persist accounts that have storage updates, but no nonce, balance nor…

… code

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lehrner <daniel.lehrner@consensys.net>

ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/MainnetTransactionProcessor.java

@@ -501,7 +501,6 @@ public TransactionProcessingResult processTransaction(
           coinbaseCalculator.price(usedGas, transactionGasPrice, blockHeader.getBaseFee());
 
       coinbase.incrementBalance(coinbaseWeiDelta);
-      authorizedCodeService.resetAuthorities();
 
       operationTracer.traceEndTransaction(
           worldUpdater,
@@ -516,8 +515,13 @@ public TransactionProcessingResult processTransaction(
       initialFrame.getSelfDestructs().forEach(worldState::deleteAccount);
 
       if (clearEmptyAccounts) {
-        worldState.clearAccountsThatAreEmpty();
+        // TODO remove for devnet-2 and later as in the new version of 7702 the nonce of the
+        // authorities is increased
+        // and will not be cleared anymore in case of storage change only
+        worldState.clearAccountsThatAreEmpty(authorizedCodeService.getAuthorities());
+        // worldState.clearAccountsThatAreEmpty();
       }
+      authorizedCodeService.resetAuthorities();
 
       if (initialFrame.getState() == MessageFrame.State.COMPLETED_SUCCESS) {
         return TransactionProcessingResult.successful(

evm/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/evm/worldstate/WorldUpdater.java

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.tuweni.bytes.Bytes;
 
@@ -175,6 +176,19 @@ default void clearAccountsThatAreEmpty() {
         .stream().filter(Account::isEmpty).forEach(a -> deleteAccount(a.getAddress()));
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Clears any accounts that are empty, excluding those in the provided set
+   *
+   * @param excludedAddresses the addresses to exclude from deletion
+   */
+  default void clearAccountsThatAreEmpty(final Set<Address> excludedAddresses) {
+    new ArrayList<>(getTouchedAccounts())
+        .stream()
+            .filter(a -> !excludedAddresses.contains(a.getAddress()))
+            .filter(Account::isEmpty)
+            .forEach(a -> deleteAccount(a.getAddress()));
+  }
+
   /** Mark transaction boundary. */
   default void markTransactionBoundary() {
     // default is to ignore