diff --git a/bl2/aarch64/bl2_el3_entrypoint.S b/bl2/aarch64/bl2_el3_entrypoint.S
index f97121e..2ca6acf 100644
--- a/bl2/aarch64/bl2_el3_entrypoint.S
+++ b/bl2/aarch64/bl2_el3_entrypoint.S
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017-2019, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2020, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  */
@@ -95,5 +95,5 @@
 	ldp	x4, x5, [x20, #(ENTRY_POINT_INFO_ARGS_OFFSET + 0x20)]
 	ldp	x2, x3, [x20, #(ENTRY_POINT_INFO_ARGS_OFFSET + 0x10)]
 	ldp	x0, x1, [x20, #(ENTRY_POINT_INFO_ARGS_OFFSET + 0x0)]
-	eret
+	exception_return
 endfunc bl2_run_next_image