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The approach to handling corruption that was chosen by Oracle in
commit 177d8b0c
is not really useful. Not only did it actually fail to prevent InnoDB
from crashing, but it is making things worse by blocking attempts to
rescue data from or rebuild a partially readable table.

We will try to prevent crashes in a different way: by propagating
errors up the call stack. We will never mark the clustered index
persistently corrupted, so that data recovery may be attempted by
reading from the table, or by rebuilding the table.

This should also fix MDEV-13680 (crash on btr_page_alloc() failure);
it was extensively tested with innodb_file_per_table=0 and a
non-autoextend system tablespace.

We should now avoid crashes in many cases, such as when a page
cannot be read or allocated, or an inconsistency is detected when
attempting to update multiple pages. We will not crash on double-free,
such as on the recovery of DDL in system tab...