Ava Chow 319ff58bbd Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#32638: blocks: force hash validations on disk read
9341b5333a blockstorage: make block read hash checks explicit (Lőrinc)
2371b9f4ee test/bench: verify hash in `ComputeFilter` reads (Lőrinc)
5d235d50d6 net: assert block hash in `ProcessGetBlockData` and `ProcessMessage` (Lőrinc)

Pull request description:

  A follow-up to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32487#discussion_r2094072165, after which validating the hash of a read block from disk doesn't incur the cost of calculating its hash anymore.

  ### Summary

  This PR adds explicit checks that the read block header's hash matches the one we were expecting.

  ### Context

  After the previous PR, validating a block's hash during read operations became essentially free. This PR leverages that by requiring callers to provide a block's expected hash (or `std::nullopt`), preventing silent failures caused by corrupted or mismatched data. Most `ReadBlock` usages were updated with expected hashes and now fail on mismatch.

  ### Changes

  * added hash assertions in `ProcessGetBlockData` and `ProcessMessage` to validate that the block read from disk matches the expected hash;
  * updated tests and benchmark to pass the correct block hash to `ReadBlock()`, ensuring the hash validation is tested - or none if we already expect PoW failure;
  * removed the default value for `expected_hash`, requiring an explicit hash for all block reads.

  ### Why is the hash still optional (but no longer has a default value)

  * for header-error tests, where the goal is to trigger failures early in the parsing process;
  * for out-of-order orphan blocks, where the child hash isn't available before the initial disk read.

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