chore(core,eth): fix ineffectual assignments

[loglapa]

Proposed changes

Remove the two current ineffassign findings:

• declare originalHash without an immediately overwritten zero-value assignment;
• check the state commit error in TestAccountRange before opening the resulting trie.

The production-code change is behavior-neutral. The test change prevents a failed commit from being silently masked by the following trie-open operation.

Part of #1486.

Types of changes

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• ci: Changes to CI configuration files and scripts
• chore: Changes that don't change source code or tests
• docs: Documentation only changes
• feat: A new feature
• fix: A bug fix
• perf: A code change that improves performance
• refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
• revert: Revert something
• style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code
• test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests

Impacted Components

• Consensus
• Account
• Network
• Geth
• Smart Contract
• External components
• Not sure (Please specify below)

Verification

• golangci-lint run --enable-only ineffassign ./...: 0 issues
• go test ./core ./eth -run 'TestAccountRange|Genesis|StoredConfig' -count=1
• make all quick-test test tidy generate
• Full lint count falls from 75 findings on main to 73; the ineffassign category falls from 2 to 0. The remaining findings are pre-existing and unrelated.

Checklist

• This PR has sufficient test coverage (unit/integration test) OR I have provided reason in the PR description for not having test coverage
• Tested on a private network from the genesis block and monitored the chain operating correctly for multiple epochs.
• Provide an end-to-end test plan in the PR description on how to manually test it on the devnet/testnet.
• Tested the backwards compatibility.
• Tested with XDC nodes running this version co-exist with those running the previous version.
• Relevant documentation has been updated as part of this PR
• N/A

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved error handling in account range testing to better detect state-related failures.
• Refactor
  • Simplified internal variable declarations without changing application behavior.
• Tests
  • Strengthened test setup and validation around state database creation and post-commit operations.

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Walkthrough

The change simplifies a genesis hash declaration and adds explicit error handling for initial and post-commit state creation in TestAccountRange.

Changes

Maintenance updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Genesis hash declaration core/genesis_load.go	originalHash now uses a zero-value variable declaration.
Debug test error handling eth/api_debug_test.go	TestAccountRange reports errors from both initial and post-commit state.New calls. Trie-opening validation remains unchanged.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d7d46

This change removes ineffectual assignments and makes a test commit error explicit without changing production behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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In `@eth/api_debug_test.go`:
- Line 87: Update both state.New calls in the test setup to capture and handle
their returned errors before using the StateDB result; do not discard either
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[gzliudan]

please change merge target to dev-upgrade

[gzliudan]

do not use main branch

[loglapa]

Rebased this change onto the current dev-upgrade branch as requested. The patch remains limited to the ineffectual-assignment fixes and the accompanying test error handling. Validation on Go 1.25: make all quick-test tidy generate, targeted go test ./accounts/abi/abigen -count=1, a clean full make test rerun, and git diff --check all pass.

[loglapa]

The requested base-branch change is now complete: the PR targets dev-upgrade, and the rebased head is f7c2c981a5. GitHub does not permit an external contributor to re-request a reviewer here, so please revisit the earlier “do not use main branch” change request when convenient.

[gzliudan]

LGTM

[gzliudan]

chore(lint) should be chore(core,eth)

[loglapa]

Updated the PR title to chore(core,eth): fix ineffectual assignments as requested.