NFSD: Watch for rq_pages bounds checking errors in nfsd_splice_actor()

There have been several bugs over the years where the NFSD splice
actor has attempted to write outside the rq_pages array.

This is a "should never happen" condition, but if for some reason
the pipe splice actor should attempt to walk past the end of
rq_pages, it needs to terminate the READ operation to prevent
corruption of the pointer addresses in the fields just beyond the
array.

A server crash is thus prevented. Since the code is not behaving,
the READ operation returns -EIO to the client. None of the READ
payload data can be trusted if the splice actor isn't operating as
expected.

Suggested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

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