cmd/clef, signer: initial poc of the standalone signer (#16154)

* signer: introduce external signer command

* cmd/signer, rpc: Implement new signer. Add info about remote user to Context

* signer: refactored request/response, made use of urfave.cli

* cmd/signer: Use common flags

* cmd/signer: methods to validate calldata against abi

* cmd/signer: work on abi parser

* signer: add mutex around UI

* cmd/signer: add json 4byte directory, remove passwords from api

* cmd/signer: minor changes

* cmd/signer: Use ErrRequestDenied, enable lightkdf

* cmd/signer: implement tests

* cmd/signer: made possible for UI to modify tx parameters

* cmd/signer: refactors, removed channels in ui comms, added UI-api via stdin/out

* cmd/signer: Made lowercase json-definitions, added UI-signer test functionality

* cmd/signer: update documentation

* cmd/signer: fix bugs, improve abi detection, abi argument display

* cmd/signer: minor change in json format

* cmd/signer: rework json communication

* cmd/signer: implement mixcase addresses in API, fix json id bug

* cmd/signer: rename fromaccount, update pythonpoc with new json encoding format

* cmd/signer: make use of new abi interface

* signer: documentation

* signer/main: remove redundant  option

* signer: implement audit logging

* signer: create package 'signer', minor changes

* common: add 0x-prefix to mixcaseaddress in json marshalling + validation

* signer, rules, storage: implement rules + ephemeral storage for signer rules

* signer: implement OnApprovedTx, change signing response (API BREAKAGE)

* signer: refactoring + documentation

* signer/rules: implement dispatching to next handler

* signer: docs

* signer/rules: hide json-conversion from users, ensure context is cleaned

* signer: docs

* signer: implement validation rules, change signature of call_info

* signer: fix log flaw with string pointer

* signer: implement custom 4byte databsae that saves submitted signatures

* signer/storage: implement aes-gcm-backed credential storage

* accounts: implement json unmarshalling of url

* signer: fix listresponse, fix gas->uint64

* node: make http/ipc start methods public

* signer: add ipc capability+review concerns

* accounts: correct docstring

* signer: address review concerns

* rpc: go fmt -s

* signer: review concerns+ baptize Clef

* signer,node: move Start-functions to separate file

* signer: formatting

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/rpc/server.go b/rpc/server.go
index 11373b504..0f29035ed 100644
--- a/rpc/server.go
+++ b/rpc/server.go
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ func (s *Server) RegisterName(name string, rcvr interface{}) error {
 // If singleShot is true it will process a single request, otherwise it will handle
 // requests until the codec returns an error when reading a request (in most cases
 // an EOF). It executes requests in parallel when singleShot is false.
-func (s *Server) serveRequest(codec ServerCodec, singleShot bool, options CodecOption) error {
+func (s *Server) serveRequest(codec ServerCodec, singleShot bool, options CodecOption, ctx context.Context) error {
 	var pend sync.WaitGroup
 
 	defer func() {
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ func (s *Server) serveRequest(codec ServerCodec, singleShot bool, options CodecO
 		s.codecsMu.Unlock()
 	}()
 
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	//	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
 	defer cancel()
 
 	// if the codec supports notification include a notifier that callbacks can use
@@ -215,14 +216,14 @@ func (s *Server) serveRequest(codec ServerCodec, singleShot bool, options CodecO
 // stopped. In either case the codec is closed.
 func (s *Server) ServeCodec(codec ServerCodec, options CodecOption) {
 	defer codec.Close()
-	s.serveRequest(codec, false, options)
+	s.serveRequest(codec, false, options, context.Background())
 }
 
 // ServeSingleRequest reads and processes a single RPC request from the given codec. It will not
 // close the codec unless a non-recoverable error has occurred. Note, this method will return after
 // a single request has been processed!
-func (s *Server) ServeSingleRequest(codec ServerCodec, options CodecOption) {
-	s.serveRequest(codec, true, options)
+func (s *Server) ServeSingleRequest(codec ServerCodec, options CodecOption, ctx context.Context) {
+	s.serveRequest(codec, true, options, ctx)
 }
 
 // Stop will stop reading new requests, wait for stopPendingRequestTimeout to allow pending requests to finish,