From 8b5ced7fa71304870ae13e8ff3abf34ece600883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Silva?=
 <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:11:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] babe: handle error when checking/reporting equivocations
 (#6915)

---
 substrate/client/consensus/babe/src/lib.rs | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/substrate/client/consensus/babe/src/lib.rs b/substrate/client/consensus/babe/src/lib.rs
index 9e7c3c9081..67aca1dd43 100644
--- a/substrate/client/consensus/babe/src/lib.rs
+++ b/substrate/client/consensus/babe/src/lib.rs
@@ -994,13 +994,15 @@ where
 				// the header is valid but let's check if there was something else already
 				// proposed at the same slot by the given author. if there was, we will
 				// report the equivocation to the runtime.
-				self.check_and_report_equivocation(
+				if let Err(err) = self.check_and_report_equivocation(
 					slot_now,
 					slot_number,
 					&header,
 					&verified_info.author,
 					&origin,
-				)?;
+				) {
+					warn!(target: "babe", "Error checking/reporting BABE equivocation: {:?}", err);
+				}
 
 				// if the body is passed through, we need to use the runtime
 				// to check that the internally-set timestamp in the inherents