kernel: mtk_bmt: refactor to avoid deep recursion

A Linksys E8450 (mt7622) device running current master has recently
started crashing:

    [    0.562900] mtk-ecc 1100e000.ecc: probed
    [    0.570254] spi-nand spi2.0: Fidelix SPI NAND was found.
    [    0.575576] spi-nand spi2.0: 128 MiB, block size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
    [    0.583780] mtk-snand 1100d000.spi: ECC strength: 4 bits per 512 bytes
    [    0.682930] Insufficient stack space to handle exception!
    [    0.682939] ESR: 0x0000000096000047 -- DABT (current EL)
    [    0.682946] FAR: 0xffffffc008c47fe0
    [    0.682948] Task stack:     [0xffffffc008c48000..0xffffffc008c4c000]
    [    0.682951] IRQ stack:      [0xffffffc008008000..0xffffffc00800c000]
    [    0.682954] Overflow stack: [0xffffff801feb00a0..0xffffff801feb10a0]
    [    0.682959] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G S                5.15.107 #0
    [    0.682966] Hardware name: Linksys E8450 (DT)
    [    0.682969] pstate: 800000c5 (Nzcv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
    [    0.682975] pc : dequeue_entity+0x0/0x250
    [    0.682988] lr : dequeue_task_fair+0x98/0x290
    [    0.682992] sp : ffffffc008c48030
    [    0.682994] x29: ffffffc008c48030 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: ffffff801feb6380
    [    0.683004] x26: 0000000000000001 x25: ffffff801feb6300 x24: ffffff8000068000
    [    0.683011] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000009 x21: 0000000000000000
    [    0.683017] x20: ffffff801feb6380 x19: ffffff8000068080 x18: 0000000017a740a6
    [    0.683024] x17: ffffffc008bae748 x16: ffffffc008bae6d8 x15: ffffffffffffffff
    [    0.683031] x14: ffffffffffffffff x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000f00000101
    [    0.683038] x11: 0000000000000449 x10: 0000000000000127 x9 : 0000000000000000
    [    0.683044] x8 : 0000000000000125 x7 : 0000000000116da1 x6 : 0000000000116da1
    [    0.683051] x5 : 00000000001165a1 x4 : ffffff801feb6e00 x3 : 0000000000000000
    [    0.683058] x2 : 0000000000000009 x1 : ffffff8000068080 x0 : ffffff801feb6380
    [    0.683066] Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel stack overflow
    [    0.683069] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
    [    1.648361] SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-1
    [    1.648366] Kernel Offset: disabled
    [    1.648368] CPU features: 0x00003000,00000802
    [    1.648372] Memory Limit: none

Several factors contributed to this issue:

 1. The mtk_bmt driver recursively calls its scan_bmt() helper function
    during device initialization, while looking for a valid block
    mapping table (BMT).

 2. Commit fa4dc86e98 ("kernel: backport MEMREAD ioctl"):

      - increased the size of some stack-allocated structures (like
	struct mtd_oob_ops, used in bbt_nand_read(), which is indirectly
	called from scan_bmt()),

      - increased the stack size for some functions (for example,
	spinand_mtd_read(), which is indirectly called from scan_bmt(),
	now uses an extra stack-allocated struct mtd_ecc_stats).

 3. OpenWrt currently compiles the kernel with the
    -fno-optimize-sibling-calls flag, which prevents tail-call
    optimization.

Collectively, all of these factors caused stack usage in the mtk_bmt
driver to grow excessively large, triggering stack overflows.

Recursion is not really necessary in scan_bmt() as it simply iterates
over flash memory blocks in reverse order, looking for a valid BMT.
Refactor the logic contained in the scan_bmt() and read_bmt() functions
in target/linux/generic/files/drivers/mtd/nand/mtk_bmt_v2.c so that deep
recursion is prevented (and therefore also any potential stack overflows
it may cause).

Link: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2023-April/040872.html
Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <openwrt@kempniu.pl>

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