Fix EVP_CIPHER_CTX_iv_length()

In today's episode of "curly nonsense from EVP land" we deal with a quite
harmless oversight and a not too bad suboptimal fix, relatively speaking.

At some point EVP_CIPHER_{CCM,GCM}_SET_IVLEN was added. It modified some
object hanging off of EVP_CIPHER. However, EVP_CIPHER_CTX_iv_length() wasn't
taught about this and kept returning the hardcoded default value on the
EVP_CIPHER. Once it transpired that a doc fix isn't going to cut it, this
was fixed. And of course it's easy to fix: you only have to dive through
about three layers of EVP, test and set a flag and handle a control in a
couple methods.

The upstream fix was done poorly and we begrudgingly have to match the API:
the caller is expected to pass a raw pointer next to a 0 length along with
EVP_CIPHER_GET_IV_LENGTH and the control handler goes *(int *)ptr = length
in full YOLO mode. That's never going to be an issue because of course the
caller will always pass a properly aligned pointer backing a sufficient
amount of memory. Yes, unlikely to be a real issue, but it could have been
done with proper semantics and checks without complicating the code. But
why do I even bother to complain? We're used to this.

Of note here is that there was some pushback painting other corners of a
bikeshed until the reviewer gave up with a resigned

  That kind of changes the semantics and is one extra complexity level,
  but [shrug] ok...

Anyway, the reason this matters now after so many years is that rust-openssl
has an assert, notably added in a +758 -84 commit with the awesome message
"Docs" that gets triggered by recent tests added to py-cryptography.

Thanks to Alex Gaynor for reporting this. Let me take the opportunity to
point out that pyca contributed to improve rust-openssl, in particular its
libressl support, quite a bit. That's much appreciated and very noticeable.

Regress coverage to follow in subsequent commits.

Based on OpenSSL PR #9499 and issue #8330.

ok beck jsing

PS: A few macros were kept internal for now to avoid impact on the release
cycle that is about to finish. They will be exposed after release.

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