This is a small helper function, to determine if 'base' is in the
chain of BlockDriverState 'top'. It returns true if it is in the chain,
and false otherwise.
If either argument is NULL, it will also return false.
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <ben...@irqsave.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jc...@redhat.com>
---
block.c | 11 +++++++++++
include/block/block.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index fd43016..f9ea1b4 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -3822,6 +3822,17 @@ BlockDriverState *bdrv_lookup_bs(const char *device,
return NULL;
}
+/* If 'base' is in the same chain as 'top', return true. Otherwise,
+ * return false. If either argument is NULL, return false. */
+bool bdrv_chain_contains(BlockDriverState *top, BlockDriverState *base)
+{
+ while (top && top != base) {
+ top = top->backing_hd;
+ }
+
+ return top != NULL;
+}
+
BlockDriverState *bdrv_next(BlockDriverState *bs)
{
if (!bs) {
diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index 7d86e29..08fe1ac 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ BlockDeviceInfoList *bdrv_named_nodes_list(void);
BlockDriverState *bdrv_lookup_bs(const char *device,
const char *node_name,
Error **errp);
+bool bdrv_chain_contains(BlockDriverState *top, BlockDriverState *base);
BlockDriverState *bdrv_next(BlockDriverState *bs);
void bdrv_iterate(void (*it)(void *opaque, BlockDriverState *bs),
void *opaque);
--
1.8.3.1
