Comment out all debug print statements
Add hypothesis tests for the old servers of happiness implementation
Attempt to speed up meejah's servers of happiness
WIP
Fix test_calc_happy
WIP
refactor hypothesis to be 'pytest style' and add another one
get rid of 'shares->set(1 thing)' in generate_mappings return
Add a unittest hypothesis came up with
fix tests since we return peers, not sets-of-1-peer
add more debug
add a unit-test that's like test_problem_layout_ticket_1128
fix bug
add a note
fix utest
unit-test for bigger numbers
re-insert markberger code for testing
results of pairing with david
unit-test for happiness calculation
unused function
put old servers_of_happiness() calculation back for now
test for calculate_happiness
remove some redundant functions
Add comments 10 and 8 from the servers of happiness spec
Fix bug in _filter_g3 for servers of happiness
Remove usage of HappinessUpload class
here we modifying the PeerSelector class.
we make sure to correctly calculate the happiness value
by ignoring keys who's value are None...
Remove HappinessUpload and tests
Replace helper servers_of_happiness
we replace it's previous implementation with a new
wrapper function that uses share_placement
This is a change I've wanted to make for many years, because when we get
to HTTP-based servers, we won't have tubids for them. What held me back
was that there's code all over the place that uses the serverid for
various purposes, so I wasn't sure it was safe. I did a big push a few
years ago to use IServer instances instead of serverids in most
places (in #1363), and to split out the values that actually depend upon
tubid into separate accessors (like get_lease_seed and
get_foolscap_write_enabler_seed), which I think took care of all the
important uses.
There are a number of places that use get_serverid() as dictionary key
to track shares (Checker results, mutable servermap). I believe these
are happy to use pubkeys instead of tubids: the only thing they do with
get_serverid() is to compare it to other values obtained from
get_serverid(). A few places in the WUI used serverid to compute display
values: these were fixed.
The main trouble was the Helper: it returns a HelperUploadResults (a
Copyable) with a share->server mapping that's keyed by whatever the
Helper's get_serverid() returns. If the uploader and the helper are on
different sides of this change, the Helper could return values that the
uploader won't recognize. This is cosmetic: that mapping is only used to
display the upload results on the "Recent and Active Operations" page.
I've added code to StorageFarmBroker.get_stub_server() to fall back to
tubids when looking up a server, so this should still work correctly
when the uploader is new and the Helper is old. If the Helper is new and
the uploader is old, the upload results will show unusual server ids.
refs ticket:1363
Adds:
- a JSON endpoint
- CLI to display information
- QueuedItem + IQueuedItem for uploader/downloader
- IProgress interface + PercentProgress implementation
- progress= args to many upload/download APIs
The unnecessary request was from the upload helper to the sender, and it was
there in order to trigger the sender to deliver cleartext hashes. But we've
long since removed cleartext hashes.
Unit tests pass both before and after this change, and code-coverage shows that
the block I changed is exercised in unit tests.
There was one corner case (where the client disconnects at just the
wrong time) that could have dropped a Deferred, leading to an Unhandled
Error. Clean up the control flow to avoid this case.
DeepResultsBase also has a get_corrupt_shares(), and it is populated
from CheckResults.get_corrupt_shares(). It has been updated too, along
with get_remaining_corrupt_shares().
Remove temporary get_new_corrupt_shares() and
get_new_incompatible_shares().
This changes all code which feeds CheckResults(sharemap=) to provide
IServer instances, but CheckResults converts these to old-style
serverids during output, so downstream code doesn't have to change yet.
It adds a temporary get_new_sharemap(), which *does* return IServer
instances, so the immutable repairer can build new CheckResults from an
old one. This will go away when get_sharemap() is updated to return
IServer (and downstream code is updated too).
i.e. change set_data() to accept lots of parameters, instead of taking
a single dictionary with lots of keys. Also Convert all CheckResults
creators to use it.
The goal is to make CheckResults more strongly typed, and remove the
ambiguous ".data" field in favor of a bunch of specific counters and
sharelists, so I can changes .sharemap and .servermap to use IServer
instances instead of string serverids. By cleaning this up first, I hope
to get that task done with less debugging.
This stores IDisplayableServer-providing instances (StubServers or
NativeStorageServers) in the .servermap and .sharemap dictionaries. But
get_servermap()/get_sharemap() still return data structures with
serverids, not IServers, by translating their data on the way out. This
lets us put off changing the callers for a little bit longer.
