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Token-fee MorphTx must enter pending when its sender can pay the ETH value and ERC20 fees. This PR corrects pool cost accounting, revalidates L1/token affordability as the chain changes, and aligns internal fee-token calls with Morph geth.

Pool behavior

  • Token-fee cost() includes only ETH value. The configured local transaction fee cap is still enforced using gas_limit × max_fee_per_gas.
  • Maintenance covers all senders, including ordinary-only senders. Each transaction is checked against the sender's current chain balance, matching admission and geth. It does not decrement a cumulative ETH/token reserve and then evict otherwise valid transactions.
  • Already-mined nonces are skipped; real nonce gaps stop the walk. An ordinary transaction between MorphTx transactions does not create a false gap.
  • Pure ETH shortfalls remain owned by reth's parking/recovery logic, including MorphTx value shortfalls. L1-only shortfalls, invalid fee tokens and insufficient token funds remove the first offending transaction and park its descendants. Transactions above a reduced block gas limit receive the same treatment for both transaction types, because reth does not refresh that flag after insertion.
  • Each new admission batch reads the provider's latest header and opens state by that hash. State, L1 parameters and EVM environment form one snapshot; opening failures retry the whole snapshot. Deep commits and missed/failed maintenance callbacks cannot pin future requests to an old cached head. A batch already in progress keeps its original snapshot.
  • MorphTxValidationError separates transaction invalidity from database/state failures. Only the invalid arm converts to an invalid-pool verdict; unavailable state neither evicts transactions nor marks admission attempts known-bad.
  • The maintenance loop runs as a critical blocking task. Registry metadata is cached by token ID and balances by (sender, token ID) for one round only. A newer notification arriving during the scan supersedes the old removal verdicts.

Consensus-facing token-call changes

These changes deserve execution-layer review in addition to txpool review:

  • Internal calls retain the outer transaction's ORIGIN and effective GASPRICE while setting the internal frame's caller separately. balanceOf executes in a genuine static frame with the actual block environment and a 200k gas allowance. Reverts and malformed balance replies are errors; database failures remain fatal.
  • Successful fee-deduction calls carry their signed SSTORE refund counter into transaction refund accounting before the refund cap. The counter survives a main-transaction revert/OOG and can be offset by a negative refund from main execution. Refund-transfer counters are excluded because geth settles the cap before reimbursement.
  • A successful CALL followed by a false return value or failed balance-delta check retains its state and logs. A genuine VM revert still rolls back its frame. Refund business failures remain soft failures; database failures do not.
  • Zero fees skip transfer(0). Nonce/cache updates still occur, and call-mode access-list/transient cleanup happens even when only the initial balance query ran.
  • Pool queries and the execution wrapper share MorphEvm::from_env; fee-limit clamping shares TokenFeeInfo::effective_fee_limit. Slot-mode transfers do not receive an artificial opcode refund.

Validation

  • cargo test --all --locked --offline: 929 passed, 1 existing ignored.
  • Committed geth-derived golden fixtures: 24 cases across Emerald and Jade, checking state roots, logs and transaction gas. The reference geth (5744b8f66) also validates all 24 expected results.
  • The fixtures cover deduction clearing refunds, the one-unit balance control, main revert/OOG, negative refund cancellation, ORIGIN/GASPRICE guards, static-call violations, successful refunds returning false, actual refund reverts, and zero-fee storage warmth.
  • 120 differential rounds, zero mismatches, across call-mode token, malformed balanceOf, and transfer return-data engines on Emerald/Jade.
  • The existing mainnet block 19720219 USDC derived fixture still produces identical geth/reth state and log roots; transaction gas remains 59,335 after accounting for the runners' intrinsic-gas convention.
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check and git diff --check: passed.
  • cargo clippy --all --all-targets --locked --offline -- -D warnings: passed.
  • Node E2E (morph-node, test-utils, integration binary): 128/128 passed.

