from genesis and is cleared only when that rescan completes (skipped with a warning under -prune).
  • src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp — dumpwallet marks these keys internal=1; importwallet parses the marker.
  • Tests — new wallet-internalchain.py; wallet-dump.py asserts the internal=1 counts.

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Restore visibility of BIP44 internal-chain funds

What Changed

  • Wallets now scan and track BIP44 internal (change) addresses, allowing funds received there from another compatible wallet to appear and remain spendable
  • The internal address range expands as higher-index addresses are used, while newly generated wallet addresses and transaction change continue using the external chain
  • Existing wallets perform a one-time rescan to find previously missed internal-chain transactions, with a warning when pruned data is unavailable
  • Wallet backups identify internal-chain keys so they retain their role when imported

Impact

✅ Finds previously missed change funds
✅ Keeps internal-chain funds spendable
✅ Preserves external-chain address generation

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PR intention

Both firod and firo-qt previously skipped internal entries as defined in BIP44. Therefore, if a user creates a transaction using alternative client (such as campfire) and then switches to firod/firo-qt using the same mnemonic the change from the transaction won't be seen. This PR fixes that problem.

Code changes brief

  • src/wallet/wallet.h — adds BIP44_INTERNAL_INDEX, the TopUpInternalChain / MarkInternalChainKeyUsed / *InternalChainRescanPending API, and a CKeyID → child index map for the chain.
  • src/wallet/wallet.cpp — derives m/44'/'/0'/1/ keys at startup and on unlock, with a -keypool-sized lookahead that extends when a key is seen on chain. Keys stay out of the keypool, so addresses and change still come off the external chain, and they carry the wallet birthday so a rescan isn't cut short. A wallet that already had history sets a persistent internal_chain_rescan flag, which forces one rescan from genesis and is cleared only when that rescan completes (skipped with a warning under -prune).
  • src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp — dumpwallet marks these keys internal=1; importwallet parses the marker.
  • Tests — new wallet-internalchain.py; wallet-dump.py asserts the internal=1 counts.

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Detect BIP44 internal-chain payments and recover missed funds

What Changed

  • Wallets now watch BIP44 internal (change) addresses and extend the range as those addresses receive funds.
  • Wallets that already have history rescan once to find earlier internal-chain payments; interrupted rescans resume on the next start.
  • Funds received on the internal chain are spendable, while new addresses and outgoing change continue to use the external chain.
  • Wallet dumps identify internal-chain keys so they are not treated as labeled addresses when imported.

Impact

✅ Finds payments sent to BIP44 change addresses
✅ Recovers missed internal-chain funds in existing wallets
✅ Keeps new addresses and outgoing change on the external chain

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CodeAnt PR Risk: Low Risk

  • The PR appears safe to merge; the concern that the scheduled test is missing is addressed by the test file in this diff.
  • The regression test exercises internal-chain discovery, rescanning, spending, and continued use of the external chain for new addresses and change.

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