ovl: move some common code in a function

ovl: move some common code in a function

ovl_create_upper() and ovl_create_over_whiteout() seem to be sharing some
common code which can be moved into a separate function.  No functionality
change.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Orabug: 26401569

(backport upstream commit 72e48481815eeca72fc886b3be91301ad87d6aeb)

Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan.hai@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <somasundaram.krishnasamy@oracle.com>