Re: [edk2-devel] Please Consider This PR for edk2-stable202505

["Oliver Smith-Denny via groups.io" <osde=linux.microsoft.com@groups.io>]

On 5/20/2025 10:20 AM, Michael D Kinney via groups.io wrote:
> Hi Liming,
> 
> +stewards
> 
> It is still being reviewed.  This is an important fix and needs to
> go in as soon as it is ready, but I do not think it should be considered
> for the stable tag.  With the level of changes being discussed I would
> prefer it go in immediately after the stable tag and get lots of testing
> before the August stable tag.
> 

I agree with Mike. This is a longstanding issue that was just exposed
recently, but the fix has evolved into a riskier change that needs a lot
of testing.

Released Linux shim versions with DebugClearMemory enabled will be
broken when loading certain Linux payloads without this change (and
there is a risk without DebugClearMemory enabled that pages would
get allocated to the next caller of AllocatePages set to RO and cause
unknown crashes). I defer to the stewards on the need to have this
stable tag contain a fix for this case or for it to get more testing
first (again, my preference).

Thanks,
Oliver



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