Complete the getter-based transformation, by hiding ".uri" and updating
callers to use get_uri(). Also don't set a dummy self._uri, leave it
undefined until someone calls set_uri().
This hides attributes with e.g. _sharemap, and creates getters like
get_sharemap() to access them, for every field except .uri . This will
make it easier to modify the internal representation of .sharemap
without requiring callers to adjust quite yet.
".uri" has so many users that it seemed better to update it in a
subsequent patch.
Populate most of UploadResults (except .uri, which is learned later when
using a Helper) in the constructor, instead of allowing creators to
write to attributes later. This will help isolate the fields that we
want to change to use IServers.
This splits the pb.Copyable on-wire object (HelperUploadResults) out
from the local results object (UploadResults). To maintain compatibility
with older Helpers, we have to leave pb.Copyable classes alone and
unmodified, but we want to change UploadResults to use IServers instead
of serverids. So by using a different class on the wire, and translating
to/from it on either end, we can accomplish both.
This measured how long the Helper took to do a filecheck before asking
for ciphertext. The "Contacting Helper" report includes both
existence_check and the client-helper RTT.
For non-overlapping uploads, it was being returned correctly. But when
multiple upload requests overlapped, and the file was not already in the
grid, the filecheck would only run once, and its existence_check time
would be reported for all uploaders (even if they didn't have to wait
for that time). Cleaning that up proved too difficult: the only correct
place to report this time is from the initial remote_upload_chk() call,
but the return value of that is too constrained to accomodate it in the
needs-upload case.
So I'm removing it altogether. Eventually I plan to add a proper
events/times field and record more data, including this check, in a form
that can be drawn on a nice zoomable timeline view.
Old clients talking to a new Helper (which doesn't supply the value)
will tolerate the loss (they'll just display an empty field on the web
view).
If a server did not respond to the pre-repair filecheck, but did respond
to the repair, that server was not correctly added to the
RepairResults.data["servers-responding"] list. (This resulted from a
buggy usage of DictOfSets.union() in filenode.py).
In addition, servers to which filecheck queries were sent, but did not
respond, were incorrectly added to the servers-responding list
anyawys. (This resulted from code in the checker.py not paying attention
to the 'responded' flag).
The first bug was neatly masked by the second: it's pretty rare to have
a server suddenly start responding in the one-second window between a
filecheck and a subsequent repair, and if the server was around for the
filecheck, you'd never notice the problem. I only spotted the smelly
code while I was changing it for IServer cleanup purposes.
I added coverage to test_repairer.py for this. Trying to get that test
to fail before fixing the first bug is what led me to discover the
second bug. I also had to update test_corrupt_file_verno, since it was
incorrectly asserting that 10 servers responded, when in fact one of
them throws an error (but the second bug was causing it to be reported
anyways).
* use d3.js v2.4.6
* add a "toggle misc events" button, to get hash/bitmap-checking details
* only draw data that's on screen, for speed
* add fragment-arg to fetch timeline data.json from somewhere else
This consistently records all immutable uploads in the Recent Uploads And
Downloads page, regardless of code path. Previously, certain webapi upload
operations (like PUT /uri/$DIRCAP/newchildname) failed to pass the History
object and were left out.
Shares are still verified in parallel, but within a share, don't request a
block until the previous block has been verified and the memory we used to hold
it has been freed up.
Patch originally due to Brian. This version has a mockery-patchery-style test
which is "low tech" (it implements the patching inline in the test code instead
of using an extension of the mock.patch() function from the mock library) and
which unpatches in case of exception.
fixes#1395
This patch is a rebase of a patch originally written by Brian. I didn't change any of the intent of Brian's patch, just ported it to current trunk.
refs #1363
This patch was originally written by Brian, but was re-recorded by Zooko to use
darcs replace instead of hunks for any file in which it would result in fewer
total hunks.
refs #1363
This patch was written by Brian but was re-recorded by Zooko (with David-Sarah looking on) to use darcs replace instead of editing to rename the three variables to their new names.
refs #1363
When blocks terminate (either COMPLETE or CORRUPT/DEAD/BADSEGNUM), the
_shares_from_server dict was being popped incorrectly (using shnum as the
index instead of serverid). I'm still thinking through the consequences of
this bug. It was probably benign and really hard to detect. I think it would
cause us to incorrectly believe that we're pulling too many shares from a
server, and thus prefer a different server rather than asking for a second
share from the first server. The diversity code is intended to spread out the
number of shares simultaneously being requested from each server, but with
this bug, it might be spreading out the total number of shares requested at
all, not just simultaneously. (note that SegmentFetcher is scoped to a single
segment, so the effect doesn't last very long).
