On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Create a new attribute for virtio-blk devices that will fetch the serial number > of the block device. This attribute can be used by udev to create disk/by-id > symlinks for devices that don't have a UUID (filesystem) associated with them. > > ATA_IDENTIFY strings are special in that they can be up to 20 chars long > and aren't required to be NULL-terminated. The buffer is also zero-padded > meaning that if the serial is 19 chars or less that we get a NULL terminated > string. When copying this value into a string buffer, we must be careful to > copy up to the NULL (if it present) and only 20 if it is longer and not to > attempt to NULL terminate; this isn't needed. > > Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: john cooper <john.cooper@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > index 258bc2a..f1ef26f 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > @@ -281,6 +281,31 @@ static int index_to_minor(int index) > return index << PART_BITS; > } > > +/* Copy serial number from *s to *d. Copy operation terminates on either > + * encountering a nul in *s or after n bytes have been copied, whichever > + * occurs first. *d is not forcibly nul terminated. Return # of bytes copied. > + */ > +static inline int serial_sysfs(char *d, char *s, int n) > +{ > + char *di = d; I'd change this to: static inline ssize_t serial_sysfs(char *d, const char *s, ssize_t n) { const char *di = d; > + > + while (*s && n--) > + *d++ = *s++; > + return d - di; > +} > + > +static ssize_t virtblk_serial_show(struct device *dev, > + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) > +{ > + struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev); > + char id_str[VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES]; > + > + if (IS_ERR(virtblk_get_id(disk, id_str))) > + return 0; > + return serial_sysfs(buf, id_str, min(VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES, PAGE_SIZE)); > +} > +DEVICE_ATTR(serial, S_IRUGO, virtblk_serial_show, NULL); > + > static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) > { > struct virtio_blk *vblk; > @@ -445,8 +470,15 @@ static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) > > > add_disk(vblk->disk); > + err = device_create_file(disk_to_dev(vblk->disk), &dev_attr_serial); > + if (err) > + goto out_del_disk; > + > return 0; > > +out_del_disk: > + del_gendisk(vblk->disk); > + blk_cleanup_queue(vblk->disk->queue); > out_put_disk: > put_disk(vblk->disk); > out_mempool: > -- > 1.6.3.3 > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html