[PATCH v6 1/1] PCI/sysfs: Expose PCIe device serial number

From: Matthew Wood
Date: Fri Jul 18 2025 - 15:32:57 EST


Add a single sysfs read-only interface for reading PCIe device serial
numbers from userspace in a programmatic way. This device attribute
uses the same hexadecimal 1-byte dashed formatting as lspci serial number
capability output. If a device doesn't support the serial number
capability, the serial_number sysfs attribute will not be visible.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wood <thepacketgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 9 +++++++++
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index 69f952fffec7..0a2580cdd58c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -612,3 +612,12 @@ Description:

# ls doe_features
0001:01 0001:02 doe_discovery
+
+What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../serial_number
+Date: October 2025
+Contact: Matthew Wood <thepacketgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
+Description:
+ This is visible only for PCIe devices that support the serial
+ number extended capability. The file is read only and due to
+ the possible sensitivity of accessible serial numbers, admin
+ only.
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index 268c69daa4d5..1d26e4336f1b 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/msi.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/aperture.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
#include "pci.h"

#ifndef ARCH_PCI_DEV_GROUPS
@@ -239,6 +240,22 @@ static ssize_t current_link_width_show(struct device *dev,
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(current_link_width);

+static ssize_t serial_number_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ struct pci_dev *pci_dev = to_pci_dev(dev);
+ u64 dsn;
+ u8 bytes[8];
+
+ dsn = pci_get_dsn(pci_dev);
+ if (!dsn)
+ return -EIO;
+ put_unaligned_be64(dsn, bytes);
+
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%8phD\n", bytes);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(serial_number);
+
static ssize_t secondary_bus_number_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
@@ -660,6 +677,7 @@ static struct attribute *pcie_dev_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_current_link_width.attr,
&dev_attr_max_link_width.attr,
&dev_attr_max_link_speed.attr,
+ &dev_attr_serial_number.attr,
NULL,
};

@@ -1749,10 +1767,13 @@ static umode_t pcie_dev_attrs_are_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
struct device *dev = kobj_to_dev(kobj);
struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);

- if (pci_is_pcie(pdev))
- return a->mode;
+ if (!pci_is_pcie(pdev))
+ return 0;

- return 0;
+ if (a == &dev_attr_serial_number.attr && !pci_get_dsn(pdev))
+ return 0;
+
+ return a->mode;
}

static const struct attribute_group pci_dev_group = {
--
2.50.1