Scope boundaries

  • PR #199 and issue #201 retain the EIP-7623 pool carve-out and future fork-gate work. This PR does not implement that carve-out.
  • Admission remains per transaction for token balances, as in geth; it does not introduce a cumulative token reservation policy.
  • The direct-storage fee path's protocol rules and other previously reported slot-mode audit gaps are unchanged. The SSTORE refund fix here concerns metered call-mode deduction.
  • The historical fixture is a bounded replay, not a full historical-chain replay. No production throughput benchmark or new live token inventory is claimed.

A MorphTx (0x7F) with `fee_token_id > 0` settles its gas fee in an ERC20
token, so the sender needs no ETH beyond `value`. `MorphPooledTransaction`
inherited `EthPooledTransaction`'s cost, which is
`gas_limit * max_fee_per_gas + value`.

The pool compares `PoolTransaction::cost()` against the sender's ETH balance
to set the `ENOUGH_BALANCE` bit in `TxState`, and a transaction missing that
bit lands in the queued sub-pool. `best_transactions()` only walks the pending
sub-pool, so a token payer holding no ETH had their transaction admitted by
the validator and then parked forever — the exact user ERC20 gas payment
exists for. morph-geth packs the same transaction: `executableTxFilter` sets
`txCost = nil` when `IsMorphTxWithAltFee()` and only requires
`costLimit >= value` (core/tx_pool.go:1657-1698).

Report the ETH-denominated cost as `value` for token-fee MorphTx and keep the
inherited cost everywhere else, including the `fee_token_id == 0` ETH-fee
MorphTx path. Token affordability is unchanged: `MorphTransactionValidator`
validates it on admission and re-validates it every block in
`maintain_morph_pool`.
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Morph transaction pooling now reports ETH value separately from token-settled gas costs. Local Morph transactions also enforce configured gas fee caps. Tests cover cost calculation, validation, pool selection, and cumulative ETH-value reservation.

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Morph transaction pool behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Morph transaction cost accounting
crates/txpool/src/transaction.rs
MorphPooledTransaction caches ETH cost. Token-fee transactions use value; ETH-fee Morph transactions and legacy transactions use the full gas cost plus value. Tests cover all three paths.
Fee-cap validation and pool selection
crates/txpool/src/validator.rs
Local Morph transactions exceeding a nonzero gas fee cap return ExceedsFeeCap. Tests cover local configuration, zero-ETH pool selection, and cumulative ETH-value reservation.

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The maintenance behavior is not fully protected by this regression test: it can pass without confirming that the unaffordable transaction is removed and its descendant is parked. Add the predecessor-removal assertion before merging.

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The MorphTx revalidation task runs alongside reth's own pool maintenance and
both subscribe to the canonical state stream independently, so this task can
observe a pool snapshot that still contains transactions the new block already
executed. It read the sender's account only for the balance and discarded the
nonce, so those already-executed transactions were charged against the new
(already reduced) post-state balance a second time, and the sender's next,
genuinely affordable transaction was evicted. Read the nonce alongside the
balance and skip everything below it, as upstream's `AllTransactions::update`
and go-ethereum's `demoteUnexecutables` both do.

Removal used `remove_transactions_and_descendants`, which deletes every
higher-nonce transaction of the sender — including plain ETH-fee transactions
that are affordable on their own and only depend on the removed one through the
nonce sequence. `remove_transactions` parks them instead (upstream's
`remove_transaction_by_hash` calls `park_descendant_transactions`), matching
what go-ethereum does by re-enqueueing its `invalids`.

A failed token state read was wrapped as `TokenInfoFetchFailed` and handled like
any other validation failure, so a transient read error removed a perfectly
valid transaction. The rest of this task already skips on a failed state
provider, L1 block info fetch or ETH balance read; token reads now follow the
same rule. go-ethereum drops the transaction in this case
(`executableTxFilter`, core/tx_pool.go:1690) and that is deliberately not
mirrored.

Also skip ahead to the newest queued notification before starting a round: a
round costs one state read per transaction, so the chain can advance while it
runs, and the verdicts are a pure function of the latest state.

