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diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
index 28d6d93..a71da57 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h
@@ -152,6 +152,31 @@
.set noreorder
bltz k0, 8f
move k1, sp
+#ifdef CONFIG_EVA
+ /*
+ * Flush interAptiv's Return Prediction Stack (RPS) by writing
+ * EntryHi. Toggling Config7.RPS is slower and less portable.
+ *
+ * The RPS isn't automatically flushed when exceptions are
+ * taken, which can result in kernel mode speculative accesses
+ * to user addresses if the RPS mispredicts. That's harmless
+ * when user and kernel share the same address space, but with
+ * EVA the same user segments may be unmapped to kernel mode,
+ * even containing sensitive MMIO regions or invalid memory.
+ *
+ * This can happen when the kernel sets the return address to
+ * ret_from_* and jr's to the exception handler, which looks
+ * more like a tail call than a function call. If nested calls
+ * don't evict the last user address in the RPS, it will
+ * mispredict the return and fetch from a user controlled
+ * address into the icache.
+ *
+ * More recent EVA-capable cores with MAAR to restrict
+ * speculative accesses aren't affected.
+ */
+ MFC0 k0, CP0_ENTRYHI
+ MTC0 k0, CP0_ENTRYHI
+#endif
.set reorder
/* Called from user mode, new stack. */
get_saved_sp
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