diff --git a/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.c b/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..252399c19293
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.c
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term
+ * “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Generic state machine framework.
+ */
+#include "efc.h"
+#include "efc_sm.h"
+
+/**
+ * efc_sm_post_event() - Post an event to a context.
+ *
+ * @ctx: State machine context
+ * @evt: Event to post
+ * @data: Event-specific data (if any)
+ */
+int
+efc_sm_post_event(struct efc_sm_ctx *ctx,
+		  enum efc_sm_event evt, void *data)
+{
+	if (!ctx->current_state)
+		return EFC_FAIL;
+
+	ctx->current_state(ctx, evt, data);
+	return EFC_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+void
+efc_sm_transition(struct efc_sm_ctx *ctx,
+		  void (*state)(struct efc_sm_ctx *,
+				 enum efc_sm_event, void *), void *data)
+
+{
+	if (ctx->current_state == state) {
+		efc_sm_post_event(ctx, EFC_EVT_REENTER, data);
+	} else {
+		efc_sm_post_event(ctx, EFC_EVT_EXIT, data);
+		ctx->current_state = state;
+		efc_sm_post_event(ctx, EFC_EVT_ENTER, data);
+	}
+}
+
+static char *event_name[] = EFC_SM_EVENT_NAME;
+
+const char *efc_sm_event_name(enum efc_sm_event evt)
+{
+	if (evt > EFC_EVT_LAST)
+		return "unknown";
+
+	return event_name[evt];
+}
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.h b/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e28835e7717d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term
+ * “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
+ *
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Generic state machine framework declarations.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _EFC_SM_H
+#define _EFC_SM_H
+
+struct efc_sm_ctx;
+
+/* State Machine events */
+enum efc_sm_event {
+	/* Common Events */
+	EFC_EVT_ENTER,
+	EFC_EVT_REENTER,
+	EFC_EVT_EXIT,
+	EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN,
+	EFC_EVT_ALL_CHILD_NODES_FREE,
+	EFC_EVT_RESUME,
+	EFC_EVT_TIMER_EXPIRED,
+
+	/* Domain Events */
+	EFC_EVT_RESPONSE,
+	EFC_EVT_ERROR,
+
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FOUND,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ALLOC_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ALLOC_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_REQ_ATTACH,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ATTACH_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ATTACH_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_LOST,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FREE_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FREE_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_DOMAIN_REQ_ATTACH,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_DOMAIN_REQ_FREE,
+
+	/* Sport Events */
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_ALLOC_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_ALLOC_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_ATTACH_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_ATTACH_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_FREE_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_FREE_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_NPORT_TOPOLOGY_NOTIFY,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ALLOC_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ALLOC_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ATTACH_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_REQ_ATTACH,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_REQ_FREE,
+	EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_FREE_OK,
+
+	/* Login Events */
+	EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_CMPL_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_CMPL_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_RJT,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_ATTACH_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_ATTACH_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_FREE_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_FREE_FAIL,
+	EFC_EVT_ELS_FRAME,
+	EFC_EVT_ELS_REQ_TIMEOUT,
+	EFC_EVT_ELS_REQ_ABORTED,
+	/* request an ELS IO be aborted */
+	EFC_EVT_ABORT_ELS,
+	/* ELS abort process complete */
+	EFC_EVT_ELS_ABORT_CMPL,
+
+	EFC_EVT_ABTS_RCVD,
+
+	/* node is not in the GID_PT payload */
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_MISSING,
+	/* node is allocated and in the GID_PT payload */
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_REFOUND,
+	/* node shutting down due to PLOGI recvd (implicit logo) */
+	EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN_IMPLICIT_LOGO,
+	/* node shutting down due to LOGO recvd/sent (explicit logo) */
+	EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN_EXPLICIT_LOGO,
+
+	EFC_EVT_PLOGI_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_FLOGI_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_LOGO_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_PRLI_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_PRLO_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_PDISC_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_FDISC_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_ADISC_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_RSCN_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_SCR_RCVD,
+	EFC_EVT_ELS_RCVD,
+
+	EFC_EVT_FCP_CMD_RCVD,
+
+	EFC_EVT_GIDPT_DELAY_EXPIRED,
+
+	/* SCSI Target Server events */
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_ACTIVE_IO_LIST_EMPTY,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_DEL_INI_COMPLETE,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_DEL_TGT_COMPLETE,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_SESS_REG_OK,
+	EFC_EVT_NODE_SESS_REG_FAIL,
+
+	/* Must be last */
+	EFC_EVT_LAST
+};
+
+/* State Machine event name lookup array */
+#define EFC_SM_EVENT_NAME {						\
+	[EFC_EVT_ENTER]			= "EFC_EVT_ENTER",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_REENTER]		= "EFC_EVT_REENTER",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_EXIT]			= "EFC_EVT_EXIT",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN]		= "EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_ALL_CHILD_NODES_FREE]	= "EFC_EVT_ALL_CHILD_NODES_FREE",\