The per-round decision is extracted into `collect_removable_transactions` so it
can be driven directly against a hand-built state, which is what the three new
regression tests do; each was confirmed to fail before this change.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
(cherry picked from commit a252bf6)
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The revalidation walk applied one rolling sender budget across every MorphTx in
the pool, pending and queued alike. A transaction sitting behind a nonce gap was
therefore charged against whatever the sender's executable transactions had left
over — but the transactions filling the gap are not in the pool, so how much of
the balance is actually still owed by the time the gapped one executes is
unknown. An unrelated block was enough to evict a future-nonce transaction that
had passed admission on its own.

Stop the walk at the first nonce discontinuity, which is what upstream's
`AllTransactions::update` does ("If there's a nonce gap, we can shortcircuit,
because there's nothing to update yet"). go-ethereum reaches the same place from
the other direction: `promoteExecutables` only ever applies a per-transaction
cost check to the queue and discards `FilterF`'s `invalids`.

Nothing is lost by leaving those transactions alone: without `NO_NONCE_GAPS`
they sit in the queued sub-pool, which is exactly what reth's own stale eviction
reaps.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
(cherry picked from commit 65ab7ec)
`query_balance_via_system_call` mapped every error, `EVMError::Database`
included, to a zero balance. A failed state read therefore came back as "this
account holds no tokens" and the transaction was rejected for insufficient
funds — and the `Err(EVMError::Database(e)) => Err(e)` arm in
`read_token_balance_with_fallback`, which exists precisely to propagate it, was
unreachable. Report the database error and leave the revert / short-return cases
as a zero balance, which are genuine statements about the token.

At admission a failure to even get a state provider became
`TransactionValidationOutcome::Invalid`. That is a verdict on the transaction:
the pool records it as known-bad and the network layer holds the sending peer
responsible for something that may be perfectly valid and merely could not be
checked. Route `TokenInfoFetchFailed` to `TransactionValidationOutcome::Error`
instead, which discards the attempt without blaming anyone.

`TokenInfoFetchFailed::token_id` becomes `Option<u16>`: the provider failure
happens before any token ID is known and was reporting a hardcoded `0`, so the
error read "failed to fetch token info for ID 0" for a token that had nothing to
do with it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
(cherry picked from commit f1b2f0b)
The token-fee handler resolved the caller's ERC20 balance by building a
throwaway `MorphEvm` over the raw database. That EVM carries `BlockEnv::default()`
and `CfgEnv::default()` — block 0, timestamp 1, chain id 1, zero coinbase and
base fee, `u64::MAX` gas limit — and `system_call_one` issues the call from
`SYSTEM_ADDRESS` with a 30M gas cap.

go-ethereum reads the same balance through `st.evm` (`GetAltTokenBalanceHybrid`,
core/token_gas.go:43), so the call sees the real header, the real chain config,
the user as `msg.sender` and a 200k cap. For any call-mode token whose
`balanceOf` reads block context or `msg.sender`, the two clients were computing
different balances for the same transaction — and that balance both caps
`fee_limit` and becomes the `from_balance_before` the post-transfer equality
check is measured against, so it decides whether the transaction is valid at all.

Resolve it against the executing EVM instead. Slot mode keeps reading storage
directly: there is no environment to get wrong, and an `sload` would warm a slot
the deduction below is careful to leave cold.

`evm_call_balance_of` now queries as the account being asked about, matching
`sender := vm.AccountRef(userAddress)`, and returns a `Result` so a failed state
read propagates rather than being reported as a zero balance — an I/O failure
must not decide a block's contents. A revert or unusable return value stays a
zero balance, which produces the same rejection go-ethereum reaches by erroring
out of `buyAltTokenGas`.

The receipt-field fallback in the block executor switches to `load_storage_only`:
it only reads `price_ratio` and `scale`, both plain registry storage, and was
spinning up a temporary EVM to resolve a balance it discards.

