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Informational 12 Bitcoin

Remove the ancestor and descendant indices from the mempool

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Authored by Suhas Daftuar

50/100 · Thin
Remove the ancestor and descendant indices from the mempool
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes two internal sorting indexes from Bitcoin Core's memory pool (mempool) data structure. It is a code cleanup/refactoring change: the ancestor_score and descendant_score indexes are no longer needed because their jobs have been taken over by a newer transaction graph module (m_txgraph). The commit also deletes the unit tests that exercised those old indexes and adjusts a memory-usage estimate to reflect fewer indexes. There is no indication in the commit or supplied references that this fixes a security bug.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as routine maintenance/refactoring. Reviewers may want to confirm that the m_txgraph implementation fully replaces the removed ancestor/descendant ordering semantics, but that is a functional correctness concern, not a security issue.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant signals present in the diff or commit metadata.

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Change is purely a refactoring/cleanup of internal data structures and tests.

03

No bounds checks, input validation, cryptographic operations, or network parsing code is modified.

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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