core/types: improve error for too short transaction / receipt encoding (#24256)

core/types/receipt.go

@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ var (
 	receiptStatusSuccessfulRLP = []byte{0x01}
 )
 
-// This error is returned when a typed receipt is decoded, but the string is empty.
-var errEmptyTypedReceipt = errors.New("empty typed receipt bytes")
+var errShortTypedReceipt = errors.New("typed receipt too short")
 
 const (
 	// ReceiptStatusFailed is the status code of a transaction if execution failed.
@@ -166,26 +165,13 @@ func (r *Receipt) DecodeRLP(s *rlp.Stream) error {
 		}
 		r.Type = LegacyTxType
 		return r.setFromRLP(dec)
-	case kind == rlp.String:
+	default:
 		// It's an EIP-2718 typed tx receipt.
 		b, err := s.Bytes()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		if len(b) == 0 {
-			return errEmptyTypedReceipt
-		}
-		r.Type = b[0]
-		if r.Type == AccessListTxType || r.Type == DynamicFeeTxType {
-			var dec receiptRLP
-			if err := rlp.DecodeBytes(b[1:], &dec); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			return r.setFromRLP(dec)
-		}
-		return ErrTxTypeNotSupported
-	default:
-		return rlp.ErrExpectedList
+		return r.decodeTyped(b)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -208,8 +194,8 @@ func (r *Receipt) UnmarshalBinary(b []byte) error {
 
 // decodeTyped decodes a typed receipt from the canonical format.
 func (r *Receipt) decodeTyped(b []byte) error {
-	if len(b) == 0 {
-		return errEmptyTypedReceipt
+	if len(b) <= 1 {
+		return errShortTypedReceipt
 	}
 	switch b[0] {
 	case DynamicFeeTxType, AccessListTxType:

core/types/receipt_test.go

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ func TestDecodeEmptyTypedReceipt(t *testing.T) {
 	input := []byte{0x80}
 	var r Receipt
 	err := rlp.DecodeBytes(input, &r)
-	if err != errEmptyTypedReceipt {
+	if err != errShortTypedReceipt {
 		t.Fatal("wrong error:", err)
 	}
 }

core/types/transaction.go

@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ var (
 	errInvalidYParity       = errors.New("'yParity' field must be 0 or 1")
 	errVYParityMismatch     = errors.New("'v' and 'yParity' fields do not match")
 	errVYParityMissing      = errors.New("missing 'yParity' or 'v' field in transaction")
-	errEmptyTypedTx         = errors.New("empty typed transaction bytes")
 	errNoSigner             = errors.New("missing signing methods")
 	ErrFeeCapTooLow         = errors.New("fee cap less than base fee")
 
@@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ func (tx *Transaction) DecodeRLP(s *rlp.Stream) error {
 			tx.setDecoded(&inner, int(rlp.ListSize(size)))
 		}
 		return err
-	case kind == rlp.String:
+	default:
 		// It's an EIP-2718 typed TX envelope.
 		var b []byte
 		if b, err = s.Bytes(); err != nil {
@@ -160,8 +159,6 @@ func (tx *Transaction) DecodeRLP(s *rlp.Stream) error {
 			tx.setDecoded(inner, len(b))
 		}
 		return err
-	default:
-		return rlp.ErrExpectedList
 	}
 }
 
@@ -189,8 +186,8 @@ func (tx *Transaction) UnmarshalBinary(b []byte) error {
 
 // decodeTyped decodes a typed transaction from the canonical format.
 func (tx *Transaction) decodeTyped(b []byte) (TxData, error) {
-	if len(b) == 0 {
-		return nil, errEmptyTypedTx
+	if len(b) <= 1 {
+		return nil, errShortTypedTx
 	}
 	switch b[0] {
 	case AccessListTxType:

core/types/transaction_test.go

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ func TestDecodeEmptyTypedTx(t *testing.T) {
 	input := []byte{0x80}
 	var tx Transaction
 	err := rlp.DecodeBytes(input, &tx)
-	if err != errEmptyTypedTx {
+	if err != errShortTypedTx {
 		t.Fatal("wrong error:", err)
 	}
 }