The previous commit used Coccinelle to convert from checking the Error
object to checking the return value.  Convert a few more manually.
Also tweak control flow in places to conform to the conventional "if
error bail out" pattern.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-20-armbru@redhat.com>