Drop non-anchor channel fee upper bound limit entirely

fuzz/src/chanmon_consistency.rs

@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ impl FeeEstimator for FuzzEstimator {
 		// always return a HighPriority feerate here which is >= the maximum Normal feerate and a
 		// Background feerate which is <= the minimum Normal feerate.
 		match conf_target {
-			ConfirmationTarget::MaxAllowedNonAnchorChannelRemoteFee => MAX_FEE * 10,
 			ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep => MAX_FEE,
 			ConfirmationTarget::ChannelCloseMinimum|ConfirmationTarget::AnchorChannelFee|ConfirmationTarget::MinAllowedAnchorChannelRemoteFee|ConfirmationTarget::MinAllowedNonAnchorChannelRemoteFee => 253,
 			ConfirmationTarget::NonAnchorChannelFee => cmp::min(self.ret_val.load(atomic::Ordering::Acquire), MAX_FEE),

lightning/src/chain/chaininterface.rs

@@ -53,23 +53,6 @@ pub enum ConfirmationTarget {
 	/// to low hundreds of blocks to get our transaction on-chain, but we shouldn't risk too low a
 	/// fee - this should be a relatively high priority feerate.
 	OnChainSweep,
-	/// The highest feerate we will allow our channel counterparty to have in a non-anchor channel.
-	///
-	/// This is the feerate on the transaction which we (or our counterparty) will broadcast in
-	/// order to close the channel unilaterally. Because our counterparty must ensure they can
-	/// always broadcast the latest state, this value being too low will cause immediate
-	/// force-closures.
-	///
-	/// Allowing this value to be too high can allow our counterparty to burn our HTLC outputs to
-	/// dust, which can result in HTLCs failing or force-closures (when the dust HTLCs exceed
-	/// [`ChannelConfig::max_dust_htlc_exposure`]).
-	///
-	/// Because most nodes use a feerate estimate which is based on a relatively high priority
-	/// transaction entering the current mempool, setting this to a small multiple of your current
-	/// high priority feerate estimate should suffice.
-	///
-	/// [`ChannelConfig::max_dust_htlc_exposure`]: crate::util::config::ChannelConfig::max_dust_htlc_exposure
-	MaxAllowedNonAnchorChannelRemoteFee,
 	/// This is the lowest feerate we will allow our channel counterparty to have in an anchor
 	/// channel in order to close the channel if a channel party goes away.
 	///

lightning/src/ln/channel.rs

@@ -2162,20 +2162,6 @@ impl<SP: Deref> Channel<SP> where
 		feerate_per_kw: u32, cur_feerate_per_kw: Option<u32>, logger: &L
 	) -> Result<(), ChannelError> where F::Target: FeeEstimator, L::Target: Logger,
 	{
-		// We only bound the fee updates on the upper side to prevent completely absurd feerates,
-		// always accepting up to 25 sat/vByte or 10x our fee estimator's "High Priority" fee.
-		// We generally don't care too much if they set the feerate to something very high, but it
-		// could result in the channel being useless due to everything being dust. This doesn't
-		// apply to channels supporting anchor outputs since HTLC transactions are pre-signed with a
-		// zero fee, so their fee is no longer considered to determine dust limits.
-		if !channel_type.supports_anchors_zero_fee_htlc_tx() {
-			let upper_limit =
-				fee_estimator.bounded_sat_per_1000_weight(ConfirmationTarget::MaxAllowedNonAnchorChannelRemoteFee) as u64;
-			if feerate_per_kw as u64 > upper_limit {
-				return Err(ChannelError::Close(format!("Peer's feerate much too high. Actual: {}. Our expected upper limit: {}", feerate_per_kw, upper_limit)));
-			}
-		}
-
 		let lower_limit_conf_target = if channel_type.supports_anchors_zero_fee_htlc_tx() {
 			ConfirmationTarget::MinAllowedAnchorChannelRemoteFee
 		} else {
@@ -3872,14 +3858,11 @@ impl<SP: Deref> Channel<SP> where
 			return Err(ChannelError::Close("Peer sent update_fee when we needed a channel_reestablish".to_owned()));
 		}
 		Channel::<SP>::check_remote_fee(&self.context.channel_type, fee_estimator, msg.feerate_per_kw, Some(self.context.feerate_per_kw), logger)?;
-		let feerate_over_dust_buffer = msg.feerate_per_kw > self.context.get_dust_buffer_feerate(None);
 
 		self.context.pending_update_fee = Some((msg.feerate_per_kw, FeeUpdateState::RemoteAnnounced));
 		self.context.update_time_counter += 1;
-		// If the feerate has increased over the previous dust buffer (note that
-		// `get_dust_buffer_feerate` considers the `pending_update_fee` status), check that we
-		// won't be pushed over our dust exposure limit by the feerate increase.
-		if feerate_over_dust_buffer {
+		// Check that we won't be pushed over our dust exposure limit by the feerate increase.
+		if !self.context.channel_type.supports_anchors_zero_fee_htlc_tx() {
 			let inbound_stats = self.context.get_inbound_pending_htlc_stats(None);
 			let outbound_stats = self.context.get_outbound_pending_htlc_stats(None);
 			let holder_tx_dust_exposure = inbound_stats.on_holder_tx_dust_exposure_msat + outbound_stats.on_holder_tx_dust_exposure_msat;
@@ -7684,7 +7667,7 @@ mod tests {
 	use crate::ln::PaymentHash;
 	use crate::ln::channelmanager::{self, HTLCSource, PaymentId};
 	use crate::ln::channel::InitFeatures;
-	use crate::ln::channel::{Channel, ChannelState, InboundHTLCOutput, OutboundV1Channel, InboundV1Channel, OutboundHTLCOutput, InboundHTLCState, OutboundHTLCState, HTLCCandidate, HTLCInitiator, commit_tx_fee_msat};
+	use crate::ln::channel::{ChannelState, InboundHTLCOutput, OutboundV1Channel, InboundV1Channel, OutboundHTLCOutput, InboundHTLCState, OutboundHTLCState, HTLCCandidate, HTLCInitiator, commit_tx_fee_msat};
 	use crate::ln::channel::{MAX_FUNDING_SATOSHIS_NO_WUMBO, TOTAL_BITCOIN_SUPPLY_SATOSHIS, MIN_THEIR_CHAN_RESERVE_SATOSHIS};
 	use crate::ln::features::ChannelTypeFeatures;
 	use crate::ln::msgs::{ChannelUpdate, DecodeError, UnsignedChannelUpdate, MAX_VALUE_MSAT};
@@ -7726,17 +7709,6 @@ mod tests {
 		        "MAX_FUNDING_SATOSHIS_NO_WUMBO is greater than all satoshis in existence");
 	}
 
-	#[test]
-	fn test_no_fee_check_overflow() {
-		// Previously, calling `check_remote_fee` with a fee of 0xffffffff would overflow in
-		// arithmetic, causing a panic with debug assertions enabled.
-		let fee_est = TestFeeEstimator { fee_est: 42 };
-		let bounded_fee_estimator = LowerBoundedFeeEstimator::new(&fee_est);
-		assert!(Channel::<&TestKeysInterface>::check_remote_fee(
-			&ChannelTypeFeatures::only_static_remote_key(), &bounded_fee_estimator,
-			u32::max_value(), None, &&test_utils::TestLogger::new()).is_err());
-	}
-
 	struct Keys {
 		signer: InMemorySigner,
 	}

lightning/src/util/test_utils.rs

@@ -94,13 +94,8 @@ pub struct TestFeeEstimator {
 	pub sat_per_kw: Mutex<u32>,
 }
 impl chaininterface::FeeEstimator for TestFeeEstimator {
-	fn get_est_sat_per_1000_weight(&self, confirmation_target: ConfirmationTarget) -> u32 {
-		match confirmation_target {
-			ConfirmationTarget::MaxAllowedNonAnchorChannelRemoteFee => {
-				core::cmp::max(25 * 250, *self.sat_per_kw.lock().unwrap() * 10)
-			}
-			_ => *self.sat_per_kw.lock().unwrap(),
-		}
+	fn get_est_sat_per_1000_weight(&self, _confirmation_target: ConfirmationTarget) -> u32 {
+		*self.sat_per_kw.lock().unwrap()
 	}
 }