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Wallets like LDK Node need to show a channel's pending splice state (e.g., when displaying channel details), but it is currently only observable by tracking events or the broadcaster's TransactionType::InteractiveFunding, neither of which can be queried on demand.

This adds an optional splice_details field to ChannelDetails exposing that state: any splice/RBF round under negotiation (status, feerate, our contribution, txid and post-splice value once known) and any negotiated candidates awaiting confirmations, along with the splice_locked txids exchanged.

The first commit refactors PendingFunding to store each round's contribution with its negotiated candidate instead of in a tail-aligned parallel list, which every consumer had to realign (and which this API initially got wrong). The on-disk format is unchanged and remains readable by LDK 0.2.

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Comment thread lightning/src/ln/channel.rs Outdated
Comment on lines +3121 to +3130
// Data written before the in-flight round's contribution was stored separately kept it
// as the last entry while a negotiation was pending.
if negotiation_contribution.is_none() && contributions.len() > fundings.len() {
negotiation_contribution = contributions.pop();
}
// An in-flight contribution is only meaningful while its negotiation round is alive;
// rounds not surviving serialization round trips have their events handled separately.
if funding_negotiation.is_none() {
negotiation_contribution = None;
}

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This heuristic for recovering the in-flight contribution from LDK 0.2 data is insufficient when there are leading counterparty-only (None) candidates.

In the old format the in-flight (AwaitingSignatures) round's contribution was appended as the last entry of contributions while a negotiation was pending, but it is not in negotiated_candidates yet. Since contributions form a suffix, with K contributed prior candidates and M total prior candidates (M >= K), the old contributions length is K + 1 (the +1 being the in-flight). This heuristic only pops when K + 1 > M, i.e. only when K == M (no leading None candidates).

When M > K (at least one leading counterparty-only candidate), K + 1 <= M, so the pop is skipped and:

  • negotiation_contribution stays None (the in-flight contribution is lost), and
  • contrib_offset = M - (K+1) mis-assigns: one prior candidate at contrib_offset wrongly receives a contribution and the in-flight contribution is consumed into the candidate list.

Concrete minimal case from old 0.2 data: candidates=[None] (counterparty-only splice) followed by a we-contribute RBF round at AwaitingSignatures → old bytes are fundings=[f0], contributions=[c]. Here 1 > 1 is false, so this reads back as candidate[0].contribution = Some(c) and negotiation_contribution = None, both incorrect (should be candidate[0].contribution = None, negotiation_contribution = Some(c)). This is exactly the first-contribution-on-RBF flow exercised by the new test, and would corrupt contribution tracking / splice_funding_failed and later trip the suffix debug_assert! in splice_funding_negotiated.

The presence of an in-flight contribution in old data can't be detected by length alone here; it needs to be tied to funding_negotiation.is_some() together with the suffix structure.

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I don't think this is an issue, 0.2 doesn't support RBF so it can't have multiple candidates/contributions.

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I've re-verified the current HEAD against my prior thorough review. The serialization redesign (odd TLVs 9/11/13, even gate 14), the NegotiatedCandidate refactor, to_details/pending_splice_details, the new public SpliceDetails family, and the prior-version splice_channel rejection all hold up. My two earlier inline findings (even-field contribution, length-based recovery heuristic) were against the old design and are confirmed resolved.

No new issues found.

Cross-cutting item carried from prior pass (not re-posted inline): the 8 → 9 renumber of last_funding_feerate_sat_per_1000_weight (channel.rs:3107/3132) moves it from an even to an odd TLV type. This is correct only if no released LDK 0.2 build ever persisted the old even field 8 for a pending splice — otherwise a current reader would hit UnknownRequiredFeature on 0.2 data. The reasoning that feerate/contribution are 0.3-only, plus the passing upgrade_single_splice_from_0_2 test, is consistent with this, but it warrants a maintainer confirmation since it can't be verified from this repo alone.

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Comment thread lightning/src/ln/channel.rs Outdated
Comment on lines +3121 to +3130
// Data written before the in-flight round's contribution was stored separately kept it
// as the last entry while a negotiation was pending.
if negotiation_contribution.is_none() && contributions.len() > fundings.len() {
negotiation_contribution = contributions.pop();
}
// An in-flight contribution is only meaningful while its negotiation round is alive;
// rounds not surviving serialization round trips have their events handled separately.
if funding_negotiation.is_none() {
negotiation_contribution = None;
}

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I don't think this is an issue, 0.2 doesn't support RBF so it can't have multiple candidates/contributions.

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#[test]
fn upgrade_single_splice_from_0_2() {

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Let's expand this test to also attempt an RBF after upgrading?

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Hmm, seems like we won't be able to RBF as we can't determine if we've contributed. At least we can't without losing our prior contributions. I added a guard to prevent this, which was previously a debug_assert on the last funding feerate.

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#[test]
fn downgrade_single_splice_loads_on_0_2() {

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Can we still RBF if we negotiate the splice on 0.3, downgrade to 0.2, and upgrade back? I assume no since we're missing the contribution.

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Yeah, same as upgrading from 0.2. See other comment.

/// Note that a negotiation which has not yet reached
/// [`SpliceNegotiationStatus::AwaitingSignatures`] does not survive a restart, so this only
/// reflects in-memory negotiation state.
pub negotiation: Option<SpliceNegotiationDetails>,

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Would it be possible to also surface the state after funding_contributed but before actual splice negotiation? This might be useful to tighten fuzz invariants.

Suggestion from #4699 (comment)

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Yeah, good idea. If they called funding_contributed successfully, it should show up here even if we haven't reached quiescence.

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Great, will then tighten the invariant SpliceDetails when this lands

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LGTM after squash+rebase

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.map(|pending_splice| pending_splice.details(&self.context, best_block_height))
// A contribution committed via `funding_contributed` sits in `quiescent_action` until
// quiescence is reached and it becomes a negotiation; surface it as the queued contribution.
let queued_contribution = match &self.quiescent_action {

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Haven't reviewed the full PR yet. Can do that if this isn't already merged tmrw. But I think this is what the fuzzer needs.

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PendingFunding tracked our splice contributions in a compact list
implicitly aligned to the tail of the negotiated candidates, with the
in-flight negotiation round's contribution as the implicit last entry.
Every consumer had to re-derive this positional relationship, which is
easy to get wrong -- e.g., attributing an in-flight round's
contribution to a completed counterparty-only candidate.

Instead, store each candidate's contribution with the candidate itself
and give the in-flight round's contribution its own field, making such
misattribution unrepresentable. The contributions still form a suffix
of the candidates -- once a round includes our contribution, every
subsequent round carries it forward (possibly feerate-adjusted) so the
splice intention is never lost -- which is now asserted when a round
completes.

Serialize this so a single (non-RBF) pending splice stays loadable by
LDK 0.2 while RBF is refused loudly. 0.2 predates per-candidate
contributions, the in-flight contribution, and the last-negotiated
feerate, so writing any of them in an even (required) TLV would make 0.2
refuse even a single splice it can otherwise operate. The legacy TLV 3
therefore carries only the first candidate's funding -- the single-splice
view 0.2 reads -- while the full candidate list, the in-flight
contribution, and the feerate go in odd TLVs that 0.2 skips. An even gate
TLV is written only when there is more than one negotiation round (RBF),
so 0.2 loads single splices and refuses RBF, which it cannot operate.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A channel may have splice attempts in progress: a contribution we have
committed but not yet begun negotiating, one under negotiation with the
counterparty, and any negotiated transactions (the original splice and
any RBF replacements) waiting on confirmations. This state was only
observable through events and the broadcaster's
TransactionType::InteractiveFunding, neither of which can be queried on
demand.

Add an optional splice_details field to ChannelDetails exposing: the
negotiation status and our contribution to it; a contribution queued
ahead of negotiation; the negotiated candidates (txid, post-splice
channel value, and our contribution); the single candidate that has
confirmed, with its confirmation progress and whether we have sent
splice_locked for it; and the txid of any splice_locked received from
the counterparty.

