When qemuDomainDeleteDevice() gets "DeviceNotFound" error it is a special case as we're trying to remove a device which does not exists any more. Such occasion is indicated by the return value -2. Callers of the aforementioned function ought to base their behaviour on the return value. However not all callers take as much care for the return value as one could realistically anticipate. Follow the usual direction of removing possible backend object (in case of character devices), remove the device from its XML without waiting for the device removal from QEMU (since it is already not there) and basically follow the same algorithm as there is when the device was removed, skipping over the wait for the device removal. The overall return value also needs to be adjusted since qemuDomainDeleteDevice() does not set an error on the -2 return value and would otherwise trigger an unknown error being reported to the user or management application. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index 8361d3d9c1b7..1b6ecb1cd1f9 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -6090,8 +6090,12 @@ qemuDomainDetachDeviceChr(virQEMUDriver *driver, if (rc < 0) goto cleanup; } else { - if (qemuDomainDeleteDevice(vm, tmpChr->info.alias) < 0) + ret = qemuDomainDeleteDevice(vm, tmpChr->info.alias); + if (ret < 0) { + if (ret == -2) + ret = qemuDomainRemoveChrDevice(driver, vm, tmpChr, true); goto cleanup; + } } if (guestfwd) { @@ -6595,18 +6599,19 @@ qemuDomainHotplugDelVcpu(virQEMUDriver *driver, qemuDomainMarkDeviceAliasForRemoval(vm, vcpupriv->alias); - if (qemuDomainDeleteDevice(vm, vcpupriv->alias) < 0) { - if (virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) + rc = qemuDomainDeleteDevice(vm, vcpupriv->alias); + if (rc < 0) { + if (rc == -1 && virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) virDomainAuditVcpu(vm, oldvcpus, oldvcpus - nvcpus, "update", false); goto cleanup; - } - - if ((rc = qemuDomainWaitForDeviceRemoval(vm)) <= 0) { - if (rc == 0) - virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_TIMEOUT, "%s", - _("vcpu unplug request timed out. Unplug result must be manually inspected in the domain")); + } else { + if ((rc = qemuDomainWaitForDeviceRemoval(vm)) <= 0) { + if (rc == 0) + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_TIMEOUT, "%s", + _("vcpu unplug request timed out. Unplug result must be manually inspected in the domain")); - goto cleanup; + goto cleanup; + } } if (qemuDomainRemoveVcpu(vm, vcpu) < 0) -- 2.47.0