feat!: adds input range check to optimize VerifyLeafHashes and VerifyInclusion methods

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
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docs/spec/nmt.md

@@ -198,21 +198,21 @@ More formally, the short namespace absence proof consists of the following compo
    1) Find the index of a leaf in the tree that meets two conditions:
       1) Its namespace is the smallest namespace greater than `NS`.
       1) The namespace of the leaf to its left is smaller than `NS`.
-   1) Traverse up the branch connecting that leaf to the root and locate one of the parents/grandparents of that leaf whose namespace range does not overlap with the queried namespace. 
+   1) Traverse up the branch connecting that leaf to the root and locate one of the parents/grandparents of that leaf whose namespace range does not overlap with the queried namespace.
    The `SubtreeHash` is the hash of that node.
-1) `start` and `end` range: These represent the indices of the `SubtreeHash` within its respective level. 
+1) `start` and `end` range: These represent the indices of the `SubtreeHash` within its respective level.
 Nodes at each level are indexed from left to right starting at index `0`.
 1) `nodes`: This set comprises the index-based  Merkle inclusion proof of the `SubtreeHash` to the tree root `T`.
 
 Below, we illustrate the short namespace absence proof for namespace `NS = 02` in an 8-leaf tree:
-The namespace `03` is the smallest namespace larger than `02`. 
-By traversing the branch from the leaf with namespace `03` to the root, we find a node with hash `03 04 52c7c03` whose namespace range doesn't overlap with `02`. 
+The namespace `03` is the smallest namespace larger than `02`.
+By traversing the branch from the leaf with namespace `03` to the root, we find a node with hash `03 04 52c7c03` whose namespace range doesn't overlap with `02`.
 This node is the highest such node along the branch.
 The `SubtreeHash` is the hash of that node, which is `03 04 52c7c03`.
-The `start` and `end` indices indicate its position in the respective level. 
-In this case, `start = 1` and `end = 2`. 
+The `start` and `end` indices indicate its position in the respective level.
+In this case, `start = 1` and `end = 2`.
 Note that node indices start at `0` from left to right at each level.
-The `nodes` form the index-based Merkle inclusion proof of the `SubtreeHash` to the tree root `T`. 
+The `nodes` form the index-based Merkle inclusion proof of the `SubtreeHash` to the tree root `T`.
 The `nodes` set includes `00 00 ead8d25`, the left sibling of `03 04 52c7c03`.
 
 In summary, the short namespace absence proof for `NS = 02` in this tree consists of `SubtreeHash = 03 04 52c7c03`, `start = 1`, `end = 2`, and the `nodes` set containing `00 00 ead8d25`.

proof.go

@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 // ErrFailedCompletenessCheck indicates that the verification of a namespace proof failed due to the lack of completeness property.
-var ErrFailedCompletenessCheck = errors.New("failed completeness check")
+var (
+	ErrFailedCompletenessCheck = errors.New("failed completeness check")
+	ErrWrongLeafHashesSize     = errors.New("wrong leafHashes size")
+)
 
 // Proof represents a namespace proof of a namespace.ID in an NMT. In case this
 // proof proves the absence of a namespace.ID in a tree it also contains the
@@ -250,6 +253,7 @@ func (proof Proof) VerifyNamespace(h hash.Hash, nID namespace.ID, leaves [][]byt
 // If there is an issue during the proof verification e.g., a node does not conform to the namespace hash format, then a proper error is returned to indicate the root cause of the issue.
 // The leafHashes parameter is a list of leaf hashes, where each leaf hash is represented
 // by a byte slice.
+// The size of leafHashes should match the proof range i.e., end-start.
 // If the verifyCompleteness parameter is set to true, the function also checks
 // the completeness of the proof by verifying that there is no leaf in the
 // tree represented by the root parameter that matches the namespace ID nID
@@ -260,6 +264,15 @@ func (proof Proof) VerifyLeafHashes(nth *NmtHasher, verifyCompleteness bool, nID
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("proof range [proof.start=%d, proof.end=%d) is not valid: %w", proof.Start(), proof.End(), ErrInvalidRange)
 	}
 
