core, eth/downloader: validate blobtx.To at serialization time #27393
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The current 4844 spec states that the data format of blob txs allows the
To
field to benull
, but such transactions are rejected as invalid during block processing. This is a weird take (probably an omission to be fixed) since this essentially means that theTo
fields cannot benull
, but rejects the fact later in the processing pipeline.This PR changes the
To
field from*common.Address
tocommon.Address
. This will ensure thatnil
will never enter Geth inside a blob transaction. Interestingly, this PR can be merged even now without a spec change, since both versions of this (reject at parse time vs reject at interpretation time) have the same effect.Still, would be nice to confirm in the spec that nilness should be forbidden altogether.