linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 04/92] powerpc/64: Convert the syscall exit path to use RFI_TO

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Date:   Fri,  9 Feb 2018 14:38:33 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 04/92] powerpc/64: Convert the syscall exit path to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>

commit b8e90cb7bc04a509e821e82ab6ed7a8ef11ba333 upstream.

In the syscall exit path we may be returning to user or kernel
context. We already have a test for that, because we conditionally
restore r13. So use that existing test and branch, and bifurcate the
return based on that.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -251,13 +251,23 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HAS_PPR)
 
 	ld	r13,GPR13(r1)	/* only restore r13 if returning to usermode */
+	ld	r2,GPR2(r1)
+	ld	r1,GPR1(r1)
+	mtlr	r4
+	mtcr	r5
+	mtspr	SPRN_SRR0,r7
+	mtspr	SPRN_SRR1,r8
+	RFI_TO_USER
+	b	.	/* prevent speculative execution */
+
+	/* exit to kernel */
 1:	ld	r2,GPR2(r1)
 	ld	r1,GPR1(r1)
 	mtlr	r4
 	mtcr	r5
 	mtspr	SPRN_SRR0,r7
 	mtspr	SPRN_SRR1,r8
-	RFI
+	RFI_TO_KERNEL
 	b	.	/* prevent speculative execution */
 
 syscall_error: