[PATCH 2/6] riscv: avoid corrupting the RAS
Jisheng Zhang
jszhang at kernel.org
Sun Jun 16 10:05:49 PDT 2024
Inspired by[1], "modifying the return address of to point to
ret_from_exception will corrupt the RAS", so modify the code
to remove the code of modifying ra.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240607061335.2197383-1-cyrilbur@tenstorrent.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
---
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 c933460ed3e9..81dec627a8d4 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ 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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