When a malformed sstable error occurs, it is usually caused by actual sstable corruption — a cosmic ray, a bad disk write, etc. However, it can also be caused by memory corruption, where a data structure in memory happens to be read as sstable data. In the latter case, having a coredump of the process at the moment of the error is invaluable for post-mortem debugging, since the exception throwing/catching machinery destroys the stack frames that would point to the corruption site.
This patch series introduces `--abort-on-malformed-sstable-error`, a new command-line option (with `LiveUpdate` support) that, when set, causes the server to call `std::abort()` instead of throwing an exception whenever any sstable parse error is detected. This covers all code paths:
- Direct `throw malformed_sstable_exception(...)` sites (migrated to `throw_malformed_sstable_exception()`)
- Direct `throw bufsize_mismatch_exception(...)` sites (migrated to `throw_bufsize_mismatch_exception()`)
- `parse_assert()` failures (via `on_parse_error()`)
- BTI parse errors (via `on_bti_parse_error()`)
The implementation places the flag and helper functions in `sstables/sstables.cc`, next to the existing `on_parse_error()` / `on_bti_parse_error()` infrastructure.
The flag defaults to `false`, preserving current behaviour. It is intended to be enabled temporarily when investigating suspected memory corruption.
**Commit breakdown:**
1. Infrastructure: flag, getter/setter, and throw helpers in `sstables/sstables.cc`; config option wired up in `main.cc`
2. `on_parse_error()` and `on_bti_parse_error()` check the new flag
3. All ~50 `throw malformed_sstable_exception(...)` sites migrated
4. Both `throw bufsize_mismatch_exception(...)` sites migrated
Refs: SCYLLADB-1087
Backport: new feature, no backport
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29324
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
sstables: migrate all bufsize_mismatch_exception throw sites to throw_bufsize_mismatch_exception()
sstables: migrate all malformed_sstable_exception throw sites to throw_malformed_sstable_exception()
sstables: make on_parse_error() and on_bti_parse_error() respect --abort-on-malformed-sstable-error
sstables: disable abort-on-malformed-sstable-error in tests that corrupt sstables on purpose
sstables: introduce --abort-on-malformed-sstable-error infrastructure
sstables: refactor parse_path() to return std::expected<> instead of throwing
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