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Three fixes for crashes and log flooding observed when CoinJoin mixing is active while the wallet service shuts down, or when peer socket timeouts cluster.

  • Rate-limit full thread dumps on peer socket timeout (c1f4edb). Since 22.0.4, PeerSocketHandler.checkForBlockStoreTimeout() dumped every thread's stack on every socket timeout. When timeouts cluster (e.g. repeated masternode connection failures during mixing) this floods the log on the single shared timeout timer thread and can freeze the app. The all-threads dump now runs at most once per 10 minutes across all connections. Every timeout still logs the PeerGroup/NioClientManager thread stacks, the stack of any thread stuck in peekByteArray, and runs the SPVBlockStore freeze detection. Takes a single getAllStackTraces() snapshot instead of two.
  • Guard against NPE when CoinJoin methods run during shutdown (2c0649d). stopAsync() nulls masternodeGroup and close() nulls peerGroup while mixing coroutines and the maintenance timer may still call back into CoinJoinManager, crashing in startAsync(), addPendingMasternode(), forPeer() and disconnectMasternode(). A nulled group is now treated as "already shut down" and the call no-ops.
  • Handle missing transaction broadcaster during shutdown (ac7b2a2). PeerGroup.removeWallet() nulls the wallet's transaction broadcaster while a mixing coroutine may still be creating denominations or combining dust, so Wallet.sendCoins() throws IllegalStateException and kills the mixing thread. TransactionBuilder.commit() and the dust-combining path in CoinJoinClientSession now catch it and fall into the existing soft-failure paths.

Also starts 22.0.5-SNAPSHOT.

Test plan

  • ./gradlew :dashj-core:test passes
  • Run CoinJoin mixing on testnet and stop the wallet service mid-session; confirm no NPE or IllegalStateException in the mixing thread
  • Force repeated masternode connection timeouts; confirm only network-thread stacks are logged per timeout and the full dump appears at most once per 10 minutes

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved CoinJoin shutdown handling to prevent failures when wallet or network services are no longer available.
    • Added safeguards to prevent CoinJoin operations from starting or accessing unavailable services during shutdown.
    • Improved transaction-building error handling so failures are reported cleanly instead of causing unexpected interruptions.
  • Performance and Stability

    • Reduced excessive diagnostic stack-trace logging while preserving detection of stalled network or block-storage activity.

HashEngineering and others added 3 commits July 15, 2026 15:45
Since 22.0.4, checkForBlockStoreTimeout() dumped every thread's stack on
every socket timeout. When timeouts cluster (e.g. repeated masternode
connection failures during CoinJoin mixing), this floods the log via the
single shared timeout timer thread and can freeze the app.

Now the full all-threads dump runs at most once per 10 minutes across
all connections. Every timeout still logs the PeerGroup/NioClientManager
thread stacks, the stack of any thread stuck in peekByteArray, and runs
the SPVBlockStore freeze detection. Also takes a single
getAllStackTraces() snapshot instead of two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
stopAsync() nulls masternodeGroup and close() nulls peerGroup while
mixing coroutines and the maintenance timer may still be calling back
into CoinJoinManager, crashing in startAsync(), addPendingMasternode(),
forPeer() and disconnectMasternode(). Treat a nulled group as "already
shut down" and no-op instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… shutdown

PeerGroup.removeWallet() nulls the wallet's transaction broadcaster while
a mixing coroutine may still be creating denominations or combining dust,
so Wallet.sendCoins() throws IllegalStateException and kills the mixing
thread. Catch it in TransactionBuilder.commit() and
CoinJoinClientSession's dust combining so both fall into the existing
soft-failure paths instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds shutdown checks to CoinJoin operations and transaction creation. It also rewrites block store timeout scanning to use one pass and rate-limit full thread dumps to one every ten minutes.

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CoinJoin shutdown handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
CoinJoin shutdown guards
core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/coinjoin/CoinJoinClientSession.java, core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/coinjoin/utils/CoinJoinManager.java, core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/coinjoin/utils/TransactionBuilder.java
CoinJoin manager methods return failure or exit when required groups are unavailable. CoinJoin output combination and transaction creation catch IllegalStateException and return failure.

Block store timeout diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeout scan and dump throttling
core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/core/PeerSocketHandler.java
checkForBlockStoreTimeout scans thread stacks in one loop. It logs relevant stacks and limits full thread dumps to one per ten minutes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ac7b2

Stopping CoinJoin while startup callbacks are still running can still cause a null-pointer crash. Synchronize the shutdown transition or retain a local peer-group reference before merging.

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In `@core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/coinjoin/utils/CoinJoinManager.java`:
- Line 340: Synchronize the peerGroup lifecycle in CoinJoinManager: update
close() to clear peerGroup under the same lock used by startAsync(), or capture
a stable local peerGroup reference in startAsync() and use it for all subsequent
accesses after the null guard. Ensure the shutdown transition cannot invalidate
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try {
// masternodeGroup is nulled by stopAsync() and peerGroup by close(); a mixing
// coroutine may still call this while the wallet service is shutting down.
if (masternodeGroup == null || peerGroup == null) {

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Synchronize the peerGroup shutdown transition.

startAsync() holds lock, but close() clears peerGroup without this lock at Line 318. If close() runs after this guard and before Line 346, peerGroup.shouldSendDsq(true) still throws NullPointerException.

Guard the peerGroup lifecycle transition in close() with the same lock, or use a stable local reference for all accesses in startAsync().

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In `@core/src/main/java/org/bitcoinj/coinjoin/utils/CoinJoinManager.java` at line
340, Synchronize the peerGroup lifecycle in CoinJoinManager: update close() to
clear peerGroup under the same lock used by startAsync(), or capture a stable
local peerGroup reference in startAsync() and use it for all subsequent accesses
after the null guard. Ensure the shutdown transition cannot invalidate the
reference before shouldSendDsq(true) executes.

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