inet: fix: possible unaligned access in packed structure (inet/inet6)

[lttng-tools.git] / src / common / macros.h

diff --git a/src/common/macros.h b/src/common/macros.h
index f242da481b6f8c7c47ddf30064894b3ef35564e8..2120c64efcd2050186794f15cc2bfcd9475baf45 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/macros.h
+++ b/src/common/macros.h
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ void *zmalloc(size_t len)
 
 #define ASSERT_LOCKED(lock) assert(pthread_mutex_trylock(&lock))
 
+/*
+ * Get an aligned pointer to a value. This is meant
+ * as a helper to pass an aligned pointer to a member in a packed structure
+ * to a function.
+ */
+#define ALIGNED_CONST_PTR(value) (((const typeof(value) []) { value }))
+
 /*
  * lttng_strncpy returns 0 on success, or nonzero on failure.
  * It checks that the @src string fits into @dst_len before performing