On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 12:23:55AM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: > QEMU has allowed the user to specify serials of arbitrary length for > virtio-blk devices, even though the virtio-blk protocol can only > communicate 20 characters of the serial to the guest. This means that a > longer serial number on the command line is silently truncated to 20 > characters from the guest perspective. > > As a first step to fix this, deprecate the silent truncation and turn it > into a warning; we can later make this a hard error. While touching > GET_ID, let's make it more spec compliant and clean up the internal > state. > > Another part is planned that will actually enable users to use longer > serials and additional device identifiers. This will need spec changes > and would take more time than we have until the QEMU 11.2 freeze anyway, > so I'll address this later. For now, the important thing is to get the > deprecation period started. > > Kevin Wolf (5): > virtio-blk: Implement full NUL padding for GET_ID > virtio-blk-test: Add a basic GET_ID test case > virtio-blk: Deprecate silent truncation of serial > virtio-blk: Represent truncated serial in qdev property > virtio-blk-test: Test truncated serial > > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 +++++ > hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 24 +++++++-- > tests/qtest/virtio-blk-test.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Aside from the comments I've sent: Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
