From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>,
Abhishek Bapat <abhishekbapat@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:23:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915202404.3568029-1-arnd@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The impliied padding causes a harmless warning when testing the uapi
headers with -Wpadded that could in theory indicate incompatibilies or
data leaks:
./usr/include/linux/alloc_tag.h:41:1: error: padding struct size to alignment boundary with 7 bytes [-Werror=padded]
The code here is fine, but it's better to make the padding explicit
and avoid the warning here.
Fixes: 1d581ab2348c ("alloc_tag: add ioctl to /proc/allocinfo")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
include/uapi/linux/alloc_tag.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/alloc_tag.h b/include/uapi/linux/alloc_tag.h
index e3ad94444864..7d4618bea043 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/alloc_tag.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/alloc_tag.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct allocinfo_counter {
__u64 bytes;
__u64 calls;
__u8 accurate;
+ __u8 pad[7];
} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
struct allocinfo_tag_data {
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 20:23 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2026-09-15 21:37 ` [PATCH] alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-09-16 1:08 ` SJ Park
2026-09-16 6:23 ` Hao Ge
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