Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] scsi-disk: Don't use empty string as device id

[Markus Armbruster]

Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> scsi-disk includes in the Device Identification VPD page, depending on
> configuration amongst others, a vendor specific designator that consists
> either of the serial number if given or the BlockBackend name (which is
> a host detail that better shouldn't have been leaked to the guest, but
> now we have to maintain it for compatibility).
>
> With anonymous BlockBackends, i.e. scsi-disk devices constructed with
> drive=<node-name>, and no serial number explicitly specified, this ends
> up as an empty string. If this happens to more than one disk, we have
> accidentally signalled to the OS that this is a multipath setup, which
> is obviously not what was intended.
>
> Instead of using an empty string for the vendor specific designator,
> simply leave out that designator, which makes Linux detect such setups
> as separate disks again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c b/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
> index 0e9027c8f3..93eef40b87 100644
> --- a/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
> +++ b/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
> @@ -652,12 +652,14 @@ static int scsi_disk_emulate_vpd_page(SCSIRequest *req, 
> uint8_t *outbuf)
>          DPRINTF("Inquiry EVPD[Device identification] "
>                  "buffer size %zd\n", req->cmd.xfer);
>  
> -        outbuf[buflen++] = 0x2; /* ASCII */
> -        outbuf[buflen++] = 0;   /* not officially assigned */
> -        outbuf[buflen++] = 0;   /* reserved */
> -        outbuf[buflen++] = id_len; /* length of data following */
> -        memcpy(outbuf + buflen, str, id_len);
> -        buflen += id_len;
> +        if (id_len) {
> +            outbuf[buflen++] = 0x2; /* ASCII */
> +            outbuf[buflen++] = 0;   /* not officially assigned */
> +            outbuf[buflen++] = 0;   /* reserved */
> +            outbuf[buflen++] = id_len; /* length of data following */
> +            memcpy(outbuf + buflen, str, id_len);
> +            buflen += id_len;
> +        }
>  
>          if (s->qdev.wwn) {
>              outbuf[buflen++] = 0x1; /* Binary */

Before the patch, we always add this descriptor, but as you explain in
your commit message, its contents can be wrong.

After the patch, we add this descriptor only when we have a suitable
name (we use serial number, else falling back to BlockBackend name).
It's possible we add *no* descriptors.  I wonder whether that's okay.  I
consulted section SPC-4 section 7.8.5 Device Identification VPD page,
but failed to penetrate the dense prose there.