(cherry picked from commit 4f1d92b3)

(cherry picked from commit da729e5b)

(cherry picked from commit 14ae5708)

(cherry picked from commit ffaf58f0)

(cherry picked from commit 748d1c17)

(cherry picked from commit 8ee84584)

We used to have reporting of bad blocks, but it was disabled
before the Frontier release. We need it back because users
are usually unable to provide the full RLP data of a bad
block when it occurs.

A shortcoming of this particular implementation is that the
origin peer is not tracked for blocks received during eth/63
sync. No origin peer info is still better than no report at
all though.

(cherry picked from commit ca18202e)

(cherry picked from commit f3769a97)

(cherry picked from commit f86ea9aa)

(cherry picked from commit 5eb60a6d)

(cherry picked from commit 2e530f48)

(cherry picked from commit faf66313)

(cherry picked from commit 8906b2fe)

(cherry picked from commit e86619e7)

(cherry picked from commit b40dc8a1)

This silences a go vet message about copying p2p.Server in package node.

(cherry picked from commit 542b839e)

README: fix typos
(cherry picked from commit 2348f8e2)

(cherry picked from commit 284f1d6b)

(cherry picked from commit bc6fdad7)

(cherry picked from commit bc3b406b)

(cherry picked from commit 251b3c64)

(cherry picked from commit 1580ec18)

Sign transaction returned the unsigned transaction rather than the
signed one.

(cherry picked from commit 4b1a7d38)

[release 1.4.5] eth/filter: bugfix which can cause a nil pointer crash when parsing filter arguments

(cherry picked from commit 67cd4ee8)

Calls to 'personal' API should be excluded from console history because
they can be called with an account passphrase as argument. The check for
such calls was inverted and didn't work.

(cherry picked from commit 86da6feb)

Conflicts:
	cmd/geth/js.go

(cherry picked from commit 64a6c2c1)

Conflicts:
	cmd/geth/js.go
	internal/web3ext/web3ext.go

(cherry picked from commit d87f7a1e)

This fixes an issue where the following would lead to a panic due to a
channel being closed twice:

* Start mux
* Stop mux
* Sub to mux
* Unsub

This is fixed by setting the subscriptions status to closed resulting in
the Unsubscribe to ignore the request when called.

(cherry picked from commit 7c1f7471)

This fixes an issue where it's theoretical possible to cause a consensus
failure when hitting the lower end of the difficulty, though pratically
impossible it's worth a fix.

(cherry picked from commit cc21706c)

Previously it was assumed that wheneven type `[]interface{}` was given
that the interface was empty. The abigen rightfully assumed that
interface slices which already have pre-allocated variable sets to be
assigned.

This PR fixes that by checking that the given `[]interface{}` is larger
than zero and assigns each value using the generic `set` function (this
function has also been moved to abi/reflect.go) and checks whether the
assignment was possible.

The generic assignment function `set` now also deals with pointers
(useful for interface slice mentioned above) by dereferencing the
pointer until it finds a setable type.

(cherry picked from commit 91a7a4a7)

(cherry picked from commit 54790977)

(cherry picked from commit a824c3f0)