No currently registered fee token is affected — every call-mode token on mainnet
and hoodi is a FiatTokenV2_2 or OZ ERC20 whose `balanceOf` is a plain storage
read — so this closes a latent divergence rather than an active one.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
(cherry picked from commit 516b71e)
The pool resolved a call-mode fee token's balance through a temporary EVM built
from `MorphContext::new(db, hardfork)`, which carries `BlockEnv::default()` and
`CfgEnv::default()` — block 0, timestamp 1, chain id 1 — and queried it from
`SYSTEM_ADDRESS` with a 30M gas cap. go-ethereum's pool builds a real
`vm.BlockContext` from the head header and calls `balanceOf` as the user with a
200k cap (`pool.getBalanceFunc`, core/tx_pool.go:330).

So for a token whose `balanceOf` reads block context or `msg.sender`, admission
and maintenance were answering a different question than the execution layer —
admitting transactions that cannot execute, or rejecting ones that would.

Thread the block's `EvmEnv` through `MorphTxValidationInput` instead. The
validator caches it alongside the L1 block info, built by `ConfigureEvm::evm_env`
for the head, and the maintenance task builds it for each canonical tip, so both
use exactly what execution would. `read_token_balance_with_fallback` now stands
its EVM up in that environment and delegates to the same `evm_call_balance_of`
the handler uses, leaving one implementation of the query rather than two that
can drift.

`evm_call` takes the context error after running the frame group. A database
failure inside a frame is recorded on the context and surfaces as a halt;
running the frames directly skips the step that normally converts it, so an I/O
failure was indistinguishable from the token reverting — which would have
silently undone the propagation this relies on.

`query_erc20_balance` and `query_balance_via_system_call` are removed: they were
the only remaining way to ask this question in the wrong environment.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
(cherry picked from commit 40c93eb)
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crates/txpool/src/morph_tx_validation.rs (1)

30-34: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive hardfork from the cached evm_env in validate_morph_tx.

For one header, MorphEvmConfig::evm_env(header) and morph_hardfork_at(header.number(), header.timestamp()) use the same chain-spec inputs. Admission reads these values through separate caches, so a head update can make input.hardfork describe one header while TokenFeeInfo::load_for_caller uses another spec from evm_env. This can make the Jade gate and fee-token balance check apply different fork rules. Maintenance already derives both values from the same local environment. Remove hardfork from MorphTxValidationInput and use *input.evm_env.cfg_env.spec() for the Jade check.

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In `@crates/txpool/src/morph_tx_validation.rs` around lines 30 - 34, Update
validate_morph_tx and MorphTxValidationInput to remove the separate hardfork
field, and derive the Jade hardfork check from the cached input.evm_env
configuration via its spec. Ensure callers no longer populate input.hardfork so
the Jade gate and TokenFeeInfo::load_for_caller use the same environment.
crates/txpool/src/maintain.rs (1)

643-683: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Centralize the token-registry layout in a shared test utility.

test_state, mock_provider, token_registry_account, and call_mode_token_state_with_code are all test-only. They duplicate slots 151/153 and the balanceSlot + 1 encoding, so a registry change can leave tests with stale state. No production behavior or enforced check depends on this refactor. TOKEN_REGISTRY_SLOT and PRICE_RATIO_SLOT are private and are not re-exported, so expose the layout through the shared test utility instead of importing those constants directly.

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In `@crates/txpool/src/maintain.rs` around lines 643 - 683, Centralize the
token-registry storage layout used by test_state, mock_provider,
token_registry_account, and call_mode_token_state_with_code in the shared test
utility. Expose helper values or APIs for the token mapping slots and the
encoded balanceSlot + 1 layout, then update all four callers to use them instead
of hard-coded slots 151/153 or duplicated encoding; do not import the private
TOKEN_REGISTRY_SLOT or PRICE_RATIO_SLOT constants directly.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/txpool/src/maintain.rs`:
- Around line 955-1002: Update
removing_a_morph_tx_parks_its_descendants_instead_of_deleting_them to retain the
nonce-0 token-fee transaction’s hash when adding it, then assert that pool.get
for this hash is None after maintenance. Keep the existing descendant-presence
assertion so the test verifies both removal of the unaffordable transaction and
parking of its descendant.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/txpool/src/maintain.rs`:
- Around line 643-683: Centralize the token-registry storage layout used by
test_state, mock_provider, token_registry_account, and
call_mode_token_state_with_code in the shared test utility. Expose helper values
or APIs for the token mapping slots and the encoded balanceSlot + 1 layout, then
update all four callers to use them instead of hard-coded slots 151/153 or
duplicated encoding; do not import the private TOKEN_REGISTRY_SLOT or
PRICE_RATIO_SLOT constants directly.

