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Merge PR 'Serialize transient Event variants; move persist decision into ChannelManager' (#4791)

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Authored by Matt Corallo

81/100 · Strong
Merge PR 'Serialize transient Event variants; move persist decision into ChannelManager' (#4791)

from 4741-serialize-all-events into main

Reviewed-on: https://git.rust-bitcoin.org/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pulls/4791
Reviewed-by: Matt Corallo <matt@noreply.git.rust-bitcoin.org>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit changes how LDK stores pending event notifications. It adds serialization support for several event types that previously were not fully saved to disk, and introduces a helper method so the code can decide which events are worth keeping across restarts. The commit is a defensive correctness improvement: it makes event persistence more consistent and prevents stale or meaningless events from being replayed after a node restarts. It does not appear to fix an active exploit, but it removes a class of bugs where an event could be silently lost or mishandled around restarts.

Recommended action

Review downstream code that serializes Event queues independently of ChannelManager; ensure it respects Event::useful_after_restart or is prepared to handle the newly serialized transient variants. No immediate patch deployment is required for a known exploit, but upgrading is recommended for correctness of event persistence across restarts.

Security signals we found

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Data-loss prevention: previously non-round-trippable event variants are now fully serialized, avoiding accidental event loss when users serialize Event queues themselves

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State-consistency hardening: ChannelManager now explicitly skips events that describe non-surviving restart state, preventing replay of stale events

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Defensive assertion: debug builds assert that every persisted event round-trips to Some(event), catching serialization mismatches

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Backward compatibility handling: old type-only encodings are consumed safely without desyncing the event stream

Risk score

Why this scored 33/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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