diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 35dabdc1c0e8..a64ed2b67e0e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
 	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
+	select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index b80edc1ce775..cff8814ff0a5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -394,8 +394,8 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 
 asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) asm("ret_from_fork");
 
-int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
-		unsigned long stk_sz, struct task_struct *p)
+int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
+		unsigned long stk_sz, struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls)
 {
 	struct pt_regs *childregs = task_pt_regs(p);
 
@@ -428,11 +428,11 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
 		}
 
 		/*
-		 * If a TLS pointer was passed to clone (4th argument), use it
-		 * for the new thread.
+		 * If a TLS pointer was passed to clone, use it for the new
+		 * thread.
 		 */
 		if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
-			p->thread.uw.tp_value = childregs->regs[3];
+			p->thread.uw.tp_value = tls;
 	} else {
 		memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
 		childregs->pstate = PSR_MODE_EL1h;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0306158bb0ea..d65e76c76bc5 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2561,40 +2561,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
 #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
 noinline static int copy_clone_args_from_user(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs,
 					      struct clone_args __user *uargs,
-					      size_t size)
+					      size_t usize)
 {
+	int err;
 	struct clone_args args;
 	pid_t *kset_tid = kargs->set_tid;
 
-	if (unlikely(size > PAGE_SIZE))
+	if (unlikely(usize > PAGE_SIZE))
 		return -E2BIG;
-
-	if (unlikely(size < sizeof(struct clone_args)))
+	if (unlikely(usize < CLONE_ARGS_SIZE_VER0))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uargs, size)))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	if (size > sizeof(struct clone_args)) {
-		unsigned char __user *addr;
-		unsigned char __user *end;
-		unsigned char val;
-
-		addr = (void __user *)uargs + sizeof(struct clone_args);
-		end = (void __user *)uargs + size;
-
-		for (; addr < end; addr++) {
-			if (get_user(val, addr))
-				return -EFAULT;
-			if (val)
-				return -E2BIG;
-		}
-
-		size = sizeof(struct clone_args);
-	}
-
-	if (copy_from_user(&args, uargs, size))
-		return -EFAULT;
+	err = copy_struct_from_user(&args, sizeof(args), uargs, usize);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	if (unlikely(args.set_tid_size > MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL))
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -2635,7 +2615,35 @@ noinline static int copy_clone_args_from_user(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static bool clone3_args_valid(const struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
+/**
+ * clone3_stack_valid - check and prepare stack
+ * @kargs: kernel clone args
+ *
+ * Verify that the stack arguments userspace gave us are sane.
+ * In addition, set the stack direction for userspace since it's easy for us to
+ * determine.
+ */
+static inline bool clone3_stack_valid(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
+{
+	if (kargs->stack == 0) {
+		if (kargs->stack_size > 0)
+			return false;
+	} else {
+		if (kargs->stack_size == 0)
+			return false;
+
+		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, (void __user *)kargs->stack, kargs->stack_size))
+			return false;
+
+#if !defined(CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP) && !defined(CONFIG_IA64)
+		kargs->stack += kargs->stack_size;
+#endif
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+static bool clone3_args_valid(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
 {
 	/* Verify that no unknown flags are passed along. */
 	if (kargs->flags & ~(CLONE_LEGACY_FLAGS | CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND))
@@ -2656,6 +2664,9 @@ static bool clone3_args_valid(const struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
 	    kargs->exit_signal)
 		return false;
 
+	if (!clone3_stack_valid(kargs))
+		return false;
+
 	return true;
 }