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Audit findings on merged #928 (OP_RETURN memo outputs). Two defects, both verified by repro against dev at 5877d15f before any code was touched, plus one low-severity gap in that PR's test coverage.

Both are latent today: add_op_return has no call site outside transaction_builder.rs and the FFI does not expose it. They become reachable the moment the MAYA memo wiring lands, which is why they are worth fixing now rather than after.


1. HIGH — a multi-OP_RETURN drain built an unrelayable transaction that stranded the whole balance

#928's drain guard (transaction_builder.rs:551-562 at dev tip) requires exactly one value carrier but placed no ceiling on data outputs. So dest + 2 memos built cleanly:

REPRO1: built unrelayable tx outputs=3 op_returns=2

Dash Core's IsStandardTx tallies data carriers into nDataOut and rejects nDataOut > 1 with the multi-op-return reason. No node accepts such a transaction, so it never reaches a mempool and can never be mined.

A drain turns that from an annoyance into stranded funds. It spends the entire balance and reserves its inputs, so the wallet is left pointing at a transaction that can neither confirm nor be displaced: the sweep path only reclaims inputs once a competing transaction confirms, and for something no node ever relayed no competitor can exist. Recovery requires an explicit abandon.

The repro made the reservation part concrete — the rejected build had previously returned Some(ReservationToken(2)), i.e. the inputs really were held behind the dead transaction.

Fix. Enforce nDataOut <= 1 with a typed BuilderError::TooManyOpReturnOutputs { count, max } whose message names the standardness rule:

Too many OP_RETURN data outputs: 2 (max 1); Dash Core's IsStandardTx rejects nDataOut > 1 as multi-op-return, so the transaction would not relay

The guard counts the final output set — after the asset-lock burn substitution and after the change push — so it measures the shape that would actually go on the wire, exactly as a validating node counts it, and cannot drift if a later path introduces a data output. That placement also makes it general rather than drain-only: an ordinary two-memo send is equally unrelayable and is now refused too.

2. MEDIUM — an asset-lock build silently discarded an OP_RETURN memo

:512-518 rebuilds tx_outputs as vec![burn], dropping self.outputs entirely, and :540-541 exempted asset locks from both drain guards. So .add_op_return(b"...") on an asset lock succeeded with the memo gone:

REPRO2: asset-lock drain outputs=1 carries_memo=false

The single output was the empty burn (Script(OP_RETURN OP_0)); the memo was absent from the transaction the caller was handed and would have believed was on-chain.

Fix. Memo-on-asset-lock is genuinely unsupported — the transaction's one standard data slot is occupied by the burn that mirrors the payload credits. The defect is the silence, not the limitation. An OP_RETURN on an asset-lock build now returns a typed BuilderError::OpReturnOnAssetLock, checked before coin selection so nothing is selected or reserved. Applies to both drain and non-drain asset locks, since both discard self.outputs.

Scoped deliberately to OP_RETURN outputs. Plain value outputs are also dropped on an asset-lock build — a wider pre-existing wart — but existing tests depend on that tolerance, so it is left alone here.

3. LOW — the default output order is now pinned

All four #928 tests called preserve_output_order(), so the shape a caller gets by default was untested. BIP-69 sorts by value ascending, so a zero-value memo lands at vout 0 and the destination follows:

REPRO3: default order vout0_is_op_return=true vout1_is_op_return=false

Checked and left as-is rather than changed. Output position carries no consensus or relay meaning — IsStandardTx counts data outputs but never inspects where they sit — and no consumer reads the memo positionally: add_op_return has no call site outside this module and the FFI does not expose it. A caller needing a fixed layout (a vault expecting vout 0, say) opts into preserve_output_order(), as the MAYA-style test does. Added a test so that shape changes deliberately rather than silently.


Compatibility

Both new variants are additive. Every consumer renders BuilderError through Display (key-wallet-ffi/src/error.rs:375, key-wallet-manager/src/error.rs:102); there are no exhaustive matches on it, so no match arms change. cargo check -p key-wallet-manager -p key-wallet-ffi --all-targets passes.

Test evidence

Five tests added. Each guard test was confirmed load-bearing: with the two guards temporarily removed, all three fail, and they fail with exactly the defect behaviour described above.

Test Covers
test_drain_rejects_a_second_data_carrier Two memos on a drain → typed error, nothing built, and no reservation left behind
test_ordinary_send_rejects_a_second_data_carrier The standardness rule is not drain-specific
test_ordinary_send_still_allows_one_data_carrier The guard draws the line at the relay limit, it does not ban memos
test_asset_lock_rejects_an_op_return_memo Typed error for both drain and non-drain asset locks
test_drain_default_output_order_places_the_zero_value_memo_first Pins default BIP-69 ordering
cargo fmt -p key-wallet --check          exit 0
cargo clippy -p key-wallet --all-targets -- -D warnings   exit 0
cargo test -p key-wallet                 exit 0   → 692 passed, 0 failed, 18 ignored

All four original #928 tests still pass unchanged.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added validation to prevent transactions from containing more than one OP_RETURN output.
    • Asset-lock transactions now reject caller-provided OP_RETURN outputs.
    • Added clear error messages for invalid OP_RETURN configurations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved transaction output validation across sends, drains, asset locks, and output ordering.
    • Preserved correct reservation behavior when transactions are rejected.

Two defects found auditing merged #928 (OP_RETURN memo outputs).

