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Added by Eduardo Habkost about 14 years ago

monitor: allow device to be ejected if no disk is inserted

This changes the monitor eject_device() function to not check for
bdrv_is_inserted().

Example run where the bug manifests itself:

(output of 'info block' is stripped to include only the CD-ROM device)

(qemu) info block
  ide1-cd0: type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
  (qemu) change ide1-cd0 /dev/cdrom host_cdrom
  (qemu) info block
  ide1-cd0: type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 file=/dev/cdrom ro=1 drv=host_cdrom encrypted=0
  (qemu) eject ide1-cd0
  (qemu) info block
  ide1-cd0: type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 file=/dev/cdrom ro=1 drv=host_cdrom encrypted=0
  1. at this point, a disk was inserted on the host CD-ROM drive
(qemu) info block
  ide1-cd0: type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 file=/dev/cdrom ro=1 drv=host_cdrom encrypted=0
  (qemu) eject ide1-cd0
  (qemu) info block
  ide1-cd0: type=cdrom removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
  (qemu)

The first eject command didn't work because the is_inserted() check
failed.

I have no clue why the code had the is_inserted() check, as it doesn't matter
if there is a disk present at the host drive, when the user wants the virtual
device to be disconnected from the host device.

The is_inserted() check has another side effect: a memory leak if the "change"
command is used multiple times, as do_change() calls eject_device() before
re-opening the block device, but bdrv_close() is never called.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <>

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