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[ Upstream commit 0868b99c ]

When bitmap is resized, the old kalloced chunks just are not released
once the resized bitmap starts to use new space.

This fixes in particular kmemleak reports like this one:

unreferenced object 0xffff8f4311e9c000 (size 4096):
  comm "lvm", pid 19333, jiffies 4295263268 (age 528.265s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80  ................
    02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80 02 80  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffffa69471ca>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [<ffffffffa628c10e>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x14e/0x2e0
    [<ffffffffa676cfec>] bitmap_checkpage+0x7c/0x110
    [<ffffffffa676d0c5>] bitmap_get_counter+0x45/0xd0
    [<ffffffffa676d6b3>] bitmap_set_memory_bits+0x43/0xe0
    [<ffffffffa676e41c>] bitmap_init_from_disk+0x23c/0x530
    [<ffffffffa676f1ae>] bitmap_load+0xbe/0x160
    [<ffffffffc04c47d3>] raid_preresume+0x203/0x2f0 [dm_raid]...