d_path: regularize handling of root dentry in __dentry_path()

All path-forming primitives boil down to sequence of prepend_name()
on dentries encountered along the way toward root.  Each time we prepend
/ + dentry name to the buffer.  Normally that does exactly what we want,
but there's a corner case when we don't call prepend_name() at all (in case
of __dentry_path() that happens if we are given root dentry).  We obviously
want to end up with "/", rather than "", so this corner case needs to be
handled.

__dentry_path() used to manually put '/' in the end of buffer before
doing anything else, to be overwritten by the first call of prepend_name()
if one happens and to be left in place if we don't call prepend_name() at
all.  That required manually checking that we had space in the buffer
(prepend_name() and prepend() take care of such checks themselves) and lead
to clumsy keeping track of return value.

A better approach is to check if the main loop has added anything
into the buffer and prepend "/" if it hasn't.  A side benefit of using prepend()
is that it does the right thing if we'd already run out of buffer, making
the overflow-handling logics simpler.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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