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libplugin: use jsonrpc_io logic for sync requests too.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

65/100 · Adequate
libplugin: use jsonrpc_io logic for sync requests too.

It's a little overkill, but it's clear.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides an explanatory body
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit refactors how Core Lightning plugins read JSON-RPC replies when they make synchronous requests to lightningd. It replaces a custom, simpler read-and-parse loop with the same shared JSON-RPC I/O machinery already used for asynchronous requests. The change is described by the author as 'a little overkill, but it's clear'—meaning it is a code-quality/consistency refactor rather than a fix for a known security bug. There is no direct evidence in the commit or supplied references that this resolves an exploitable vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal maintenance refactor. Reviewers may optionally verify that the new synchronous path correctly handles partial reads, back-to-back JSON objects, and error/notification frames exactly as the old path did, since the shared parser introduces a single point of behavior for both sync and async RPC I/O.

Security signals we found

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Refactor of RPC input parsing path

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Removal of custom delimiter-based JSON framing (\n\n)

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Adoption of shared jsonrpc_io parser for synchronous reads

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No explicit security claim in commit message or diff

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

Risk score

Why this scored 26/100

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