MDEV-27927 row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql() does not latch a page, violating read view isolation

btr_search_guess_on_hash() would only acquire an index page latch if it
is invoked with ahi_latch=NULL. If it's invoked from
row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql() with ahi_latch!=NULL, a page
will not be latched, and row_search_mvcc() will get a pointer to the
record, which can be changed by some other transaction before the record
was stored in result buffer with row_sel_store_mysql_rec() call.

ahi_latch argument of btr_cur_search_to_nth_level_func() and
btr_pcur_open_with_no_init_func() is used only for
row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql().
btr_cur_search_to_nth_level_func(..., ahi_latch !=0, ...) is invoked
only from btr_pcur_open_with_no_init_func(..., ahi_latch !=0, ...),
which, in turns, is invoked only from
row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql().

I suppose that separate case with ahi_latch!=0 was intentionally
implemented to protect row_sel_store_mysql_rec() call in
row_search_mvcc() just after row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql()
call. After the ahi_latch was moved from row_seach_mvcc() to
row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql(), there is no need in it at all
if btr_search_guess_on_hash() latches a page unconditionally. And if
btr_search_guess_on_hash() latched the page, any access to the record in
row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql() after btr_pcur_open_with_no_init()
call will be protected with the page latch.

The fix is to remove ahi_latch argument from
btr_pcur_open_with_no_init_func(), btr_cur_search_to_nth_level_func()
and btr_search_guess_on_hash().

There will not be test, as to test it we need to freeze some SELECT
execution in the point between row_sel_try_search_shortcut_for_mysql()
and row_sel_store_mysql_rec() calls in row_search_mvcc(), and to change
the record in some other transaction to let row_sel_store_mysql_rec() to
store changed record in result buffer. Buf we can't do this with the
fix, as the page will be latched in btr_search_guess_on_hash() call.

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