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Currently, the KPTI trampoline code for returning to user space takes care to only preserve X29 into FAR_EL1 for native tasks, as compat tasks don't have access to this register anyway, and so preserving it is not necessary. It also means it does not need to be restored, and so we have two code paths for returning back to user space: the native one that restores X29 from FAR_EL1, and the compat one that leaves X29 clobbered, containing the value of TTBR1_EL1, which carries a physical address pointing somewhere into the kernel image. This is needlessly complex, and given that FAR_EL1 becomes UNKNOWN after an exception return anway, the only benefit of avoiding the preserve and restore is that we can skip the system register write and read. So let's simplify this, and collapse the two code paths into one that always preserves X29 into FAR_EL1, and always restores it again after the TTBR switch. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230418143604.1176437-2-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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