diff --git a/lib/errname.c b/lib/errname.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/build_bug.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/errname.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+
+/*
+ * Ensure these tables do not accidentally become gigantic if some
+ * huge errno makes it in. On most architectures, the first table will
+ * only have about 140 entries, but mips and parisc have more sparsely
+ * allocated errnos (with EHWPOISON = 257 on parisc, and EDQUOT = 1133
+ * on mips), so this wastes a bit of space on those - though we
+ * special case the EDQUOT case.
+ */
+#define E(err) [err + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(err <= 0 || err > 300)] = "-" #err
+static const char *names_0[] = {
+	E(E2BIG),
+	E(EACCES),
+	E(EADDRINUSE),
+	E(EADDRNOTAVAIL),
+	E(EADV),
+	E(EAFNOSUPPORT),
+	E(EALREADY),
+	E(EBADE),
+	E(EBADF),
+	E(EBADFD),
+	E(EBADMSG),
+	E(EBADR),
+	E(EBADRQC),
+	E(EBADSLT),
+	E(EBFONT),
+	E(EBUSY),
+#ifdef ECANCELLED
+	E(ECANCELLED),
+#endif
+	E(ECHILD),
+	E(ECHRNG),
+	E(ECOMM),
+	E(ECONNABORTED),
+	E(ECONNRESET),
+	E(EDEADLOCK),
+	E(EDESTADDRREQ),
+	E(EDOM),
+	E(EDOTDOT),
+#ifndef CONFIG_MIPS
+	E(EDQUOT),
+#endif
+	E(EEXIST),
+	E(EFAULT),
+	E(EFBIG),
+	E(EHOSTDOWN),
+	E(EHOSTUNREACH),
+	E(EHWPOISON),
+	E(EIDRM),
+	E(EILSEQ),
+#ifdef EINIT
+	E(EINIT),
+#endif
+	E(EINPROGRESS),
+	E(EINTR),
+	E(EINVAL),
+	E(EIO),
+	E(EISCONN),
+	E(EISDIR),
+	E(EISNAM),
+	E(EKEYEXPIRED),
+	E(EKEYREJECTED),
+	E(EKEYREVOKED),
+	E(EL2HLT),
+	E(EL2NSYNC),
+	E(EL3HLT),
+	E(EL3RST),
+	E(ELIBACC),
+	E(ELIBBAD),
+	E(ELIBEXEC),
+	E(ELIBMAX),
+	E(ELIBSCN),
+	E(ELNRNG),
+	E(ELOOP),
+	E(EMEDIUMTYPE),
+	E(EMFILE),
+	E(EMLINK),
+	E(EMSGSIZE),
+	E(EMULTIHOP),
+	E(ENAMETOOLONG),
+	E(ENAVAIL),
+	E(ENETDOWN),
+	E(ENETRESET),
+	E(ENETUNREACH),
+	E(ENFILE),
+	E(ENOANO),
+	E(ENOBUFS),
+	E(ENOCSI),
+	E(ENODATA),
+	E(ENODEV),
+	E(ENOENT),
+	E(ENOEXEC),
+	E(ENOKEY),
+	E(ENOLCK),
+	E(ENOLINK),
+	E(ENOMEDIUM),
+	E(ENOMEM),
+	E(ENOMSG),
+	E(ENONET),
+	E(ENOPKG),
+	E(ENOPROTOOPT),
+	E(ENOSPC),
+	E(ENOSR),
+	E(ENOSTR),
+#ifdef ENOSYM
+	E(ENOSYM),
+#endif
+	E(ENOSYS),
+	E(ENOTBLK),
+	E(ENOTCONN),
+	E(ENOTDIR),
+	E(ENOTEMPTY),
+	E(ENOTNAM),
+	E(ENOTRECOVERABLE),
+	E(ENOTSOCK),
+	E(ENOTTY),
+	E(ENOTUNIQ),
+	E(ENXIO),
+	E(EOPNOTSUPP),
+	E(EOVERFLOW),
+	E(EOWNERDEAD),
+	E(EPERM),
+	E(EPFNOSUPPORT),
+	E(EPIPE),
+#ifdef EPROCLIM
+	E(EPROCLIM),
+#endif
+	E(EPROTO),
+	E(EPROTONOSUPPORT),
+	E(EPROTOTYPE),
+	E(ERANGE),
+	E(EREMCHG),
+#ifdef EREMDEV
+	E(EREMDEV),
+#endif
+	E(EREMOTE),
+	E(EREMOTEIO),
+#ifdef EREMOTERELEASE
+	E(EREMOTERELEASE),
+#endif
+	E(ERESTART),
+	E(ERFKILL),
+	E(EROFS),
+#ifdef ERREMOTE
+	E(ERREMOTE),
+#endif
+	E(ESHUTDOWN),
+	E(ESOCKTNOSUPPORT),
+	E(ESPIPE),
+	E(ESRCH),
+	E(ESRMNT),
+	E(ESTALE),
+	E(ESTRPIPE),
+	E(ETIME),
+	E(ETIMEDOUT),
+	E(ETOOMANYREFS),
+	E(ETXTBSY),
+	E(EUCLEAN),
+	E(EUNATCH),
+	E(EUSERS),
+	E(EXDEV),
+	E(EXFULL),
+
+	E(ECANCELED), /* ECANCELLED */
+	E(EAGAIN), /* EWOULDBLOCK */
+	E(ECONNREFUSED), /* EREFUSED */
+	E(EDEADLK), /* EDEADLOCK */
+};
+#undef E
+
+#define E(err) [err - 512 + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(err < 512 || err > 550)] = "-" #err
+static const char *names_512[] = {
+	E(ERESTARTSYS),
+	E(ERESTARTNOINTR),
+	E(ERESTARTNOHAND),
+	E(ENOIOCTLCMD),
+	E(ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK),
+	E(EPROBE_DEFER),
+	E(EOPENSTALE),
+	E(ENOPARAM),
+
+	E(EBADHANDLE),
+	E(ENOTSYNC),
+	E(EBADCOOKIE),
+	E(ENOTSUPP),
+	E(ETOOSMALL),
+	E(ESERVERFAULT),
+	E(EBADTYPE),
+	E(EJUKEBOX),
+	E(EIOCBQUEUED),
+	E(ERECALLCONFLICT),
+};
+#undef E
+
+static const char *__errname(unsigned err)
+{
+	if (err < ARRAY_SIZE(names_0))
+		return names_0[err];
+	if (err >= 512 && err - 512 < ARRAY_SIZE(names_512))
+		return names_512[err - 512];
+	/* But why? */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) && err == EDQUOT) /* 1133 */
+		return "-EDQUOT";
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * errname(EIO) -> "EIO"
+ * errname(-EIO) -> "-EIO"
+ */
+const char *errname(int err)
+{
+	const char *name = __errname(abs(err));
+	if (!name)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return err > 0 ? name + 1 : name;
+}