The `make_key` lambda erroneously allocates a fixed 8-byte buffer
(`sizeof(s.size())`) for variable-length strings, potentially causing
uninitialized bytes to be included. If such bytes exist and they are
not valid UTF-8 characters, deserialization fails:
```
ERROR 2026-01-16 08:18:26,062 [shard 0:main] testlog - snapshot_list_contains_dropped_tables: cql env callback failed, error: exceptions::invalid_request_exception (Exception while binding column p1: marshaling error: Validation failed - non-UTF8 character in a UTF8 string, at byte offset 7)
```
Fixes #28195.
Signed-off-by: Nikos Dragazis <nikolaos.dragazis@scylladb.com>
Closes scylladb/scylladb#28197
(cherry picked from commit 8aca7b0eb9)
Closes scylladb/scylladb#28208
Scylla in-source tests.
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Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/
alternator - Python tests which connect to a single server and use the DynamoDB API unit, boost, raft - unit tests in C++ cqlpy - Python tests which connect to a single server and use CQL topology* - tests that set up clusters and add/remove nodes cql - approval tests that use CQL and pre-recorded output rest_api - tests for Scylla REST API Port 9000 scylla-gdb - tests for scylla-gdb.py helper script nodetool - tests for C++ implementation of nodetool
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