c/metadata_dissemination: fix applying updates from health #3487
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c/metadata_dissemination: fix applying updates from health
Node health reports may disagree with one another about
leadership in a particular term, if some of them claim
that it's null (because they've seen the term in their
own log after restart, but not yet received an append_entries
from the leader).
To avoid a rogue node health report resetting the leadership
of a topic to null, ignore health report leadership
information if it claims a null leader.
Non-null claims are always believable, because of the term:
if they're out of date, then they were still correct for
the term they claim, and we ignore those out of date
terms in partition_leaders_table::update_partition_leader.
Fixes #3486
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