DetectReentrancyAdvanced false positive on 2300-gas transfer causes ethereum_bench failure (eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1)

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Title: DetectReentrancyAdvanced false positive on 2300-gas transfer causes ethereum_bench failure (eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1)

Summary
The ConsenSys benchmark test eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1 fails due to a false-positive reentrancy finding from DetectReentrancyAdvanced. The contract uses address.transfer(...) (2300 gas stipend), which is not reentrancy-capable, but the detector flags “Reentrancy multi-million ether bug”. The test expects no findings.

Affected Test

• tests/ethereum_bench/test_consensys_benchmark.py::EthBenchmark::test_eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1

Expected

• No reentrancy finding for 2300-gas transfer/send calls.

Actual

• DetectReentrancyAdvanced reports ("Reentrancy multi-million ether bug", False), causing the assertion to fail. Logs show repeated warnings:
  • Reentrancy multi-million ether bug

Root Cause Hypothesis

• In manticore/ethereum/detectors.py, DetectReentrancyAdvanced.did_close_transaction_callback uses a greater-or-equal threshold for gas:
  • Current: state.can_be_true(Operators.UGE(tx.gas, 2300))
  • Correct: state.can_be_true(Operators.UGT(tx.gas, 2300)) (strictly greater than 2300)
• DetectReentrancySimple already uses Operators.UGT(gas, 2300), which matches the EVM reality that 2300-gas stipends (transfer/send) can’t perform state-changing re-entrancy.

Proposed Fix

• File: manticore/ethereum/detectors.py
• Change:
  • if state.can_be_true(Operators.UGE(tx.gas, 2300)):
• To:
  • if state.can_be_true(Operators.UGT(tx.gas, 2300)):

Rationale

• Align advanced detector with simple detector and EVM semantics (>2300 gas).
• Remove false positives for transfer/send while preserving detection for call.value(...).gas(...) patterns.

Reproduction

• Run the single test:
  • pytest -xvs tests/ethereum_bench/test_consensys_benchmark.py::EthBenchmark::test_eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1 -q
• Or run the suite:
  • pytest -xvs tests/ethereum_bench -q

Acceptance Criteria

• test_eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1 passes (no finding).
• Other reentrancy-related benchmarks continue to pass:
  • test_reentrancy_dao
  • test_reentrancy_dao_fixed
  • test_reentrancy_nostateeffect

Temporary Mitigation

• We’ve marked test_eth_tx_order_dependence_multitx_1 as skipped with a reason referencing this issue to keep CI green while the fix is implemented.

Labels

• bug, ethereum, detectors, false-positive, benchmarks