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lightningd: maintain a hash table of short_channel_id, for faster lookup.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

65/100 · Adequate
lightningd: maintain a hash table of short_channel_id, for faster lookup.

This contains real scids, as well as aliases, and old scids.

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

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a performance and code-organization change. It builds a fast lookup table (hash map) so the node can quickly find a channel from any of its short channel IDs, including old IDs and aliases. It also centralizes how channel IDs are set so the table stays consistent. There is no security fix or vulnerability described in the commit.

Recommended action

No security action required; review as normal code-quality/performance change. If auditing, verify that `channel_set_scid(NULL)` and alias updates correctly remove stale map entries and that stub-channel scids are intentionally excluded from the map.

Security signals we found

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No security relevance claimed by the commit message or diff

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Change is a data-structure refactor with centralized setter functions

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No input validation, parsing, cryptographic, or authorization changes observed

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No advisory, CVE, or researcher attribution present in supplied materials

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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