feat(tx): verify Tron transactions structurally, and split tx-codec out of tx - #18
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… out of `tx` #15 taught `verify_transfer` to check the amount as well as the recipient, but both checks are still byte-run searches over `raw_data`. A value appearing somewhere in the bytes does not make it the field that will execute: a node can pay someone else and leave the requested address in an unrelated field, and the search is satisfied by the decoy. `a_recipient_present_but_not_as_the_to_address_is_rejected` pins exactly that — it passes `verify_transfer` and fails the new check. Add `tx::proto`, a ~120-line structural protobuf reader, and `verify_contract` on top of it: contract type, the recipient at its declared field number, the amount, and for TRC-20 the calldata including the selector, `call_value` and `fee_limit`. Every accessor is singular and refuses a repeated field, because "last one wins" is how a second recipient gets past a checker reading the first. `verify_transfer` keeps its callers and is documented as the weaker check. `tx::tron`'s private `encode_varint` is now `proto::encode_varint` — one copy. Also splits `tx-codec` out of `tx`. Verifying a transaction and signing one are different jobs with different costs: the first is `&[u8]` walking plus sha2, the second wants `bitcoin`'s secp256k1 and a native C build. They shared one gate, so a host that had moved signing into a loadable module — the case the `tx` comment already describes — could not reach verification without paying for the signing half it had deliberately shed. `bitcoin` now gates exactly one function, `tx::tron::sign`, plus `tx::{btc,evm,solana,rlp}`. `tx` implies `tx-codec`, so no existing consumer sees a change. Measured: `--no-default-features --features "tron,tx-codec"` resolves 26 packages with `bitcoin` and `secp256k1` both absent. Replaces #17, whose content never reached main: it merged into `fix/slip10-raw-index-bound` 74 seconds after that branch had already been squash-merged as #16, so the squash did not include it. Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a public ChangesTransaction codec and Tron verification
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to This PR adds structural Tron transaction verification, but the first-party send path still signs transactions using a weaker check that can be fooled by decoy fields, and a pinned fee limit can be bypassed by omitting the field. These issues could authorize an unintended transfer, so the PR is not ready to merge without remediation. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant verify_contract
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Caller->>verify_contract: raw transaction and expected transfer
verify_contract->>proto_parse_fields: parse protobuf fields
proto_parse_fields-->>verify_contract: decoded fields
verify_contract-->>Caller: validation result
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509-524: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoffThe protobuf test builders exist twice.
bytes_fieldandvarint_fieldhave identical bodies in both files, and the key builder differs only in name (fieldagainstkey). The shared root cause is that no test-only builder is exported fromproto. If the wire encoding changes, both copies must change together.
src/tx/tron.rs#L509-L524: remove the localfield,bytes_fieldandvarint_field, and import the shared builders instead.src/tx/proto/test.rs#L12-L29: movekey,bytes_fieldandvarint_fieldinto a#[cfg(test)] pub(crate)helper insrc/tx/proto.rs, and keep the call sites unchanged.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/tx/tron.rs`:
- Around line 179-213: In the TRC-20 branch of the transfer validation logic,
reject any non-zero TriggerSmartContract.call_token_value field 5 and ensure
field 6 cannot enable a TRC-10 transfer when field 5 is zero. When fee_limit_sun
is pinned, read raw field 18 as zero when absent and reject any value that
differs from the pin. Add focused tests covering both token-value rejection and
missing fee-limit behavior.
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In `@src/lib.rs`:
- Line 72: Update the public “Feature flags” section in lib.rs to document
tx-codec as codec-only verification, state that Tron APIs require the combined
tron,tx-codec features, and note that tx implies tx-codec; leave the feature
gate itself unchanged.
In `@src/tx/tron.rs`:
- Around line 509-524: Centralize the duplicated protobuf test builders: in
src/tx/tron.rs:509-524, remove the local field, bytes_field, and varint_field
definitions and import the shared helpers; in src/tx/proto/test.rs:12-29, move
key, bytes_field, and varint_field into a cfg(test), pub(crate) helper in
src/tx/proto.rs, keeping existing call sites unchanged.
