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The pointer\nis treated as a 32bit value and sign extend to 64bit in epilogue. This\nbehavior is right for most bpf prog types but wrong for struct ops which\nrequires RISC-V ABI.\n\nSo let's sign extend struct ops return values according to the function\nmodel and RISC-V ABI([0]).\n\n [0]: https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/riscv-calling.pdf", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "25ad10658dc1068a671553ff10e19a812c2a3783", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "92751937f12a7d34ad492577a251c94a55e97e72" }, { "version": "25ad10658dc1068a671553ff10e19a812c2a3783", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "918a399501e28e0cc36dbd1fcfb4208f8aa1e4d1" }, { "version": "25ad10658dc1068a671553ff10e19a812c2a3783", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "fd2e08128944a7679e753f920e9eda72057e427c" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "6.6", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "6.6" }, { "version": "6.12.53", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*" }, { "version": "6.17.3", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.17.*" }, { "version": "6.18", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }