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Patch `grape-entity` to prevent having NameError loop

Mehmet Emin INAC requested to merge hotfix_grape_entity_gem into master

What does this MR do?

RubyVM starts raising NameError errors in case of an error in our Grape::Entity instances because of a bug existing in the gem's upstream version.

This causes high CPU usage and puts us at the risk of having DoS. The VM would eventually raise a SystemStackError but this takes quite long because the repeating frames are huge.

In this MR, I propose monkey-patching the grape-entity gem until the upstream version gets fixed.

Related to #329436 (closed).

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