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David Herrmann bc999b5099 fork: record start_time late 
commit 7b55851367 upstream.

This changes the fork(2) syscall to record the process start_time after
initializing the basic task structure but still before making the new
process visible to user-space.

Technically, we could record the start_time anytime during fork(2).  But
this might lead to scenarios where a start_time is recorded long before
a process becomes visible to user-space.  For instance, with
userfaultfd(2) and TLS, user-space can delay the execution of fork(2)
for an indefinite amount of time (and will, if this causes network
access, or similar).

By recording the start_time late, it much closer reflects the point in
time where the process becomes live and can be observed by other
processes.

Lastly, this makes it much harder for user-space to predict and control
the start_time they get assigned.  Previously, user-space could fork a
process and stall it in copy_thread_tls() before its pid is allocated,
but after its start_time is recorded.  This can be misused to later-on
cycle through PIDs and resume the stalled fork(2) yielding a process
that has the same pid and start_time as a process that existed before.
This can be used to circumvent security systems that identify processes
by their pid+start_time combination.

Even though user-space was always aware that start_time recording is
flaky (but several projects are known to still rely on start_time-based
identification), changing the start_time to be recorded late will help
mitigate existing attacks and make it much harder for user-space to
control the start_time a process gets assigned.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-13 09:51:04 +01:00
arch m68k: Fix memblock-related crashes 2019-01-13 09:51:02 +01:00
block block/bio: Do not zero user pages 2018-12-19 19:19:50 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: cfb - fix decryption 2019-01-09 17:38:45 +01:00
Documentation x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off 2019-01-09 17:38:41 +01:00
drivers scsi: lpfc: do not set queue->page_count to 0 if pc_sli4_params.wqpcnt is invalid 2019-01-13 09:51:03 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs smb3: fix large reads on encrypted connections 2019-01-09 17:38:48 +01:00
include netfilter: nf_tables: fix suspicious RCU usage in nft_chain_stats_replace() 2019-01-13 09:50:57 +01:00
init sched/pelt: Fix warning and clean up IRQ PELT config 2018-12-19 19:19:49 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel fork: record start_time late 2019-01-13 09:51:04 +01:00
lib debugobjects: avoid recursive calls with kmemleak 2018-12-17 09:24:41 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error 2018-12-29 13:37:59 +01:00
net mac80211: free skb fraglist before freeing the skb 2019-01-13 09:51:02 +01:00
samples samples: disable CONFIG_SAMPLES for UML 2018-10-11 02:15:46 +09:00
scripts checkstack.pl: fix for aarch64 2019-01-13 09:50:57 +01:00
security selinux: add support for RTM_NEWCHAIN, RTM_DELCHAIN, and RTM_GETCHAIN 2018-12-08 12:59:08 +01:00
sound ASoC: intel: cht_bsw_max98090_ti: Add pmc_plt_clk_0 quirk for Chromebook Gnawty 2019-01-09 17:38:41 +01:00
tools virtio: fix test build after uio.h change 2019-01-13 09:51:03 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix off-by-one bug in vgic_get_irq() 2019-01-09 17:38:49 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
Makefile kbuild: fix false positive warning/error about missing libelf 2019-01-13 09:51:02 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.