FindCanonicalChain returns true or false when we are on the Canonical chain or not

ethchain/block_chain.go

@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) CalculateBlockTD(block *Block) *big.Int {
 }
 
 // Is tasked by finding the CanonicalChain and resetting the chain if we are not the Conical one
-func (bc *BlockChain) FindCanonicalChain(msg *ethwire.Msg, commonBlockHash []byte) {
+// Return true if we are the using the canonical chain false if not
+func (bc *BlockChain) FindCanonicalChain(msg *ethwire.Msg, commonBlockHash []byte) bool {
 	// 1. Calculate TD of the current chain
 	// 2. Calculate TD of the new chain
 	// Reset state to the correct one
@@ -138,8 +139,10 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) FindCanonicalChain(msg *ethwire.Msg, commonBlockHash []byt
 	if chainDifficulty.Cmp(curChainDifficulty) == 1 {
 		log.Println("[BCHAIN] The incoming Chain beat our asses, resetting")
 		bc.ResetTillBlockHash(commonBlockHash)
+		return false
 	} else {
 		log.Println("[BCHAIN] Our chain showed the incoming chain who is boss. Ignoring.")
+		return true
 	}
 }
 func (bc *BlockChain) ResetTillBlockHash(hash []byte) error {

peer.go

@@ -316,11 +316,18 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 				//    3. Yes: Let's continue what we are doing
 				//    4. No: Let's request more blocks back.
 
+				// Make sure we are actually receiving anything
 				if msg.Data.Len()-1 > 1 {
+					// We requested blocks and now we need to make sure we have a common ancestor somewhere in these blocks so we can find
+					// common ground to start syncing from
 					lastBlock = ethchain.NewBlockFromRlpValue(msg.Data.Get(msg.Data.Len() - 1))
 					if p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlock(lastBlock.Hash()) {
 						fmt.Println("[PEER] We found a common ancestor, let's continue.")
 					} else {
+
+						// If we can't find a common ancenstor we need to request more blocks.
+						// FIXME: At one point this won't scale anymore since we are not asking for an offset
+						// we just keep increasing the amount of blocks.
 						fmt.Println("[PEER] No common ancestor found, requesting more blocks.")
 						p.blocksRequested = p.blocksRequested * 2
 						p.catchingUp = false
@@ -329,14 +336,16 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 
 					for i := msg.Data.Len() - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
 						block = ethchain.NewBlockFromRlpValue(msg.Data.Get(i))
-						// Do we have this block on our chain?
+						// Do we have this block on our chain? If so we can continue
 						if p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlock(block.Hash()) {
 							fmt.Println("[PEER] Block found, checking next one.")
 						} else {
 							// We don't have this block, but we do have a block with the same prevHash, diversion time!
 							if p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlockWithPrevHash(block.PrevHash) {
 								fmt.Printf("[PEER] Local and foreign chain have diverted after %x, we are going to get freaky with it!\n", block.PrevHash)
-								p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().FindCanonicalChain(msg, block.PrevHash)
+								if p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().FindCanonicalChain(msg, block.PrevHash) {
+									return
+								}
 							} else {
 								fmt.Println("[PEER] Both local and foreign chain have same parent. Continue normally")
 							}
@@ -358,7 +367,6 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 						}
 						break
 					} else {
-						ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("[PEER] Block %x added\n", block.Hash())
 						lastBlock = block
 					}
 				}