From bea2b7ea8caffe08cbf2de7606c3cfe53c977739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:42:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] remove unnecessary snapshot Cap in flush

---
 core/genesis.go       |  2 +-
 core/state/statedb.go | 10 ----------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/genesis.go b/core/genesis.go
index acfd613fe5..1a3da935f5 100644
--- a/core/genesis.go
+++ b/core/genesis.go
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ func (ga *GenesisAlloc) flush(db ethdb.Database, triedb *trie.Database, blockhas
 	}
 
 	rawdb.WriteGenesisStateSpec(db, blockhash, blob)
-	return statedb.Cap(root) // XXX check this is still necessary
+	return nil
 }
 
 // CommitGenesisState loads the stored genesis state with the given block
diff --git a/core/state/statedb.go b/core/state/statedb.go
index a3616e7a58..f0ec65d1d2 100644
--- a/core/state/statedb.go
+++ b/core/state/statedb.go
@@ -1215,16 +1215,6 @@ func (s *StateDB) GetTrie() Trie {
 	return s.trie
 }
 
-// XXX check it's still needed
-func (s *StateDB) Cap(root common.Hash) error {
-	if s.snaps != nil {
-		return s.snaps.Cap(root, 0)
-	}
-	// pre-verkle path: noop if s.snaps hasn't been
-	// initialized.
-	return nil
-}
-
 // Commit writes the state to the underlying in-memory trie database.
 // Once the state is committed, tries cached in stateDB (including account
 // trie, storage tries) will no longer be functional. A new state instance