diff --git a/include/monitor/monitor.h b/include/monitor/monitor.h
index a49ea11eb4..42d867155b 100644
--- a/include/monitor/monitor.h
+++ b/include/monitor/monitor.h
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ int monitor_handle_fd_param(Monitor *mon, const char *fdname);
 void monitor_vprintf(Monitor *mon, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
     GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 0);
 void monitor_printf(Monitor *mon, const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3);
-void monitor_print_filename(Monitor *mon, const char *filename);
 void monitor_flush(Monitor *mon);
 int monitor_set_cpu(int cpu_index);
 int monitor_get_cpu_index(void);
diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index 342e83baea..c8428a12db 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -352,33 +352,6 @@ void monitor_printf(Monitor *mon, const char *fmt, ...)
     va_end(ap);
 }
 
-void monitor_print_filename(Monitor *mon, const char *filename)
-{
-    int i;
-
-    for (i = 0; filename[i]; i++) {
-        switch (filename[i]) {
-        case ' ':
-        case '"':
-        case '\\':
-            monitor_printf(mon, "\\%c", filename[i]);
-            break;
-        case '\t':
-            monitor_printf(mon, "\\t");
-            break;
-        case '\r':
-            monitor_printf(mon, "\\r");
-            break;
-        case '\n':
-            monitor_printf(mon, "\\n");
-            break;
-        default:
-            monitor_printf(mon, "%c", filename[i]);
-            break;
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 static int GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3) monitor_fprintf(FILE *stream,
                                               const char *fmt, ...)
 {
diff --git a/stubs/Makefile.objs b/stubs/Makefile.objs
index 5ed1d38d70..d99e2b9259 100644
--- a/stubs/Makefile.objs
+++ b/stubs/Makefile.objs
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ stub-obj-y += iothread-lock.o
 stub-obj-y += migr-blocker.o
 stub-obj-y += mon-is-qmp.o
 stub-obj-y += mon-printf.o
-stub-obj-y += mon-print-filename.o
 stub-obj-y += mon-protocol-event.o
 stub-obj-y += mon-set-error.o
 stub-obj-y += pci-drive-hot-add.o
diff --git a/stubs/mon-print-filename.c b/stubs/mon-print-filename.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c939641ff..0000000000
--- a/stubs/mon-print-filename.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#include "qemu-common.h"
-#include "monitor/monitor.h"
-
-void monitor_print_filename(Monitor *mon, const char *filename)
-{
-}