Instead of just trying to change parents by parent over to reference @to
instead of @from, and abort()ing whenever the permissions don't allow
this, do proper permission checking beforehand and pass any error to the
callers.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>