linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 07/44] efi: pstore: Return proper errors on UEFI failures

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:40:13 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, 
	"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 07/44] efi: pstore: Return proper errors on
 UEFI failures

I already NAKed this yesterday.

Please stop proposing the same patches.

And in the future, please omit *any* patch from AUTOSEL that has been
signed off by me, not only authored by me.



On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 at 14:36, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 7c23b186ab892088f76a3ad9dbff1685ffe2e832 ]
>
> Right now efi-pstore either returns 0 (success) or -EIO; but we
> do have a function to convert UEFI errors in different standard
> error codes, helping to narrow down potential issues more accurately.
>
> So, let's use this helper here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> index 833cbb995dd3f..194fdbd600ad1 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_read_func(struct pstore_record *record,
>                                      &size, record->buf);
>         if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
>                 kfree(record->buf);
> -               return -EIO;
> +               return efi_status_to_err(status);
>         }
>
>         /*
> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static ssize_t efi_pstore_read(struct pstore_record *record)
>                         return 0;
>
>                 if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
> -                       return -EIO;
> +                       return efi_status_to_err(status);
>
>                 /* skip variables that don't concern us */
>                 if (efi_guidcmp(guid, LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID))
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(struct pstore_record *record)
>                                             record->size, record->psi->buf,
>                                             true);
>         efivar_unlock();
> -       return status == EFI_SUCCESS ? 0 : -EIO;
> +       return efi_status_to_err(status);
>  };
>
>  static int efi_pstore_erase(struct pstore_record *record)
> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_erase(struct pstore_record *record)
>                                      PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES, 0, NULL);
>
>         if (status != EFI_SUCCESS && status != EFI_NOT_FOUND)
> -               return -EIO;
> +               return efi_status_to_err(status);
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>