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| TronTransfer::Trc20 { parameter_hex } => { | ||
| if contract.kind != CONTRACT_TYPE_TRIGGER_SMART_CONTRACT | ||
| || !contract.type_url.ends_with(".TriggerSmartContract") | ||
| { | ||
| return Err(untrusted("the transaction is not a smart-contract trigger")); | ||
| } | ||
| let payload = proto::parse_fields(contract.payload)?; | ||
| if proto::one_bytes(&payload, 2, "TriggerSmartContract.contract_address")? | ||
| != expected_recipient | ||
| { | ||
| return Err(untrusted("the transaction targets a different contract")); | ||
| } | ||
| // A TRC-20 transfer moves no TRX. A non-zero call_value would send | ||
| // native funds alongside the token transfer that was requested. | ||
| let call_value = | ||
| proto::optional_varint(&payload, 3, "TriggerSmartContract.call_value")? | ||
| .unwrap_or(0); | ||
| if call_value != 0 { | ||
| return Err(untrusted("the transaction has a non-zero TRC20 call_value")); | ||
| } | ||
| if let (Some(expected), Some(actual)) = ( | ||
| fee_limit_sun, | ||
| proto::optional_varint(&raw_fields, 18, "Transaction.raw.fee_limit")?, | ||
| ) && actual != expected | ||
| { | ||
| return Err(untrusted("the transaction has a different fee_limit")); | ||
| } | ||
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| let mut expected_data = decode_hex(TRC20_TRANSFER_SELECTOR_HEX)?; | ||
| expected_data.extend(decode_hex(parameter_hex)?); | ||
| if proto::one_bytes(&payload, 4, "TriggerSmartContract.data")? != expected_data { | ||
| return Err(untrusted( | ||
| "the transaction has different TRC20 transfer data", | ||
| )); | ||
| } |
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Tron protocol TriggerSmartContract protobuf field numbers call_value call_token_value token_id
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In the Tron protocol, the TriggerSmartContract protobuf message definition uses specific field numbers for its parameters [1][2][3]. The field numbers for the requested attributes are as follows: - call_value: 3 [1][2][3] - call_token_value: 5 [1][2][3] - token_id: 6 [1][2][3] For reference, the complete TriggerSmartContract message structure is defined as follows [1][2][3]: message TriggerSmartContract { bytes owner_address = 1; bytes contract_address = 2; int64 call_value = 3; bytes data = 4; int64 call_token_value = 5; int64 token_id = 6; } These fields are used to manage interactions with smart contracts, including sending TRX (call_value) or TRC-10 tokens (call_token_value and token_id) during the transaction execution [1][2][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/tronprotocol/documentation-en/blob/master/docs/mechanism-algorithm/system-contracts.md
- 2: https://github.com/tronprotocol/java-tron/blob/develop/Tron%20protobuf%20protocol%20document.md
- 3: https://tronprotocol.github.io/documentation-en/mechanism-algorithm/system-contracts/
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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant declarations and call sites ---'
rg -n -A35 -B12 'fn verify_contract|TronTransfer::Trc20|parse_fields|optional_varint|fee_limit_sun|TriggerSmartContract' src/tx/tron.rs src/tx/proto.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- protobuf parser behavior ---'
cat -n src/tx/proto.rs | sed -n '1,190p'
printf '%s\n' '--- targeted transaction helpers/tests ---'
cat -n src/tx/tron.rs | sed -n '400,475p'
cat -n src/tx/tron.rs | sed -n '630,710p'Repository: tinyhumansai/tinywallet
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
python3 - <<'PY'
# Read-only behavioral probe of the relevant protobuf shape and Rust conditions.
def varint(n):
out = bytearray()
while True:
b = n & 0x7f
n >>= 7
out.append(b | (0x80 if n else 0))
if not n:
return bytes(out)
def vfield(number, value):
return varint(number << 3) + varint(value)
def bfield(number, value):
return varint((number << 3) | 2) + varint(len(value)) + value
def parse_fields(data):
fields = []
i = 0
while i < len(data):
key = data[i]
i += 1
# Inputs below use one-byte keys and values.
number, wire = key >> 3, key & 7
if wire == 0:
value = data[i]
i += 1
fields.append((number, "varint", value))
elif wire == 2:
length = data[i]
i += 1
value = data[i:i + length]
i += length
fields.append((number, "bytes", value))
else:
raise AssertionError(f"unexpected wire type {wire}")
