[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 14/25] powerpc/32: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread

Sasha Levin
2021-09-10T01:01:31Z

From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

[ Upstream commit 113ec9ccc8049c3772f0eab46b62c5d6654c09f7 ]

Copied from commit 89bbe4c798bc ("powerpc/64: indirect function call
use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread")

blrl is not recommended to use as an indirect function call, as it may
corrupt the link stack predictor.

This is not a performance critical path but this should be fixed for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/91b1d242525307ceceec7ef6e832bfbacdd4501b.1629436472.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 26b3f853cbf6..0f40119cb5cb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -477,10 +477,10 @@ ret_from_fork:
ret_from_kernel_thread:
REST_NVGPRS(r1)
bl schedule_tail
- mtlr r14
+ mtctr r14
mr r3,r15
PPC440EP_ERR42
- blrl
+ bctrl
li r3,0
b ret_from_syscall

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