1. A multi-OP_RETURN drain built an UNRELAYABLE transaction that stranded
   the entire balance. #928's drain guard requires exactly one VALUE
   carrier but put no ceiling on data outputs, so `dest + 2 memos` built
   cleanly. Dash Core's IsStandardTx tallies data carriers into nDataOut
   and rejects nDataOut > 1 as `multi-op-return`, so no node ever accepts
   it. A drain spends everything and reserves its inputs, and the sweep
   path only reclaims inputs once a competing transaction confirms — for
   a transaction that was never relayed no competitor can exist, so the
   balance sits behind something that can neither confirm nor be
   replaced until an explicit abandon. Enforce nDataOut <= 1 with a typed
   BuilderError::TooManyOpReturnOutputs naming the standardness rule.

   The guard counts the FINAL output set, after the asset-lock burn
   substitution and the change push, so it measures the shape that would
   go on the wire exactly as a validating node counts it. That also makes
   it general rather than drain-only: an ordinary two-memo send is just
   as unrelayable and is now refused too.

2. An asset-lock build silently DISCARDED an OP_RETURN memo. The build
   replaces tx_outputs with vec![burn], dropping self.outputs, and #928
   exempted asset locks from both drain guards — so `.add_op_return(..)`
   on an asset lock succeeded with the memo gone and the caller believing
   their data was on-chain. Memo-on-asset-lock is unsupported (the one
   standard data slot is taken by the credit-mirroring burn); the silent
   drop was the defect. Refuse it with a typed
   BuilderError::OpReturnOnAssetLock, before coin selection so nothing is
   selected or reserved.

Both new variants are additive and every consumer renders BuilderError
via Display, so no match arms change.

Tests: two-memo drain and two-memo send both yield the typed error with
nothing built and no reservation left behind; a single carrier still
builds; asset lock refuses a memo in both drain and non-drain modes.

Also pins the DEFAULT output order. All four #928 tests called
preserve_output_order(), leaving the default shape untested. BIP-69 sorts
by value ascending, so a zero-value memo lands at vout 0 and the
destination follows. That is left as-is and documented: output position
carries no consensus or relay meaning, and no consumer reads the memo
positionally — add_op_return has no call site outside this module and the
FFI does not expose it. Callers needing a fixed layout opt into
preserve_output_order(), as the MAYA-style test does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The transaction builder now enforces a one-OP_RETURN relay limit, rejects OP_RETURN outputs in asset-lock transactions, exposes typed errors, and adds coverage for ordinary sends, drains, asset locks, ordering, and reservations.

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OP_RETURN policy enforcement

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Policy errors and asset-lock validation
key-wallet/src/wallet/managed_wallet_info/transaction_builder.rs
Adds the one-output relay-policy constant, typed errors, display messages, and early rejection of caller-supplied OP_RETURN outputs for asset-lock transactions.
Final output enforcement and tests
key-wallet/src/wallet/managed_wallet_info/transaction_builder.rs
Checks final outputs after asset-lock substitution and change insertion. Tests cover multiple outputs, single carriers, asset-lock memos, ordering, and reservations.

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The change improves transaction validation and prevents invalid memo transactions, but it is mergeable with owner awareness that downstream users may need updates for the new public error variants and that the added tests should use shared wallet fixtures for stronger coverage.

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970-1030: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Derive BuilderError with thiserror::Error.

Replace the manual Display and Error implementations with #[error(...)] attributes. Mark CoinSelection as a source error while preserving the typed variants and messages.

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In `@key-wallet/src/wallet/managed_wallet_info/transaction_builder.rs` around
lines 970 - 1030, Derive thiserror::Error for BuilderError and replace its
manual fmt::Display and std::error::Error implementations with #[error(...)]
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In `@key-wallet/src/wallet/managed_wallet_info/transaction_builder.rs`:
- Around line 2212-2222: Update the five affected tests in
key-wallet/src/wallet/managed_wallet_info/transaction_builder.rs at lines
2212-2222, 2252-2261, 2280-2288, 2304-2321, and 2348-2359 to replace hardcoded
Address::dummy(Network::Testnet, ...) values for destinations, change addresses,
and asset-lock credit scripts with addresses derived from the shared
TestWalletContext fixture.
- Around line 970-979: Coordinate the public key-wallet API release for the new
BuilderError variants TooManyOpReturnOutputs and OpReturnOnAssetLock: update the
crate version according to the project’s compatible-release policy, propagate
that version change to required workspace metadata or consumers, and document
the new match arms for downstream exhaustive BuilderError matches.

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In `@key-wallet/src/wallet/managed_wallet_info/transaction_builder.rs`:
- Around line 970-1030: Derive thiserror::Error for BuilderError and replace its
manual fmt::Display and std::error::Error implementations with #[error(...)]
attributes on every variant, preserving the existing messages and typed fields.
Mark the CoinSelection variant with #[source] so the underlying error remains
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On the outside-diff thiserror suggestion: declining for this PR. thiserror is not currently a dependency of key-wallet (it appears elsewhere in the workspace, but key-wallet has no direct dep and zero usage), and the crate's convention is hand-written Display/Error impls across all of its error types (error.rs, bip32.rs, psbt, coin_selection.rs, asset_lock_builder.rs, …). The manual impls here also predate this PR — it only adds two arms in the existing style. Adding a new direct dependency and converting one enum out of nine would be scope creep for a targeted relay-policy fix and would leave the crate's error types inconsistent. A crate-wide thiserror conversion is reasonable as a separate cleanup PR if the maintainers want it.

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Converting to issue #978 — the defect is latent (no app path builds a memo-carrying drain today; verified both swap routes use fixed-amount change-leaving sends). The complete, CodeRabbit-approved fix remains on fix/op-return-drain-guards; reopen before any feature that builds memo-carrying drains.

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