packet: More cautious checks to avoid pointer arithmetic UB

packet_check_range and vu_packet_check_range() verify that the packet or
section of packet we're interested in lies in the packet buffer pool we
expect it to.  However, in doing so it doesn't avoid the possibility of
an integer overflow while performing pointer arithmetic, with is UB.  In
fact, AFAICT it's UB even to use arbitrary pointer arithmetic to construct
a pointer outside of a known valid buffer.

To do this safely, we can't calculate the end of a memory region with
pointer addition when then the length as untrusted.  Instead we must work
out the offset of one memory region within another using pointer
subtraction, then do integer checks against the length of the outer region.
We then need to be careful about the order of checks so that those integer
checks can't themselves overflow.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

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