When forwarding a reconfiguration request from follower to a leader in
`modify_config`, there is no reason to wait for the follower's commit
index to be updated. The only useful information is that the leader
committed the configuration change - so `modify_config` should return as
soon as we know that.
There is a reason *not* to wait for the follower's commit index to be
updated: if the configuration change removes the follower, the follower
will never learn about it, so a local waiter will never be resolved.
`execute_modify_config` - the part of `modify_config` executed on the
leader - is thus modified to finish when the configuration change is
fully complete (including the dummy entry appended at the end), and
`modify_config` - which does the forwarding - no longer creates a local
waiter, but returns as soon as the RPC call to the leader confirms that
the entry was committed on the leader.
We still return an `entry_id` from `execute_modify_config` but that's
just an artifact of the implementation.
Fixes#9981.
A regression test was also added in randomized_nemesis_test.
* kbr/modify-config-finishes-v1:
test: raft: randomized_nemesis_test: regression test for #9981
raft: server: don't create local waiter in `modify_config`
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