merge bitcoin#15401: Actually throw help when passed invalid number of params

src/rpc/blockchain.cpp

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Copyright (c) 2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
-// Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) 2009-2019 The Bitcoin Core developers
 // Copyright (c) 2014-2021 The Dash Core developers
 // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
@@ -2026,9 +2026,7 @@ static constexpr size_t PER_UTXO_OVERHEAD = sizeof(COutPoint) + sizeof(uint32_t)
 
 static UniValue getblockstats(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
 {
-    if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() < 1 || request.params.size() > 4) {
-        throw std::runtime_error(
-            RPCHelpMan{"getblockstats",
+    const RPCHelpMan help{"getblockstats",
                 "\nCompute per block statistics for a given window. All amounts are in duffs.\n"
                 "It won't work for some heights with pruning.\n"
                 "It won't work without -txindex for utxo_size_inc, *fee or *feerate stats.\n",
@@ -2080,7 +2078,9 @@ static UniValue getblockstats(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
                     HelpExampleCli("getblockstats", "1000 '[\"minfeerate\",\"avgfeerate\"]'")
             + HelpExampleRpc("getblockstats", "1000 '[\"minfeerate\",\"avgfeerate\"]'")
                 },
-            }.ToString());
+    };
+    if (request.fHelp || !help.IsValidNumArgs(request.params.size())) {
+        throw std::runtime_error(help.ToString());
     }
 
     if (g_txindex) {

src/rpc/net.cpp

@@ -584,13 +584,7 @@ static UniValue getnetworkinfo(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
 
 static UniValue setban(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
 {
-    std::string strCommand;
-    if (!request.params[1].isNull())
-        strCommand = request.params[1].get_str();
-    if (request.fHelp || request.params.size() < 2 ||
-        (strCommand != "add" && strCommand != "remove"))
-        throw std::runtime_error(
-            RPCHelpMan{"setban",
+    const RPCHelpMan help{"setban",
                 "\nAttempts to add or remove an IP/Subnet from the banned list.\n",
                 {
                     {"subnet", RPCArg::Type::STR, RPCArg::Optional::NO, "The IP/Subnet (see getpeerinfo for nodes IP) with an optional netmask (default is /32 = single IP)"},
@@ -604,7 +598,13 @@ static UniValue setban(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
                             + HelpExampleCli("setban", "\"192.168.0.0/24\" \"add\"")
                             + HelpExampleRpc("setban", "\"192.168.0.6\", \"add\", 86400")
                 },
-            }.ToString());
+    };
+    std::string strCommand;
+    if (!request.params[1].isNull())
+        strCommand = request.params[1].get_str();
+    if (request.fHelp || !help.IsValidNumArgs(request.params.size()) || (strCommand != "add" && strCommand != "remove")) {
+        throw std::runtime_error(help.ToString());
+    }
     if (!g_banman) {
         throw JSONRPCError(RPC_DATABASE_ERROR, "Error: Ban database not loaded");
     }

src/rpc/util.cpp

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) 2017-2019 The Bitcoin Core developers
 // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
@@ -407,6 +407,17 @@ std::string RPCExamples::ToDescriptionString() const
     return m_examples.empty() ? m_examples : "\nExamples:\n" + m_examples;
 }
 
+bool RPCHelpMan::IsValidNumArgs(size_t num_args) const
+{
+    size_t num_required_args = 0;
+    for (size_t n = m_args.size(); n > 0; --n) {
+        if (!m_args.at(n - 1).IsOptional()) {
+            num_required_args = n;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    return num_required_args <= num_args && num_args <= m_args.size();
+}
 std::string RPCHelpMan::ToString() const
 {
     std::string ret;
@@ -415,12 +426,7 @@ std::string RPCHelpMan::ToString() const
     ret += m_name;
     bool was_optional{false};
     for (const auto& arg : m_args) {
-        bool optional;
-        if (arg.m_fallback.which() == 1) {
-            optional = true;
-        } else {
-            optional = RPCArg::Optional::NO != boost::get<RPCArg::Optional>(arg.m_fallback);
-        }
+        const bool optional = arg.IsOptional();
         ret += " ";
         if (optional) {
             if (!was_optional) ret += "( ";
@@ -462,6 +468,15 @@ std::string RPCHelpMan::ToString() const
     return ret;
 }
 
+bool RPCArg::IsOptional() const
+{
+    if (m_fallback.which() == 1) {
+        return true;
+    } else {
+        return RPCArg::Optional::NO != boost::get<RPCArg::Optional>(m_fallback);
+    }
+}
+
 std::string RPCArg::ToDescriptionString() const
 {
     std::string ret;

src/rpc/util.h

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Copyright (c) 2017-2019 The Bitcoin Core developers
 // Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 // file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct RPCArg {
         /** Required arg */
         NO,
         /**
-         * Optinal arg that is a named argument and has a default value of
+         * Optional arg that is a named argument and has a default value of
          * `null`. When possible, the default value should be specified.
          */
         OMITTED_NAMED_ARG,
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ struct RPCArg {
         assert(type == Type::ARR || type == Type::OBJ);
     }
 
+    bool IsOptional() const;
+
     /**
      * Return the type string of the argument.
      * Set oneline to allow it to be overridden by a custom oneline type string (m_oneline_description).
@@ -235,6 +237,8 @@ public:
     RPCHelpMan(std::string name, std::string description, std::vector<RPCArg> args, RPCResults results, RPCExamples examples);
 
     std::string ToString() const;
+    /** If the supplied number of args is neither too small nor too high */
+    bool IsValidNumArgs(size_t num_args) const;
 
 private:
     const std::string m_name;

test/functional/rpc_getblockstats.py

@@ -177,5 +177,10 @@ class GetblockstatsTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         assert_raises_rpc_error(-5, 'Block not found', self.nodes[0].getblockstats,
                                 hash_or_height='000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f')
 
+        # Invalid number of args
+        assert_raises_rpc_error(-1, 'getblockstats hash_or_height ( stats )', self.nodes[0].getblockstats, '00', 1, 2)
+        assert_raises_rpc_error(-1, 'getblockstats hash_or_height ( stats )', self.nodes[0].getblockstats)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     GetblockstatsTest().main()