Sunil:
  I agree this is a critical bug fix. The fix is correct. CI failure is not
related to this change. If no other comment, I will help merge this change
tomorrow. 

Thanks
Liming
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> 代表 Sunil V L
> 发送时间: 2023年8月22日 14:26
> 收件人: devel@edk2.groups.io; Liming Gao <gaolim...@byosoft.com.cn>
> 抄送: Li, Yong <yong...@intel.com>; 2931013...@sjtu.edu.cn; Warkentin,
> Andrei <andrei.warken...@intel.com>
> 主题: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] OvmfPkg/RiscVVirt: Fix issues in VarStore
> Blockmap config
> 
> Hi Liming,
> 
> This is a bug fix and can cause data loss if the variable size > 4k.
> Can it be included for the edk2-stable202308? Let me know if it requires
> a BZ id.
> 
> I tried running the CI tests for this patch. But 2 of tests failed and I
> don't think it has anything to do with this patch. If you are ok to take
> this patch for the stable release, could you please let me know what
> needs to be done?
> 
> PR : https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/4754
> 
> Thanks!
> Sunil
> 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 02:33:00PM +0530, Sunil V L via groups.io wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 07:08:58AM +0000, Li, Yong wrote:
> > > Hi Sunil,
> > >
> > > Qingyu is from Penglai team, when we were working together in enabling
> StandaloneMm variable service,
> > > we found an issue in OvmfPkg/RiscVVirt/VarStore.fdf.inc,  in which the
> blockmap config is not aligned with the value in
> > >
> OvmfPkg/RiscVVirt/Library/VirtNorFlashPlatformLib/VirtNorFlashStaticLib.c,
> which is SIZE_256KB
> > >
> > > That mis-alignment won't cause any issue if the variable size is small
and
> less than 0x1000, but if store more data in the flash device then it will
cause
> data loss issue during reboot.
> > > Once reboot if any FV header data is corrupted it will result the
whole
> variable system be re-initialized.
> > >
> > > Please help review the patch and give the comments, thanks
> > >
> > Hi Yong Li,
> >
> > Thank you very much for providing the context. Sorry, I actually had
> > missed this.
> >
> > Hi Quingyu Shang,
> >
> > The patch LGTM. Thanks a lot for finding the issue and fixing it. In
> > future, could you please run BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py on the
> > patches and CC all the people it lists using "Cc:" tag?
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <suni...@ventanamicro.com>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Sunil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 





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