In `@crates/txpool/src/morph_tx_validation.rs`:
- Around line 30-34: Update validate_morph_tx and MorphTxValidationInput to
remove the separate hardfork field, and derive the Jade hardfork check from the
cached input.evm_env configuration via its spec. Ensure callers no longer
populate input.hardfork so the Jade gate and TokenFeeInfo::load_for_caller use
the same environment.

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#[test]
fn removing_a_morph_tx_parks_its_descendants_instead_of_deleting_them() {
let client = mock_provider(10_000_000, 10 * TX_TOKEN_BUDGET);
let validator = crate::MorphTransactionValidator::new(
EthTransactionValidatorBuilder::new(
client.clone(),
MorphEvmConfig::new_with_default_factory(MORPH_MAINNET.clone()),
)
.disable_balance_check()
.with_custom_tx_type(morph_primitives::MORPH_TX_TYPE_ID)
.build::<MorphPooledTransaction, _>(InMemoryBlobStore::default()),
);
let pool = Pool::new(
validator,
CoinbaseTipOrdering::default(),
InMemoryBlobStore::default(),
Default::default(),
);

// nonce 0 pays in tokens, nonce 1 is a plain ETH transaction that only depends on
// nonce 0 through the nonce sequence.
futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
token_fee_tx(0),
))
.unwrap();
let descendant = futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
legacy_tx(1),
))
.unwrap()
.hash;

// The sender spends its whole token balance elsewhere, so nonce 0 is no longer payable.
set_token_balance(&client, 0);
let event = commit_event();
futures::executor::block_on(maintain_morph_pool_with(
pool.clone(),
client,
MorphEvmConfig::new_with_default_factory(MORPH_MAINNET.clone()),
futures::stream::iter([event]),
));

assert!(
pool.get(&descendant).is_some(),
"an independently affordable ETH-fee successor must be parked, not deleted"
);
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the token-fee transaction is removed, otherwise this test can pass without exercising parking.

The test only asserts that descendant is still in the pool. Every early-continue path in maintain_morph_pool_with removes nothing: a failed evm_config.evm_env build, a failed client.state_by_block_hash, a failed L1BlockInfo::try_fetch, or an empty morph_txs filter. In each of those cases the assertion still holds, so the test would report success without ever reaching collect_removable_transactions or pool.remove_transactions. Capture the nonce-0 hash and assert its removal as well.

