When one has a non-blocking stream and aborts or finishes it without removing the callback, any event loop invocation will trigger that callback, but it cannot be removed any more. We cannot remove the callback automatically from virStream{Abort,Finish} functions due to forward-compatibility. So let's at least document this behaviour, because it is not easy to find out the reason for. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Notes: The discussion about the reasons: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-June/msg00038.html src/libvirt-stream.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/libvirt-stream.c b/src/libvirt-stream.c index d7a8f581608f..c49f20264fd7 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-stream.c +++ b/src/libvirt-stream.c @@ -1131,6 +1131,9 @@ virStreamEventRemoveCallback(virStreamPtr stream) * errors, so if this returns a success code the application can * be sure that all data has been successfully processed. * + * If the stream is non-blocking, any callback must be removed + * beforehand. + * * Returns 0 on success, -1 upon error */ int @@ -1170,6 +1173,9 @@ virStreamFinish(virStreamPtr stream) * streams this can be used to inform the driver that it * should stop sending data. * + * If the stream is non-blocking, any callback must be removed + * beforehand. + * * Returns 0 on success, -1 upon error */ int -- 2.13.1