Re: [PATCH-for-4.2? 0/1] roms/edk2: update submodule to edk2-stable201911, fixing low severity CVEs

[Laszlo Ersek]

Hi Phil,

On 11/29/19 11:44, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> I had this commit ready for when the next EDK2 release were go out,
> which just happened: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/51502
> 
> Laszlo doesn't think it's worth the churn to rush to get this update
> into into 4.2-rc4: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1852196/comments/2
> 
> I agree with Laszlo, users shouldn't use the EDK2 bundled within QEMU
> in production, and should rather build it from source. However some
> distributions seem to rely on this convenience way to package EDK2,
> and few CVEs are fixed in this new release. So it might be worthwhile
> to get this into 4.2-rc4. Anyhow distributions don't use QEMU stable
> tag directly and backport patches, so if there is no other rc4 patch,
> we could skip this for after 4.2, as Laszlo originally planned.
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (1):
>   roms/edk2: update submodule from edk2-stable201905 to
>     edk2-stable201911
> 
>  roms/edk2 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

if we want to do this, then the above diffstat is not enough.

- please evaluate whether we should do something like 9153b9d7401f
("roms/Makefile.edk2: update input file list for
"pc-bios/edk2-licenses.txt"", 2019-06-14)

- we need to rebuild the binaries: 3583cb29f28f ("pc-bios: refresh edk2
build artifacts for edk2-stable201905", 2019-06-14)

- we should update the README file: 541617cad344 ("pc-bios: update the
README file with edk2-stable201905 information", 2019-06-14)

Thanks
Laszlo