From e9d17d0e368fd3cb998cdb960aa6ccaba0cb2224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergio Mena <sergio@informal.systems>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 09:33:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Addressed William's comment on ProcessProposal error

---
 consensus/state.go | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/consensus/state.go b/consensus/state.go
index e9d8b4a35..31a94238b 100644
--- a/consensus/state.go
+++ b/consensus/state.go
@@ -1278,7 +1278,9 @@ func (cs *State) defaultDoPrevote(height int64, round int32) {
 
 	stateMachineValidBlock, err := cs.blockExec.ProcessProposal(cs.ProposalBlock)
 	if err != nil {
-		cs.Logger.Error("state machine returned an error when trying to process proposal block", "err", err)
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf(
+			"state machine returned an error (%v) when calling ProcessProposal", err,
+		))
 	}
 
 	// Vote nil if application invalidated the block