[OE-core] qemu: backport patches to fix cves breaks qemu-system-native

Alexey Brodkin alexey.brodkin at synopsys.com
Wed Mar 20 12:07:19 UTC 2019


Hi Richard,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:04 PM
> To: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin at synopsys.com>; Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>
> Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer <openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org>
> Subject: Re: qemu: backport patches to fix cves breaks qemu-system-native
> 
> On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 07:42 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > Hello Kai Kang,
> >
> > You recent changes in QEMU [1] lead to build failure:
> > -------------------------------------->8-----------------------------
> > --------
> > # bitbake qemu-system-native
> > ...
> > > .../build/tmp-glibc/work/x86_64-linux/qemu-system-native/3.1.0-
> > > r0/qemu-3.1.0/hw/rdma/rdma_backend.c:316:42: error:
> > > 'VENDOR_ERR_INV_NUM_SGE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > >          comp_handler(IBV_WC_GENERAL_ERR, VENDOR_ERR_INV_NUM_SGE,
> > > ctx);
> > >                                           ^
> > -------------------------------------->8-----------------------------
> > --------
> >
> > That's obviously because of meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu/0015-fix-
> > CVE-2018-20124.patch.
> >
> > I'm wondering if you tried to build QEMU yourself?
> 
> We're not seeing this on the autobuilder, is this gated by some non-
> default config option?

Maybe.

But if you grep by qemu sources you may notice that indeed 
VENDOR_ERR_INV_NUM_SGE is not defined anywhere. So regardless of my setup
that looks like a valid and expected build failure.

At least that was the case after I fetched OE-core changes this morning.

-Alexey


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