name-hash: don't reuse cache_entry in dir_entry

Stop reusing cache_entry in dir_entry; doing so causes a
use-after-free bug.

During merges, we free entries that we no longer need in the
destination index.  But those entries might have also been stored in
the dir_entry cache, and when a later call to add_to_index found them,
they would be used after being freed.

To prevent this, change dir_entry to store a copy of the name instead
of a pointer to a cache_entry.  This entails some refactoring of code
that expects the cache_entry.

Keith McGuigan <kmcguigan@twitter.com> diagnosed this bug and wrote
the initial patch, but this version does not use any of Keith's code.

Helped-by: Keith McGuigan <kmcguigan@twitter.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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