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test: Check btcsignals determinism in thread_safety test case

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What the developer wrote

Authored by MarcoFalke

95/100 · Strong
test: Check btcsignals determinism in thread_safety test case

The test only checked that the single atomic value is greater than 3000.
However, by splitting the atomic into two, one can do one exact check,
and also increase the lower bound on the inexact check.

Also, test disconnect races for every second step, instead of only once
at the end (likely when only one thread is running anyway).

Both changes make the test stricter and may catch non-determinism issues
that are not detected by sanitizers alone.

The test added in this commit should also pass when applied on top of
commit 63c68e2a3f98d2466a7e766d861ba3a94e92cd20, which is still using
the boost implementation.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This is a test-only change for Bitcoin Core. It makes an existing unit test stricter by checking that one part of a multi-threaded signal callback counter is deterministic, and by testing connection/disconnection races more frequently. It does not change any production code, runtime behavior, or network protocol.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal quality/test improvement.

Security signals we found

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No production code modified

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Test-only change

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No input parsing, cryptography, consensus, or networking changes

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No memory-unsafe constructs introduced

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No privilege or authorization changes

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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