[PATCH 6.11 045/214] riscv: avoid Imbalance in RAS

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

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From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240720170659.1522-1-jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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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