state: handle nil in journal dirties

core/state/statedb.go

@@ -517,7 +517,17 @@ func (self *StateDB) GetRefund() uint64 {
 // and clears the journal as well as the refunds.
 func (s *StateDB) Finalise(deleteEmptyObjects bool) {
  for addr := range s.journal.dirties {
- stateObject := s.stateObjects[addr]
+ stateObject, exist := s.stateObjects[addr]
+ if !exist {
+ // ripeMD is 'touched' at block 1714175, in tx 0x1237f737031e40bcde4a8b7e717b2d15e3ecadfe49bb1bbc71ee9deb09c6fcf2
+ // That tx goes out of gas, and although the notion of 'touched' does not exist there, the
+ // touch-event will still be recorded in the journal. Since ripeMD is a special snowflake,
+ // it will persist in the journal even though the journal is reverted. In this special circumstance,
+ // it may exist in `s.journal.dirties` but not in `s.stateObjects`.
+ // Thus, we can safely ignore it here
+ continue
+ }
+
  if stateObject.suicided || (deleteEmptyObjects && stateObject.empty()) {
  s.deleteStateObject(stateObject)
  } else {