selftests/bpf: Allocate a larger timeout for connection

Some tests, like tc_tunnel or tc_edt, sporadically fail in CI with the
following logs:

  (network_helpers.c:309: errno: Operation now in progress) \
    Failed to connect to server
  send_and_test_data:FAIL:connect to server unexpected error: -115

This is due to SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO being set on the client
socket (see settimeo() in client_socket()), allowing connect() to return
an error and to set errno to EINPROGRESS instead of ETIMEDOUT.
Increasing the timeout value for those tests is likely not a good
solution (and it has already been done by commit 2790db208b44
("selftests/bpf: Improve tc_tunnel test reliability")): some tests
expect some data transfer to fail, and so the timeout value would
increase overall test execution duration again (not only the connection,
but any socket operation).

Another solution is to allocate a timeout budget specific to the
connection: we can apply a larger timeout only for connections, and once
the connection is established, set back the timeout configured through
opts->timeout_ms; this would allow connection to succeed under heavy CI
load, while keeping timeout reasonable for the rest of the test traffic.

Create a dedicated connect helper that sets a large timeout for the
connect step, tries to connect, and if successful, finally sets the
timeout value to the one configured by the test.

Fixes: 99126abec5e5 ("bpf: selftests: A few improvements to network_helpers.c")
Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260818-tc_tunnel_flaky-v7-1-aec161e74ef2@bootlin.com

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