Pass &error_abort instead of NULL where the returned value is
dereferenced or asserted to be non-null.  Drop a now redundant
assertion.

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: <20200707160613.848843-24-armbru@redhat.com>