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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Test restart-claim of two MPP holding cell HTLCs

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Valentine Wallace

78/100 · Adequate
Test restart-claim of two MPP holding cell HTLCs

Test that if we restart and had two inbound MPP-part HTLCs received over the
same channel in the holding cell prior to shutdown, and we lost the holding
cell prior to restart, those HTLCs will still be claimed backwards.

Test largely written by Claude
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a new regression test, not a fix. It verifies that a forwarding Lightning node can still claim two parts of a multi-path payment backwards after restarting, even if the node's temporary 'holding cell' state was lost during the crash. The test infrastructure was updated so the test can observe messages released from the holding cell during protocol exchanges. There is no production code change here.

Recommended action

No security action required; treat as normal test-only commit. If reviewing the underlying behavior, ensure the production reload path already reconstructs pending backward claims from monitor data, which this test assumes and validates.

Security signals we found

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Regression test for crash/recovery behavior of MPP HTLC backward claims

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Holding-cell loss simulation via test-only `test_clear_channel_holding_cell`

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No changes to cryptographic, network, or state-machine logic

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 10/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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