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Linus Torvalds authored
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "The bulk of the changes here are related to refactoring and expanding
  the KUnit tests for string helper and fortify behavior.

  Some trivial strncpy replacements in fs/ were carried in my tree. Also
  some fixes to SCSI string handling were carried in my tree since the
  helper for those was introduce here. Beyond that, just little fixes
  all around: objtool getting confused about LKDTM+KCFI, preparing for
  future refactors (constification of sysctl tables, additional
  __counted_by annotations), a Clang UBSAN+i386 crash fix, and adding
  more options in the hardening.config Kconfig fragment.

  Summary:

   - selftests: Add str*cmp tests (Ivan Orlov)

   - __counted_by: provide UAPI for _le/_be variants (Erick Archer)

   - Various strncpy deprecation refactors (Justin Stitt)

   - stackleak: Use a copy of soon-to-be-const sysctl table (Thomas
     Weißschuh)

   - UBS...
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