From 7208db8a8d77de5f8d011050944a98d2647f57fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sina Mahmoodi <1591639+s1na@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:12:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] consensus/clique: fix block number unmarshal (#23961)

* clique: fix block number unmarshal

* clique: rename
---
 consensus/clique/api.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/consensus/clique/api.go b/consensus/clique/api.go
index 03f2daffa0c4..cb270d321d5a 100644
--- a/consensus/clique/api.go
+++ b/consensus/clique/api.go
@@ -196,7 +196,11 @@ func (sb *blockNumberOrHashOrRLP) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &input); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	sb.RLP = hexutil.MustDecode(input)
+	blob, err := hexutil.Decode(input)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	sb.RLP = blob
 	return nil
 }