* [PATCH] [v2] alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi
@ 2026-09-16 6:58 Arnd Bergmann
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From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2026-09-16 6:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Suren Baghdasaryan, Abhishek Bapat, Andrew Morton, Hao Ge
Cc: Arnd Bergmann, SJ Park, linux-mm, linux-kernel
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The implied padding causes a harmless warning when testing the uapi
headers with -Wpadded that could in theory indicate incompatibilities
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.
Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Fixes: 1d581ab2348c ("alloc_tag: add ioctl to /proc/allocinfo")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
v2; fix changelog typos
---
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
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