In fact, if the HBA's transfer_data callback goes on with scsi_req_continue the request will be completed successfully instead of showing a failure. It can even cause a segmentation fault.
An easy way to trigger it is "eject -f cd" during installation (during media test if the installer does something like that). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- hw/scsi-disk.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/scsi-disk.c b/hw/scsi-disk.c index f42a5d1..814bf74 100644 --- a/hw/scsi-disk.c +++ b/hw/scsi-disk.c @@ -217,9 +217,6 @@ static int scsi_handle_rw_error(SCSIDiskReq *r, int error, int type) bdrv_mon_event(s->bs, BDRV_ACTION_STOP, is_read); vm_stop(VMSTOP_DISKFULL); } else { - if (type == SCSI_REQ_STATUS_RETRY_READ) { - scsi_req_data(&r->req, 0); - } switch (error) { case ENOMEM: scsi_command_complete(r, CHECK_CONDITION, -- 1.7.6