linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/7] efibc: Report more information in the error messages

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 2016 08:20:24 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Compostella, Jeremy" <jeremy.compostella@...el.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] efibc: Report more information in the error messages

From: "Compostella, Jeremy" <jeremy.compostella@...el.com>

Report the name of the EFI variable if the value size is too large or
if efibc_set_variable() fails to allocate the struct efivar_entry
object.  If efibc_set_variable() fails because the value size is too
large, it also reports the value size in the error message.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@...el.com>
Reported-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@....com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c
index 8dd0c7085e59..568335d4239a 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c
@@ -37,13 +37,15 @@ static int efibc_set_variable(const char *name, const char *value)
 	size_t size = (strlen(value) + 1) * sizeof(efi_char16_t);
 
 	if (size > sizeof(entry->var.Data)) {
-		pr_err("value is too large");
+		pr_err("value is too large (%zu bytes) for %s EFI variable\n",
+		       size, name);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry) {
-		pr_err("failed to allocate efivar entry");
+		pr_err("failed to allocate efivar entry for %s EFI variable\n",
+		       name);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.3