The NVMe 1.4 spec simply says that Model and Serial numbers are
ASCII strings. Unlike SCSI, it doesn't prohibit non-printable
characters or say that the strings should be padded with spaces.
So, to avoid having garbage in the strings, use cam_strvis_sbuf()
(instead of cam_strvis) with the CAM_STRVIS_FLAG_NONASCII_SPC flag.
Since 2014, we have had cam_strvis_sbuf(), which gives additional
This transforms non-printable characters into spaces.
options for handling non-ASCII characters. That behavior hasn't
been available for non-sbuf consumers, so users of cam_strvis()
were left with having octal ASCII codes inserted.
So, to avoid having garbage or octal chracters in the strings, use
cam_strvis_sbuf() to create a new function, cam_strvis_flag(), and
re-implement cam_strvis() using cam_strvis_flag().
Now, for the NVMe drives, we can use cam_strvis_flag with the
CAM_STRVIS_FLAG_NONASCII_SPC flag. This transforms non-printable
characters into spaces.
sys/cam/cam.c:
Add a new function, cam_strvis_flag(), that creates an sbuf
on the stack with the user's destination buffer, and calls
cam_strvis_sbuf() with the given flag argument.
Re-implement cam_strvis() to call cam_strvis_flag with the
CAM_STRVIS_FLAG_NONASCII_ESC argument. This should be the
equivalent of the old cam_strvis() function, except for the
overhead of creating the sbuf and calling sbuf_putc/printf.
sys/cam/cam.h:
Declaration for cam_strvis_flag.
sys/cam/nvme/nvme_all.c:
In nvme_print_ident, use the NONASCII_SPC flag with
cam_strvis_sbufflag().
sys/cam/nvme/nvme_da.c:
In ndaregister(), use cam_strvis_sbufflag() with the
NONASCII_SPC flag for the disk description and serial
number we report to GEOM.
sys/cam/nvme/nvme_xpt.c:
In nvme_probe_done(), use cam_strvis_sbufflag with the
NONASCII_SPC flag when storing the drive serial number
in the CAM EDT.
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