From c0ad424824bda2cbc2659564e03a041714a230c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pratik Patil <pratikspatil024@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:34:29 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] addressed comments, Author() never returns error, returns 0x0
 insted

---
 consensus/bor/bor.go       | 10 +++++++++-
 consensus/clique/clique.go | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/consensus/bor/bor.go b/consensus/bor/bor.go
index 37e5f87c13..05246390fe 100644
--- a/consensus/bor/bor.go
+++ b/consensus/bor/bor.go
@@ -292,7 +292,15 @@ func (c *Bor) Author(header *types.Header) (common.Address, error) {
 		add := common.HexToAddress("0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
 		return add, nil
 	}
-	return ecrecover(header, c.signatures, c.config)
+
+	add, err := ecrecover(header, c.signatures, c.config)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		add := common.HexToAddress("0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
+		return add, nil
+	} else {
+		return add, nil
+	}
 }
 
 // VerifyHeader checks whether a header conforms to the consensus rules.
diff --git a/consensus/clique/clique.go b/consensus/clique/clique.go
index d63e0c37e3..ce9b636764 100644
--- a/consensus/clique/clique.go
+++ b/consensus/clique/clique.go
@@ -214,7 +214,15 @@ func (c *Clique) Author(header *types.Header) (common.Address, error) {
 		add := common.HexToAddress("0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
 		return add, nil
 	}
-	return ecrecover(header, c.signatures)
+
+	add, err := ecrecover(header, c.signatures)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		add := common.HexToAddress("0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000")
+		return add, nil
+	} else {
+		return add, nil
+	}
 }
 
 // VerifyHeader checks whether a header conforms to the consensus rules.