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CCAN: import version with htable_lock.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

60/100 · Adequate
CCAN: import version with htable_lock.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit imports a newer version of a low-level utility library (CCAN) used by Core Lightning. The main change adds a 'lock' feature to hash tables that lets developers mark a hash table as read-only during iteration. If code tries to add an entry to a locked table, the program will deliberately crash with an assertion failure rather than silently corrupting iteration. It is a defensive programming improvement, not a fix for a known exploitable bug in this commit itself.

Recommended action

Review subsequent commits that adopt htable_lock/unlock in Core Lightning to confirm unsafe iteration patterns are actually protected; this commit alone is a library import and requires no immediate action.

Security signals we found

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Adds assertion-based guard against adding entries during hash-table iteration

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Imports updated CCAN dependency version

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No caller adoption in this commit; defensive API only

Risk score

Why this scored 20/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 3/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 4/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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