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

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 29.01.2019 um 17:37 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> 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 <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  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.

I wasn't completely sure about the interpretation either, but to me the
most likely one is that according to SPC-4 not having a descriptor is
illegal because 7.8.5.2.1 requires that at least one descriptor of type
1, 2, 3 or 8 shall be included (all of them contain some sort of a
registered vendor ID, which we don't have).

The one that I'm removing is type 0, so it didn't meet the requirement
even before and I concluded that if this patch doesn't make things worse
in terms of spec compliance and fixes things in practice, it can't be
completely wrong.

Kevin