+	// check whether the number of leaves match the proof range i.e., end-start.
+	// If not, make an early return.
+	expectedLeafHashesCount := proof.End() - proof.Start()
+	if len(leafHashes) != expectedLeafHashesCount {
+		return false, fmt.Errorf(
+			"supplied leafHashes size  %d, expected size %d: %w",
+			len(leafHashes), expectedLeafHashesCount, ErrWrongLeafHashesSize)
+	}
+
 	// perform some consistency checks:
 	if nID.Size() != nth.NamespaceSize() {
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("namespace ID size (%d) does not match the namespace size of the NMT hasher (%d)", nID.Size(), nth.NamespaceSize())
@@ -395,6 +408,7 @@ func (proof Proof) VerifyLeafHashes(nth *NmtHasher, verifyCompleteness bool, nID
 // and the provided proof to regenerate and compare the root. Note that the leavesWithoutNamespace data should not contain the prefixed namespace, unlike the tree.Push method,
 // which takes prefixed data. All leaves implicitly have the same namespace ID:
 // `nid`.
+// The size of the leavesWithoutNamespace should be equal to the proof range i.e., end-start.
 // VerifyInclusion does not verify the completeness of the proof, so it's possible for leavesWithoutNamespace to be a subset of the leaves in the tree that have the namespace ID nid.
 func (proof Proof) VerifyInclusion(h hash.Hash, nid namespace.ID, leavesWithoutNamespace [][]byte, root []byte) bool {
 	// check the range of the proof
@@ -411,6 +425,13 @@ func (proof Proof) VerifyInclusion(h hash.Hash, nid namespace.ID, leavesWithoutN
 		return false
 	}
 
+	// check whether the number of leavesWithoutNamespace match the proof range i.e., end-start.
+	// If not, make an early return.
+	expectedLeavesCount := proof.End() - proof.Start()
+	if len(leavesWithoutNamespace) != expectedLeavesCount {
+		return false
+	}
+
 	nth := NewNmtHasher(h, nid.Size(), proof.isMaxNamespaceIDIgnored)
 
 	// perform some consistency checks:

