Avoid gres step allocation errors when a job shrinks in size

due to either down nodes or explicit resizing.
Generated slurmctld errors of this type:
[2013-06-04T12:43:46+06:00] error: gres/gpu: step_test 68662.4294967294 gres_bit_alloc is NULL
This is a movement of the logic introduced in commit
https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/6fff97bb77d2d88aa808c47fd7880246a0c1d090
to eliminate a memory leak.