[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-scsi: work around bug in old BIOSes

[Paolo Bonzini]

Old BIOSes left some padding by mistake after the req_size/resp_size.
New QEMU does not like it, thinking it is a bidirectional command.

As a workaround, we can check if the ANY_LAYOUT bit is set; if not, we
always consider the first buffer as the virtio-scsi request/response,
because, back when QEMU did not support ANY_LAYOUT, it expected the
payload to start at the second element of the iovec.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
---
 hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
index fdcacfd..ef48550 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/virtio-scsi.c
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static size_t qemu_sgl_concat(VirtIOSCSIReq *req, struct 
iovec *iov,
 static int virtio_scsi_parse_req(VirtIOSCSIReq *req,
                                  unsigned req_size, unsigned resp_size)
 {
+    VirtIODevice *vdev = (VirtIODevice *) req->dev;
     size_t in_size, out_size;
 
     if (iov_to_buf(req->elem.out_sg, req->elem.out_num, 0,
@@ -130,8 +131,24 @@ static int virtio_scsi_parse_req(VirtIOSCSIReq *req,
                               resp_size) < resp_size) {
         return -EINVAL;
     }
+
     req->resp_size = resp_size;
 
+    /* Old BIOSes left some padding by mistake after the req_size/resp_size.
+     * As a workaround, always consider the first buffer as the virtio-scsi
+     * request/response, making the payload start at the second element
+     * of the iovec.
+     *
+     * The actual length of the response header, stored in req->resp_size,
+     * does not change.
+     *
+     * TODO: always disable this workaround for virtio 1.0 devices.
+     */
+    if ((vdev->guest_features & VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT) == 0) {
+        req_size = req->elem.out_sg[0].iov_len;
+        resp_size = req->elem.in_sg[0].iov_len;
+    }
+
     out_size = qemu_sgl_concat(req, req->elem.out_sg,
                                &req->elem.out_addr[0], req->elem.out_num,
                                req_size);
-- 
1.8.3.1