From 61cb33e0b45e439c9c119450f78beeee6678d0eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: devopsbo3 <69951731+devopsbo3@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:31:54 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "core: remove pointless check for excessBlobGas
 nilness (#27797)"

This reverts commit cd2e754633d7f628d48e676f87c1b022102bb03f.
---
 core/state_transition.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/state_transition.go b/core/state_transition.go
index 13f3f32321c9e..6cfe1d9c1a06d 100644
--- a/core/state_transition.go
+++ b/core/state_transition.go
@@ -242,6 +242,10 @@ func (st *StateTransition) buyGas() error {
 	}
 	if st.evm.ChainConfig().IsCancun(st.evm.Context.BlockNumber, st.evm.Context.Time) {
 		if blobGas := st.blobGasUsed(); blobGas > 0 {
+			if st.evm.Context.ExcessBlobGas == nil {
+				// programming error
+				panic("missing field excess data gas")
+			}
 			// Check that the user has enough funds to cover blobGasUsed * tx.BlobGasFeeCap
 			blobBalanceCheck := new(big.Int).SetUint64(blobGas)
 			blobBalanceCheck.Mul(blobBalanceCheck, st.msg.BlobGasFeeCap)