rpc: Add -EPERM processing for xs_udp_send_request()

If an iptables drop rule is added for an nfs server, the client can end up in
a softlockup. Because of the way that xs_sendpages() is structured, the -EPERM
is ignored since the prior bits of the packet may have been successfully queued
and thus xs_sendpages() returns a non-zero value. Then, xs_udp_send_request()
thinks that because some bits were queued it should return -EAGAIN. We then try
the request again and again, resulting in cpu spinning. Reproducer:

1) open a file on the nfs server '/nfs/foo' (mounted using udp)
2) iptables -A OUTPUT -d <nfs server ip> -j DROP
3) write to /nfs/foo
4) close /nfs/foo
5) iptables -D OUTPUT -d <nfs server ip> -j DROP

The softlockup occurs in step 4 above.

The previous patch, allows xs_sendpages() to return both a sent count and
any error values that may have occurred. Thus, if we get an -EPERM, return
that to the higher level code.

With this patch in place we can successfully abort the above sequence and
avoid the softlockup.

I also tried the above test case on an nfs mount on tcp and although the system
does not softlockup, I still ended up with the 'hung_task' firing after 120
seconds, due to the i/o being stuck. The tcp case appears a bit harder to fix,
since -EPERM appears to get ignored much lower down in the stack and does not
propogate up to xs_sendpages(). This case is not quite as insidious as the
softlockup and it is not addressed here.

Reported-by: Yigong Lou <ylou@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

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