+	[EFC_EVT_RESUME]		= "EFC_EVT_RESUME",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_TIMER_EXPIRED]		= "EFC_EVT_TIMER_EXPIRED",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_RESPONSE]		= "EFC_EVT_RESPONSE",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_ERROR]			= "EFC_EVT_ERROR",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FOUND]		= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FOUND",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ALLOC_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ALLOC_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ALLOC_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ALLOC_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_REQ_ATTACH]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_REQ_ATTACH",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ATTACH_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ATTACH_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ATTACH_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_ATTACH_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_LOST]		= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_LOST",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FREE_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FREE_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FREE_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_DOMAIN_FREE_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_DOMAIN_REQ_ATTACH]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_DOMAIN_REQ_ATTACH",\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_DOMAIN_REQ_FREE]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_DOMAIN_REQ_FREE",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_ALLOC_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_ALLOC_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_ALLOC_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_ALLOC_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_ATTACH_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_ATTACH_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_ATTACH_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_ATTACH_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_FREE_OK]		= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_FREE_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_FREE_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_FREE_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NPORT_TOPOLOGY_NOTIFY]	= "EFC_EVT_NPORT_TOPOLOGY_NOTIFY",\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ALLOC_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ALLOC_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ALLOC_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ALLOC_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ATTACH_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_ATTACH_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_REQ_ATTACH]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_REQ_ATTACH",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_REQ_FREE]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_REQ_FREE",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_FREE_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_HW_PORT_FREE_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_CMPL_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_CMPL_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_CMPL_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_CMPL_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_RJT]	= "EFC_EVT_SRRS_ELS_REQ_RJT",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_ATTACH_OK]	= "EFC_EVT_NODE_ATTACH_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_ATTACH_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_NODE_ATTACH_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_FREE_OK]		= "EFC_EVT_NODE_FREE_OK",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_FREE_FAIL]	= "EFC_EVT_NODE_FREE_FAIL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_ELS_FRAME]		= "EFC_EVT_ELS_FRAME",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_ELS_REQ_TIMEOUT]	= "EFC_EVT_ELS_REQ_TIMEOUT",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_ELS_REQ_ABORTED]	= "EFC_EVT_ELS_REQ_ABORTED",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_ABORT_ELS]		= "EFC_EVT_ABORT_ELS",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_ELS_ABORT_CMPL]	= "EFC_EVT_ELS_ABORT_CMPL",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_ABTS_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_ABTS_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_MISSING]		= "EFC_EVT_NODE_MISSING",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_REFOUND]		= "EFC_EVT_NODE_REFOUND",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN_IMPLICIT_LOGO] = "EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN_IMPLICIT_LOGO",\
+	[EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN_EXPLICIT_LOGO] = "EFC_EVT_SHUTDOWN_EXPLICIT_LOGO",\
+	[EFC_EVT_PLOGI_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_PLOGI_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_FLOGI_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_FLOGI_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_LOGO_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_LOGO_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_PRLI_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_PRLI_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_PRLO_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_PRLO_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_PDISC_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_PDISC_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_FDISC_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_FDISC_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_ADISC_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_ADISC_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_RSCN_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_RSCN_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_SCR_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_SCR_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_ELS_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_ELS_RCVD",		\
+	[EFC_EVT_FCP_CMD_RCVD]		= "EFC_EVT_FCP_CMD_RCVD",	\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_DEL_INI_COMPLETE]	= "EFC_EVT_NODE_DEL_INI_COMPLETE",\
+	[EFC_EVT_NODE_DEL_TGT_COMPLETE]	= "EFC_EVT_NODE_DEL_TGT_COMPLETE",\
+	[EFC_EVT_LAST]			= "EFC_EVT_LAST",		\
+}
+
+int
+efc_sm_post_event(struct efc_sm_ctx *ctx,
+		  enum efc_sm_event evt, void *data);
+void
+efc_sm_transition(struct efc_sm_ctx *ctx,
+		  void (*state)(struct efc_sm_ctx *ctx,
+				 enum efc_sm_event evt, void *arg),
+		  void *data);
+void efc_sm_disable(struct efc_sm_ctx *ctx);
+const char *efc_sm_event_name(enum efc_sm_event evt);
+
+#endif /* ! _EFC_SM_H */
