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-rw-r--r--include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h2
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
index f540f9ad2af4..19605878da47 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ extern s32 (*nf_ct_nat_offset)(const struct nf_conn *ct,
u32 seq);
/* Fake conntrack entry for untracked connections */
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
static inline struct nf_conn *nf_ct_untracked_get(void)
{
return raw_cpu_ptr(&nf_conntrack_untracked);
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;