Ava Chow acea6f2caf Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#35251: wallet: Fix for duplicate external signers case
f05b1a3532 rpc: Fix for duplicate external signers case (optout)

Pull request description:

  A straightforward fix for a minor bug in a low-probability case; when there are multiple signers with the same fingerprint, the signers following the duplicate are also thrown away (due to a `break` instead of `continue`).

  Background. Bitcoin core can work with _external signers_. They can be configured using the `-signer=<cmd>` argument. The `enumeratesigners` RPC can be used to retrieve the available signers.

  Precondition A minor bug was found in a special case:

  - multiple external signers are detected, and
  - at least two of them are duplicate, i.e., have identical fingerprint, and
  - the duplicates are followed by at least one additional signer (that is, the last one is not a duplicate),

  Current behavior: Only one of the duplicates is kept, however all subsequent signers are also ignored. This last part is probably unintended, thus it's a minor bug.
  To put it in another way, the set of fingerprints returned depends on the actual order in which the devices are returned by the external tool, which may be arbitrary.

  Expected behavior: De-duplicate the found signers by fingerprint:

  - keep one signer for each fingerprint
  - keep all non-duplicates.

  Fix: The early `break` of the loop of signers upon duplication has been changed to `continue`.

  Test added/extended: `RPCSignerTest` in `test/functional/rpc_signer.py` has been extended with a case of multiple duplicates.

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