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Informational 18 Bitcoin

kernel: Add notifications context option to C header

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What the developer wrote

Authored by TheCharlatan

73/100 · Adequate
kernel: Add notifications context option to C header

The notifications are used for notifying on connected blocks and on
warning and fatal error conditions.

The user of the C header may define callbacks that gets passed to the
internal notification object in the
`kernel_NotificationInterfaceCallbacks` struct.

Each of the callbacks take a `user_data` argument that gets populated
from the `user_data` value in the struct. It can be used to recreate the
structure containing the callbacks on the user's side, or to give the
callbacks additional contextual information.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new public API feature to the Bitcoin Core kernel library that lets outside programs register callback functions to receive notifications about new blocks, sync progress, warnings, and serious errors. It is a feature addition, not a fix for a known security bug. There is no evidence in the commit or supplied references that this change addresses a security issue or introduces a vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Review as normal API/feature code. If auditing, verify that user_data lifetime and callback re-entrancy expectations are documented clearly for C consumers.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 18/100

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