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-        futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
-            reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
-            token_fee_tx(0),
-        ))
-        .unwrap();
+        let token_fee_hash = futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
+            reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
+            token_fee_tx(0),
+        ))
+        .unwrap()
+        .hash;
@@
+        assert!(
+            pool.get(&token_fee_hash).is_none(),
+            "the unpayable token-fee transaction must be removed"
+        );
         assert!(
             pool.get(&descendant).is_some(),
             "an independently affordable ETH-fee successor must be parked, not deleted"
         );
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#[test]
fn removing_a_morph_tx_parks_its_descendants_instead_of_deleting_them() {
let client = mock_provider(10_000_000, 10 * TX_TOKEN_BUDGET);
let validator = crate::MorphTransactionValidator::new(
EthTransactionValidatorBuilder::new(
client.clone(),
MorphEvmConfig::new_with_default_factory(MORPH_MAINNET.clone()),
)
.disable_balance_check()
.with_custom_tx_type(morph_primitives::MORPH_TX_TYPE_ID)
.build::<MorphPooledTransaction, _>(InMemoryBlobStore::default()),
);
let pool = Pool::new(
validator,
CoinbaseTipOrdering::default(),
InMemoryBlobStore::default(),
Default::default(),
);
// nonce 0 pays in tokens, nonce 1 is a plain ETH transaction that only depends on
// nonce 0 through the nonce sequence.
futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
token_fee_tx(0),
))
.unwrap();
let descendant = futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
legacy_tx(1),
))
.unwrap()
.hash;
// The sender spends its whole token balance elsewhere, so nonce 0 is no longer payable.
set_token_balance(&client, 0);
let event = commit_event();
futures::executor::block_on(maintain_morph_pool_with(
pool.clone(),
client,
MorphEvmConfig::new_with_default_factory(MORPH_MAINNET.clone()),
futures::stream::iter([event]),
));
assert!(
pool.get(&descendant).is_some(),
"an independently affordable ETH-fee successor must be parked, not deleted"
);
}
#[test]
fn removing_a_morph_tx_parks_its_descendants_instead_of_deleting_them() {
let client = mock_provider(10_000_000, 10 * TX_TOKEN_BUDGET);
let validator = crate::MorphTransactionValidator::new(
EthTransactionValidatorBuilder::new(
client.clone(),
MorphEvmConfig::new_with_default_factory(MORPH_MAINNET.clone()),
)
.disable_balance_check()
.with_custom_tx_type(morph_primitives::MORPH_TX_TYPE_ID)
.build::<MorphPooledTransaction, _>(InMemoryBlobStore::default()),
);
let pool = Pool::new(
validator,
CoinbaseTipOrdering::default(),
InMemoryBlobStore::default(),
Default::default(),
);
// nonce 0 pays in tokens, nonce 1 is a plain ETH transaction that only depends on
// nonce 0 through the nonce sequence.
let token_fee_hash = futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
token_fee_tx(0),
))
.unwrap()
.hash;
let descendant = futures::executor::block_on(pool.add_transaction(
reth_transaction_pool::TransactionOrigin::Local,
legacy_tx(1),
))
.unwrap()
.hash;
// The sender spends its whole token balance elsewhere, so nonce 0 is no longer payable.
set_token_balance(&client, 0);
let event = commit_event();
futures::executor::block_on(maintain_morph_pool_with(
pool.clone(),
client,
MorphEvmConfig::new_with_default_factory(MORPH_MAINNET.clone()),
futures::stream::iter([event]),
));
assert!(
pool.get(&token_fee_hash).is_none(),
"the unpayable token-fee transaction must be removed"
);
assert!(
pool.get(&descendant).is_some(),
"an independently affordable ETH-fee successor must be parked, not deleted"
);
}
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In `@crates/txpool/src/maintain.rs` around lines 955 - 1002, Update
removing_a_morph_tx_parks_its_descendants_instead_of_deleting_them to retain the
nonce-0 token-fee transaction’s hash when adding it, then assert that pool.get
for this hash is None after maintenance. Keep the existing descendant-presence
assertion so the test verifies both removal of the unaffordable transaction and
parking of its descendant.

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`evm_call` now takes the context error before running the frame group, not
only after it. Post-execution still runs after the main frame halts on a failed
read, and the token refund path reaches `evm_call` with that failure still
recorded on the context. The previous `debug_assert!` fired on exactly that
path; in release it would have re-attributed the main frame's failure to the
nested balance read. A nested call must not run in a context the main frame has
already poisoned, and the failure it reports must stay the main frame's.

`reimburse_caller_token_fee` re-raises `EVMError::Database` instead of logging
it and continuing. Once `evm_call` takes the context error, nothing downstream
surfaces it: the behaviour that previously covered this case — finalization
aborting on the still-recorded error — no longer applied, so a node that failed
to read the token during the refund finalized the transaction as a success
without refunding. That is a state divergence keyed on I/O. A contract that
rejects the refund still soft-fails, matching go-ethereum's `refundGas`.

`transfer_erc20_with_evm` preserves `EVMError::Database` instead of wrapping it
as `TokenTransferFailed`.

