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Fix rate limit pending deletion TOCTOU#3718

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Fix rate limit pending deletion TOCTOU#3718
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@nibhar nibhar commented Apr 22, 2026

This PR fixes a very rare race condition where a peer leaving very close to the expiry of an existing rate limit may leave behind a pending deletion entry while the to be deleted entry is already removed. The main fix is just to make sure that a single timestamp is used for the comparisons, but I also did some mild refactoring to make the code easier to read and understand.

Furthermore I added a regression test which fails before the changes, but does now pass and removed the unreachable! macros in favor of logging errors as this kind of error does not warrant a full shutdown of the entire client, specifically because the error should be self correcting in these instances where the panic occurred.

Resolves #3701

nibhar added 4 commits April 22, 2026 13:03
The invariant was broken somehow, but after clean_up returns, the internal state should be consistent again, giving reasonable hope that this will self heal. In reality these should be unreachable though, if the remaining code is respecting the invariant perfectly. Even if the invariant is breached before this, it should not make executing further unsafe.
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Panic in rate_limiting.rs: "Tried to remove a non existing rate limit from peer_request_limits"

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