fix: open a file whose cache image cannot load, and fail its objects

For a metadata cache image libhdf5 cannot load, libhdf5 opens the file
and fails the first metadata read (the image loads on the first
H5C_protect after open); h5py reports the error on the root group. The
conformance probe reported it that way, but File::open refused the file,
so the gate counted cve-2025-6269-1..4 and cve-2025-6516 as agreeing
with h5py for behaviour the library did not have.

The library now behaves as the probe reports: File (mmap, buffered and
from_bytes) and MmapFile open the file and every object lookup (dataset,
dataset_at, group, group listings and attributes, VL decoding) fails with
the image's error; LazyFile reads the root group's header at open, so
its open is that first read and fails. Probe and library take the
three-way decision (refuse at open / image loads / image cannot load)
from the same clawhdf5_format::superblock_ext::cache_image_state.

One deliberate difference from libhdf5 remains, documented: after the
failed first read libhdf5 reads the file's own metadata, which the image
was meant to replace and may be stale; here every lookup keeps failing.
File::cache_image_error / MmapFile::cache_image_error expose the error
to code that parses as_bytes() itself; h5rs checks it before reading any
object header (h5rs ls on cve-2025-6269-1 said "invalid object header
version: 0" from the stale bytes).

Test: metadata_cache_image.rs an_image_libhdf5_cannot_load_fails_every_object
(the fixture with its image signature broken; h5py opens that file and
fails the first read with "Bad metadata cache image header signature").
It fails on the previous commit, where File::open refuses the file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 60502593b7
commit 6559a91495
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@@ -712,12 +712,14 @@ fn main() {
return;
}
};
// libhdf5 decodes the superblock extension at open (File::open does
// the same), and loads a metadata cache image over the file's own
// libhdf5 decodes the superblock extension at open (an error refuses
// the file), and loads a metadata cache image over the file's own
// metadata. It loads the image only when it first reads metadata — the
// root group — so a file whose image it cannot load still opens and
// every object fails; File::open refuses such a file outright. The
// probe records the image's error where libhdf5 reports it.
// that read fails. The library decides all three cases with the same
// `cache_image_state`: `File` and `MmapFile` open such a file and fail
// every object lookup with the image's error, which is what the probe
// records here (on the root group, where libhdf5 reports it).
use clawhdf5_format::superblock_ext::{self, CacheImageState};
let state = match guarded(|| superblock_ext::cache_image_state(hdf5, &sb).map_err(e)) {
Ok(x) => x,