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[SPARK-4592] Avoid duplicate worker registrations in standalone mode

**Summary.** On failover, the Master may receive duplicate registrations from the same worker, causing the worker to exit. This is caused by this commit https://github.com/apache/spark/commit/4afe9a4852ebeb4cc77322a14225cd3dec165f3f, which adds logic for the worker to re-register with the master in case of failures. However, the following race condition may occur:

(1) Master A fails and Worker attempts to reconnect to all masters
(2) Master B takes over and notifies Worker
(3) Worker responds by registering with Master B
(4) Meanwhile, Worker's previous reconnection attempt reaches Master B, causing the same Worker to register with Master B twice

**Fix.** Instead of attempting to register with all known masters, the worker should re-register with only the one that it has been communicating with. This is safe because the fact that a failover has occurred means the old master must have died. Then, when the worker is finally notified of a new master, it gives up on the old one in favor of the new one.

**Caveat.** Even this fix is subject to more obscure race conditions. For instance, if Master B fails and Master A recovers immediately, then Master A may still observe duplicate worker registrations. However, this and other potential race conditions summarized in [SPARK-4592](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4592), are much, much less likely than the one described above, which is deterministically reproducible.

Author: Andrew Or <andrew@databricks.com>

Closes #3447 from andrewor14/standalone-failover and squashes the following commits:

0d9716c [Andrew Or] Move re-registration logic to actor for thread-safety
79286dc [Andrew Or] Preserve old behavior for initial retries
83b321c [Andrew Or] Tweak wording
1fce6a9 [Andrew Or] Active master actor could be null in the beginning
b6f269e [Andrew Or] Avoid duplicate worker registrations
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