fix: eth_estimateGas error in zero balance address

[colinlyguo]

1. Purpose or design rationale of this PR

Correct response (Ethereum, account with 0 balance):

curl https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/9baa7a0388c9440a85534617d4d862a9 -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"method":"eth_estimateGas","params":[{"from":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9"}],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"0x5208"}

Incorrect response (Scroll, account with 0 balance):

curl https://rpc.scroll.io/ -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"method":"eth_estimateGas","params":[{"from":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9"}],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"error":{"code":-32000,"message":"err: insufficient funds for gas * price + value: address 0x8888889C9818892b700E27f316CC3E41e17fbeb9 have 0 want 75453596795115 (supplied gas 5005617)"}}

Root cause:

1. Error msg return path:
   a. https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/core/state_transition.go#L243
   b. https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/core/state_transition.go#L312
   c. https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/core/state_transition.go#L341
   d. https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/core/state_transition.go#L205
   e. https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/internal/ethapi/api.go#L1003
   f. https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/internal/ethapi/api.go#L1176
2. Caused by adding l1 data fee here: https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/core/state_transition.go#L238

No need to check L1 data fee in DoCall, because it only checks if the tx can be successfully executed within a specified gas limit.

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• fix: A bug fix

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• Yes

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• This PR is not a breaking change
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[0xmountaintop]

I am not sure whether it's what we want, if a user estimates gas and then uses this gas to call, the call will still fail?

i feel like we can handle this types of error specially (if it's this error type, don't return error in DoEstimateGas, but provide the l1fee&l2fee details)

[mask-pp]

It works at my local env.

[colinlyguo]

I am not sure whether it's what we want, if a user estimates gas and then uses this gas to call, the call will still fail?

i feel like we can handle this types of error specially (if it's this error type, don't return error in DoEstimateGas, but provide the l1fee&l2fee details)

L1 data fee is subtracted here when tx has fees: https://github.com/scroll-tech/go-ethereum/blob/scroll-v5.0.1/internal/ethapi/api.go#L1137-L1145
After subtraction, DoCall only cares about the L2 fees, which is compatible with semantics in Ethereum. So preCheck can ignore L1 data fees.

[colinlyguo]

Local test looks good (eth_call & eth_estimateGas):

curl http://localhost:8545 -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"method":"eth_call","params":[{"from":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9"}, "latest"],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   208  100    39  100   169  12400  53736 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  203k
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x"
}

curl http://localhost:8545 -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"method":"eth_estimateGas","params":[{"from":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9"}],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}' | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   209  100    43  100   166   7742  29888 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 69666
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0x5208"
}

[mask-pp]

One situation that should be considered is that l1DataFee is used when running but eth_estimateGas doesn't include l1DataFee.

[mask-pp]

It works at my local env.

More complete verification is needed.

[Thegaram]

An additional note: eth_estimateGas will fail if the account has zero balance but the user provides a gas price:

$ curl http://localhost:8545 -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"method":"eth_estimateGas","params":[{"from":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9", "gasPrice": "0x1"}],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"error":{"code":-32000,"message":"insufficient funds for l1 fee"}}

go-ethereum/internal/ethapi/api.go

Lines 1099 to 1105 in 11bf5a9

	l1DataFee, err := EstimateL1MsgFee(ctx, b, args, blockNrOrHash, nil, 0, gasCap, b.ChainConfig())
	if err != nil {
	return 0, err
	}
	if l1DataFee.Cmp(available) >= 0 {
	return 0, errors.New("insufficient funds for l1 fee")
	}

This is consistent with the way that geth handles value in this case.

[colinlyguo]

An additional note: eth_estimateGas will fail if the account has zero balance but the user provides a gas price:

$ curl http://localhost:8545 -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"method":"eth_estimateGas","params":[{"from":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9","to":"0x8888889C9818892B700e27F316cc3E41e17fBeb9", "gasPrice": "0x1"}],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"error":{"code":-32000,"message":"insufficient funds for l1 fee"}}

go-ethereum/internal/ethapi/api.go

Lines 1099 to 1105 in 11bf5a9

	l1DataFee, err := EstimateL1MsgFee(ctx, b, args, blockNrOrHash, nil, 0, gasCap, b.ChainConfig())
	if err != nil {
	return 0, err
	}
	if l1DataFee.Cmp(available) >= 0 {
	return 0, errors.New("insufficient funds for l1 fee")
	}

This is consistent with the way that geth handles value in this case.

Yeah. Let's consider how to handle this systematically after receiving more feedback. Potential inconsistency with SDKs.