framebuffer: fix cfb_copyarea

The function cfb_copyarea is buggy when the copy operation is not aligned on
long boundary (4 bytes on 32-bit machines, 8 bytes on 64-bit machines).

How to reproduce:
- use x86-64 machine
- use a framebuffer driver without acceleration (for example uvesafb)
- set the framebuffer to 8-bit depth
	(for example fbset -a 1024x768-60 -depth 8)
- load a font with character width that is not a multiple of 8 pixels
	note: the console-tools package cannot load a font that has
	width different from 8 pixels. You need to install the packages
	"kbd" and "console-terminus" and use the program "setfont" to
	set font width (for example: setfont Uni2-Terminus20x10)
- move some text left and right on the bash command line and you get a
	screen corruption

To expose more bugs, put this line to the end of uvesafb_init_info:
info->flags |= FBINFO_HWACCEL_COPYAREA | FBINFO_READS_FAST;
- Now framebuffer console will use cfb_copyarea for console scrolling.
You get a screen corruption when console is scrolled.

This patch is a rewrite of cfb_copyarea. It fixes the bugs, with this
patch, console scrolling in 8-bit depth with a font width that is not a
multiple of 8 pixels works fine.

The cfb_copyarea code was very buggy and it looks like it was written
and never tried with non-8-pixel font.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>

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