linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/64: Avoid link stack corruption in kexec

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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:52:53 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/64: Avoid link stack corruption in kexec_wait()

Use bcl 20,31,+4 instead of bl in order to preserve link stack.

See commit c974809a26a1 ("powerpc/vdso: Avoid link stack corruption
in __get_datapage()") for details.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
index 4b761a18a74d..613509907166 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ _GLOBAL(scom970_write)
  * Physical (hardware) cpu id should be in r3.
  */
 _GLOBAL(kexec_wait)
-	bl	1f
+	bcl	20,31,1f
 1:	mflr	r5
 	addi	r5,r5,kexec_flag-1b
 
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