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Add a `custom` TLV read/write variant

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Authored by Matt Corallo

68/100 · Adequate
Add a `custom` TLV read/write variant

At various points we've been stuck in our TLV read/write variants
but just want to break out and write some damn code to initialize
a field and some more code to decide what to write for a TLV.

We added the write-side part of this with the `legacy` TLV
read/write variant, but its useful to also be able to specify a
function which is called on the read side.

Here we add a `custom` TLV read/write variant which calls a method
both on read and write to either decide what to write or to map a
read value (if any) to the final field.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new 'custom' variant to LDK's TLV (Type-Length-Value) serialization macros. It is a developer-facing feature that lets programmers supply custom read and write functions when serializing/deserializing data structures. The change is purely additive and does not by itself fix a bug or introduce a vulnerability; it is infrastructure for future message formats.

Recommended action

No security action required. Review any future commits that actually use the new custom variant to ensure supplied $read/$write closures handle untrusted input safely and do not introduce deserialization bugs.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant signals in the commit message or diff

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Purely additive macro feature with no changes to runtime wire parsing beyond the new variant

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No mention of vulnerability, CVE, bug, audit, or security fix

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

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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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