[jonathrg]

Indeed. Typically you have pairs of call and ret, where call creates a stack frame and ret tears it down

     caller                           caller
       |                                ^
     (call) . . . . . . . . . . . . . (ret)
       |                                |
       V                                |
       outer_function      outer_function
              |            ^
           (call) . . . .(ret)
              |            |
              V            |
              inner_function

A jmp does not modify the stack, so when the inner function calls ret it jumps right back to caller

     caller              caller
        |                  ^
      (call) . . . . . . (ret)
        |                  |
        v                  |
        outer_function     |
              |            |
            (jmp)          |
              |            |
              V            |
              inner_function

This trick stops working as soon as outer_function needs local variables or does anything other than returning the exact return value of inner_function. In that case you need a stack frame