geth upstream v1.16.7

[Raneet10]

Description

PR to merge upstream geth v1.16.7

Changes

• Bugfix (non-breaking change that solves an issue)
• Hotfix (change that solves an urgent issue, and requires immediate attention)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Breaking change (change that is not backwards-compatible and/or changes current functionality)
• Changes only for a subset of nodes

Checklist

• I have added at least 2 reviewer or the whole pos-v1 team
• I have added sufficient documentation in code
• I will be resolving comments - if any - by pushing each fix in a separate commit and linking the commit hash in the comment reply
• Created a task in Jira and informed the team for implementation in Erigon client (if applicable)
• Includes RPC methods changes, and the Notion documentation has been updated

Testing

• I have added unit tests
• I have added tests to CI
• I have tested this code manually on local environment
• I have tested this code manually on remote devnet using express-cli
• I have tested this code manually on amoy
• I have created new e2e tests into express-cli

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate failed

Failed conditions
12 Security Hotspots

See analysis details on SonarQube Cloud

[pratikspatil024]

The commit history seems lost as no upstream author's commits are visible. Please fix it as we would not want to proceed without it.

[Raneet10]

Closing in favour of #1974