NFSD: Insulate nfsd4_encode_read() from page boundaries in the encode buffer

Commit 28d5bc468efe ("NFSD: Optimize nfsd4_encode_readv()") replaced
the use of write_bytes_to_xdr_buf() because it's expensive and the
data items to be encoded are already properly aligned.

However, the current code will corrupt the encoded data if the XDR
data items that are reserved early and then poked into the XDR
buffer later happen to fall on a page boundary in the XDR encoding
buffer.

__xdr_commit_encode can shift encoded data items in the encoding
buffer so that pointers returned from xdr_reserve_space() no longer
address the same part of the encoding stream.

This isn't an issue for splice reads because the reserved encode
buffer areas must fall in the XDR buffers header for the splice to
work without error. For vectored reads, however, there is a
possibility of send buffer corruption in rare cases.

Fixes: 28d5bc468efe ("NFSD: Optimize nfsd4_encode_readv()")
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

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