[PATCH v4.14 backport 04/10] powerpc/64: Convert the syscall exit path to use RFI_TO_USER/KERNEL

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jan 19 00:34:04 AEDT 2018


From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

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 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 5ae0a435417d..150c402728d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -267,13 +267,23 @@ 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 */
 
 .Lsyscall_error:
-- 
2.14.3



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