When loading certificates list from EFI variables, the error messages and efi status codes always be emitted to dmesg. 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 This cosmetic patch set moved the above messages to the error handling code path. And, it adds a function to convert EFI status code to a string for improving the readability of debug log. The function can also be used in other EFI logs. v2: The convert function be moved to efi.c Lee, Chun-Yi (2): efi: add a function to convert the status code to a string efi: show error messages only when loading certificates is failed drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/efi.h | 1 + security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c | 41 ++++++++++++++------------- 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.16.4