diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-mem.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-mem.c
index ae1e81d7ba..80ada89551 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-mem.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-mem.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static bool virtio_mem_is_busy(void)
      * after plugging them) until we're running on the destination (as we didn't
      * migrate these blocks when they were unplugged).
      */
-    return migration_in_incoming_postcopy() || !migration_is_idle();
+    return migration_in_incoming_postcopy() || migration_is_running();
 }
 
 typedef int (*virtio_mem_range_cb)(VirtIOMEM *vmem, void *arg,
diff --git a/include/migration/misc.h b/include/migration/misc.h
index 86ef160f19..804eb23c06 100644
--- a/include/migration/misc.h
+++ b/include/migration/misc.h
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ void dump_vmstate_json_to_file(FILE *out_fp);
 void migration_object_init(void);
 void migration_shutdown(void);
 
-bool migration_is_idle(void);
 bool migration_is_active(void);
 bool migration_is_device(void);
 bool migration_is_running(void);
diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index 65f77e3aa9..aedf7f0751 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -1633,25 +1633,6 @@ bool migration_in_bg_snapshot(void)
     return migrate_background_snapshot() && migration_is_running();
 }
 
-bool migration_is_idle(void)
-{
-    MigrationState *s = current_migration;
-
-    if (!s) {
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    switch (s->state) {
-    case MIGRATION_STATUS_NONE:
-    case MIGRATION_STATUS_CANCELLED:
-    case MIGRATION_STATUS_COMPLETED:
-    case MIGRATION_STATUS_FAILED:
-        return true;
-    default:
-        return false;
-    }
-}
-
 bool migration_is_active(void)
 {
     MigrationState *s = current_migration;
@@ -1730,7 +1711,7 @@ static bool is_busy(Error **reasonp, Error **errp)
     ERRP_GUARD();
 
     /* Snapshots are similar to migrations, so check RUN_STATE_SAVE_VM too. */
-    if (runstate_check(RUN_STATE_SAVE_VM) || !migration_is_idle()) {
+    if (runstate_check(RUN_STATE_SAVE_VM) || migration_is_running()) {
         error_propagate_prepend(errp, *reasonp,
                                 "disallowing migration blocker "
                                 "(migration/snapshot in progress) for: ");
diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 9d9daccedc..f164dc611f 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -4498,7 +4498,7 @@ static void ram_mig_ram_block_resized(RAMBlockNotifier *n, void *host,
         return;
     }
 
-    if (!migration_is_idle()) {
+    if (migration_is_running()) {
         /*
          * Precopy code on the source cannot deal with the size of RAM blocks
          * changing at random points in time - especially after sending the
diff --git a/system/qdev-monitor.c b/system/qdev-monitor.c
index 44994ea0e1..320c47b72d 100644
--- a/system/qdev-monitor.c
+++ b/system/qdev-monitor.c
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add_from_qdict(const QDict *opts,
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (!migration_is_idle()) {
+    if (migration_is_running()) {
         error_setg(errp, "device_add not allowed while migrating");
         return NULL;
     }
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ void qdev_unplug(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
         return;
     }
 
-    if (!migration_is_idle() && !dev->allow_unplug_during_migration) {
+    if (migration_is_running() && !dev->allow_unplug_during_migration) {
         error_setg(errp, "device_del not allowed while migrating");
         return;
     }