The 'skip_flush' field is set on the dummy throwaway HMP monitor
object created by QMP's  'human-monitor-command', as an indication
not to try to write data to the chardev. Instead the QMP command
impl will grab the data straight out of the in-memory buffer.

The flag is redundant, however, as the monitor code could instead
simply check the 'fe_is_open' field on the CharFrontend, which
will be false in the same scenarios that 'skip_flush' is true.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 monitor/hmp.c              |  2 +-
 monitor/monitor-internal.h |  4 +---
 monitor/monitor.c          | 11 +++++++----
 monitor/qmp-cmds.c         |  2 +-
 monitor/qmp.c              |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/monitor/hmp.c b/monitor/hmp.c
index 614d9a3707..72f8303662 100644
--- a/monitor/hmp.c
+++ b/monitor/hmp.c
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ void monitor_new_hmp(Chardev *chr, bool use_readline, Error **errp)
         return;
     }
 
-    monitor_data_init(&mon->parent, false, false, false);
+    monitor_data_init(&mon->parent, false, false);
 
     mon->use_readline = use_readline;
     if (mon->use_readline) {
diff --git a/monitor/monitor-internal.h b/monitor/monitor-internal.h
index 25320928a7..84117805b7 100644
--- a/monitor/monitor-internal.h
+++ b/monitor/monitor-internal.h
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ struct Monitor {
     CharFrontend chr;
     int suspend_cnt;            /* Needs to be accessed atomically */
     bool is_qmp;
-    bool skip_flush;
     bool use_io_thread;
 
     char *mon_cpu_path;
@@ -183,8 +182,7 @@ extern QmpCommandList qmp_commands, qmp_cap_negotiation_commands;
 extern QemuMutex monitor_lock;
 extern MonitorList mon_list;
 
-void monitor_data_init(Monitor *mon, bool is_qmp, bool skip_flush,
-                       bool use_io_thread);
+void monitor_data_init(Monitor *mon, bool is_qmp, bool use_io_thread);
 void monitor_data_destroy(Monitor *mon);
 int monitor_can_read(void *opaque);
 void monitor_list_append(Monitor *mon);
diff --git a/monitor/monitor.c b/monitor/monitor.c
index 7936e2ab22..f7e3708d2f 100644
--- a/monitor/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor/monitor.c
@@ -167,7 +167,12 @@ void monitor_flush_locked(Monitor *mon)
     size_t len;
     const char *buf;
 
-    if (mon->skip_flush) {
+    /*
+     * When used by QMP human-monitor-command, no chardev
+     * will be connected, as we want to just collect the
+     * output in the buffer
+     */
+    if (!mon->chr.fe_is_open) {
         return;
     }
 
@@ -621,8 +626,7 @@ static void monitor_iothread_init(void)
     mon_iothread = iothread_create("mon_iothread", &error_abort);
 }
 
-void monitor_data_init(Monitor *mon, bool is_qmp, bool skip_flush,
-                       bool use_io_thread)
+void monitor_data_init(Monitor *mon, bool is_qmp, bool use_io_thread)
 {
     if (use_io_thread && !mon_iothread) {
         monitor_iothread_init();
@@ -630,7 +634,6 @@ void monitor_data_init(Monitor *mon, bool is_qmp, bool skip_flush,
     qemu_mutex_init(&mon->mon_lock);
     mon->is_qmp = is_qmp;
     mon->outbuf = g_string_new(NULL);
-    mon->skip_flush = skip_flush;
     mon->use_io_thread = use_io_thread;
 }
 
diff --git a/monitor/qmp-cmds.c b/monitor/qmp-cmds.c
index d0ed241d6a..be2bd985b7 100644
--- a/monitor/qmp-cmds.c
+++ b/monitor/qmp-cmds.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ char *qmp_human_monitor_command(const char *command_line, bool has_cpu_index,
     char *output = NULL;
     MonitorHMP *hmp = MONITOR_HMP(object_new(TYPE_MONITOR_HMP));
 
-    monitor_data_init(&hmp->parent, false, true, false);
+    monitor_data_init(&hmp->parent, false, false);
 
     if (has_cpu_index) {
         int ret = monitor_set_cpu(&hmp->parent, cpu_index);
diff --git a/monitor/qmp.c b/monitor/qmp.c
index 36cb078f30..fe2aec9ce9 100644
--- a/monitor/qmp.c
+++ b/monitor/qmp.c
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ void monitor_new_qmp(Chardev *chr, bool pretty, Error **errp)
     qemu_chr_fe_set_echo(&mon->parent.chr, true);
 
     /* Note: we run QMP monitor in I/O thread when @chr supports that */
-    monitor_data_init(&mon->parent, true, false,
+    monitor_data_init(&mon->parent, true,
                       qemu_chr_has_feature(chr, QEMU_CHAR_FEATURE_GCONTEXT));
 
     mon->pretty = pretty;
-- 
2.53.0