Cherry pick Fix 876, allow null array to be cast from and to other types to active_release

[alamb]

Automatic cherry-pick of 81ffa24

• Originally appeared in Fix 876, allow null array to be cast from and to other types #884: Fix 876, allow null array to be cast from and to other types

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Merging #917 (0337d48) into active_release (03d95e6) will decrease coverage by 0.12%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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- Coverage           82.45%   82.33%   -0.13%     
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  Files                 168      168              
  Lines               48175    48092      -83     
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- Hits                39725    39596     -129     
- Misses               8450     8496      +46     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
arrow/src/compute/kernels/cast.rs	94.48% <100.00%> (-0.15%)	⬇️
arrow/src/array/transform/fixed_binary.rs	75.00% <0.00%> (-3.95%)	⬇️
parquet/src/schema/visitor.rs	67.10% <0.00%> (-2.64%)	⬇️
arrow/src/compute/kernels/cast_utils.rs	87.50% <0.00%> (-2.50%)	⬇️
parquet/src/encodings/decoding.rs	90.45% <0.00%> (-2.02%)	⬇️
arrow/src/datatypes/ffi.rs	70.85% <0.00%> (-2.02%)	⬇️
parquet/src/arrow/arrow_reader.rs	89.32% <0.00%> (-1.95%)	⬇️
arrow/src/ffi.rs	84.69% <0.00%> (-1.89%)	⬇️
arrow/src/csv/reader.rs	90.00% <0.00%> (-1.78%)	⬇️
arrow/src/util/data_gen.rs	75.44% <0.00%> (-1.66%)	⬇️
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