block: add helper function to determine if a BDS is in a chain
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 <benoit@irqsave.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index c111c29..f45e63c 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -3774,6 +3774,17 @@
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) {
