From a2c456a526ae9c07944f12913c6830add93a553f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 17:12:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] core: ensure a broken trie invariant crashes genesis creation
 (#22780)

* Ensure state could be created in ToBlock

* Fix rebase errors

* use a panic instead
---
 core/genesis.go | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/genesis.go b/core/genesis.go
index 9ae718beb..d7d08e090 100644
--- a/core/genesis.go
+++ b/core/genesis.go
@@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ func (g *Genesis) ToBlock(db ethdb.Database) *types.Block {
 	if db == nil {
 		db = rawdb.NewMemoryDatabase()
 	}
-	statedb, _ := state.New(common.Hash{}, state.NewDatabase(db), nil)
+	statedb, err := state.New(common.Hash{}, state.NewDatabase(db), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
 	for addr, account := range g.Alloc {
 		statedb.AddBalance(addr, account.Balance)
 		statedb.SetCode(addr, account.Code)