No need to start a tracked request that will always fail.  The choice
to check read-only after bdrv_inc_in_flight() predates 1bc5f09f2e
(block: Use tracked request for truncate), but waiting for serializing
requests can make the effect more noticeable.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
---
 block/io.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
index 323854d06337..1a05f320d35e 100644
--- a/block/io.c
+++ b/block/io.c
@@ -3390,6 +3390,11 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_truncate(BdrvChild *child, 
int64_t offset, bool exact,
         return old_size;
     }

+    if (bdrv_is_read_only(bs)) {
+        error_setg(errp, "Image is read-only");
+        return -EACCES;
+    }
+
     if (offset > old_size) {
         new_bytes = offset - old_size;
     } else {
@@ -3406,11 +3411,6 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_truncate(BdrvChild *child, 
int64_t offset, bool exact,
     if (new_bytes) {
         bdrv_make_request_serialising(&req, 1);
     }
-    if (bdrv_is_read_only(bs)) {
-        error_setg(errp, "Image is read-only");
-        ret = -EACCES;
-        goto out;
-    }
     ret = bdrv_co_write_req_prepare(child, offset - new_bytes, new_bytes, &req,
                                     0);
     if (ret < 0) {
-- 
2.31.1


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