Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: restrict buffer length to req->cmd.xfer for responses to INQUIRY commands.

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 01/23/2012 06:15 PM, Thomas Higdon wrote:
> This prevents the emulated SCSI device from trying to DMA more bytes to the
> initiator than are expected. Without this, the SCRIPTS code in the emulated LSI
> device eventually raises a DMA interrupt for a data overrun when an INQUIRY
> command whose buflen exceeds req->cmd.xfer is processed. It's the
> responsibility of the client to provide a request buffer and allocation
> length that are large enough for the result of the command.
>
> I'm no expert on SCSI (or qemu), but this appears to be more correct behavior
> than before, and makes my SCSI INQUIRY commands more successful.

Yes, this is correct.  SCSI says "The device server shall terminate 
transfers to the Data-In Buffer when the number of bytes or blocks 
specified by the ALLOCATION LENGTH field have been transferred or when 
all available data have been transferred, whichever is less".

The same is already done for example for MODE SENSE commands.

Can you please also do the same REPORT LUNS and INQUIRY in hw/scsi-bus.c?

Thanks,

Paolo