rust: pin-init: internal: pin_data: rewrite fields that borrow others

Fields that borrow other fields have lifetimes that are within the struct
and these are not part of the struct generics. Therefore, these fields need
to have their lifetime erased.

A naive implementation would be to replace their lifetimes with `'static`.
However, doing so is unsound for multiple reasons:
* Users may directly access such field with field access syntax, and get
  exposed with wrong lifetime;
* Auto trait implementations will cause the struct to be implementing auto
  traits when the type only implements the auto trait for specific
  lifetime. This is similar to how specialization can be unsound if
  specialized on lifetime.

Create a `Erase` type, which has `for<'a> fn(&'a ()) -> Foo<'a>` as generic
parameter. Internally, it uses a helper trait to resolve that to
`Foo<'static>`. The first issue is solved by not exposing any public
accessor on that type. The second issue is solved by add custom `Send` and
`Sync` implementations that requires `Send` to be implemented for all
lifetimes, thus closing the lifetime specialization hole. The actual
implementation is a bit more convoluted because it supports erasing
multiple lifetimes.

This is more or less a stable polyfill of the unstable `unsafe_binder`
feature, without `unsafe_binders`'s no drop glue requirement.

Acked-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261008-dev-selfref-v2-3-e280b3c8fba5@garyguo.net/
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

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