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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Chage disk serial length from 20 to 36
From: |
Markus Armbruster |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Chage disk serial length from 20 to 36 |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:44:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
> On 30/08/2016 14:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On 29/08/2016 09:52, address@hidden wrote:
>>>> From: ronyweng <address@hidden>
>>>>
>>>> Openstack Cinder assigns volume a 36 characters uuid as serial.
>>>> Qemu will shrinks the uuid to 20 characters,
>>>> missmatch with original uuid.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rony Weng <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>> hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 4 ++--
>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c b/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
>>>> index 836a155..0e1bb68 100644
>>>> --- a/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
>>>> +++ b/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
>>>> @@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ static int scsi_disk_emulate_inquiry(SCSIRequest *req,
>>>> uint8_t *outbuf)
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> l = strlen(s->serial);
>>>> - if (l > 20) {
>>>> - l = 20;
>>>> + if (l > 36) {
>>>> + l = 36;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> DPRINTF("Inquiry EVPD[Serial number] "
>>>>
>>>
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>>
>>> Thanks, queued for 2.8 and 2.7.1
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>
>> Pointing to the applicable SCSI spec chapter & verse in the commit
>> message would be nice. As is, 36 looks as arbitrary as 20.
>
> There is no limit in the SCSI spec. 20 was copy-pasted from virtio-blk
> which in turn was copy-pasted from ATA. So 36 is even more arbitrary,
> but bumping it up too much might cause issues (e.g. who knows there's no
> off-by-one somewhere if I make it 252, so that 256 is the maximum amount
> of returned data).
This paragraph would make a nice addition to the commit message :)