[Qemu-devel] [Bug 584143] Re: qemu fails to set hdd serial number

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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Title:
  qemu fails to set hdd serial number

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “qemu-kvm” source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  The -drive ...,serial=xyz option is broken, at least in 0.12.  See Debian bug#573439, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573439 for details.

The proposed fix from the original reporter:

--- qemu-kvm-0.12.3+dfsg/vl.c	2010-02-26 11:34:00.000000000 +0900
+++ qemu-kvm-0.12.3+dfsg.old/vl.c	2010-03-11 02:26:00.134217787 +0900
@@ -2397,7 +2397,7 @@
     dinfo->on_write_error = on_write_error;
     dinfo->opts = opts;
     if (serial)
-        strncpy(dinfo->serial, serial, sizeof(serial));
+        strncpy(dinfo->serial, serial, sizeof(dinfo->serial));
     QTAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&drives, dinfo, next);
     if (is_extboot) {
         extboot_drive = dinfo;