[12.0.X] back ported cmssw patch release fixes

[smuzaffar]

backport of #7209

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for branch IB/CMSSW_12_0_X/master.

@smuzaffar, @mrodozov, @iarspider can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.
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• Backported from keep cmssw tools to drop in a common file #7209

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-1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-219d5e/17710/summary.html
COMMIT: 2302db8
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_0_X_2021-08-11-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc900
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/7210/17710/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

External Build

I found compilation warning when building: See details on the summary page.

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Pull request #7210 was updated.

[smuzaffar]

please test

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+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-219d5e/17711/summary.html
COMMIT: 4412856
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_0_X_2021-08-11-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc900
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/7210/17711/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 10 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 39
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2998564
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 8
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2998534
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 38 files compared)
• Checked 165 log files, 37 edm output root files, 39 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

+externals

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_12_0_X/master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)