No behavioral changes, just updating variable/method names and log messages.
The effects outside these three files should be minimal: some exception
messages changed (to say "server" instead of "peer"), and some internal class
names were changed. A few things still use "peer" to minimize external
changes, like UploadResults.timings["peer_selection"] and
happinessutil.merge_peers, which can be changed later.
Pass around IServer instance instead of (peerid, rref) tuple. Replace
"descriptor" with "server". Other replacements:
get_all_servers -> get_connected_servers/get_known_servers
get_servers_for_index -> get_servers_for_psi (now returns IServers)
This change still needs to be pushed further down: lots of code is now
getting the IServer and then distributing (peerid, rref) internally.
Instead, it ought to distribute the IServer internally and delay
extracting a serverid or rref until the last moment.
no_network.py was updated to retain parallelism.
* repairer (really the uploader) reads beyond end of input file (Uploadable)
* new-downloader does not tolerate overreads
* uploader does lots of tiny reads (inefficient)
This fixes the last two. The uploader still does a single overread at the end
of the input file, but now that's ok so we can leave it in place. The
uploader now expects the Uploadable to behave like a normal disk
file (reading beyond EOF will return less data than was asked for), and now
the new-downloadable behaves that way.
fixes#1191
Patch by Brian. This patch description was actually written by Zooko, but I forged Brian's name on the "author" field so that he would get credit for this patch in revision control history.
deliver all shares at once instead of feeding them out one-at-a-time.
Also fix distribution of real-number-of-segments information: now all
CommonShares (not just the ones used for the first segment) get a
correctly-sized hashtree. Previously, the late ones might not, which would
make them crash and get dropped (causing the download to fail if the initial
set were insufficient, perhaps because one of their servers went away).
Update tests, add some TODO notes, improve variable names and comments.
Improve logging: add logparents, set more appropriate levels.
This avoids spamming the "recent uploads and downloads" /status page from
FileNode instances that were created for a directory read but which nobody is
ever going to read from. I also cleaned up the way DownloadStatus instances
are made to only ever do it in the CiphertextFileNode, not in the
higher-level plaintext FileNode. Also fixed DownloadStatus handling of read
size, thanks to David-Sarah for the catch.
seems to avoid the #1155 log message which reveals the URI (and filecap).
Also add an [ERROR] marker to the flog entry, since unregisterProducer also
makes interrupted downloads appear "200 OK"; this makes it more obvious that
the download did not complete.
The lost-progress bug occurred when two simultanous read() calls fetched
different segments, and the first one failed (due to corruption, or the other
bugs in #1154): the second read() would never complete. While in this state,
cancelling the second read by having its consumer call stopProducing) would
trigger the cancel-intolerance bug. Finally, in downloader.node.Cancel,
prevent late cancels by adding an 'active' flag
The Range header causes n.read() to be called with an offset= of type 'long',
which eventually got used in a Spans/DataSpans object's __len__ method.
Apparently python doesn't permit __len__() to return longs, only ints.
Rewrote Spans/DataSpans to use s.len() instead of len(s) aka s.__len__() .
Added a test in test_download. Note that test_web didn't catch this because
it uses mock FileNodes for speed: it's probably time to rewrite that.
There is still an unresolved error-recovery problem in #1154, so I'm not
closing the ticket quite yet.
The fixed 10-second timer will eventually be replaced with a per-server
value, calculated based on observed response times.
test_hung_server.py: enhance to exercise DYHB=OVERDUE state. Split existing
mutable+immutable tests into two pieces for clarity. Reenabled several tests.
Deleted the now-obsolete "test_failover_during_stage_4".
- Make some important utility functions clearer and more thoroughly
documented.
- Assert in upload.servers_of_happiness that the buckets attributes
of PeerTrackers passed to it are mutually disjoint.
- Get rid of some silly non-Pythonisms that I didn't see when I first
wrote these patches.
- Make sure that should_add_server returns true when queried about a
shnum that it doesn't know about yet.
- Change Tahoe2PeerSelector.preexisting_shares to map a shareid to a set
of peerids, alter dependencies to deal with that.