return fields
# Minimal valid TriggerSmartContract payload, plus TRC-10 fields 5 and 6.
data = b"transfer-calldata"
payload = (
bfield(2, b"recipient") +
bfield(4, data) +
vfield(5, 7) +
vfield(6, 1000001)
)
fields = parse_fields(payload)
read_numbers = {2, 3, 4}
unread = [(n, value) for n, wire, value in fields if n not in read_numbers]
assert unread == [(5, 7), (6, 1000001)]
assert next(value for n, wire, value in fields if n == 2) == b"recipient"
assert next(value for n, wire, value in fields if n == 4) == data
assert not any(n == 3 for n, _, _ in fields)
print("TRC-10 fields 5 and 6 parse successfully and remain unread by the current TRC-20 checks.")
# The current fee condition compares only when both Option values are Some.
cases = [
(150_000_000, None, "skipped"),
(150_000_000, 150_000_000, "accepted"),
(150_000_000, 9_000_000_000, "rejected"),
]
for expected, actual, outcome in cases:
current = "rejected" if expected is not None and actual is not None and actual != expected else "accepted"
assert current == ("accepted" if outcome in ("skipped", "accepted") else "rejected")
print("Pinned fee_limit_sun with an omitted field 18 skips the current comparison.")
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# Read-only behavioral probe with complete base-128 varint decoding.
def enc_varint(n):
out = bytearray()
while True:
byte = n & 0x7f
n >>= 7
out.append(byte | (0x80 if n else 0))
if not n:
return bytes(out)
def enc_vfield(number, value):
return enc_varint(number << 3) + enc_varint(value)
def enc_bfield(number, value):
return enc_varint((number << 3) | 2) + enc_varint(len(value)) + value
def take_varint(data, index):
value = 0
shift = 0
while True:
byte = data[index]
index += 1
value |= (byte & 0x7f) << shift
if not byte & 0x80:
return value, index
shift += 7
def parse_fields(data):
fields = []
index = 0
while index < len(data):
key, index = take_varint(data, index)
number, wire = key >> 3, key & 7
if wire == 0:
value, index = take_varint(data, index)
fields.append((number, "varint", value))
elif wire == 2:
length, index = take_varint(data, index)
value = data[index:index + length]
assert len(value) == length
index += length
fields.append((number, "bytes", value))
else:
raise AssertionError(f"unexpected wire type {wire}")
return fields
data = b"transfer-calldata"
payload = (
enc_bfield(2, b"recipient") +
enc_bfield(4, data) +
enc_vfield(5, 7) +
enc_vfield(6, 1_000_001)
)
fields = parse_fields(payload)
read_numbers = {2, 3, 4}
unread = [(number, value) for number, _, value in fields if number not in read_numbers]
assert unread == [(5, 7), (6, 1_000_001)]
assert next(value for number, _, value in fields if number == 2) == b"recipient"
assert next(value for number, _, value in fields if number == 4) == data
print("TRC-10 fields 5 and 6 parse successfully and remain unread by the current TRC-20 checks.")
for expected, actual, expected_outcome in [
(150_000_000, None, "skipped"),
(150_000_000, 150_000_000, "accepted"),
(150_000_000, 9_000_000_000, "rejected"),
]:
current_outcome = (
"rejected"
if expected is not None and actual is not None and actual != expected
else "accepted"
)
assert current_outcome == ("accepted" if expected_outcome != "rejected" else "rejected")
print("Pinned fee_limit_sun with an omitted field 18 skips the current comparison.")
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● Entry
src/tx/mod.rs:20
proto
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● Hop
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src/tx/tron.rs
Reject TRC-10 value and enforce a pinned fee_limit_sun.
Reject a non-zero TriggerSmartContract.call_token_value (field 5) in the TRC-20 path. Field 6 identifies the TRC-10 token and must not enable a transfer when field 5 is zero. When fee_limit_sun is pinned, treat a missing field 18 as zero and reject it unless it matches the pinned value. Add tests for both cases.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@src/tx/tron.rs` around lines 179 - 213, In the TRC-20 branch of the transfer
validation logic, reject any non-zero TriggerSmartContract.call_token_value
field 5 and ensure field 6 cannot enable a TRC-10 transfer when field 5 is zero.
When fee_limit_sun is pinned, read raw field 18 as zero when absent and reject
any value that differs from the pin. Add focused tests covering both token-value
rejection and missing fee-limit behavior.
