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authorJisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>2024-07-21 01:06:59 +0800
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2024-09-15 20:58:25 -0700
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riscv: avoid Imbalance in RAS
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@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@tenstorrent.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240720170659.1522-1-jszhang@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
index fc41472d512e..c200d329d4bd 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ 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