[PATCH v2 11/14] powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Fri Aug 12 01:39:58 AEST 2022
Le 11/08/2022 à 17:13, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 04:31:11PM +1000, Rohan McLure wrote:
>> + /*
>> + * Zero user registers to prevent influencing speculative execution
>> + * state of kernel code.
>> + */
>> + NULLIFY_GPRS(5, 12)
>> + NULLIFY_NVGPRS()
>
> "Nullify" means "invalidate", which is not what this does or is for :-(
>
Would "Zeroise" be more appropriate ?
Christophe
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