Auto merge of #17882 - ShoyuVanilla:issue-17866, r=lnicola

fix: Panic while canonicalizing erroneous projection type

Fixes #17866

The root cause of #17866 is quite horrifyng 😨

```rust
trait T {
    type A;
}

type Foo = <S as T>::A; // note that S isn't defined

fn main() {
    Foo {}
}
```

While inferencing alias type `Foo = <S as T>::A`;

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/78c2bdce860dbd996a8083224d01a96660dd6a15/crates/hir-ty/src/infer.rs#L1388-L1398

the error type `S` in it is substituted by inference var in L1396 above as below;

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/78c2bdce860dbd996a8083224d01a96660dd6a15/crates/hir-ty/src/infer/unify.rs#L866-L869

This new inference var's index is `1`, as the type inferecing procedure here previously inserted another inference var into same `InferenceTable`.

But after that, the projection type made from the above then passed to the following function;

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/78c2bdce860dbd996a8083224d01a96660dd6a15/crates/hir-ty/src/traits.rs#L88-L96

here, a whole new `InferenceTable` is made, without any inference var and in the L94, this table calls;

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/78c2bdce860dbd996a8083224d01a96660dd6a15/crates/hir-ty/src/infer/unify.rs#L364-L370

And while registering `AliasEq` `obligation`, this obligation contains inference var `?1` made from the previous table, but this table has only one inference var `?0` made at L365.
So, the chalk panics when we try to canonicalize that obligation to register it, because the obligation contains an inference var `?1` that the canonicalizing table doesn't have.

Currently, we are calling `InferenceTable::new()` to do some normalizing, unifying or coercing things to some targets that might contain inference var that the new table doesn't have.
I think that this is quite dangerous footgun because the inference var is just an index that does not contain the information which table does it made from, so sometimes this "foreign" index might cause panic like this case, or point at the wrong variable.

This PR mitigates such behaviour simply by inserting sufficient number of inference vars to new table to avoid such problem.
This strategy doesn't harm current r-a's intention because the inference vars that passed into new tables are just "unresolved" variables in current r-a, so this is just making sure that such "unresolved" variables exist in the new table

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