Instead of taking a list parameter and returning a new head at a
distance, just return the new item for the caller to insert into a
list via QAPI_LIST_PREPEND.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201113011340.463563-4-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>