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Informational 19 Bitcoin

graph/db: thread context through FetchChannelEdgesByID

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Authored by Elle Mouton

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graph/db: thread context through FetchChannelEdgesByID
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This change simply passes a request-scoped cancellation signal (a 'context') through a database lookup function called FetchChannelEdgesByID. It does not fix a concrete bug by itself; it is plumbing work that lets future callers cancel long-running queries or propagate deadlines. There is no direct security vulnerability being patched here.

Recommended action

No immediate action required. Treat as routine refactoring. If context propagation is a goal, follow-up work should replace context.TODO() with meaningful contexts at call sites and implement cancellation in KVStore as well.

Security signals we found

01

No security-relevant behavioral change: the patch only changes function signatures to accept context.Context.

02

SQL store previously hard-coded context.TODO(); now it accepts an external context, but callers mostly still pass context.TODO().

03

KV store receives context but ignores it (underscore parameter), so no cancellation support is added there.

04

No input validation, authorization, cryptographic, or resource-limit changes are present.

05

No vendor disclosure or advisory text describes this as a security fix.

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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