[PATCH 1/2] efi: add a function for transferring status to string

Lee, Chun-Yi joeyli.kernel at gmail.com
Sun Mar 24 00:26:20 UTC 2019


This function can be used to transfer EFI status code to string
for printing out debug message. Using this function can improve
the readability of log.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton at enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross at android.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee at suse.com>
---
 include/linux/efi.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 54357a258b35..a43cb0dc37af 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -1768,4 +1768,32 @@ struct linux_efi_memreserve {
 #define EFI_MEMRESERVE_COUNT(size) (((size) - sizeof(struct linux_efi_memreserve)) \
 	/ sizeof(((struct linux_efi_memreserve *)0)->entry[0]))
 
+#define EFI_STATUS_STR(_status) \
+case EFI_##_status: \
+	return "EFI_" __stringify(_status);
+
+static inline char *
+efi_status_to_str(efi_status_t status)
+{
+	switch (status) {
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(SUCCESS)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(LOAD_ERROR)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(INVALID_PARAMETER)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(UNSUPPORTED)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(BAD_BUFFER_SIZE)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(BUFFER_TOO_SMALL)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(NOT_READY)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(DEVICE_ERROR)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(WRITE_PROTECTED)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(OUT_OF_RESOURCES)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(NOT_FOUND)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(ABORTED)
+	EFI_STATUS_STR(SECURITY_VIOLATION)
+	default:
+		pr_warn("Unknown efi status: 0x%lx", status);
+	}
+
+	return "Unknown efi status";
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_EFI_H */
-- 
2.16.4



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