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Eliminate use of cached ancestor data in miniminer_tests and truc_policy

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Authored by Suhas Daftuar

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Eliminate use of cached ancestor data in miniminer_tests and truc_policy
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit refactors how Bitcoin Core's mempool counts transaction ancestors and descendants. It replaces some uses of internally cached counts with freshly calculated counts from a newer transaction graph structure. The change is mostly cleanup and test adaptation, but it touches the TRUC (v3 transaction) policy rules that limit how many related transactions can be in the mempool. There is no clear security bug fixed here, but the change is in a security-sensitive area (mempool policy), so it deserves careful review.

Recommended action

Review the new CalculateAncestorData/CalculateDescendantData implementations and the TxGraph methods they call to ensure they produce identical results to the previous cached values under all edge cases, especially around reorgs, replacement, and package acceptance. Run the updated tests and consider additional fuzzing of TRUC topology limits.

Security signals we found

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Changes mempool ancestor/descendant counting logic used by TRUC policy

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TRUC policy enforces transaction topology limits (descendant/ancestor counts and sizes)

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Replaces cached values with graph-derived calculations

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No explicit vulnerability description in commit message or diff

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No advisory or CVE references present in supplied materials

Risk score

Why this scored 28/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 5/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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