MIPS: math-emu: Write-protect delay slot emulation pages

Mapping the delay slot emulation page as both writeable & executable
presents a security risk, in that if an exploit can write to & jump into
the page then it can be used as an easy way to execute arbitrary code.

Prevent this by mapping the page read-only for userland, and using
access_process_vm() with the FOLL_FORCE flag to write to it from
mips_dsemul().

This will likely be less efficient due to copy_to_user_page() performing
cache maintenance on a whole page, rather than a single line as in the
previous use of flush_cache_sigtramp(). However this delay slot
emulation code ought not to be running in any performance critical paths
anyway so this isn't really a problem, and we can probably do better in
copy_to_user_page() anyway in future.

A major advantage of this approach is that the fix is small & simple to
backport to stable kernels.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Fixes: 432c6bacbd0c ("MIPS: Use per-mm page to execute branch delay slot instructions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

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