- Remove upload.should_add_servers, because it is no longer necessary
- Move upload.shares_of_happiness and upload.shares_by_server to a utility
file.
- Change some points in Tahoe2PeerSelector.
- Compute servers_of_happiness using a bipartite matching algorithm that
we know is optimal instead of an ad-hoc greedy algorithm that isn't.
- Change servers_of_happiness to just take a sharemap as an argument,
change its callers to merge existing_shares and used_peers before
calling it.
- Change an error message in the encoder to be more appropriate for
servers of happiness.
- Clarify the wording of an error message in immutable/upload.py
- Refactor a happiness failure message to happinessutil.py, and make
immutable/upload.py and immutable/encode.py use it.
- Move the word "only" as far to the right as possible in failure
messages.
- Use a better definition of progress during peer selection.
- Do read-only peer share detection queries in parallel, not sequentially.
- Clean up logging semantics; print the query statistics whenever an
upload is unsuccessful, not just in one case.
When I first implemented #778, I just altered the error messages to refer to
servers where they referred to shares. The resulting error messages weren't
very good. These are a bit better.
The Tahoe2PeerSelector returned either NoSharesError or NotEnoughSharesError
for a variety of error conditions that weren't informatively described by them.
This patch creates a new error, UploadHappinessError, replaces uses of
NoSharesError and NotEnoughSharesError with it, and alters the error message
raised with the errors to be more in line with the new servers_of_happiness
behavior. See ticket #834 for more information.
This can be useful if one of the ones that he has already begun downloading fails. See #287 for discussion. This fixes part of #287 which part was a regression caused by #928, namely this fixes fail-over in case a share is corrupted (or the server returns an error or disconnects). This does not fix the related issue mentioned in #287 if a server hangs and doesn't reply to requests for blocks.
This should put an end to the phenomenon I've been seeing that a single hung server can cause all downloads on a grid to hang. Also it should speed up all downloads by (a) not-waiting for responses to queries that it doesn't need, and (b) downloading shares from the servers which answered the initial query the fastest.
Also, do not count how many buckets you've gotten when deciding whether the download has enough shares or not -- instead count how many buckets to *unique* shares that you've gotten. This appears to improve a slightly weird behavior in the current download code in which receiving >= K different buckets all to the same sharenumber would make it think it had enough to download the file when in fact it hadn't.
This patch needs tests before it is actually ready for trunk.
allmydata.util.log.err() either takes a Failure as the first positional
argument, or takes no positional arguments and must be invoked in an
exception handler. Fixed its signature to match both foolscap.logging.log.err
and twisted.python.log.err . Included a brief unit test.
Stop checking separately for ConnectionDone/ConnectionLost, since those have
been folded into DeadReferenceError since foolscap-0.3.1 . Write
rrefutil.trap_deadref() in terms of rrefutil.trap_and_discard() to improve
code coverage.
Mutable servermap updates and the immutable checker, when run with
add_lease=True, send both the do-you-have-block and add-lease commands in
parallel, to avoid an extra round trip time. Many older servers have problems
with add-lease and raise various exceptions, which don't generally matter.
The client-side code was catching+ignoring some of them, but unrecognized
exceptions were passed through to the DYHB code, concealing the DYHB results
from the checker, making it think the server had no shares.
The fix is to separate the code paths. Both commands are sent at the same
time, but the errback path from add-lease is handled separately. Known
exceptions are ignored, the others (both unknown-remote and all-local) are
logged (log.WEIRD, which will trigger an Incident), but neither will affect
the DYHB results.
The add-lease message is sent first, and we know that the server handles them
synchronously. So when the checker is done, we can be sure that all the
add-lease messages have been retired. This makes life easier for unit tests.
* remove Downloader.download_to_data/download_to_filename/download_to_filehandle
* remove download.Data/FileName/FileHandle targets
* remove filenode.download/download_to_data/download_to_filename methods
* leave Downloader.download (the whole Downloader will go away eventually)
* add util.consumer.MemoryConsumer/download_to_data, for convenience
(this is mostly used by unit tests, but it gets used by enough non-test
code to warrant putting it in allmydata.util)
* update tests
* removes about 180 lines of code. Yay negative code days!
Overall plan is to rewrite immutable/download.py and leave filenode.read() as
the sole read-side API.
The proper hierarchy is:
IFilesystemNode
+IFileNode
++IMutableFileNode
++IImmutableFileNode
+IDirectoryNode
Also expand test_client.py (NodeMaker) to hit all IFilesystemNode types.
