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Informational 15 Bitcoin

fix: reorg behaviour in mempool tests to match real one

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What the developer wrote

Authored by yuvicc

72/100 · Adequate
fix: reorg behaviour in mempool tests to match real one
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit only changes Bitcoin Core's internal functional test scripts. It replaces the old way of simulating blockchain reorganizations in tests (using invalidateblock/reconsiderblock) with a more realistic method that builds an actual competing fork and submits it. No production node code is modified, so this cannot directly affect live Bitcoin nodes or users.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal test-maintenance commit. Reviewers may optionally verify that the new create_empty_fork helper is itself sound, but that helper is not part of this diff.

Security signals we found

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No changes to production code

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Changes limited to test/functional Python scripts

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Refactors reorg simulation in tests to use submitblock of a pre-built fork

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Adjusts test time-lock values to accommodate fork-based reorg

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No new RPCs, P2P messages, consensus rules, or mempool policy changes

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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