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Add tests exercising the 0.2/current wire boundary for pending splices:
- A current node with a single pending splice (whether or not we
  contributed to it) is loadable by LDK 0.2.
- A current node with a splice under RBF is refused by 0.2 via the even
  RBF-gate TLV.
- A single pending splice written by 0.2 is read by current with no
  contribution recorded, since 0.2 never tracked one.

The downgrade reload configs enable anchors so 0.2 accepts the current
channel type rather than refusing it before the splice state is reached.

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…rsion

A pending splice negotiated before an upgrade from a prior LDK version
(e.g. 0.2) returns without its feerate or our contribution: 0.2 persists
neither and drops the odd TLVs that carry them. splice_channel derives the
RBF feerate floor from the prior splice's feerate and assumed it was always
present via a debug assertion, so attempting to splice such a channel
tripped that assertion.

Return a clean error instead, refusing to splice a channel whose pending
splice lacks the metadata to reconstruct the prior request.

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PR title is underselling the whole serialization/migration change, and I think it could have been two PRs. This one is large, maybe too large.

No big findings other than potentially the zero-conf flow. Will go and try out SpliceDetails with the fuzzer!

.then(|| self.pending_funding.negotiation_contribution.as_ref())
.flatten();
let candidates = &self.pending_funding.negotiated_candidates;
debug_assert!(

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This assert is repeated below. As it is an important one, it might be worth extracting it in a helper.

// At most one candidate can confirm, as they all double-spend the same input.
let confirmed_candidate = self.negotiated_candidates.iter().find_map(|candidate| {
let confirmations = candidate.funding.get_funding_tx_confirmations(best_block_height);
(confirmations > 0).then(|| {

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Does this work with zero-conf?

pub current_dust_exposure_msat: Option<u64>,
/// Details of any pending splice attempts on this channel.
///
/// This includes a contribution we have committed but not yet begun negotiating, any splice

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This repeats the comment on SpliceDetails. Maybe keep it short here.

/// [`ChannelManager::funding_contributed`] but which has not yet begun negotiating, as it is
/// awaiting quiescence with the counterparty, if any.
///
/// Whether we end up the initiator of the resulting negotiation is not settled until quiescence

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This might be a bit too much explanation. Just that it's the queued contrib i probably enough?

pub received_splice_locked_txid: Option<Txid>,
}

impl_ser_tlv_based!(SpliceDetails, {

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Reading this I was wondering what the use case is for serializing this snapshot. ChannelDetails is serializable, but not sure if I understand why.

assert!(result.is_err(), "LDK 0.2 should fail to decode a ShortChannelId variant");
}

fn downgrade_setup_single_splice() -> (Vec<u8>, Vec<u8>, Vec<u8>, Vec<u8>) {

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I'd move these tests into commit 1 which contains the code under test.

//! LDK.

use lightning_0_2::commitment_signed_dance as commitment_signed_dance_0_2;
use lightning_0_2::events::bump_transaction::sync::WalletSourceSync as WalletSourceSync_0_2;

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Seems unsed

(node_0_ser, node_1_ser, mon_0_ser, mon_1_ser)
}

#[test]

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One missing case came up: a first splice serialized while funding_negotiation is AwaitingSignatures: no negotiated candidate yet, but negotiation_contribution is present. The current tests cover negotiated candidates, but not the TLV 13 in-flight contribution path.

"pending_splice should have last_funding_feerate or funding_negotiation",
);
let min_rbf_feerate = prev_feerate.map(min_rbf_feerate);
let prev_feerate = match prev_feerate {

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I am not sure if this commit is substantial enough. Perhaps just squash it into commit 1 too.

* A channel with a pending splice negotiated before upgrading from a prior LDK
version (e.g. 0.2) cannot be RBF'ed: `ChannelManager::splice_channel`
now returns an `APIError::APIMisuseError`, as the prior feerate and our
contribution needed to derive the RBF feerate floor are not persisted by

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Is our contribution needed to derive the feerate floor? I think more general it must not be missing to do RBF

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