Add an explicit indefinite-length output to CBS_get_any_ber_asn1_element.

Having to check for header_len == len and a last byte of 0x80 is
actually unambiguous, but not obvious. Before we supported multi-byte
tags, a two-byte header was always {tag, 0x80}, but now a three-byte
header could be {tag1, tag2, 0x80}. But a 0x80 suffix could also be
{tag, 0x81, 0x80} for a 128-byte definite-length element.

This is unambiguous because header_len == len implies either zero length
or indefinite-length, and it is not possible to encode a definite length
of zero, in BER or DER, with a header that ends in 0x80. Still, rather
than go through all this, we can just report indefinite lengths to the
caller directly.

Update-Note: This is a breaking change to CBS_get_any_ber_asn1_element.
There is only one external caller of this function, and it should be
possible to fix them atomically with this change, so I haven't bothered
introducing another name, etc. (See cl/429632075 for the fix.)

Change-Id: Ic94dab562724fd0b388bc8d2a7a223f21a8da413
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/51625
Reviewed-by: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
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README.md

BoringSSL

BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.

BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.

Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.

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