diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 2baac952f15c6608311f3a7319db9b39ad4ea87b..3621d11de0ab8b012e9e0b2dd229cc0ded5c38aa 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -2595,6 +2595,24 @@ int bdrv_snapshot_load_tmp(BlockDriverState *bs,
     return -ENOTSUP;
 }
 
+BlockDriverState *bdrv_find_backing_image(BlockDriverState *bs,
+        const char *backing_file)
+{
+    if (!bs->drv) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (bs->backing_hd) {
+        if (strcmp(bs->backing_file, backing_file) == 0) {
+            return bs->backing_hd;
+        } else {
+            return bdrv_find_backing_image(bs->backing_hd, backing_file);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return NULL;
+}
+
 #define NB_SUFFIXES 4
 
 char *get_human_readable_size(char *buf, int buf_size, int64_t size)
diff --git a/block.h b/block.h
index a3b0b808597d69fb53f4275f031df34abb0a0b49..cae289b2fbf7a217bb693db075e7a5872b404c2f 100644
--- a/block.h
+++ b/block.h
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_writev(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
     int nb_sectors, QEMUIOVector *qiov);
 int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_is_allocated(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
     int nb_sectors, int *pnum);
+BlockDriverState *bdrv_find_backing_image(BlockDriverState *bs,
+    const char *backing_file);
 int bdrv_truncate(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset);
 int64_t bdrv_getlength(BlockDriverState *bs);
 int64_t bdrv_get_allocated_file_size(BlockDriverState *bs);