The refund regression was found by the second external review of #200 and its
reproduction is retained as `refund_database_failure_aborts_final_execution_result`;
the `evm_call` ordering came out of verifying that mechanism against revm's
`run_without_catch_error`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
…idation

The nonce-gap short circuit judged continuity over the MorphTx-only list the
caller had already filtered, so `Legacy(0), Morph(1)` looked gapped at nonce 1
and a MorphTx behind an ordinary transaction was never revalidated. After its
token balance was spent it stayed in pending, where nothing time-evicts it.
Regression from 85dae28.

Walk every transaction of a sender that holds at least one MorphTx. Ordinary
predecessors advance the nonce and consume the ETH budget — their spend is owed
before the later MorphTx executes — and an ordinary predecessor that is no
longer affordable stops the walk without removing anything, since standard
maintenance owns it.

Found by the second external review of #200.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
…tch to it

Block number and timestamp, base fee, L1 fee parameters and the EVM environment
were written and read as separate fields. A canonical update racing a
validation batch could pair the new block's state with the previous block's
environment, and the state provider was opened by block *number*, which a
same-height reorg cannot disambiguate.

`MorphValidationHead` bundles hash, number, timestamp, base fee, L1 info and the
`EvmEnv`, published atomically behind one `RwLock<Option<Arc<_>>>`. A batch pins
one head and opens its provider by hash. The inner validator's stateful checks
now run against that pinned provider too, so the account read, the token read
and the environment agree on a block — previously the inner validator used
`latest()` while the token read used the cached head number. Until a head has
been published, validation returns `Error` (retry) rather than validating
against a zero head.

Note for #199: its `validate_inner_with_state` covers the same
stateless/stateful split; the EIP-7623 carve-out slots in at the
`validate_stateless` call here when that branch is rebased.

Found by the second external review of #200.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
…rphTx

The mixed-sequence walk charges an ordinary predecessor's `gas × max_fee +
value + L1 data fee` against the sender's ETH budget and stopped at the first
one that no longer fit, leaving it to reth's own maintenance. That is only
right for the part of the shortfall reth can see. Its `cost()` excludes the L1
data fee, so a predecessor that became unaffordable purely because of that fee
— the oracle price rose after admission, or the balance dipped into the gap —
is never parked by `AllTransactions::update`, and this walk stopped in front
of it on every round. The predecessor and the MorphTx behind it sat in
pending, where nothing time-evicts them, and the MorphTx was never revalidated
again.

Track reth's cumulative `cost()` alongside the L1-inclusive budget. When the
budget fails but `Σ cost()` still fits the balance, the shortfall is exactly
the L1 fees reth cannot see: remove that predecessor, which parks its
descendants through `remove_transactions`, matching what go-ethereum's
`executableTxFilter` does with an L1-unaffordable transaction. When
`Σ cost()` itself exceeds the balance, reth parks it on its own and the walk
still stops without removing anything.

This only covers senders that hold a MorphTx, because that is the set this
task walks. A sender with only ordinary transactions in the same L1-fee gap
still stays in pending — the pre-existing asymmetry with go-ethereum, which
rechecks the L1 data fee for every pending transaction each block — and is
left for a dedicated change.

Found by the third external review of #200; its reproduction is retained as
`ordinary_l1_fee_shortfall_parks_the_morph_successor`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PiUjd47Da71WG2BFkDQz9q
Remove the pool-wide and per-sender MorphTx presence filters so ordinary-only
senders enter the same per-block fee-maintenance walk. Reth's cost excludes
L1 data fees, so admission alone cannot keep transactions payable after
oracle updates or balance changes.

Reuse the cumulative fee budgets to remove the first transaction whose L1
fees make it unaffordable and park its descendants. Keep standard maintenance
responsible for plain ETH shortfalls, skip executed nonces, stop at real
nonce gaps, and preserve transactions when state cannot be read.

Add real-pool regressions for ordinary-only and mixed-sender pools, exact
budgets, single and cumulative shortfalls, parked descendants, nonce gaps,
mined nonces and both maintenance-task orders. The fee-increase regression
fails before removing the filters.

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@panos-xyz panos-xyz changed the title fix(txpool): fee-token pool maintenance and balance-resolution fixes fix(txpool): align fee maintenance and token-call execution Sep 13, 2026
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