For convenience and clarity, make it possible to call qobject_ref() at
the time when the reference is associated with a variable, or
argument, by making qobject_ref() return the same pointer as given.
Use that to simplify the callers.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180419150145.24795-5-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Useless change to qobject_ref_impl() dropped, commit message improved
slightly]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>