diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index c4845b169464..c0facaa55cf4 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -171,11 +171,43 @@ static void do_virtblk_request(struct request_queue *q)
 		vblk->vq->vq_ops->kick(vblk->vq);
 }
 
+/* return ATA identify data
+ */
+static int virtblk_identify(struct gendisk *disk, void *argp)
+{
+	struct virtio_blk *vblk = disk->private_data;
+	void *opaque;
+	int err = -ENOMEM;
+
+	opaque = kmalloc(VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!opaque)
+		goto out;
+
+	err = virtio_config_buf(vblk->vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY,
+		offsetof(struct virtio_blk_config, identify), opaque,
+		VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES);
+
+	if (err)
+		goto out_kfree;
+
+	if (copy_to_user(argp, opaque, VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES))
+		err = -EFAULT;
+
+out_kfree:
+	kfree(opaque);
+out:
+	return err;
+}
+
 static int virtblk_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 			 unsigned cmd, unsigned long data)
 {
 	struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
 	struct virtio_blk *vblk = disk->private_data;
+	void __user *argp = (void __user *)data;
+
+	if (cmd == HDIO_GET_IDENTITY)
+		return virtblk_identify(disk, argp);
 
 	/*
 	 * Only allow the generic SCSI ioctls if the host can support it.
@@ -183,8 +215,7 @@ static int virtblk_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	if (!virtio_has_feature(vblk->vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI))
 		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 
-	return scsi_cmd_ioctl(disk->queue, disk, mode, cmd,
-			      (void __user *)data);
+	return scsi_cmd_ioctl(disk->queue, disk, mode, cmd, argp);
 }
 
 /* We provide getgeo only to please some old bootloader/partitioning tools */
@@ -390,7 +421,7 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
 static unsigned int features[] = {
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SIZE_MAX,
 	VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY, VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE,
-	VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI,
+	VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI, VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY
 };
 
 static struct virtio_driver virtio_blk = {
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_blk.h b/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
index 4dbcbc1c3481..be7d255fc7cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO		5	/* Disk is read-only */
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE	6	/* Block size of disk is available*/
 #define VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI	7	/* Supports scsi command passthru */
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY	8	/* ATA IDENTIFY supported */
+
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES	(sizeof(__u16[256]))	/* IDENTIFY DATA */
 
 struct virtio_blk_config
 {
@@ -33,6 +36,7 @@ struct virtio_blk_config
 	} geometry;
 	/* block size of device (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE) */
 	__u32 blk_size;
+	__u8 identify[VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES];
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 /* These two define direction. */