MdePkg/BaseLib AARCH64: Make LongJump() BTI compatible

Currently, the AArch64 implementation of LongJump() avoids using the RET
instruction to perform the jump, even though the target address is held
in the link register X30, as the nature of a long jump implies that the
ordinary return address prediction machinery will not be able to make a
correct prediction.

However, LongJump() is rarely used, and the return stack will be out of
sync in any case, so this optimization has little value in practice, and
given that indirect calls other than function returns require a BTI
landing pad at the call site, this optimization is not compatible with
BTI. So let's just use RET instead.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Smith-Denny <osd@smith-denny.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel 2023-03-27 12:32:42 +02:00 committed by mergify[bot]
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@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ ASM_PFX(InternalLongJump):
cmp w1, #0
mov w0, #1
csel w0, w1, w0, ne
// use br not ret, as ret is guaranteed to mispredict
br x30
ret
ASM_FUNCTION_REMOVE_IF_UNREFERENCED