perf jevents: Tidy error handling

perf jevents: Tidy error handling

[ Upstream commit fa1b41a74d1136cbdd6960f36d7b9c7aa35c8139 ]

There is much duplication in the error handling for directory transvering
for prcessing JSONs.

Factor out the common code to tidy a bit.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1603364547-197086-2-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>