The only difference is that blk_ checks if the block is available, but this check is already performed above in blk_check_byte_request().
This is in preparation for the graph rdlock, which will be taken by both the callers of blk_check_byte_request() and blk_getlength(). Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eespo...@redhat.com> --- block/block-backend.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c index 6f0dd15808..4af9a3179e 100644 --- a/block/block-backend.c +++ b/block/block-backend.c @@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ static int blk_check_byte_request(BlockBackend *blk, int64_t offset, } if (!blk->allow_write_beyond_eof) { - len = blk_getlength(blk); + len = bdrv_getlength(blk_bs(blk)); if (len < 0) { return len; } -- 2.31.1