[PATCH] state: helpful error message if state GUID cannot be found

Enrico Jörns ejo at pengutronix.de
Tue Jan 13 05:24:25 PST 2026


So far, if the user didn't specify a valid GPT UID, state initialization
failed with the not so helpful error message:

| ERROR: state state.of: probe failed: Invalid argument

Improve this by also providing a helpful error message.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Jörns <ejo at pengutronix.de>
---
 common/state/state.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/common/state/state.c b/common/state/state.c
index ac6cd6e572..1c23ad4c80 100644
--- a/common/state/state.c
+++ b/common/state/state.c
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ struct state *state_new_from_node(struct device_node *node, bool readonly)
 	if (cdev_is_block_disk(cdev)) {
 		cdev = cdev_find_child_by_gpt_typeuuid(cdev, &barebox_state_partition_guid);
 		if (IS_ERR(cdev)) {
+			dev_err(&state->dev, "cannot find backend GPT partition by PartitionTypeGUID\n");
 			ret = -EINVAL;
 			goto out_release_state;
 		}
-- 
2.47.3




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