Unrelated tests failing in geth CI

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See [this build failure]https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ethereum/go-ethereum/builds/41512143/job/ef4490waxtngwnpy)

For instance, we have the following issues:

--- FAIL: TestCheckpointRegister (0.01s)
panic: undefined value in witness [recovered]
	panic: undefined value in witness
goroutine 11 [running]:

Other tests point to an uninitialized AccessWitness

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Note that the undefined value in witness panic is probably the wrong behavior, as some values are simply not present and so a proof of absence should be created for them.

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A further crash:

--- FAIL: TestEIP2200 (0.00s)
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered]
	panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x55d737]
goroutine 1132 [running]:
testing.tRunner.func1.2({0x66e3a0, 0xa72d40})
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1209 +0x24e
testing.tRunner.func1()
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1212 +0x218
panic({0x66e3a0, 0xa72d40})
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/runtime/panic.go:1038 +0x215
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types.(*AccessWitness).TouchAddress(0x0, {0xc00044c160, 0x20, 0x20}, {0xc00044c120, 0x20, 0x20})
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/types/access_witness.go:59 +0xb7
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm.(*EVM).Call(0xc00006f500, {0x706220, 0xc0000d3e00}, {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...}, ...)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/vm/evm.go:234 +0xbf9
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm.TestEIP2200(0xc00043f520)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/vm/gas_table_test.go:96 +0x4ba
testing.tRunner(0xc00043f520, 0x6beab0)
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1259 +0x102
created by testing.(*T).Run

which happens to multiple tests.

This one is probably the same, but the stack trace happens in a different process:

--- FAIL: TestEVM (0.00s)
    runtime_test.go:74: crashed with: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

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Progress has been made, but this test is still failing:

--- FAIL: TestBlockchain/ValidBlocks/bcStateTests/BLOCKHASH_Bounds.json/BLOCKHASH_Bounds_Berlin (0.00s)
panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:93] with capacity 86 [recovered]
	panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:93] with capacity 86
goroutine 24354 [running]:
testing.tRunner.func1.2({0x884b20, 0xc002bdbbf0})
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1209 +0x24e
testing.tRunner.func1()
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1212 +0x218
panic({0x884b20, 0xc002bdbbf0})
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/runtime/panic.go:1038 +0x215
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm.makePush.func1(0xc002bf7a18, 0xc004d3cd00, 0xc004f1f560)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/vm/instructions.go:974 +0x579
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm.(*EVMInterpreter).Run(0xc004d3cd00, 0xc004919740, {0xe5cc48, 0x0, 0x0}, 0x0)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/vm/interpreter.go:308 +0xe84
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/vm.(*EVM).Call(0xc004f17500, {0x952720, 0xc002bdbb18}, {0x10, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...}, ...)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/vm/evm.go:250 +0xfd6
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*StateTransition).TransitionDb(0xc004db4b00)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/state_transition.go:348 +0xe10
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.ApplyMessage(0x963118, {0x963118, 0xc004f65cb0}, 0xc0039eb400)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/state_transition.go:183 +0x2a
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.applyTransaction({0xc002bdb938, {0xa9, 0x4f, 0x53, 0x74, 0xfc, 0xe5, 0xed, 0xbc, 0x8e, ...}, ...}, ...)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/state_processor.go:103 +0x1cb
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*StateProcessor).Process(_, _, _, {0x0, {0x0, 0x0}, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, {0x0, ...}, ...})
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/state_processor.go:83 +0x9d1
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*BlockChain).insertChain(0xc004cf9c00, {0xc0000103d8, 0xde83a8, 0x1}, 0x1)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/blockchain.go:1617 +0x1ca4
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core.(*BlockChain).InsertChain(0xc004cf9c00, {0xc0000103d8, 0x1, 0x1})
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/core/blockchain.go:1385 +0xb54
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tests.(*BlockTest).insertBlocks(0xc004c69600, 0x0)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/tests/block_test_util.go:203 +0x1e5
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tests.(*BlockTest).Run(0xc004c69600, 0x0)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/tests/block_test_util.go:136 +0x46e
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tests.TestBlockchain.func1(0xc0034e2340, {0x0, 0x0}, 0x0)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/tests/block_test.go:50 +0x35
reflect.Value.call({0x830b80, 0xc000188c00, 0x13}, {0x8ae3ed, 0x4}, {0xc0006abe68, 0x3, 0x3})
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/reflect/value.go:543 +0x814
reflect.Value.Call({0x830b80, 0xc000188c00, 0xddbe60}, {0xc001241e68, 0x3, 0x3})
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/reflect/value.go:339 +0xc5
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tests.runTestFunc({0x830b80, 0xc000188c00}, 0xb2d1b0, {0xc004ed0a50, 0xf}, {0xc00339a000, 0xc000010358, 0x474}, {0xc002bdad50, 0x17})
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/tests/init_test.go:271 +0x3b4
github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tests.(*testMatcher).runTestFile.func1(0xc0034e2340)
	/home/appveyor/projects/go-ethereum/tests/init_test.go:243 +0x11c
testing.tRunner(0xc0034e2340, 0xc004e7dbd0)
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1259 +0x102
created by testing.(*T).Run
	/home/appveyor/.cache/geth-go-1.17.2-linux-amd64/go/src/testing/testing.go:1306 +0x35a
FAIL	github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/tests	1.433s

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This is because there is no boundary check when copying the source code.