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Fix rate limiter cache keys without ttl

Kassian Sun requested to merge kassiansun/gitlab:master into master

What does this MR do?

During our production usage, we encountered a bug with issue creation API. The rate limiter is increased to > 10k but with ttl -1. Although there's no direct evidence of the cause of this bug, I think the current code wont' handle the case gracefully where redis incr command failed to return to client but succeeded at server side.

This MR tries to mitigate this issue by check the TTL of cache key and automatically fix it. It will send more traffic to redis server, but given the difficulty of identifying the issue and mitigating it manually, I think it worth the cost.

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