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…ocal codec
`tron_transaction_spec` hand-rolled a protobuf reader — varint decode, field
walking, singular-field accessors, contract unwrapping — to check what a Tron
node returned before signing it. None of that is OpenHuman-specific: it is how
a Tron transaction is encoded, which is the same for every host.
It moves to `tinywallet::tx::{proto, tron::verify_contract}`
(tinyhumansai/tinywallet#18), which also closes a gap the crate still had. Its
`verify_transfer` searches for the recipient and the amount as byte runs
somewhere in `raw_data`, so a node can pay someone else and leave the requested
address in an unrelated field and still be signed. That case is pinned upstream
as a test that passes `verify_transfer` and fails `verify_contract`.
`TronTransferVerification` becomes a type alias to `tinywallet::wire::
TronTransfer` rather than a third mirror of the same shape, and the spec now
carries `transfer` onto the wire so the wallet module re-verifies against the
bytes it is about to sign instead of trusting this side's verdict.
What stays here is the part that is ours: the fee limit this client pins, and
the `TransactionSpec` handed to the module. `tron.rs` goes 1,288 -> 1,104 lines.
The crate is taken with the new `tx-codec` feature rather than `tx`, so the
verification code arrives without `bitcoin` or its native secp256k1 build —
confirmed absent from the product graph.
Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Replaces #17. That PR's content never reached
main— it merged intofix/slip10-raw-index-boundat 16:01:55, but that branch had already been squash-merged as #16 at 16:00:41, so the squash did not include it. GitHub marks #17 "merged";mainhas nosrc/tx/proto.rs, noverify_contractand notx-codec. This is the same work, rebased ontomainand onto #15.The gap #15 left
#15 taught
verify_transferto check the amount as well as the recipient. Both checks are still byte-run searches overraw_data:A value appearing somewhere in the bytes does not make it the field that will execute. A node can pay someone else and leave the requested address in an unrelated field — both searches are then satisfied by the decoy, and the transaction gets signed.
That is a test now, and it passes
verify_transfer:Nor does a byte search see contract type,
call_value,fee_limit, or the ERC-20 selector.The change
tx::proto— a ~120-line structural protobuf reader. Not a schema compiler and notprost: it recovers field numbers and raw values over a message whose shape is already known, borrows throughout, and leaves the meaning of field 11 totx::tron. No new dependency — it walks&[u8].tx::tron's privateencode_varintfolds into it, so there is one copy.Every accessor is singular and refuses a repeated field. The spec permits repetition, but "last one wins" is exactly how a second recipient gets past a checker that reads the first.
verify_contract— takes the existingwire::TronTransfer(no new type), plus thefee_limit_sunthe caller pinned, since only the caller knows it. Checks contract type, the recipient at its declared field number, the amount, and for TRC-20 the full calldata,call_value(a token transfer moves no TRX) andfee_limit.verify_transferkeeps its callers inclient::tronand the module service, documented as the weaker check.tx-codec— verifying and signing are different jobs with different costs. Verification is&[u8]walking plus sha2; signing wantsbitcoin's secp256k1 and a native C build. They shared one gate, so a host that had moved signing into a loadable module (the case thetxcomment already describes) could not reach verification without paying for the half it had deliberately shed.tx::proto,tx::tron::{recompute_txid, verify_transfer, verify_contract, digest, attach_signature, signature_hex}tx-codectx::tron::sign,tx::{btc, evm, solana, rlp}txbitcoinbitcoinnow gates exactly one function intx::tron.digest/attach_signature/signature_hexsit on the codec side deliberately: they are what a host doing its own k256 signing over a returned digest needs.tx = ["tx-codec", ...], so nothing that tooktxsees a change.Verification
cargo test --all-featurescargo clippy --all-features --all-targets-D warnings)cargo fmttron·tron,tx-codec· full host set — all cleanbitcoin+secp256k1absentNew coverage: 12 parser tests (repeated singular fields, wrong wire type, field zero, wire types 3/4/6/7, truncation at each stage, varint overrunning 64 bits, fixed-width fields skipped without desync) and 10 verifier tests.
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tinyhumansai/openhuman#5533 deletes its own copy of this parser and calls
verify_contract, taking the crate withtx-codecrather thantxso no native build enters its graph.Summary by CodeRabbit