merge-script e3554bf361 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#35579: wallet: reserve walletrescan before checking wallet is at the tip
9e62e4b1f3 test: slow down rescaning process (Pol Espinasa)
336f5a738b wallet: reserve walletrescan before checking wallet is at the tip (Pol Espinasa)

Pull request description:

  `ImportDescriptors` rpc has a race condition where two imports running in parallel can both succeed or fail one of them.

  The race happens when there are two threads A and B trying to importdescriptors at the same time.

  1. Thread A calls `BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain()` (holding `cs_wallet` fast, no contention) and then `reserve()`, acquiring the `WalletRescanReserver`. It proceeds to `ProcessDescriptorImport()`, which holds `cs_wallet` for an extended time (specially on slow machines) while importing descriptors.

  2. B reaches `BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain()`, which internally does `WITH_LOCK(cs_wallet, ...)`. Since A holds `cs_wallet`, B blocks here for the entire duration of Thread A's descriptors import.

  3. Then A finishes importing, releases `cs_wallet`, rescans (fast in regtest), and sets `fScanningWallet = false`.

  4. B can now continue in `BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain()` acquiring `cs_wallet`, and then calls `reserve()` which succeeds because `fScanningWallet` is already `false`. Both imports succeed.

  I don't think the behavior is problematic at all from a usability PoV, but it can be a bad UX if some imports fails and other's no. It also makes testing difficult as race conditions are not easy to test.

  This PR fixes it by calling `reserver.reserve()` before `cs_wallet` is locked, so multiple threads will be aware of currently imports before being stuck at any point. So only one `importdescriptor` call can be done at the same time.

  I think this should fix https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/35544#issuecomment-4763488259

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