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-rw-r--r--kernel/taskstats.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index 11281d5792bd..5a651aa63d61 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -360,6 +360,12 @@ static struct taskstats *mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid)
struct nlattr *na, *ret;
int aggr;
+ /* If we don't pad, we end up with alignment on a 4 byte boundary.
+ * This causes lots of runtime warnings on systems requiring 8 byte
+ * alignment */
+ u32 pids[2] = { pid, 0 };
+ int pid_size = ALIGN(sizeof(pid), sizeof(long));
+
aggr = (type == TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID)
? TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID
: TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID;
@@ -367,7 +373,7 @@ static struct taskstats *mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid)
na = nla_nest_start(skb, aggr);
if (!na)
goto err;
- if (nla_put(skb, type, sizeof(pid), &pid) < 0)
+ if (nla_put(skb, type, pid_size, pids) < 0)
goto err;
ret = nla_reserve(skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS, sizeof(struct taskstats));
if (!ret)