8b3136bd307123a255b9166aa42a497a44bcce70 refactor: replace CNode pointers by references within net_processing.{h,cpp} (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
This PR is inspired by a [recent code review comment](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19010#discussion_r426954791) on a PR that introduced new functions to the net_processing module. The point of the discussion was basically that whenever we pass something not by value (in the concrete example it was about `CNode*` and `CConnman*`) we should either use
* a pointer (```CType*```) with null pointer check or
* a reference (```CType&```)
To keep things simple, this PR for a first approach
* only tackles `CNode*` pointers
* only within the net_processing module, i.e. no changes that would need adaption in other modules
* keeps the names of the variables as they are
I'm aware that PRs like this are kind of a PITA to review, but I think the code quality would increase if we get rid of pointers without nullptr check -- bloating up the code by adding all the missing checks would be the worse alternative, in my opinion.
Possible follow-up PRs, in case this is received well:
* replace CNode pointers by references for net module
* replace CConnman pointers by references for net_processing module
* ...
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