rxrpc: Partially handle OpenAFS's improper termination of calls

OpenAFS doesn't always correctly terminate client calls that it makes -
this includes calls the OpenAFS servers make to the cache manager service.
It should end the client call with either:

 (1) An ACK that has firstPacket set to one greater than the seq number of
     the reply DATA packet with the LAST_PACKET flag set (thereby
     hard-ACK'ing all packets).  nAcks should be 0 and acks[] should be
     empty (ie. no soft-ACKs).

 (2) An ACKALL packet.

OpenAFS, though, may send an ACK packet with firstPacket set to the last
seq number or less and soft-ACKs listed for all packets up to and including
the last DATA packet.

The transmitter, however, is obliged to keep the call live and the
soft-ACK'd DATA packets around until they're hard-ACK'd as the receiver is
permitted to drop any merely soft-ACK'd packet and request retransmission
by sending an ACK packet with a NACK in it.

Further, OpenAFS will also terminate a client call by beginning the next
client call on the same connection channel.  This implicitly completes the
previous call.

This patch handles implicit ACK of a call on a channel by the reception of
the first packet of the next call on that channel.

If another call doesn't come along to implicitly ACK a call, then we have
to time the call out.  There are some bugs there that will be addressed in
subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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