miner: fix nil statedb panic in applyTransaction pre-amsterdam#33968
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When accessList is nil (pre-Amsterdam blocks), stateCopy is never assigned and passed as nil to core.ApplyTransaction. This causes a nil pointer dereference at state_processor.go:224 when checking statedb.Database().TrieDB().IsVerkle(). Set stateCopy = env.state in the non-Amsterdam path so ApplyTransaction always receives a valid statedb. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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accessListis nil (pre-Amsterdam blocks),stateCopyis never assigned and passed as nil tocore.ApplyTransaction, causing a nil pointer dereference atstate_processor.go:224(statedb.Database().TrieDB().IsVerkle())StateReaderTrackertype assertion panic but missed this second crash path in the same functionstateCopy = env.statein the non-Amsterdam path soApplyTransactionalways receives a valid statedbTest plan
gloas_fork_epoch: 256, pre-Amsterdam): 36+ slots, zero missed blocks, zero geth errors🤖 Generated with Claude Code