Add `UninitSlice::as_uninit_slice_mut()` (#548)

This adds an unsafe method to convert a `&mut UninitSlice` into a
`&mut [MaybeUninit<u8>]`. This method is unsafe because some of the
bytes in the slice may be initialized, and the caller should not
overwrite them with uninitialized bytes.

This came about when auditing [tokio-util's udp frame], where they want
to pass the unitialized portion of a `BytesMut` to [ReadBuf::uninit].
They need to do this unsafe pointer casting in a few places, which
complicates audits. This method lets us document the safety invariants
the caller needs to maintain when doing this conversion.

[tokio-util's udp frame]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/master/tokio-util/src/udp/frame.rs#L87
[ReadBuf::uninit]: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/io/struct.ReadBuf.html#method.uninit

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