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-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 071b97fcbefb..ffb78e5f7b70 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -181,7 +181,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_htable_size);
unsigned int nf_conntrack_max __read_mostly;
seqcount_t nf_conntrack_generation __read_mostly;
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
+/* nf_conn must be 8 bytes aligned, as the 3 LSB bits are used
+ * for the nfctinfo. We cheat by (ab)using the PER CPU cache line
+ * alignment to enforce this.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(nf_conntrack_untracked);
static unsigned int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd __read_mostly;