genesis: refuse an M-Chain policy the validator set cannot satisfy

M-Chain's committee is the validator set, and RunKeygen refuses a policy
needing more parties than the committee has. mainnet's mchain.json asked
for 7-of-10 against five genesis validators, so a custody key could never
have been generated — the failure would have surfaced the first time
someone tried to bridge, not at deploy.

Adds the invariant as a test over every network's built genesis, and
picks up luxfi/genesis v1.16.4 where the policies are sized to fit
(3-of-5 on mainnet/testnet/devnet, 2-of-3 on localnet).

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <dev@hanzo.ai>
This commit is contained in:
zeekay
2026-07-25 14:59:04 -07:00
co-authored by Hanzo Dev
parent d5eff75934
commit 3a44f0dcd3
3 changed files with 38 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ func TestMChainGenesisPolicyIsUnambiguousAndDeployable(t *testing.T) {
networkID uint32
want string
}{
{constants.MainnetID, "7-of-10"},
{constants.MainnetID, "3-of-5"},
{constants.TestnetID, "3-of-5"},
{constants.LocalID, "3-of-5"},
{constants.LocalID, "2-of-3"},
} {
cfg := GetConfig(tc.networkID)
require.NotNil(t, cfg)
@@ -138,3 +138,36 @@ func TestMChainGenesisHasNoAmbiguousThresholdFields(t *testing.T) {
}
}
}
// A policy is only real if the network has enough validators to hold its
// shares. M-Chain draws its committee from the validator set, and RunKeygen
// refuses a policy needing more parties than the committee has — so a genesis
// declaring 7-of-10 on a five-validator network fails closed forever: no
// custody key can ever be generated, and the failure only shows up the first
// time someone tries to bridge.
//
// mainnet's mchain.json shipped exactly that mismatch for as long as the field
// existed, harmlessly, because nothing read it. This test is what keeps it
// harmless now that the policy is authoritative.
func TestMChainPolicyIsSatisfiableByTheGenesisValidatorSet(t *testing.T) {
for _, networkID := range []uint32{constants.MainnetID, constants.TestnetID, constants.LocalID} {
cfg := GetConfig(networkID)
require.NotNil(t, cfg)
raw, _, err := FromConfig(cfg)
require.NoError(t, err)
parsed, err := genesis.Parse(raw)
require.NoError(t, err)
var blob struct {
Policy string `json:"policy"`
}
require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(cfg.MChainGenesis), &blob))
_, n := parsePolicy(t, blob.Policy)
require.LessOrEqualf(t, n, len(parsed.Validators),
"network %d: M-Chain policy %s needs %d parties but genesis declares %d validators; "+
"keygen would fail closed and no custody key could ever exist",
networkID, blob.Policy, n, len(parsed.Validators))
}
}
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@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ require (
github.com/luxfi/constants v1.6.2
github.com/luxfi/container v0.2.1
github.com/luxfi/filesystem v0.0.1
github.com/luxfi/genesis v1.16.3
github.com/luxfi/genesis v1.16.4
github.com/luxfi/genesis/pkg/genesis/security v1.13.8
github.com/luxfi/geth v1.20.1
github.com/luxfi/go-bip39 v1.2.0
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@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ github.com/luxfi/filesystem v0.0.1 h1:VZ6xMFKaAPBW/ddlMsDnI2G0VU1lV5rYaVcW5d+KwE
github.com/luxfi/filesystem v0.0.1/go.mod h1:OQVSU6XNwqrr1AI+MqkID2taHUclx7NYmmr3svgttec=
github.com/luxfi/formatting v1.1.1 h1:MJhVXIPh1dbysvYEjtaEA/Z0FUTiI7n0DwOF54FS08c=
github.com/luxfi/formatting v1.1.1/go.mod h1:zhBWp6fLZduhpiAdPgVDdPVOyhw4FvwRUksF6+xKQCE=
github.com/luxfi/genesis v1.16.3 h1:P9/ixEOTC9yVvhhcRT3femRMMVIQxKINet1X1GwE4tQ=
github.com/luxfi/genesis v1.16.3/go.mod h1:0F6hV6GfwDSmIWsueB7/vqPZFxyS7A4Jo3p1QU87fFc=
github.com/luxfi/genesis v1.16.4 h1:8ZtqvgPnICgGpjBzAjYAPrI3qwr1g1DPbum+hgjc4bg=
github.com/luxfi/genesis v1.16.4/go.mod h1:0F6hV6GfwDSmIWsueB7/vqPZFxyS7A4Jo3p1QU87fFc=
github.com/luxfi/genesis/pkg/genesis/security v1.13.8 h1:9ier0p55ErSpoXHRJpZ04WV5HwwMB1uDrU7PHGBKG2U=
github.com/luxfi/genesis/pkg/genesis/security v1.13.8/go.mod h1:DzU+GYUFv12ja4Vc46bWKNBBmNYbcow3u/DASx4wpfI=
github.com/luxfi/geth v1.20.1 h1:QUGQr4AKvADjwMi7t8a0OfoyxShgEcI9pwie1jFYfm0=