From 5e6f7374deaae104e243703f5aea25c68f4d6df6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Klank <155117116+davidjsonn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:04:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ethapi: deref gasUsed pointer in eth_simulate log (#33192)

Show the actual gas used in the block limit error so RPC clients see
useful numbers.
---
 internal/ethapi/simulate.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/internal/ethapi/simulate.go b/internal/ethapi/simulate.go
index 0d1a59b371..e0732c327a 100644
--- a/internal/ethapi/simulate.go
+++ b/internal/ethapi/simulate.go
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ func (sim *simulator) sanitizeCall(call *TransactionArgs, state vm.StateDB, head
 		call.Gas = (*hexutil.Uint64)(&remaining)
 	}
 	if *gasUsed+uint64(*call.Gas) > blockContext.GasLimit {
-		return &blockGasLimitReachedError{fmt.Sprintf("block gas limit reached: %d >= %d", gasUsed, blockContext.GasLimit)}
+		return &blockGasLimitReachedError{fmt.Sprintf("block gas limit reached: %d >= %d", *gasUsed, blockContext.GasLimit)}
 	}
 	if err := call.CallDefaults(sim.gp.Gas(), header.BaseFee, sim.chainConfig.ChainID); err != nil {
 		return err