Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 68/99] powerpc/32: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread

From: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 20:15:27 -0400

From: Christophe Leroy <[email-masked]>

[ 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 <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/91b1d242[email-masked]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>
---
 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 0273a1349006..61fdd53cdd9a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ 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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