proof_test.go

@@ -546,6 +546,168 @@ func TestVerifyNamespace_False(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestVerifyInclusion_MismatchingRange(t *testing.T) {
+	nIDs := []byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9}
+	nmt := exampleNMT(1, true, nIDs...)
+	root, err := nmt.Root()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	nid6 := namespace.ID{6}
+	// node at index 5 has namespace ID 6
+	incProof6, err := nmt.ProveNamespace(nid6)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// leaves with namespace ID 6
+	leaf4 := nmt.leaves[4][nmt.NamespaceSize():]
+	leaf5 := nmt.leaves[5][nmt.NamespaceSize():]
+	leaf6 := nmt.leaves[6][nmt.NamespaceSize():]
+
+	type args struct {
+		nIDSize                namespace.IDSize
+		nID                    namespace.ID
+		leavesWithoutNamespace [][]byte
+		root                   []byte
+	}
+	tests := []struct {
+		name   string
+		proof  Proof
+		args   args
+		result bool
+	}{
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range = size of leavesWithoutNamespace",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{leaf4, leaf5, leaf6}, root},
+			true,
+		},
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range > size of" +
+				" a non-empty leavesWithoutNamespace",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{leaf4, leaf5}, root},
+			false,
+		},
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range > size of" +
+				" an empty leavesWithoutNamespace",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{}, root},
+			false,
+		},
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range < size of" +
+				" leavesWithoutNamespace",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{leaf4, leaf5, leaf6, leaf6}, root},
+			false,
+		},
+		{
+			// in this testcase the nameID does not really matter since the
+			// leaves are empty
+			"empty proof: size of proof's range = size of leavesWithoutNamespace",
+			Proof{start: 1, end: 1},
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{}, root},
+			true,
+		},
+		{
+			"empty proof: size of proof's range < size of" +
+				" leavesWithoutNamespace",
+			Proof{start: 1, end: 1},
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{leaf4, leaf5, leaf6}, root},
+			false,
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			hasher := sha256.New()
+			got := tt.proof.VerifyInclusion(hasher, tt.args.nID,
+				tt.args.leavesWithoutNamespace, tt.args.root)
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.result, got)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVerifyLeafHashes_MismatchingRange(t *testing.T) {
+	nIDs := []byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9}
+	nmt := exampleNMT(1, true, nIDs...)
+	root, err := nmt.Root()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	nid5 := namespace.ID{5}
+	// namespace 5 does not exist in the tree, hence the proof is an absence proof
+	absenceProof5, err := nmt.ProveNamespace(nid5)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	leafHash5 := nmt.leafHashes[4]
+
+	nid6 := namespace.ID{6}
+	// node at index 5 has namespace ID 6
+	incProof6, err := nmt.Prove(5)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	leafHash6 := nmt.leafHashes[5]
+
+	type args struct {
+		nIDSize    namespace.IDSize
+		nID        namespace.ID
+		leafHashes [][]byte
+		root       []byte
+	}
+	tests := []struct {
+		name   string
+		proof  Proof
+		args   args
+		result bool
+		err    error
+	}{
+		{
+			"absence proof: size of proof's range = size of leafHashes",
+			absenceProof5,
+			args{1, namespace.ID{5}, [][]byte{leafHash5}, root},
+			true, nil,
+		},
+		{
+			"absence proof: size of proof's range > size of leafHashes",
+			absenceProof5,
+			args{1, nid5, [][]byte{}, root},
+			false, ErrWrongLeafHashesSize,
+		},
+		{
+			"absence proof: size of proof's range < size of leafHashes",
+			absenceProof5,
+			args{1, nid5, [][]byte{leafHash5, leafHash5}, root},
+			false, ErrWrongLeafHashesSize,
+		},
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range = size of leafHashes",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{leafHash6}, root},
+			true, nil,
+		},
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range > size of leafHashes",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{}, root},
+			false, ErrWrongLeafHashesSize,
+		},
+		{
+			"inclusion proof: size of proof's range < size of leafHashes",
+			incProof6,
+			args{1, nid6, [][]byte{leafHash6, leafHash6}, root},
+			false,
+			ErrWrongLeafHashesSize,
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			hasher := NewNmtHasher(sha256.New(), tt.args.nIDSize, true)
+			got, err := tt.proof.VerifyLeafHashes(hasher, false, tt.args.nID,
+				tt.args.leafHashes, tt.args.root)
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.result, got)
+			if tt.err != nil {
+				assert.ErrorAs(t, err, &tt.err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestVerifyLeafHashes_False(t *testing.T) {
 	nIDs := []byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9}
 
@@ -594,7 +756,12 @@ func TestVerifyLeafHashes_False(t *testing.T) {
 		args   args
 		result bool
 	}{
-		{"nID size of proof < nID size of VerifyLeafHashes' nmt hasher", proof4_1, args{2, nid4_2, [][]byte{leafHash2}, root2}, false},
+		{
+			"nID size of proof < nID size of VerifyLeafHashes' nmt hasher",
+			proof4_1,
+			args{2, nid4_2, [][]byte{leafHash2}, root2},
+			false,
+		},
 		{"nID size of proof > nID size of VerifyLeafHashes' nmt hasher", proof4_2, args{1, nid4_1, [][]byte{leafHash1}, root1}, false},
 		{"nID size of root < nID size of VerifyLeafHashes' nmt hasher", proof4_2, args{2, nid4_2, [][]byte{leafHash2}, root1}, false},
 		{"nID size of root > nID size of VerifyLeafHashes' nmt hasher", proof4_1, args{1, nid4_1, [][]byte{leafHash1}, root2}, false},