fix: mpool-pending fixes

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Summary of changes

Changes introduced in this pull request:

• random mempool fixes that surfaced when I was investigating some performance optimizations last week, see changelog for details,
• some internal test refactoring

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved pending message results during chain reorganizations and forked tipsets.
  • Prevented pending results from getting ahead of their corresponding tipset.
  • Messages with missing or invalid cached BLS signatures are now skipped safely instead of causing failures.
  • Improved handling of null-round ancestry gaps and duplicate messages during fork merging.
  • Improved consistency when combining pending messages across competing chain histories.

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Walkthrough

The PR updates message-pool BLS recovery, synchronizes pending snapshots with their tipsets, merges fork messages without duplicates, and adds reusable RPC test fixtures with coverage for these cases.

Changes

Mpool pending message flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Graceful BLS signature recovery src/message_pool/msgpool/utils.rs, src/message_pool/msgpool/reorg.rs, src/message_pool/msgpool/selection.rs, src/message_pool/msgpool/msg_pool.rs	recover_sig returns Option<SignedMessage>. Callers use recovered_bls_messages and skip messages without cached signatures.
Ordered pending snapshot and fork merge src/message_pool/msgpool/msg_pool.rs, src/message_pool/msgpool/reorg.rs, src/rpc/methods/mpool.rs	pending captures the tipset before the message snapshot. MpoolPending merges same-height fork messages, removes duplicates, and handles null-round ancestry gaps.
RPC test fixtures and validation src/rpc/test_utils.rs, src/rpc/mod.rs, src/rpc/methods/mpool.rs, src/rpc/methods/sync.rs, CHANGELOG.md	Reusable RPC state fixtures support tests for fork merging, ancestry traversal, early returns, and uncached BLS messages. The changelog records the fixes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0df4f

A concurrent head update can cause the pending-message RPC to return an inconsistent snapshot, potentially showing stale or incorrect pending messages. This is a bounded correctness risk that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: akaladarshi, sudo-shashank, hanabi1224

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❌ Patch coverage is 96.29630% with 7 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 66.85%. Comparing base (79e83db) to head (27960da).
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src/rpc/methods/mpool.rs	63.11% <98.37%> (+48.64%)	⬆️
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In `@src/message_pool/msgpool/msg_pool.rs`:
- Line 437: Update MessagePool::pending() so its current tipset read and
PendingStore snapshot are atomic with apply_head_change(): serialize both
operations under the same synchronization used for head changes, or detect a
tipset change and retry the snapshot. Ensure MpoolPending never combines a stale
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