This change is used in later commits so we can avoid the removal of the
netclient if it is delayed.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
---
 net/net.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
index fc1125111c..9f96509b2a 100644
--- a/net/net.c
+++ b/net/net.c
@@ -381,9 +381,12 @@ NetClientState *qemu_get_peer(NetClientState *nc, int queue_index)
     return ncs->peer;
 }
 
-static void qemu_cleanup_net_client(NetClientState *nc)
+static void qemu_cleanup_net_client(NetClientState *nc,
+                                    bool remove_from_net_clients)
 {
-    QTAILQ_REMOVE(&net_clients, nc, next);
+    if (remove_from_net_clients) {
+        QTAILQ_REMOVE(&net_clients, nc, next);
+    }
 
     if (nc->info->cleanup) {
         nc->info->cleanup(nc);
@@ -442,14 +445,14 @@ void qemu_del_net_client(NetClientState *nc)
         }
 
         for (i = 0; i < queues; i++) {
-            qemu_cleanup_net_client(ncs[i]);
+            qemu_cleanup_net_client(ncs[i], true);
         }
 
         return;
     }
 
     for (i = 0; i < queues; i++) {
-        qemu_cleanup_net_client(ncs[i]);
+        qemu_cleanup_net_client(ncs[i], true);
         qemu_free_net_client(ncs[i]);
     }
 }
@@ -474,7 +477,7 @@ void qemu_del_nic(NICState *nic)
     for (i = queues - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
         NetClientState *nc = qemu_get_subqueue(nic, i);
 
-        qemu_cleanup_net_client(nc);
+        qemu_cleanup_net_client(nc, true);
         qemu_free_net_client(nc);
     }
 
-- 
2.46.0