KVM: SVM: Remove a useless zeroing of allocated memory

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Remove KVM's unnecessary zeroing of memory when allocating the pages array
in sev_pin_memory() via __vmalloc(), as the array is only used to hold
kernel pointers.  The kmalloc() path for "small" regions doesn't zero the
array, and if KVM leaks state and/or accesses uninitialized data, then the
kernel has bigger problems.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c7619a3d3cbb36463531a7c73ccbde9db587986c.1710004509.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
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Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

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