* stop caching most_recent_size in dirnode, rely upon backing filenode for it
* start caching most_recent_size in MutableFileNode
* return None when you don't know, not "?"
* only render None as "?" in the web "more info" page
* add get_size/get_current_size to UnknownNode
* "cap" means a python instance which encapsulates a filecap/dircap (uri.py)
* "uri" means a string with a "URI:" prefix
* FileNode instances are created with (and retain) a cap instance, and
generate uri strings on demand
* .get_cap/get_readcap/get_verifycap/get_repaircap return cap instances
* .get_uri/get_readonly_uri return uri strings
* add filenode.download_to_filename() for control.py, should find a better way
* use MutableFileNode.init_from_cap, not .init_from_uri
* directory URI instances: use get_filenode_cap, not get_filenode_uri
* update/cleanup bench_dirnode.py to match, add Makefile target to run it
This makes it more obvious that the Helper currently generates leases with
the Helper's own secrets, rather than getting values from the client, which
is arguably a bug that will likely be resolved with the Accounting project.
child of the client, access with client.downloader instead of
client.getServiceNamed("downloader"). The single "Downloader" instance is
scheduled for demolition anyways, to be replaced by individual
filenode.download calls.
* stop using IURI as an adapter
* pass cap strings around instead of URI instances
* move filenode/dirnode creation duties from Client to new NodeMaker class
* move other Client duties to KeyGenerator, SecretHolder, History classes
* stop passing Client reference to dirnode/filenode constructors
- pass less-powerful references instead, like StorageBroker or Uploader
* always create DirectoryNodes by wrapping a filenode (mutable for now)
* remove some specialized mock classes from unit tests
Detailed list of changes (done one at a time, then merged together)
always pass a string to create_node_from_uri(), not an IURI instance
always pass a string to IFilesystemNode constructors, not an IURI instance
stop using IURI() as an adapter, switch on cap prefix in create_node_from_uri()
client.py: move SecretHolder code out to a separate class
test_web.py: hush pyflakes
client.py: move NodeMaker functionality out into a separate object
LiteralFileNode: stop storing a Client reference
immutable Checker: remove Client reference, it only needs a SecretHolder
immutable Upload: remove Client reference, leave SecretHolder and StorageBroker
immutable Repairer: replace Client reference with StorageBroker and SecretHolder
immutable FileNode: remove Client reference
mutable.Publish: stop passing Client
mutable.ServermapUpdater: get StorageBroker in constructor, not by peeking into Client reference
MutableChecker: reference StorageBroker and History directly, not through Client
mutable.FileNode: removed unused indirection to checker classes
mutable.FileNode: remove Client reference
client.py: move RSA key generation into a separate class, so it can be passed to the nodemaker
move create_mutable_file() into NodeMaker
test_dirnode.py: stop using FakeClient mockups, use NoNetworkGrid instead. This simplifies the code, but takes longer to run (17s instead of 6s). This should come down later when other cleanups make it possible to use simpler (non-RSA) fake mutable files for dirnode tests.
test_mutable.py: clean up basedir names
client.py: move create_empty_dirnode() into NodeMaker
dirnode.py: get rid of DirectoryNode.create
remove DirectoryNode.init_from_uri, refactor NodeMaker for customization, simplify test_web's mock Client to match
stop passing Client to DirectoryNode, make DirectoryNode.create_with_mutablefile the normal DirectoryNode constructor, start removing client from NodeMaker
remove Client from NodeMaker
move helper status into History, pass History to web.Status instead of Client
test_mutable.py: fix minor typo
If you open up a directory containing thousands of files, it currently computes the cache filename and checks for the cache file on disk immediately for each immutble file in that directory. With this patch, it delays those steps until you try to do something with an immutable file that could use the cache.
and deny the Helper the ability to mount a partial-information-guessing
attack. This will probably break compatibility between new clients and very
old (pre-1.0) helpers.
instead of examining the value returned by f.trap, because the latter appears
to squash exception types down into their base classes (i.e. since
ShareVersionIncompatible is a subclass of LayoutInvalid,
f.trap(Failure(ShareVersionIncompatible)) == LayoutInvalid).
All this resulted in 'incompatible' shares being misclassified as 'corrupt'.
