readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups

Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the
error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched
from ENOENT to EINVAL:

  commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d
  Author: Al Viro <[email protected]>
  Date:   Sun Mar 13 15:56:26 2011 -0400

    readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames

This is both unexpected for userspace and makes readlink/readlinkat
inconsistant with all other interfaces; and inconsistant with our stated
return for these pathnames.

As the readlinkat call does not have a flags parameter we cannot use the
AT_EMPTY_PATH approach used in the other calls.  Therefore expose whether
the original path is infact entry via a new user_path_at_empty() path
lookup function.  Use this to determine whether to default to EINVAL or
ENOENT for failures.

Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187

[[email protected]: remove unused getname_flags()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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