[PATCH 2/2 v2] efi: print appropriate status message when loading certificates

Lee, Chun-Yi joeyli.kernel at gmail.com
Sun Mar 24 00:26:21 UTC 2019


When loading certificates list from UEFI variable, the original error
message direct shows the efi status code from UEFI firmware. It looks
ugly:

[    2.335031] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e
[    2.335032] Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT
[    2.339985] Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e
[    2.339987] Couldn't get UEFI dbx list

So, this patch shows the status string instead of status code.

On the other hand, the "Couldn't get UEFI" message doesn't need
to be exposed when db/dbx/mok variable do not exist. So, this
patch set the message level to debug.

v2.
Setting the MODSIGN messagse level to debug.

Link: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/535324-MODSIGN-Couldn-t-get-UEFI-db-list?p=2897516#post2897516
Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee at suse.com>
---
 security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c b/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
index 81b19c52832b..e65244b31f04 100644
--- a/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
+++ b/security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ static __init void *get_cert_list(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *guid,
 
 	status = efi.get_variable(name, guid, NULL, &lsize, &tmpdb);
 	if (status != EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) {
-		pr_err("Couldn't get size: 0x%lx\n", status);
+		if (status != EFI_NOT_FOUND)
+			pr_err("Couldn't get size: %s\n",
+				efi_status_to_str(status));
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -59,7 +61,8 @@ static __init void *get_cert_list(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *guid,
 	status = efi.get_variable(name, guid, NULL, &lsize, db);
 	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
 		kfree(db);
-		pr_err("Error reading db var: 0x%lx\n", status);
+		pr_err("Error reading db var: %s\n",
+			efi_status_to_str(status));
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ static int __init load_uefi_certs(void)
 	if (!uefi_check_ignore_db()) {
 		db = get_cert_list(L"db", &secure_var, &dbsize);
 		if (!db) {
-			pr_err("MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list\n");
+			pr_debug("MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list\n");
 		} else {
 			rc = parse_efi_signature_list("UEFI:db",
 					db, dbsize, get_handler_for_db);
@@ -168,7 +171,7 @@ static int __init load_uefi_certs(void)
 
 	mok = get_cert_list(L"MokListRT", &mok_var, &moksize);
 	if (!mok) {
-		pr_info("Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT\n");
+		pr_debug("Couldn't get UEFI MokListRT\n");
 	} else {
 		rc = parse_efi_signature_list("UEFI:MokListRT",
 					      mok, moksize, get_handler_for_db);
@@ -179,7 +182,7 @@ static int __init load_uefi_certs(void)
 
 	dbx = get_cert_list(L"dbx", &secure_var, &dbxsize);
 	if (!dbx) {
-		pr_info("Couldn't get UEFI dbx list\n");
+		pr_debug("Couldn't get UEFI dbx list\n");
 	} else {
 		rc = parse_efi_signature_list("UEFI:dbx",
 					      dbx, dbxsize,
-- 
2.16.4



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