conf: earlier allocation during backing chain crawl
Right now, we are allocating virStorageFileMetadata near the bottom
of the callchain, only after we have identified that we are visiting
a file (and not a network resource). I'm hoping to eventually
support parsing the backing chain from XML, where the backing chain
crawl then validates what was parsed rather than allocating a fresh
structure. Likewise, I'm working towards a setup where we have a
backing element even for networks. Both of these use cases are
easier to code if the allocation is hoisted earlier.