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Message-ID: <20241004181828.3669209-38-sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2024 14:16:55 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>,
	Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...storrent.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
	palmer@...belt.com,
	aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
	samitolvanen@...gle.com,
	cleger@...osinc.com,
	guoren@...nel.org,
	namcaov@...il.com,
	debug@...osinc.com,
	antonb@...storrent.com,
	andy.chiu@...ive.com,
	linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.11 38/76] riscv: avoid Imbalance in RAS

From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>

[ Upstream commit 8f1534e7440382d118c3d655d3a6014128b2086d ]

Inspired by[1], modify the code to remove the code of modifying ra to
avoid imbalance RAS (return address stack) which may lead to incorret
predictions on return.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240607061335.2197383-1-cyrilbur@tenstorrent.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...storrent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240720170659.1522-1-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
index ac2e908d4418d..fefb8e7d957a0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
@@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork)
 	jalr s0
 1:
 	move a0, sp /* pt_regs */
-	la ra, ret_from_exception
-	tail syscall_exit_to_user_mode
+	call syscall_exit_to_user_mode
+	j ret_from_exception
 SYM_CODE_END(ret_from_fork)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_STACKS
-- 
2.43.0


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