If is simpler and leads to more readable code through the callstack if
the allocation returns the allocated struct through the return value.

The importance of this is that it no longer looks like we accidentally
allocate requests as side-effect of calling certain functions.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1469432687-22756-19-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukReviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1470174640-18242-9-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk