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[PATCH v7 09/11] arm64: BTI: Reset BTYPE when skipping emulated instructions

From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-02-26 15:57:57
Also in: linux-arch, linux-fsdevel, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>

Since normal execution of any non-branch instruction resets the
PSTATE BTYPE field to 0, so do the same thing when emulating a
trapped instruction.

Branches don't trap directly, so we should never need to assign a
non-zero value to BTYPE here.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
index 3c07a7074145..52ed261e7739 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ void arm64_skip_faulting_instruction(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long size)
 
 	if (compat_user_mode(regs))
 		advance_itstate(regs);
+	else
+		regs->pstate &= ~PSR_BTYPE_MASK;
 }
 
 static LIST_HEAD(undef_hook);
-- 
2.20.1


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