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Informational 19 Bitcoin

Drop Deref indirection for FeeEstimator

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Valentine Wallace

68/100 · Adequate
Drop Deref indirection for FeeEstimator

Reduces generics and verbosity across the codebase, should provide equivalent
behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a large but mechanical cleanup of the Rust code. It removes an unnecessary layer of pointer-wrapping (the `Deref` indirection) around the fee-estimator type used throughout the Lightning library. Instead of requiring a generic pointer that points to something implementing `FeeEstimator`, the code now directly requires a type that implements `FeeEstimator`. The commit also adds a blanket implementation so that any pointer/reference to a `FeeEstimator` still automatically counts as a `FeeEstimator`. The stated goal is to reduce generics and verbosity while keeping behavior the same. There is no direct evidence in the commit of a security vulnerability being fixed.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. Treat as a normal code-quality refactor. Reviewers should verify that the new blanket `FeeEstimator` implementation and the simplified `LowerBoundedFeeEstimator` bounds do not accidentally allow types that previously failed the `F::Target: FeeEstimator` constraint, and that downstream users' type parameters still compile. Regression tests and a full `cargo check`/`cargo test` run are appropriate.

Security signals we found

01

Large refactor touching fee-estimator plumbing across chain monitor, channel monitor, channel manager, persister, and sweeper.

02

No changes to fee-estimation arithmetic, floor constants, or transaction validation logic.

03

No mention of security, CVE, bug fix, or vulnerability in commit message or diff.

04

No new unsafe blocks, no new unwraps/panics, no new network parsing, no new cryptographic operations.

05

Blanket trait impl preserves backward compatibility for existing `Arc<dyn FeeEstimator>` / `&FeeEstimator` callers.

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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