fix: intermittent incorrect logging of CheckQueue for invalid blocks

[knst]

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

ConnectBlock may return no-named failure instead proper error code such as:

2024-09-23T13:13:10Z ERROR: ConnectBlock: CheckQueue failed

What was done?

This PR fixes this intermittent failure

How Has This Been Tested?

N/A

Breaking Changes

N/A

Checklist:

• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have added or updated relevant unit/integration/functional/e2e tests
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have assigned this pull request to a milestone

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• src/validation.cpp

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Walkthrough

The pull request modifies CChainState::ConnectBlock() in src/validation.cpp to reorder memory allocations. The std::vector<PrecomputedTransactionData> txsdata vector is now allocated before the CCheckQueueControl<CScriptCheck> control object is constructed, rather than after. This ensures that the transaction data vector exists prior to control initialization, preventing potential allocation-related side effects during script-check worker execution.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title directly addresses the main fix: ensuring proper error logging for CheckQueue failures in ConnectBlock, which matches the core change of moving txsdata allocation to prevent intermittent errors.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly identifies the issue (intermittent CheckQueue failures with generic logging) and explains that the PR fixes this problem, which aligns with the changeset's objective of preventing CheckQueue execution issues.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[thepastaclaw]

🔍 Review in progress — actively reviewing now (commit 76e6645)
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[thepastaclaw]

Code Review

I reviewed the exact queued head 76e6645cd43e73847e1444bb1aef788f58e8c0cf and only src/validation.cpp changes in this PR. The change is a narrowly scoped fix to object lifetime ordering in CChainState::ConnectBlock: txsdata is now guaranteed to outlive CCheckQueueControl, which matches the existing comment and prevents queued CScriptCheck workers from observing destroyed PrecomputedTransactionData. I did not find any correctness, consensus, or Dash-specific interaction issues in the current patch.

Reviewed commit: 76e6645