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Informational 14 Bitcoin

fuzz: update harnesses to cover CoinsViewOverlay::StartFetching

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Andrew Toth

75/100 · Adequate
fuzz: update harnesses to cover CoinsViewOverlay::StartFetching

Co-authored-by: l0rinc <pap.lorinc@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: sedited <seb.kung@gmail.com>
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides an explanatory body✓ Mentions testing or verification
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit only changes Bitcoin Core's internal fuzz tests—specialized randomized test programs used during development to catch bugs. It adds test coverage for a new caching helper called CoinsViewOverlay::StartFetching. There is no change to the actual Bitcoin node software that users run, so this cannot directly affect live Bitcoin networks or user funds.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal test-maintenance commit. Reviewers may optionally verify that the new fuzz coverage correctly exercises CoinsViewOverlay behavior and that the PeekCoin usage is consistent with the intended non-mutating invariant.

Security signals we found

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No production code changes

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Only fuzz-test harnesses modified

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Added test coverage for CoinsViewOverlay::StartFetching

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Use of PeekCoin instead of GetCoin to avoid cache mutation during async fetching

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Guards to prevent Flush/Sync/SetBackend on CoinsViewOverlay in tests

Risk score

Why this scored 14/100

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