4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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: