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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] scsi-disk: Block Device Characteristics


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] scsi-disk: Block Device Characteristics emulation fix
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:04:17 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22)

Am 12.07.2018 um 16:53 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> On 11/07/2018 22:58, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> > The current BDC VPD page (page 0xb1) is too short. This can be
> > seen running sg_utils:
> > 
> > $ sg_vpd --page=bdc /dev/sda
> > Block device characteristics VPD page (SBC):
> > Block device characteristics VPD page length too short=8
> > 
> > By the SCSI spec, the expected size of the SBC page is 0x40.
> > There is no telling how the guest will behave with a shorter
> > message - it can ignore it, or worse, make (wrong)
> > assumptions.
> > 
> > This patch fixes the emulation by setting the size to 0x40.
> > This is the output of the previous sg_vpd command after
> > applying it:
> > 
> > $ sg_vpd --page=bdc /dev/sda -v
> >     inquiry cdb: 12 01 b1 00 fc 00
> > Block device characteristics VPD page (SBC):
> >    [PQual=0  Peripheral device type: disk]
> >   Medium rotation rate is not reported
> >   Product type: Not specified
> >   WABEREQ=0
> >   WACEREQ=0
> >   Nominal form factor not reported
> >   FUAB=0
> >   VBULS=0
> > 
> > To improve readability, this patch also adds the VBULS value
> > explictly and add comments on the existing fields we're
> > setting.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <address@hidden>
> 
> Kevin kindly agreed to take this through the block tree, so
> 
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin



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