[PATCH] alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi

From: Arnd Bergmann

Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 16:26:23 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxx>
---
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