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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Require `WithContext` log wrappers on `OutboundPayments` calls

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Matt Corallo

93/100 · Strong
Require `WithContext` log wrappers on `OutboundPayments` calls

In much of LDK we pass around `Logger` objects both to avoid having
to `Clone` `Logger` `Deref`s (soon to only be `Logger`s) and to
allow us to set context with a wrapper such that any log calls on
that wrapper get additional useful metadata in them.

Sadly, when we added a `Logger` type to `OutboundPayments` we broke
the ability to do the second thing - payment information logged
directly or indirectly via logic in the `OutboundPayments` has no
context making log-searching rather challenging.

Here we fix this by retunring to passing loggers explicitly to
`OutboundPayments` methods that need them, specifically requiring
`WithContext` wrappers to ensure the callsite sets appropriate
context on the logger.

Fixes #4307
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This change is a code-quality and observability fix, not a security patch. The developers noticed that payment-related log messages from an internal component called OutboundPayments were missing useful context (like the payment hash), making it harder to search and debug logs. They fixed it by passing a specially-wrapped logger into each OutboundPayments call so the context is attached at the point where the call is made. There is no vulnerability being fixed here.

Recommended action

No security action needed. Treat as a normal observability/ergonomics improvement. If reviewing, verify that all OutboundPayments call sites now supply a WithContext logger and that tests compile/pass.

Security signals we found

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No memory-safety, cryptographic, or authorization changes

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No input validation or parsing changes

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No race-condition or concurrency fixes

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No panic/error-path behavior changes beyond log context

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Commit message frames issue as observability/ergonomics, not security

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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