bpf: use realloc in bpf_patch_insn_data

Avoid excessive vzalloc/vfree calls when patching instructions in
do_misc_fixups(). bpf_patch_insn_data() uses vzalloc to allocate new
memory for env->insn_aux_data for each patch as follows:

  struct bpf_prog *bpf_patch_insn_data(env, ...)
  {
    ...
    new_data = vzalloc(... O(program size) ...);
    ...
    adjust_insn_aux_data(env, new_data, ...);
    ...
  }

  void adjust_insn_aux_data(env, new_data, ...)
  {
    ...
    memcpy(new_data, env->insn_aux_data);
    vfree(env->insn_aux_data);
    env->insn_aux_data = new_data;
    ...
  }

The vzalloc/vfree pair is hot in perf report collected for e.g.
pyperf180 test case. It can be replaced with a call to vrealloc in
order to reduce the number of actual memory allocations.

This is a stop-gap solution, as bpf_patch_insn_data is still hot in
the profile. More comprehansive solutions had been discussed before
e.g. as in [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzY_E8MSL4mD0UPuuiDcbJhh9e2xQo2=5w+ppRWWiYSGvQ@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250807010205.3210608-3-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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