eth/downloader: fix rare crash when parent header missing in db (#27945)

ReadSkeletonHeader can return nil if the header is missing, so we should
not access fields on it. Note that calling .Hash() on a nil header is fine, so there 
is no need to actually check for nil.

Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
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Delweng 2023-08-18 05:15:29 +08:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ func (s *skeleton) processNewHead(head *types.Header, final *types.Header, force
}
if parent := rawdb.ReadSkeletonHeader(s.db, number-1); parent.Hash() != head.ParentHash {
if force {
log.Warn("Beacon chain forked", "ancestor", parent.Number, "hash", parent.Hash(), "want", head.ParentHash)
log.Warn("Beacon chain forked", "ancestor", number-1, "hash", parent.Hash(), "want", head.ParentHash)
}
return true
}