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We have a micro-optimisation on the fast syscall return path where we take care to keep x0 live with the return value from the syscall so that we can avoid restoring it from the stack. The benefit of doing this is fairly suspect, since we will be restoring x1 from the stack anyway (which lives adjacent in the pt_regs structure) and the only additional cost is saving x0 back to pt_regs after the syscall handler, which could be seen as a poor man's prefetch. More importantly, this causes issues with the context tracking code. The ct_user_enter macro ends up branching into C code, which is free to use x0 as a scratch register and consequently leads to us returning junk back to userspace as the syscall return value. Rather than special case the context-tracking code, this patch removes the questionable optimisation entirely. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Larry Bassel <larry.bassel@linaro.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> |
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