vfs: link_path_walk: simplify name hash flow

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This is one of those hot functions in path walking, and it's doing
things in just the wrong order that causes slightly unnecessary extra
work.

Move the name pointer update and the setting of 'nd->last' up a bit, so
that the (unlikely) filesystem-specific hashing can run on them in
place, instead of having to set up a copy on the stack and copy things
back and forth.

Because even when the hashing is not run, it causes the stack frame of
the function to be bigger to hold the unnecessary temporary copy.

This also means that we never then reference the full "hashlen" field
after calculating it, and can clarify the code with just using the
length part.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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