diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 179310aa0c4b..aee340630eca 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -8679,8 +8679,11 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/input/touchscreen/resistive-adc-touch.c
 
 GENERIC STRING LIBRARY
+M:	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
 R:	Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
-S:	Maintained
+L:	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Supported
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git for-next/hardening
 F:	include/linux/string.h
 F:	include/linux/string_choices.h
 F:	include/linux/string_helpers.h
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
index 7a1339533d1d..d0af82c240b7 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 unsigned long __xchg_u32(volatile u32 *m, u32 new);
 void __xchg_called_with_bad_pointer(void);
 
-static inline unsigned long __arch_xchg(unsigned long x, __volatile__ void * ptr, int size)
+static __always_inline unsigned long __arch_xchg(unsigned long x, __volatile__ void * ptr, int size)
 {
 	switch (size) {
 	case 4:
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
index 66cd61dde9ec..3de25262c411 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ xchg16(__volatile__ unsigned short *m, unsigned short val)
 	return (load32 & mask) >> bit_shift;
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long
+static __always_inline unsigned long
 __arch_xchg(unsigned long x, __volatile__ void * ptr, int size)
 {
 	switch (size) {
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 0587354ba678..9c59409104f6 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -578,7 +578,6 @@
 		*(.text.unlikely .text.unlikely.*)			\
 		*(.text.unknown .text.unknown.*)			\
 		NOINSTR_TEXT						\
-		*(.text..refcount)					\
 		*(.ref.text)						\
 		*(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*)				\
 	MEM_KEEP(init.text*)						\
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 7982cc9d497c..016d997131d4 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -174,11 +174,10 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
 	 * LLVM appends various suffixes for local functions and variables that
 	 * must be promoted to global scope as part of LTO.  This can break
 	 * hooking of static functions with kprobes. '.' is not a valid
-	 * character in an identifier in C. Suffixes observed:
+	 * character in an identifier in C. Suffixes only in LLVM LTO observed:
 	 * - foo.llvm.[0-9a-f]+
-	 * - foo.[0-9a-f]+
 	 */
-	res = strchr(s, '.');
+	res = strstr(s, ".llvm.");
 	if (res) {
 		*res = '\0';
 		return true;
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index d387c9381650..16c87938b316 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ static void cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
 	 * ASCII[_]   = 5f
 	 * ASCII[a-z] = 61,7a
 	 *
-	 * As above, replacing '.' with '\0' does not affect the main sorting,
-	 * but it helps us with subsorting.
+	 * As above, replacing the first '.' in ".llvm." with '\0' does not
+	 * affect the main sorting, but it helps us with subsorting.
 	 */
-	p = strchr(s, '.');
+	p = strstr(s, ".llvm.");
 	if (p)
 		*p = '\0';
 }