This is probably the cause of the very rare "loss of progress" bug. This is tested by unit tests. A recent patch changed this to errback instead of losing progress, and now this patch is changing it again to return a short read instead of errbacking. Returning a short read is what the uploader (in encode.py) is expecting, when it is reading the last block of the ciphertext, which might be shorter than the other blocks.
It is currently hardcoded in setup.py to be 'allmydata-tahoe'. Ticket #556 is to make it configurable by a runtime command-line argument to setup.py: "--appname=foo", but I suddenly wondered if we really wanted that and at the same time realized that we don't need that for tahoe-1.3.0 release, so this patch just hardcodes it in setup.py.
setup.py inspects a file named 'src/allmydata/_appname.py' and assert that it contains the string "__appname__ = 'allmydata-tahoe'", and creates it if it isn't already present. src/allmydata/__init__.py import _appname and reads __appname__ from it. The rest of the Python code imports allmydata and inspects "allmydata.__appname__", although actually every use it uses "allmydata.__full_version__" instead, where "allmydata.__full_version__" is created in src/allmydata/__init__.py to be:
__full_version__ = __appname + '-' + str(__version__).
All the code that emits an "application version string" when describing what version of a protocol it supports (introducer server, storage server, upload helper), or when describing itself in general (introducer client), usese allmydata.__full_version__.
This fixes ticket #556 at least well enough for tahoe-1.3.0 release.
(There is a bug in the current DownUpConnector which can cause it to give more bytes than you asked for on one request, and then less on the next, effectively shifting some of the bytes to an earlier request, but I think this bug never gets triggered in practice.)
This implements an immutable repairer by marrying a CiphertextDownloader to a CHKUploader. It extends the IDownloadTarget interface so that the downloader can provide some metadata that the uploader requires.
The processing is incremental -- it uploads the first segments before it finishes downloading the whole file. This is necessary so that you can repair large files without running out of RAM or using a temporary file on the repairer.
It requires only a verifycap, not a readcap. That is: it doesn't need or use the decryption key, only the integrity check codes.
There are several tests marked TODO and several instances of XXX in the source code. I intend to open tickets to document further improvements to functionality and testing, but the current version is probably good enough for Tahoe-1.3.0.
It used to be a map from shnum to a string saying "placed this share on XYZ server". The new definition is more in keeping with the "sharemap" object that results from immutable file checking and repair, and it is more useful to the repairer, which is a consumer of immutable upload results.
Rename "downloadable" to "target".
Rename "u" to "v" in FileDownloader.__init__().
Rename "_uri" to "_verifycap" in FileDownloader.
Rename "_downloadable" to "_target" in FileDownloader.
Rename "FileDownloader" to "CiphertextDownloader".
FileDownloader takes a verify cap and produces ciphertext, instead of taking a read cap and producing plaintext.
FileDownloader does all integrity checking including the mandatory ciphertext hash tree and the optional ciphertext flat hash, rather than expecting its target to do some of that checking.
Rename immutable.download.Output to immutable.download.DecryptingOutput. An instance of DecryptingOutput can be passed to FileDownloader to use as the latter's target. Text pushed to the DecryptingOutput is decrypted and then pushed to *its* target.
DecryptingOutput satisfies the IConsumer interface, and if its target also satisfies IConsumer, then it forwards and pause/unpause signals to its producer (which is the FileDownloader).
This patch also changes some logging code to use the new logging mixin class.
Check integrity of a segment and decrypt the segment one block-sized buffer at a time instead of copying the buffers together into one segment-sized buffer (reduces peak memory usage, I think, and is probably a tad faster/less CPU, depending on your encoding parameters).
Refactor FileDownloader so that processing of segments and of tail-segment share as much code is possible.
FileDownloader and FileNode take caps as instances of URI (Python objects), not as strings.
pyflakes pointed out to me that I had committed some code that is untested, since it uses an undefined name. This patch exercises that code -- the validation of the ciphertext hash tree -- by corrupting some of the share files in a very specific way, and also fixes the bug.
Once again I inserted a bug into the code, and once again it was hidden by something catching arbitrary exception/failure and assuming that it means the server failed to provide valid data.
We were not making sure that we really got all the crypttext hashes during download. If a server were to return less than the complete set of crypttext hashes, then our subsequent attempt to verify the correctness of the ciphertext would fail. (And it wouldn't be obvious without very careful debugging why it had failed.)
This patch makes it so that you keep trying to get ciphertext hashes until you have a full set or you run out of servers to ask.