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Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 18:52:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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        "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 746/913] ARM: ftrace: avoid redundant loads or
 clobbering IP
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:01:19PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 11:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit d11967870815b5ab89843980e35aab616c97c463 ]
> >
> > Tweak the ftrace return paths to avoid redundant loads of SP, as well as
> > unnecessary clobbering of IP.
> >
> > This also fixes the inconsistency of using MOV to perform a function
> > return, which is sub-optimal on recent micro-architectures but more
> > importantly, does not perform an interworking return, unlike compiler
> > generated function returns in Thumb2 builds.
> >
> > Let's fix this by popping PC from the stack like most ordinary code
> > does.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> 
> Please drop all the 32-bit ARM patches authored by me from the stable
> queues except the ones that have fixes tags. These are highly likely
> to cause an explosion of regressions, and they should have never been
> selected, as I don't remember anyone proposing these for stable.

From what I can tell, that is only this commit.  I'll go drop it from
all trees, thanks.

greg k-h