block: Add blk_new_with_bs() helper

There are several callers that need to create a new block backend from
an existing BDS; make the task slightly easier with a common helper
routine.

Suggested-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200424190903.522087-2-eblake@redhat.com>
[mreitz: Set @ret only in error paths, see
 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2020-04/msg01216.html]
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200428192648.749066-2-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c
index 17ed6d8c5b..f4944861fa 100644
--- a/block/block-backend.c
+++ b/block/block-backend.c
@@ -356,6 +356,29 @@ BlockBackend *blk_new(AioContext *ctx, uint64_t perm, uint64_t shared_perm)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Create a new BlockBackend connected to an existing BlockDriverState.
+ *
+ * @perm is a bitmasks of BLK_PERM_* constants which describes the
+ * permissions to request for @bs that is attached to this
+ * BlockBackend.  @shared_perm is a bitmask which describes which
+ * permissions may be granted to other users of the attached node.
+ * Both sets of permissions can be changed later using blk_set_perm().
+ *
+ * Return the new BlockBackend on success, null on failure.
+ */
+BlockBackend *blk_new_with_bs(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t perm,
+                              uint64_t shared_perm, Error **errp)
+{
+    BlockBackend *blk = blk_new(bdrv_get_aio_context(bs), perm, shared_perm);
+
+    if (blk_insert_bs(blk, bs, errp) < 0) {
+        blk_unref(blk);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return blk;
+}
+
+/*
  * Creates a new BlockBackend, opens a new BlockDriverState, and connects both.
  * The new BlockBackend is in the main AioContext.
  *