diff --git a/tests/check-block.sh b/tests/check-block.sh
index f59496396c..5de2c1ba0b 100755
--- a/tests/check-block.sh
+++ b/tests/check-block.sh
@@ -18,36 +18,10 @@ skip() {
     exit 0
 }
 
-# Disable tests with any sanitizer except for specific ones
-SANITIZE_FLAGS=$( grep "CFLAGS.*-fsanitize" config-host.mak 2>/dev/null )
-ALLOWED_SANITIZE_FLAGS="safe-stack cfi-icall"
-#Remove all occurrencies of allowed Sanitize flags
-for j in ${ALLOWED_SANITIZE_FLAGS}; do
-    TMP_FLAGS=${SANITIZE_FLAGS}
-    SANITIZE_FLAGS=""
-    for i in ${TMP_FLAGS}; do
-        if ! echo ${i} | grep -q "${j}" 2>/dev/null; then
-            SANITIZE_FLAGS="${SANITIZE_FLAGS} ${i}"
-        fi
-    done
-done
-if echo ${SANITIZE_FLAGS} | grep -q "\-fsanitize" 2>/dev/null; then
-    # Have a sanitize flag that is not allowed, stop
-    skip "Sanitizers are enabled ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
-fi
-
 if [ -z "$(find . -name 'qemu-system-*' -print)" ]; then
     skip "No qemu-system binary available ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
 fi
 
-if ! command -v bash >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-    skip "bash not available ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
-fi
-
-if LANG=C bash --version | grep -q 'GNU bash, version [123]' ; then
-    skip "bash version too old ==> Not running the qemu-iotests."
-fi
-
 cd tests/qemu-iotests
 
 # QEMU_CHECK_BLOCK_AUTO is used to disable some unstable sub-tests
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build b/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
index 92f09251a6..323a4acb6a 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/meson.build
@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@ if not have_tools or targetos == 'windows' or get_option('gprof')
   subdir_done()
 endif
 
+foreach cflag: config_host['QEMU_CFLAGS'].split()
+  if cflag.startswith('-fsanitize') and \
+     not cflag.contains('safe-stack') and not cflag.contains('cfi-icall')
+    message('Sanitizers are enabled ==> Disabled the qemu-iotests.')
+    subdir_done()
+  endif
+endforeach
+
+bash = find_program('bash', required: false, version: '>= 4.0')
+if not bash.found()
+  message('bash >= v4.0 not available ==> Disabled the qemu-iotests.')
+  subdir_done()
+endif
+
 qemu_iotests_binaries = [qemu_img, qemu_io, qemu_nbd, qsd]
 qemu_iotests_env = {'PYTHON': python.full_path()}
 qemu_iotests_formats = {