Merge tag 'v5.0-rc7' into patchwork

Linux 5.0-rc7

* tag 'v5.0-rc7': (1667 commits)
  Linux 5.0-rc7
  Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in Lenovo V330-15ISK
  Input: st-keyscan - fix potential zalloc NULL dereference
  Input: apanel - switch to using brightness_set_blocking()
  powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present()
  efi/arm: Revert "Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()"
  arm64, mm, efi: Account for GICv3 LPI tables in static memblock reserve table
  sunrpc: fix 4 more call sites that were using stack memory with a scatterlist
  include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module
  Compiler Attributes: add support for __copy (gcc >= 9)
  lib/crc32.c: mark crc32_le_base/__crc32c_le_base aliases as __pure
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: fix potential user-after-free on module unload
  x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls
  i2c: bcm2835: Clear current buffer pointers and counts after a transfer
  i2c: cadence: Fix the hold bit setting
  drm: Use array_size() when creating lease
  dm thin: fix bug where bio that overwrites thin block ignores FUA
  Revert "exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string"
  Revert "gfs2: read journal in large chunks to locate the head"
  net: ethernet: freescale: set FEC ethtool regs version
  ...

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a60459947f18..b69248e6f0e0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
 		memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
 
 		tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
+		tsk->stack = s->addr;
 		return s->addr;
 	}
 
@@ -1833,8 +1834,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 
 	posix_cpu_timers_init(p);
 
-	p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
-	p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
 	p->io_context = NULL;
 	audit_set_context(p, NULL);
 	cgroup_fork(p);
@@ -2001,6 +2000,17 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		goto bad_fork_free_pid;
 
 	/*
+	 * From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space
+	 * communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do
+	 * not want user-space to be able to predict the process start-time by
+	 * stalling fork(2) after we recorded the start_time but before it is
+	 * visible to the system.
+	 */
+
+	p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
+	p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
+
+	/*
 	 * Make it visible to the rest of the system, but dont wake it up yet.
 	 * Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling!
 	 */