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Liam Aharon c4211b6533 Initialise on-chain StorageVersion for pallets added after genesis (#1297)
Original PR https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/14641

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Closes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/109

### Problem
Quoting from the above issue:

> When adding a pallet to chain after genesis we currently don't set the
StorageVersion. So, when calling on_chain_storage_version it returns 0
while the pallet is maybe already at storage version 9 when it was added
to the chain. This could lead to issues when running migrations.

### Solution

- Create a new trait `BeforeAllRuntimeMigrations` with a single method
`fn before_all_runtime_migrations() -> Weight` trait with a noop default
implementation
- Modify `Executive` to call
`BeforeAllRuntimeMigrations::before_all_runtime_migrations` for all
pallets before running any other hooks
- Implement `BeforeAllRuntimeMigrations` in the pallet proc macro to
initialize the on-chain version to the current pallet version if the
pallet has no storage set (indicating it has been recently added to the
runtime and needs to have its version initialised).

### Other changes in this PR

- Abstracted repeated boilerplate to access the `pallet_name` in the
pallet expand proc macro.

### FAQ

#### Why create a new hook instead of adding this logic to the pallet
`pre_upgrade`?

`Executive` currently runs `COnRuntimeUpgrade` (custom migrations)
before `AllPalletsWithSystem` migrations. We need versions to be
initialized before the `COnRuntimeUpgrade` migrations are run, because
`COnRuntimeUpgrade` migrations may use the on-chain version for critical
logic. e.g. `VersionedRuntimeUpgrade` uses it to decide whether or not
to execute.

We cannot reorder `COnRuntimeUpgrade` and `AllPalletsWithSystem` so
`AllPalletsWithSystem` runs first, because `AllPalletsWithSystem` have
some logic in their `post_upgrade` hooks to verify that the on-chain
version and current pallet version match. A common use case of
`COnRuntimeUpgrade` migrations is to perform a migration which will
result in the versions matching, so if they were reordered these
`post_upgrade` checks would fail.

#### Why init the on-chain version for pallets without a current storage
version?

We must init the on-chain version for pallets even if they don't have a
defined storage version so if there is a future version bump, the
on-chain version is not automatically set to that new version without a
proper migration.

e.g. bad scenario:

1. A pallet with no 'current version' is added to the runtime
2. Later, the pallet is upgraded with the 'current version' getting set
to 1 and a migration is added to Executive Migrations to migrate the
storage from 0 to 1
    a. Runtime upgrade occurs
    b. `before_all` hook initializes the on-chain version to 1
c. `on_runtime_upgrade` of the migration executes, and sees the on-chain
version is already 1 therefore think storage is already migrated and
does not execute the storage migration
Now, on-chain version is 1 but storage is still at version 0.

By always initializing the on-chain version when the pallet is added to
the runtime we avoid that scenario.

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Co-authored-by: Kian Paimani <5588131+kianenigma@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <git@kchr.de>
2023-11-07 06:12:40 +02:00
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2023-09-04 12:02:32 +03:00

Executive Module

The Executive module acts as the orchestration layer for the runtime. It dispatches incoming extrinsic calls to the respective modules in the runtime.

Overview

The executive module is not a typical pallet providing functionality around a specific feature. It is a cross-cutting framework component for the FRAME. It works in conjunction with the FRAME System module to perform these cross-cutting functions.

The Executive module provides functions to:

  • Check transaction validity.
  • Initialize a block.
  • Apply extrinsics.
  • Execute a block.
  • Finalize a block.
  • Start an off-chain worker.

Implementations

The Executive module provides the following implementations:

  • Executive: Type that can be used to make the FRAME available from the runtime.

Usage

The default Substrate node template declares the Executive type in its library.

Example

Executive type declaration from the node template.

#
/// Executive: handles dispatch to the various modules.
pub type Executive = executive::Executive<
    Runtime,
    Block,
    Context,
    Runtime,
    AllPallets,
>;

Custom OnRuntimeUpgrade logic

You can add custom logic that should be called in your runtime on a runtime upgrade. This is done by setting an optional generic parameter. The custom logic will be called before the on runtime upgrade logic of all modules is called.

#
struct CustomOnRuntimeUpgrade;
impl frame_support::traits::OnRuntimeUpgrade for CustomOnRuntimeUpgrade {
    fn on_runtime_upgrade() -> frame_support::weights::Weight {
        // Do whatever you want.
        frame_support::weights::Weight::zero()
    }
}

pub type Executive = executive::Executive<
    Runtime,
    Block,
    Context,
    Runtime,
    AllPallets,
    CustomOnRuntimeUpgrade,
>;

License: Apache-2.0