core: fix temp memory blowup caused by defers holding on to state

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Péter Szilágyi 2021-02-12 12:45:34 +02:00
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@ -1805,6 +1805,17 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) insertChain(chain types.Blocks, verifySeals bool) (int, er
return it.index, err
}
// No validation errors for the first block (or chain prefix skipped)
var activeState *state.StateDB
defer func() {
// The chain importer is starting and stopping trie prefetchers. If a bad
// block or other error is hit however, an early return may not properly
// terminate the background threads. This defer ensures that we clean up
// and dangling prefetcher, without defering each and holding on live refs.
if activeState != nil {
activeState.StopPrefetcher()
}
}()
for ; block != nil && err == nil || err == ErrKnownBlock; block, err = it.next() {
// If the chain is terminating, stop processing blocks
if bc.insertStopped() {
@ -1867,7 +1878,7 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) insertChain(chain types.Blocks, verifySeals bool) (int, er
}
// Enable prefetching to pull in trie node paths while processing transactions
statedb.StartPrefetcher("chain")
defer statedb.StopPrefetcher() // stopped on write anyway, defer meant to catch early error returns
activeState = statedb
// If we have a followup block, run that against the current state to pre-cache
// transactions and probabilistically some of the account/storage trie nodes.