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Time out incomplete MPP payments in chanmon_consistency

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Wilmer Paulino

73/100 · Adequate
Time out incomplete MPP payments in chanmon_consistency

This requires calling `timer_tick_occurred`. As a result, when
`timer_tick_occurred` is called, disabled/enabled updates and
`WarnAndDisconnect` events may be triggered.
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit changes how a Lightning payment library runs its internal fuzz tests. It makes the test harness call the normal periodic timer function instead of a special stripped-down version, so incomplete multi-part payments time out properly during testing. The production code is mostly unchanged, but a few internal test-only helpers are now available under a new test-utilities feature flag. There is no direct evidence this fixes a real-world security bug; it appears to be a test-harness cleanup that makes fuzzing more realistic.

Recommended action

Treat as a hardening/test-coverage improvement rather than an urgent security patch. Reviewers should confirm that lowering `MPP_TIMEOUT_TICKS` to 1 in test/fuzz builds does not leak into production builds and that the `_test_utils` feature is not exposed in released crates. No immediate deployment action is required for security reasons based on the supplied materials.

Security signals we found

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Removes a test-only code path that bypassed normal periodic processing

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Makes fuzz tests exercise MPP timeout and peer-disconnect timeout logic

03

Lowers MPP timeout constant for test/fuzz builds only

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Widens test-only API availability to a `_test_utils` feature flag

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No production vulnerability description in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 27/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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