Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching

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Pull livepatching fixes from Jiri Kosina:

 - symbol lookup locking fix, from Miroslav Benes

 - error handling improvements in case of failure of the module coming
   notifier, from Minfei Huang

 - we were too pessimistic when kASLR has been enabled on x86 and were
   dropping address hints on the floor unnecessarily in such case.  Fix
   from Jiri Kosina

 - a few other small fixes and cleanups

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add module locking around kallsyms calls
  livepatch: annotate klp_init() with __init
  livepatch: introduce patch/func-walking helpers
  livepatch: make kobject in klp_object statically allocated
  livepatch: Prevent patch inconsistencies if the coming module notifier fails
  livepatch: match return value to function signature
  x86: kaslr: fix build due to missing ALIGN definition
  livepatch: x86: make kASLR logic more accurate
  x86: introduce kaslr_offset()

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