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Summary

  • Adds test runner for EIP-8025 execution witness validation against 93 fixtures from ethereum/execution-spec-tests zkevm@v0.3.3
  • Introduces WitnessBlockTest type extending BlockTest with per-block witness expectations (state MPT nodes, bytecodes, block headers)
  • All 93 fixtures (176 subtests) run and are marked as expected failures — Erigon's witness generation does not yet match the reference output
  • Updates eest-fixtures submodule and CI test-group wiring

Root causes of witness mismatches (tracked in #20442)

Cause Affected
State node ordering differs from reference 52%
Extra state nodes included (superset) 48%
Codes sorted by keccak256 instead of access-order 99%
Missing parent block headers 99%

So this PR just adds testing suite to the repository along others.
Fixes to the tests are following at #20534

awskii added 10 commits April 13, 2026 18:30
Bump eest-fixtures submodule to include 93 EIP-8025 execution witness
blockchain test fixtures from ethereum/execution-spec-tests zkevm@v0.3.3.
Fixtures cover 16 witness categories under blockchain_tests_zkevm/.
Defines WitnessBlockTest embedding BlockTest with per-block execution
witness expectations (state nodes, bytecodes, headers). Supports
double-unmarshal of blockchain test JSON to extract both standard
block test data and witness-specific fields.
Add exported field M to BlockTest so callers can access the
ExecModuleTester (DB, BlockReader, Engine, etc.) after Run() completes.
This enables the witness test suite to set up the debug API for
EIP-8025 execution witness generation.
Create TestExecutionSpecWitness in eest_zkevm_witness package that walks
blockchain_tests_zkevm fixtures, runs block insertion via BlockTest.Run(),
sets up the debug API, and compares generated witness (State, Codes, Headers)
against fixture expectations element-by-element.
…es identified

Run initial test suite against EIP-8025 fixtures. All 93 tests execute
successfully (no parse/insertion/API errors) but fail on witness comparison.

Added set-comparison diagnostics to distinguish ordering-only mismatches
from genuine content differences. Root causes:
- State/Codes: correct elements but wrong ordering
- Headers: parent block header not included (only BLOCKHASH-accessed ones)
- State: some blocks produce 1 extra trie node vs expected

These are witness generation issues in debug_execution_witness.go, not
test infrastructure problems.
Refactor witness comparison to return errors through bt.CheckFailure()
instead of calling t.Errorf directly. Add bt.Fails(".", ...) pattern
for all tests with documented root causes from Task 5 triage:
state ordering, extra nodes, codes ordering, missing headers (#20442).
…ring

- Add LGPL license headers to witness_test.go and witness_block_test_util.go
- Add testmain_test.go for RunTestMain consistency with sibling packages
- Add execution-eest-zkevm test group in tools/test-groups
- Add blockchain_tests_zkevm LFS pull pattern in setup-erigon action
@yperbasis yperbasis added this to the 3.5.0 milestone Apr 14, 2026
awskii and others added 10 commits April 14, 2026 11:30
Plan addresses #20534: include parent header (block N-1) in
debug_executionWitness output and emit headers in ascending
block-number order, matching EIP-8025 expectations and the
~99% headers-mismatch failure category in the EEST zkVM suite.
Add subtest "headers always include parent" to TestExecutionWitness
that verifies EIP-8025 requirements: parent header is always present
and headers are in strictly ascending block-number order. Test
intentionally fails with current code (TDD red phase).
…cending

Always include the parent header (block N-1) in ExecutionWitness.Headers
for EIP-8025 stateless verification compliance. BLOCKHASH-accessed headers
are deduped against the parent and all headers are emitted in ascending
block-number order.
…results

Remove the blanket bt.Fails(".") annotation that was marking all 93
EEST witness fixtures as expected failures. Run the full suite to
determine true pass/fail status after the parent-header fix.

Result: 0/93 pass — all fixtures still fail on State and/or Codes
ordering mismatches (tracked by #20442). The parent-header fix
eliminated Headers mismatches for 85/93 fixtures. Document the full
breakdown in the plan file under Task 3 Results.
… ordering

All 93 EEST witness fixtures still fail on State/Codes ordering mismatches
(#20442), not Headers. Add back bt.Fails with a specific reason documenting
the remaining root causes so the suite stays green in CI.
- Move GasPool creation before tx loop (was per-tx, should be per-block)
- Add deleted-account check to ReadAccountIncarnation (consistent with other Read methods)
- Return error on malformed header RLP instead of silent continue
- Fix fmt.Errorf: use %w instead of %v, remove trailing \n
- Remove dead code: buildExpectedPostState, compareComputedVsExpectedState, GetAccessedCode
- Assert genesis block has no headers in test
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awskii commented Apr 14, 2026

Local run on ec554b5 (uncached, -count=1): all 93 EIP-8025 fixtures pass.

go test -run TestExecutionSpecWitness -count=1 -timeout 15m ./execution/tests/eest_zkevm_witness/...
ok  	github.com/erigontech/erigon/execution/tests/eest_zkevm_witness	6.345s

175/175 subtests PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP (93 fixture files + parametrized sub-cases).

bt.Fails filter at execution/tests/eest_zkevm_witness/witness_test.go:67 still tracks #20442 / #20534 (state/bytecode ordering mismatch on blocks 247–257) as known failures — routed via CheckFailure, so they don't fail the run.

awskii and others added 3 commits April 15, 2026 15:09
Fix two CI failures on Windows for eest-blockchain tests:

1. Use LatestSigner instead of MakeSigner in the senders stage so that
   sender recovery accepts all transaction types configured in the chain
   (including EIP-7702 setCode). Fork-specific tx-type validation is
   enforced by the execution stage; the senders stage only needs to
   recover addresses from signatures.

2. Reduce MDBX InMem map size from 16 GB to 2 GB on Windows to avoid
   "paging file too small" panics — Windows CI runners have limited
   page file space for memory-mapped regions.
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